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Historic Society
FOR THE YEAR 1887.— VOLUME XXXIX.
NEW SERIES.— VOLUME III.
LIVERPOOL :
PRINTED FOR TflE SOCIETY.
1889.
/iy^39^A/s^
*
Harvard College Library
Feb. 1, 1912
Gift o!
Oharles Jackson
of BostoD
LIVERPOOL :
T. BRAKHLL, PRINTER, 58, DALE STREET.
I
CONTENTS.
PAGB.
Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields. By Rev. Andrew E. P.
Gray, M.A., F.S.A I
[Note on the above p. 58] ^
Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery. By Rev. Austin Powell ii
The Domesday Record of the Land between Ribble and Mersey.
By Rev. Andrew E. P. Gray, M.A., F.S.A 35
Recent Roman Discoveries in Lancashire and Cheshire. By the
• late W. Thompson Watkin 49
The Descent of the Mascys of Rixton, in the County of Lancaster.
(From original documents. ) By Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest... 59
Selections from the Ancient Papers of the Moore Family, formerly
of Liverpool and Bank Hall 159
Proceedings of Session xxxix , 175
Report of Session xxxviii 175
List of Papers read 176
Names of Members elected during the year 1 887 176
Balance Sheet 176
Index 177
/
Council and Officers, for the year 1 888 (Session xxxix) v
Officers of the Society since commencement vi
List of Members ^.. vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
\/Windleshaw Abbey Frontispiece,
vThe Twelve Quarterings of Jacquetta of Luxemburg To face /. 3
t^Mascy Seals : —
Plate A 155
„ B, C 156
D 158
))
Pedigree of the Mascys of Rixton and Glasebrook...^^/n;d^;i//. 61 and 62
The thanks of the Society are due, and are hereby gratefully
tendered, to Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest, of Coleby Hall,
Lincoln, for the four plates of Mascy Seals, drawn on stone
by herself; and to W. C. Ash by Pritt, Esq., for his drawing,
" The Twelve Quarterings of Jacquetta of Luxemburg."
Authors of papers are alone responsible for the facts and
opinions oppressed therein.
This Volume has been prepared for the press by R. D.
Radcliffe, M.A., Ch. Ch., Oxford.
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS, FOR THE YEAR 1888.
pre0i^ent.
THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, F.S.A.
\l>iccspvcsitcnts»
THOMAS GLAZEBROOK RYLANDS, F.S.A. , Ex-President.
THE LORD LIEUT. OF CHESHIRE (THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, K.G.)
THE LORD LIEUT. OF LANCASHIRE (THE EARL OF SEFTON, K G)
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, K.G..
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LATHOM.
THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.
THE REV. THE RECTOR OF LIVERPOOL.
SIR JAMES PICTON, F.S.A.
FRANCIS JAMES BAILEY, M.D., L.R.C.P.
JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.
/Members of Council.
TO SERVE TO END OF 1888.
PROF. J. M. McKAY, M.A.
LIEUT.-COL. FISHWICK, F.S.A.
REV. A. E. P. GRAY, M.A., F.S.A.
CHARLES POTTER.
TO SERVE TO END OF 1889.
T. A. BELLEW.
JOHN HARGREAVES.
H. H. HOWORTH,' M.P., F.S.A,
W. O. ROPER.
TO SERVE TO END OF 1890.
R. L. BENAS.
JAMES BROMLEY.
E. M. HANCE, LL.B.
J. PAUL RYLANDS, F.S.A.
Don. treasurer.
H. D. ESHELBY, F.S.A.
Don. Xibrarian.
W. T. WATKIN (the late).
Don. Curator.
W. FORSHAW WILSON
Don. Secretary.
R. D. RADCLIFFE, M.A.
Don. HssiBtant Secretary.
T. N. MORTON
©fKcets of tbe Society since commencement.
||resibents.
1. Right Hon. Francis, ist Earl of Ellesmere, Lord-Lieut, of
Lancashire -...-..-. 1848.
2. Right Hon. Charles William, 3rd Earl of Sefton, Lord-Lieut.
of Lancashire 1854.
3. General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., D.C.L. - - 1855.
4. Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, M.P. - - - 1863.
5. Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., &c. 1866.
6. Rev. Canon Hume, D.C.L., LL.D., &c. - - : - 1869.
7. The Very Rev. J- S. Howson, D.D., Dean of Chester - - 1875.
8. Thomas Glazebrook Rylands, F.S.A., &c. - - - - 1879.
9. Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Chester, F.S.A. - 1885.
Sttnimts.
1848. Rev. A. Hume. LL.D., &c., and H. C. Pidgeon.
1 85 1. Rev. A. Hume, LL.D., &c., and Rev. Thomas Moore, M.A.
1854. Rev. A. Hume, LL.D., &c.
Assistant Secretaries.
1855. Rev. A. Hume, LL.D., &c. Thomas G. Wedgwood.
1856. Rev. A. Hume, LL.D., &c. W. W. Rundell.
1857. Rev. A. Hume, LL.D., &c. J- H. Genn.
1864. Nicholas Waterhouse. J. H. Genn.
1867. David Buxton, F.R.S.L. Charles Dyall.
1875. David Buxton, F.R.S.L. [Arthur Wakefield.]
1876. David Buxton, F.R.S.L. Eugenio Londini.
1877. C. T. Gatty, F.S.A. Eugenio Londini.
1882. C.*T. Gatty, F.S.A. T.N.Morton.
(E. M. Hance, LL.B. )
'^^4" (R. D.
T. N. Morton.
Radcliffe, M.A. I
1888. R. D. Radcliffe, M.A. T. N. Morton.
S^reasitrerg.
1848. Thomas Avison, F.S.A.
i860. William Burke.
1867. John G. Jacob.
1886. H. D. ESHELBY, F.S.A.
Jfibrariaus. - duradtarg.
1848. Joseph Mayer, F.S.A. Joseph Mayer, F.S.A.
1851. Rev. Thomas Moore, M.A. Joseph Mayer, F.S.A.
1859. David Buxton, F.R.S.L. A. C. Gibson, F.S.A.
1867. Nicholas Waterhouse. A. C. Gibson, F.S.A.
1869. Nicholas Waterhouse. H. Ecroyd Smith.
187 1. John R. Hughes. H. Ecroyd Smith.
'875' ]o\in R. Hughes. J. Harris Gibson.
1876 C. r. Gatty, F.S.A. J. Harris Gibson.
1877. E. M. Hance, LL.B., &c. J. Harris Gibson.
1880. (Offices in abeyance.)
1885. W. Thompson Watkin. J. Harris Gibson.
1886. W. Thompson Watkin. W. Forshaw Wilson.
N.B. — // is requested that notice be given to the Secretary of <iny errors ^ change
of address^ or dectth.
LIST OF MEMBERS,
Corrected to '^\st December ^ 1888.
The names of Life Members are printed in Clarendon TypOi and those of Resident Members
have an asterisk attached.
DatIe of Election.
1872. Dec. 12 Abram, W. A. 42 Adelaide terrace, Preston
New road, Blackburn.
1877. Feb. 22 Adshead, George Haward. Fern Villas, 94
Bolton road, Pendleton, Manchester.
1887. Jan. 20 Ainslie, William George, M.P. Grizedale Hall,
Hawkshead.
187 T. Jan. 12 Andrew Frank. Apsley place, Ashton-under-
Lyne.
1888. Mar. 22 '''Athenaeum Library, Liverpool.
1877. Dec. 13 Axon, W. E. A. 66 Murray street. Higher
Broughton, Manchester.
1865. Nov. 2 '"Bailey, Francis James, M.D.,L.R. C. P. 51 Grove
street, Liverpool, Vice-President.
1888. Nov. 29 Banks, William. i Starkie street, Preston.
1886. Nov. 18 ^Banner, John S. Harmood. Puddington Hall,
Neston, Cheshire.
1849. ^^^- 6 Beamont, William. Orford Hall, Warrington.
1848. Nov. 23 *Bcll, Henry. Greenfield, West Kirby, Cheshire.
1875. Feb. 4 "Bellew, Thomas Acheson. 23 Canning street,
Liverpool.
1864. Dec. I *Benas, B. L. 5 Prince's avenue, Liverpool.
1884. Nov. 13 Bennett, Henry. Rock Cottage, Bedminster,
Bristol.
1888. Nov. 29 *Birchall, Charles. The Laurels, Church street,
Egr^mont.
1888. Nov. 15 Bispham William. 12 Eighteenth street West,
New York, U.S.A.
1870. April 7 Blackburn Free Library.
1883. Mar. 8 Blundell, Rev. T. B. H., Hon. Canon of Liver-
pool. Halsall Rectory, Ormskirk.
viii List of Members.
Date op Election.
1888. Mar. 2 2 Bodleian Library, Oxford.
1888. Mar. 22 Boston Athenaeum. Boston, U.S.A.; c/o Messrs.
Triibner & Co., Ludgate hill, London, E.G.
Boston Free Library. . Boston, U.S.A. ; c/o
Messrs. Triibner & Co.
1853. Dec. 15 Bossi, Arthur. Care of Thompson, Melly & Co.,
Brown's Buildings, Liverpool.
1 88 1. Dec. I Bourne, Robert W. 18 Hereford square,
London, S.W.
1858. April 15 '''Bower, Anthony. Riversdale, Seaforth, Liver-
pool.
1 87 1. Mar. 23 ^Brakell, Thomas Forster. 58 Dale street,
Liverpool.
1888. Nov. 29 '-'Bremner, Rupert Stanley. 24 Parkfield road,
Liverpool.
1887. Feb. 10 Bristowe, Sir Henry Fox, Q.C The Cliffe,
Nantwich.
1876. April 20 '''Bromley, James. The Homestead, Lathom,
Ormskirk.
1886. Nov. 18 Brooke, Charles Luxmore. Ashbrook Hall,
Church Minshull, Middlewich, Cheshire.
1888. Feb. 23 Brooke, Colonel Thomas, F.S.A. Armitage
Bridge, Huddersfield.
1868. Feb. 6 Brooks, Sir William Cunliffe. Bart., M.P.,
F.S.A. Barlow Hall, Manchester.
1872. April 4 Broughton, Frederick. Hamilton, Canada.
1884. Nov. 13 '''Brown, Charles D. Stone Hive, West Kirby.
188 1. Jan. 27 Burnley Literary and Scientific Club. Burnley.
1879. Jan. 9 Caraher, Hugh. Mellifont Villa, Llandudno.
1885. Jan. 22 Caroe, VV. D. 10 Portsea place, London, W.
1888. Nov. 15 Carrington, W. A. Bakewell, Derbyshire.
1888. Dec. 13 Chadwick, Edwin. Mottram road, Staly bridge.
1879. J^"- 9 Chetham Library, Manchester.
1885. Jan. 22 Chester, the Bishop of, F.S.A. The Palace,
Deeside, Chester, President,
1888. Nov 29 -''Clarke, John. Mersey Bank, New Ferry,
Birkenhead.
1859. April 14 Clement, Leonard. Forest View, Nelson-in-
Marsden, Burnley.
List of Members, ix
Date of Election.
1855. May 24 *Comber, Thomas. B 13 Exchange Buildings,
Liverpool.
1888. Nov. 15 Crane, John C. West Millbury, Mass., U.S.A.
1885. April 16 *Cross, Samuel. 5 Rock lane, Rock Ferry,
Cheshire.
1888. Mar. 22 Darwen Free Public Library. Darwen.
t888. Nov. i Day, Robert, F.S.A., M.R.LA. 3 Sidney place,
Cork.
1862. Mar. 6 Derby, The Earl of, K.G. Knowsley, Liver-
pool, Vice-President.
1857. April 23 Devonshire, The Duke of, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Chats worth, Derbyshire, Vice-President.
1880. Nov. 18 "Duff, E. Gordon. Park Nook, Prince's Park,
Liverpool.
1879. 'r)ec. II Dun, John. Rock Villas, Latchford, War-
rington.
1888. Mar. 22 '"'Earle, Hardman Arthur. Allerton Tower,
Liverpool.
1888. Feb. 9 -Earle, T. Algernon. West Derby Village,
Liverpool.
1873. Dec. II Earwaker, John Parsons, M. A., F.S. A. Pensarn,
Abergele, North Wales.
1872. April 4 Ebury, The Lord. 35 Park street, Grosvenor
square, London, W.
1 85 1. Jan. 7 Egerton of Tatton, The Lord. Tatton Park,
Knutsford, Cheshire.
1886. Nov. 18 '''Eshelby, H. Douglas, F.S. A. 24 Park road
South, Birkenhead, Hon. Treasurer,
1848. Nov. 23 Evans, Edward. Bronwylfa, Wrexham.
1872. Sept. 5 Evans, Joseph. Haydock Grange, St. Helens.
1878. Jan. 10 Fairclough, John. The Grove, Moore, near
Warrington.
1 87 1. Jan. 12 Ferguson, William, F.C.S., F.G.S., F.R.S.E.
Kilmundy House, near Mintlaw, N.B.
ffarington, Miss. Worden Hall, Preston.
1888. Nov. 15 Finney, Charles F. Huyton House, Huyton.
1888. Mar. 8 Finney, Isaac A. Macclesfield.
1880. April I Fishwick, Lieut. -Col. Henry, F.S. A. The
Heights, Rochdale,
X List of Members,
Date of Election.
1857. May 7 Frackleton, Eev. S. S., A.M. Glenone Rectory,
Port Glenone, County Antrim, Ireland.
1853. Dec. 15 Franks, Angustus WooUaston, M.A., F.R.S.,
F.S.A. British Museum, London.
1875. Jan. 7 Oarnett, William. Quernmore Park, I^n-
caster.
1880. Nov. 18 Catty, A. S. York Herald, Herald's College,
London.
1867. April II '''G-enn, John Hawke. 14 Sydenham avenue,
Liverpool.
1879. April 17 Gibson, Rev. T. E. 72 Liverpool road, Birk-
dale, Southport.
1862. Mar. 6 Gladstone, Bight Hon. William Ewart, M.P.
Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, Vice-President,
1886. April 15 *Glazebrook, Thomas T., Jun. 7 Brunswick
street, Liverpool.
1 88 1. Dec. 15 *Glazebrook, Michael G. 49 Warwick gardens,
Kensington, London, W.
1888. Nov. 29 "^Gow, W., M.A. Highgate, Heswall, Cheshire.
1873. April 17 Gratrix, Samuel. Alport Town, Deansgate,
Manchester.
1881. Jan. 27 *Gray, Rev. Andrew E. P., M.A., F.S.A. The
Rectory, Wallasey, Cheshire.
1862. Dec. 4 Oreen, John Henry. Buenos Ayres.
1880. Nov. 18 Greenall, Henry. Grappenhall Hall, War-
rington.
1880. Dec. 2 Greenall, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Hon. Canon of
Chester. Grappenhall Rectory, Warrington.
1854. Aug. 31 Grenside, Rev. William Bent, M.A. Melling
Vicarage, Lancaster.
1874. Dec. 10 *Hance, E. M., LL.B. School Board Office,
Dale street, Liverpool.
1856. Mar. 6 Hardwick, Charles. 7 2 Talbot street. Moss-side,
Manchester.
1883. Jan. 25 *Hargreaves, John. Ravenswood, Rock Ferry.
1888. Nov. 29 *Hargrea^es, John Price. 4 Wellington road,
Claughton, Birkenhead.
1887. Harrison, James. Dornden, Tunbridge Wells.
1857. April 23 Hartington, The Marquess of, M.P. Devon-
shire House, 78 Piccadilly, London.
List of Members. xi
Datb op £lbction.
1888. Nov. 15 "Hayman, Walter Atkin. 46 Prince's road,
Liverpool.
1848. Nov. 23 Heywood, James, E.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S.
26 Kensington Palace gardens, London, W.
1872. Sept. 5 Hinmers, W. Cleveland House, Lancaster
road, Eccles, Manchester.
1 88 1. Dec. 15 Hodgkin, Thomas. Benwelldene, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.
i860. Jan. 12 '^'Holden, Adam. 48 Church street, Liverpool.
1872. Jan. II *Holme, James. 10 Huskisson street, Liverpool.
1872. Sept. 5 -Hornby, Thomas Dyson, Olive Mount, Mill
Lane, AVavertree, Liverpool.
1888. Nov. 29 *Horsfall, Charles E. 147 Bedford street south,
Liverpool.
1888. Dec. 13 Hovenden, Eobert, F.S.A. Heathcote, Park
Hill road, Croydon.
1879. Dec. II Howorth, Henry H., M.P., F.S.A. Derby
House, Eccles, Manchester.
r888. Nov. 29 ^Hughes, John. Wynnstay, Aigburth drive,
Liverpool.
1851. Humberston, Colonel Philip Stapleton. Glany
Wern, Denbigh.
1887. Mar. 24 Hutton, Wm. L. ".^//trr//j^'' Office, Ormskirk.
1848. Nov. 23 Jacson, Charles R.^ Barton Hall, Preston.
1882. James, Francis. 190 Cromwell road, London,
S.W.
1888. Nov. I Johnson, J. H. West Lindeth, Silverdale,
Carnforth.
1888. April 17 Jordan, J. Joseph. Manchester and Salford
Bank, St. Anne Street, Manchester.
1888. Feb. 9 '''Joy^son, Tertius. Long View, Liscard, Birken-
head.
1888. Nov. 29 -''Kidman, James, M.A. 17 Brompton avenue,
Liverpool.
1863. Nov. 5 *King, John Thomson. 4 Clayton square,
Liverpool.
1888. Nov. 15 Knowles, Peter. Warrington.
1872. April 4 Lathom, The Earl of. Lathom House, Ormskirk.
1888. Nov. 29 Lawrence, William Frederick, M.A., M.P.,
Cowesfield House, Salisbury.
xii List of Members,
Date of Election.
1872. Sept. 5 *Ledward, Septimus. Hill Bark, Frankby,
Birkenhead.
1887. Dec. I '"'Leslie, Frank John. 15 Union court-, Castle
street, Liverpool.
1888. Nov. I ^Liverpool Library (Lyceum). Bold street,
Liverpool.
1886. Nov. 18 *Logeman, William S. 403 Old Chester road,
Tranmere.
1888. Nov. 29 '''Lovell, John. 17 Gambler terrace, Liverpool.
Marshall, George William, LL.D., F.S.A.,
Rouge Croix, College of Arms, London,
E.C., and Carlton Hall, Worksop.
1862. Mar. 6 *McCorquodale, Colonel George. The W^illows,
Newton-le- Willows.
1858. April 15 *McInnes, John. Heath Bank, Breck road,
Wallasey.
1887. Feb. 10 -''McKay, Professor, M.A. 39 Bentley road,
Liverpool.
1888. Mar. 22 Manchester Free Reference Library. King
street, Manchester.
1888. Nov. I '''Mansergh, James Fleming. Clougha, Cressington
park, Liverpool.
1864. Dec. I Marson, James. Hill Cliffe, Warrington.
1874. Feb. 18 *Mawdsley, James Piatt. 4 Castle street,
Liverpool.
1875. D^c- 5 *Mead, Albert J., B.A. Earlston road, Liscard.
1886. Mar. 4 Molyneux-Seel, Edmund R. T. 25 Cheniston
gardens, Kensington, London, W.
1880. Dec. 2 Monk, James B. Lingard, M.A. Belmore Park,
Chasewater, Southsea.
1849. Nov. 8 Moore, Rev. Thomas, M.A. Midleton College,
County Cork, Ireland.
1880. April \ Morris, Claude John. The Mount, Altrincham.
1885. Mar. 19 "Morton, Thomas Naylor. 40 Eastbourne street,
Liverpool, Honorary Assistant Secretary,
1888. Nov. I Myres, T. Harrison. 1 5 Chapel street, Preston.
1857. Jan. 15 Naylor, Eichard Christopher. Kelmarsh Hall,
Northampton.
1874. Dec. 10 Nicholson, Captain Edward Joseph. Holly
Bank, Lymm, Cheshire.
List of Members. xiii
Date of Election.
1848. Nov. 23 Nicholson, James, F.S.A. Thelwall Hall,
Warrington.
1888. Nov. t Norcliffe, Rev. Charles Best, M.A. Langton
Hall, Malton, Yorkshire.
1881. Dec. 15 Odgers, Rev. James Edwin, M.A., Fellow of
University Coll , London. Bowdon, Cheshire.
1888. Mar. 22 Owen's College. Manchester.
1888. Nov. 15 Pearson, Thomas H. Golborne Park, Newton-
le-Willows.
1888. Nov. 29 ""Pennington, Thomas R. Hightown, Southport.
i860. Mar. 21 Petty, Thomas Shaw. 128 Mount street,
London, W.
1849. J^f^- 6 *Picton, Sir James Allanson, F.S.A. Sandy
Knowe, Wavertree, Liverpool, Vice-President,
1877. Dec. 13 Pierpoint, Robert, M.A. St. Austin's, Warring-
ton ; and Windham Club, St. James' square,
London, S.W.
1848. Nov. 23 Pilkington, James. Swinithwaite Hall, Bedale,
Yorks.
1886. Nov. 18 -"Pilkington, Lieut. -Col. John. Rockwood,
Sandown Park, Wavertree.
1878. Feb. 7 '"Potter, Charles. 10 1 Miles street, Toxteth Park,
Liverpool.
1887. Mar. 24 Powell, Rev. Edward. Lydiate, Maghull.
1887. Nov. 17 '"Pritt, W. C. Ashby. Newbold, Liscard, Birken-
head.
1888. Feb. 9 '"Radcliffe, Frederick M. 9 Cook street, Liverpool.
1879. J^"- ^ "^'Radcliffe, Richard Duncan, M.A. Darley, Old
Swan, Liverpool, Hon. Secretary.
1879. Dec. II '"Rathbone, Philip Henry. Greenbank Cottage,
Wavertree, Liverpool.
1874. Dec. 10 '"Rathbone, Samuel Greg. Croxteth drive, Sefton
park, Liverpool.
1855. Dec. 20 Robin, Rev. P. R., M.A., Hon. Canon of
Chester. Woodchurch, Birkenhead.
1876. April 20 Roper, William O. Eadenbreck, Lancaster.
1888. Nov. 29 *Russell, Edward R. 6 Abercromby square,
Liverpool.
1870. Nov. 3 *Rylands, John Paul, F.S.A. Heather Lea,
Charlesville, Claughton, Birkenhead.
xiv List of Members,
Date or Election.
1888. Dec. 13 Rylands, John. Thelwall Grange, Warrington.
1854. Dec. 13 Rylands, Thomas Glazebrook, F.S.A., F.L.S.,
M.R.I.A. Highfields, Thelwall, Warrington,
Vice-President,
1874. Dec. 10 Rylands, William Harry, F.S.A. Society of
Biblical Archaeology, 1 1 Hart street. Blooms-
bury, London, W.C.
1888. Mar. 22 St. Helens Free Public Library. St. Helens.
1872. Mar. 21 Salisbuiy, The Marquess of, K.G. Hatfield,
Herts.
1888. Nov. 15 Sandeman, Lieut.-Col. John Olas, Sub-Officer
H.M. Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.
24 Cambridge square, London, W.
1872. Sept. 5 *Sefton, The Earl of, K.G., Lord Lieutenant of
Lancashire. Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, Vice-
President.
-1853. June 2 Sharp, William. 29 Albert Gate, Hyde Park,
London.
1879. Dec. II Sherratt, James S. Bold street, Warrington,
Smith, E. W. B. District Co-operative Society,
Bury.
1863. April 16 Smith, Henry Ecroyd. Redmire, Bedale, York-
shire.
1888. Feb. 23 Sowler, Colonel Thomas. ''Courier'* Office,
Manchester.
1880. April I Stanning, Rev. Joseph Heaton, M.A. The
Vicarage, Leigh, Lancashire.
1884. Nov. 13 Starkie, Lieut.-Colonel Le Gendre Nicholas.
Huntroyd, Burnley, Lancashire.
1876. April 6 ♦Stewart, Rev. Alexander, M.A., Hon. Canon
of Liverpool. 29 Sandon street, Liverpool.
Stockport Free Public Library. Stockport.
1887. Jan. 20 Storey, Sir Thomas, Westfield House, Lancaster.
1888. Nov. 15 '''SuUey, Philip. 48 Hamilton square, Birkenhead.
1872. Sept. 5 Taylor, James. Whitley Hall, Wigan.
1887. Feb. 10 Tempest, Mrs. Arthur Ceoil. Coleby Hall,
Lincoln.
1867. Jan. 17 Thorp, Henry. Alderhurst, Marlborough Road,
Sale, Manchester.
1886. Nov. 18 Threlfall, Henry S. 5 Prince's street, Southport.
List of Members, xv
Date of Elbction.
1888. Feb. 23 Tonge, Rev. Richard, M.A., Hon. Canon of Man-
chester. 5 1 South King street, Manchester.
1888. Feb. 23 Toulmin, John. " Guardian^^ Office, Preston.
1887. Jan. 20 Unwin, John. Endcliffe Lodge, Southport.
1848. Nov. 23 Varty, Thomas. Stag Stones, Penrith.
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street, Liverpool; and Overchurch Hill,
Upton, Cheshire.
1888. Dec. 13 Weldon, William Henry, Windsor Herald.
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Clapham Old Town, London, S.W.
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Liverpool. Newton-in-Makerfield Rectory,
Newton-le- Willows, Lancashire.
Wigan Free Library, Wigan.
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1888. Nov. 29 Worsley, James E., F.S.A. Winwick, Newton-
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1886. Dec. 2 * Dixon, James. Wallasey Dispensary, Liscard,
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1888. Mar. 8 *Shaw, George Thomas. Athenaeum, Church
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1888. Feb. 9 * Watts, Augustine, M.A. 92 Myrtle street,
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5 Brookside, Cambridge.
1880. Oct. 5 Burke, Sir John Bernard, C.B., LL.D., Ulster
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Sunningdale, Berkshire.
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Lodge, Richmond Park.
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1870. Sept. 13 Stokes, George Gabriel, LL.D. Pembroke
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Transactions.
FOREIGN QUARTERINGS IN LANCASHIRE
SHIELDS.
By the Bev, Andrew E, P, Gray^ M,A»y Rector of Wallasey,
(Read 24th Febnuuy, 1887.)
THE ennobled families of England are, for the most part,
thoroughly English, and very few drops of foreign blood
flow in their veins. Some, however, of the marriages of our
princes in days long gone by have transmitted to their representa-
tives amongst the nobility and gentry of to-day foreign quarterings
not unworthy to be placed side by side with the Lilies and Lions
of the Plantagenets. Thus Isabel, wife of Edmund Duke of
York, (a younger son of Edward HI., and great grandfather of
Edward IV.,) was co-heir of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile
and Leon, who was the descendant (in the fifth generation) of
S. Ferdinand King of Castile and his wife Beatrice, the daughter
and co-heir of Philip of Hohenstaufen, Emperor-elect, and Irene,
who was heir to the claims of her father the Byzantine Emperor
Isaac II. (Angelos-Komnenos) : all the numerous representatives
of the House of York can therefore quarter the castle and lion
of Castile and Leon, the three lions of Hohenstaufen, and the
black and golden eagles of the western and eastern Empires.
Some of the families, who claim these royal and imperial quarter-
ings, are connected with Lancashire, but royal descents have been
so much brought forward of late that we need not trace these
families in this paper. Some genealogists appear to think it all-
important to trace descents from any royalty, as though the rank
of our forefathers were more to be thought of than the worth :
those, who have in their veins the blood of the House of York,
Bt
2 Foreign Quartering^ in Lancashire Shields,
can not be proud of all their kingly ancestors, but may point
with complacency to the corner of their shield, where the black
lions of Hohenstaufen look the spectator full in the face, for
Philip, the Emperor-elect, who has been already mentioned, was
a son of one of the noblest in the long list of Caesars, Frederick
Barbarossa.
Passing by these quarterings, the course of which down to the
present time may be traced with little difficulty by any one
interested in the subject, we will turn our attention to a marriage,
(which took place about the year 1437) between an English
commoner and a duchess, who, though her title was English, was
a foreigner. We ought indeed to confess that the marriage was
** a runaway match," and the happy husband, Sir Richard
Wydvile, was fined ;£'iooo for his elopement with Jacquetta of
Luxemburg (for that was the lady's name), the widow of his late
commander, John Puke of Bedford, brother to Henry V. Sir
Richard was afterwards restored to royal favour, made a Knight
of the Garter, and advanced to the dignity of Earl Rivers ; his
daughter became Queen of England, and his kinsfolk presumed
to rival the Nevills, whose power at that time almost or quite
overshadowed the Plantagenets ; this rivalry brought poor Lord
Rivers to the block, and left Jacquetta a widow for the second
time. Genealogists, interested in Lancashire families, may well
be grateful to Sir Richard for aspiring to the hand of Jacquetta
of' Luxemburg, for the shield that she (being her father's heir)
passed on to her children, consisted of twelve illustrious quarter-
ings, which now find a place in the ** achievements " of four
families closely connected with this county, viz., —
1. Grey, Earl of Stamford (and, until 1882, of Warrington) ;
2. Egerton, Earl of EUesmere ;
3. Woodcock, of Newburgh and Wigan ;
4. Stanley, Earl of Derby.
Of these four families, the first is not resident within the county,
but holds land in it, and may therefore be reckoned as a Lanca-
shire family for the purposes of this paper ; the second has been
identified for some generations with the development of the
TE« TW€tV€ QVKRT€RIlieS
I.
2.
3.
4.
LUXEMBURG.
CHATILLON.
BRIENNE.
SICILY.
5. LUSIGNAN.
6. CHAMPAGNE.
7. JERUSALEM.
8. KOMNENOS.
9. DE LA ROCHE.
10. DE BAUX.
11. ORSINL
12. LUXEMBURG.
Foreign Quartmngs in Lamashire Shields, 8
industries of the county : the third is a cadet branch of the
Woodcocks, of Cuerden Gr^en, in the parish of Leyland, whose
land passed in the direct male line from the reign of Henry III.
to the end of the last century, when an. heiress transmitted it to
the Winstanleys (now of Chaigeley Manor, near Clitheroe), by
whom it was sold : of the fourth, the Stanleys, it is as needless
to give any further description, as it was unnecessary for Moses
to define the fourth branch of the River of Paradise, any more
than by stating its well-known name.
Jacquetta's twelve quarterings are these : —
1. Luxemburg (Counts of S, Pol). — ^^Argent, a lion rampant
with the tail nowed Gules, armed and crowned Or,
langued Azure, a label of three points of the last.
2. Chatillon (Counts of S. Pol). — Gules, 3 pales Vair, on a chief
Or a label of five points Azure.
3. Brienne (Counts of Jaffa, &c.) — Azure, semfee of billets and
a lion rampant Or.
4. Sicily, — (The present writer is ignorant of the arms of the
Norman kings of Sicily ; the black eagle was not used
till the days of the Hohenstaufen. Some Crusading
kinsmen of the Norman kings bore plain " Gules," but
he does not know whether this simple shield was
adopted by the royal branch of the family.)
5. Lusignan (Kings of Cyprus). — Barry of ten Argent and
Azure, a lion rampant with the tail fourchde Gules,
armed and crowned Or, langued of the second.
6. Champagne, — Azure, a bend Argent, double cotised Or.
7. Jerusalem, — Argent, a cross potent between four crosslets Or.
(This ** false heraldry " of metal upon metal was de-
liberately allowed in the one case of the arms of the
Sacred City.)
S. Komnhios (Emperors at Constantinople). — Gules, a double-
headed eagle displayed, crowned. Or, in chief a conse-
crated wafer duly marked Argent. (This is the famous
Srav/oacTos of the Eastern Empire.)
Bf 2
4 Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields,
9. De la Roche (Dukes of Athens). — Gules, a cross Ermine,
the centre vpided of the field
10. De Baux (Dukes of Andria). — Gules, a star of sixteen rays
Argent.
11. Orsini (of Rome). — Bendy of six Argent and Gules, a fess
Or, on a chief of the first, a rose of the second.
12. Luxemburg, As No i.
It will be best for us to prove Jacquetta's right to these
quarterings, (treating the shield synthetically rather than analyti-
cally,) and then to go on to trace the claims of Greys, Egertons,
Woodcocks, and Stanleys to a place amongst her representatives.
I. — *John Komnenos, perhaps the greatest and best of the
Emperors of the East, was the eldest son of the well-known
Emperor Alexis I., and reigned from 1118 to 1143 : his goodness
has been handed down in the composition of the name by which
he is commonly known, just in the same way as the greatness of
the restorer of the Western Empire has formed a permanent
addition to his name ; as the latter is in France called Charle-
magne, Le.y Charles the Great, so the former is known in the east
as Kalojoannes, Z.^., John the Good. His grandson John, who,
though not emperor, was the head of the House of Komnenos,
left two or three daughters as his co-heirs, who transmitted to
various families in the west a right to bear on their shields the
golden eagle of the Eastern Empire. Sir B. Burke in his Peerage
traces the descent of Charlotte de la Tremouille, wife of the great
Earl of Derby, from the Emperor Alexis Komnenos through a
line which gave to her children no claim to representation, and
no right to quarter the imperial eagle ; but there is no mention of
the fact that her husband was descended from the same Alexis
Komnenos, and was even entitled to place that emperor's arms
on his shield. It ought perhaps to be here mentioned that the
description given above of the arms of the Byzantine emperors
is taken from an article on the subject in the Greek periodical
*E<rTia, published at Athens, where it is stated that the Komn^nian
* The writer desires to record his gratitude for the invaduable help that he has received
from his friend, Miss McPheraon, of the Lodse, Blundellsands, in tracing the ancestry, and
marshalling the achievement, of Jacquetta of Luxemburg
Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields. 6
Caesars were the first to double the eagle's head ; other writers
speak of ** campo vermiglio e aquila dioro,^'
Maria Komndna, one of the daughters and co-heirs of the
last mentioned John, the head of that highly gifted race,
married in 1164 (and not in 11 67, as Ducrange says), Amauri,
King of Jerusalem, the half-brother of Geoffrey Plantagenet, who
was father of our Henry II. Isabel, the only child of King
Amauri and the Komn^nian princess, was married three times,
her third husband being Henry, Count of Champagne, Jure uxoris
Kirtg of Jerusalem. Alice, the heir of Henry and Isabel, married
Hugh de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, who also styled himself
King of Jerusalem. When his grandson, Hugh II., died child-
less in 1253, the representation of the family was carried on by
the issue of the daughters of Hugh I., of whom the younger,
Mary ("a wondrous good lady,*' according to de Joinville),
married Walter de Brienne, Count of Jaffa, who was taken
prisoner by the Saracens and murdered by them in 1245, because
he refused to give up Jaffa for his ransom. He was the son of
Walter Count de Brienne and Mary the daughter and heir of
Tancred, King of Sicily ; and his uncle, John de Brienne, King
of Jerusalem and eventually Emperor at Constantinople, was one
of the heroes of the thirteenth century, and is well known to all
readers of the history of that period. It would be interesting to
linger over the details of the history of the great Crusading
families of Lusignan and de Brienne, but this paper is genealogical
and not historical, and must keep itself within bounds, lest our
brook (like that of the Son of Sirach) should become a river, and
our river become a sea. We must pass on, therefore, and merely
mention that Hugh de Brienne, the son of Walter Count of Jaffa
and Mary de Lusignan, married Isabel de la Roche, the heiress
of the Dukes of Athens of that name — a dynasty that will not
have been forgotten by readers of Gibbon. Walter, Duke of
Athens, the son of Hugh and Isabel, was killed by the Catalans
in 131 1, leaving a son Walter (who was killed at the Battle of
Poitiers and left no issue), and a daughter Isabel, who married
Walter d'Enghien. Their son Louis, titular Duke of Athens,
6 Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields.
left a daughter and heir, Margaret, who married John of Luxem-
burg, grandson of Guy of Luxemburg and Matilda, the heiress
of the Chatillons, Counts of S. Pol. Peter, Count of S. Pol, the
son and heir of John of Luxemburg, became the husband of
Margaret, the daughter (and eventually the heir) of Francis de
Baux, Duke of Andria. The House of Baux was a very ancient
and powerful family in Provence, and claimed descent from the
Balti, the kingly race of the Visigoths : one branch of it held the
Principality of Orange till 1393, and from it all the later princes of
Orange were descended ; the other branch (which was the elder line
of the family) held the Duchy of Andria till the fifteenth century.
The mother of Margaret de Baux was Justine Orsini, an heiress of
the Roman family of that name. At the head of the nobility of
the Eternal City stood for centuries the great houses of Orsini
and Colonna, rivals in power and equals in renown, — the latter
devoted to the interests of the empire, the former ever faithful to
the Papacy ; indeed three of its members have sat in the Chair of
S. Peter, viz., Gelestine IIL (1191-1198), Nicholas IIL (1277-
1280), and Benedict XIIL (1724-1730). Even cursory students
of Italian history know something of the Orsini, and the race,
that fortified the ruined theatre of Marcellus as their chief
stronghold, and that commenced the building of the Vatican,
still flourishes in Rome, where its head has the rank and preroga-
tives of a foreign prince, whilst he claims the title of " cousin of
" the king" at three of the courts of Europe. But we may not
trace the history of the houses of de Baux and Orsini any more
than that of the Lusignans and de Briennes. Jacquetta of
Luxemburg was the daughter and heir of Peter, Count of S. Pol,
by Margaret de Baux, and thus passed on to her representatives
the twelve quarterings of which we have spoken.
IL — It therefore only remains to prove the right of the Lanca-
shire families already mentioned to a place amongst Jacquetta's
representatives. She left ^y^ sons (all of whom died without
issue), and seven daughters, her co-heirs.
I. The eldest of these, Elizabeth Wydvile, married twice; her
first husband was Sir John Grey, of Groby, a member of a great
Foreign Quarierings in Lancashire Shieidi, 7
family which rose to eminence at the beginning of the 13th
century and for a moment touched the Throne itself 300 years
later. There was a Parliament in the reign of Henry VII. to
which some forty lay Peers were summoned, and out of this
number five were Greys, viz., Thomas, Marquis of Dorset (son of
Sir John) ; George, Earl of Kent ; Reginald, Lord Grey of Wilton ;
Henry) Lord Grey of Codnor ; and Edward, Viscount Lisle (a
younger brother ot Sir John). Sir John Grey left by his wife
Elizabeth, the eldest co-heir of Jacquetta of Luxemburg, a son,
Thomas Grey, K.G., the already mentioned Marquis of Dorset ;
whose son, the second Marquis, had with other issue four sons ;
of these four, the eldest, Henry, was created Duke of Suffolk,
and was the father of Lady Jane Grey ; he and his two next
brothers, Thomas and Leonard, were beheaded in those troublous
Tudor times, but the -youngest, John, died quietly in 1564, leaving
an only son, who was created by James I. Lord Grey of Groby,
and whose grandson was advanced by Charles I. to the Earldom
of Stamford. The great-grandson of the first Lord Stamford
married, in 1736, Lady Mary Booth, daughter and heir of George,
Earl of Warrington, and thus began the connection between the
Greys and Lancashire, which has now lasted for 150 years. There
were three sons of this marriage ; the eldest was created Earl of
Warrington, but this title expired in 1882 ; and the present head
of this ancient House is descended from John, the youngest son
of the marriage that brought the Greys into the list of Lancashire
freeholders.
2. Sir John Grey was killed (at the early age of 25) at the
battle of St. Albans, 1460, and his widow Elizabeth, Jacquetta's
co-heir, afterw&rds became the wife of King Edward IV., as all
readers of Shakespere will remember. The right of the Egertons,
Earls of Ellesmere, to quarter the arms of Edward IV. is well
known, and is suflftciently traced in the " Royal Lineage " of
Burke's Peerage. They are a branch of the ducal house of
Leveson Gower, and took the name of Egerton in 1833 : their
right to represent Edward IV. is derived from marriages with
the heiresses of the houses of Egerton, Stanley, Clifford, Brandon,
8 Foreign Quarterivgs in Lancashire Shields,
and Tudor, and so back to Henry VII. and his wife Elizabeth,
Edward IV. 's heir.
3. We have seen that the Greys and the Egertons represent
the two marriages of Elizabeth, Jacquetta's eldest co-heir. The
Woodcocks of Newburgh and Wigan claim Jacquetta's quarter-
ings through their descent from Anne, her third daughter, who
married William Bourchier, eldest son of the Earl of Essex (a
title that had descended to the Bourchiers from the great family
of de Bohun). Cicely Bourchier, eventually the sole heir of this
marriage, became the wife of John Devereux, Lord Ferrers, one
of the representatives of the Palatine Earls of Chester. Barbara,
the co-heir of Sir William Devereux, Lord Ferrers* grandson,
married Sir Edward Hastings of Leicester Abbey, one of that
house, which must be ranked in the forefront of English families,
whether we regard the antiquity of its descent or the greatness of
its deeds : moreover its ' heraldic achievement* could scarcely be
surpassed, for on Sir Edward's Shield the Hastings sleeve was
followed by the red balls of Courtenay, the intermingled black
and gold of Pole, the many quarterings (noble, royal, and im-
perial) accumulated by the House of York, the silver saltire of
Nevill, the red cross of Bigod, and many another historic "Coat."
Walter Hastings, the great-grandson of Sir Edward, left two
daughters co-heirs, one of whom, Jane, married, in 1706, Edward
Holme, of Holland House, near Wigan ; their grandson, another
Edward Holme (who through his mother was a representative of
the knightly house of Legh of Lyme) left three sons and four
daughters, but all of these died childless, with the exception of
Elizabeth, who passed on Jacquetta's quarterings with a multitude
of others to her sons and their children, by her marriage, in 1799,
• Sir Edward Hastings* Shield may b« thus marshalled :— Quarterly of 30, viz., x, Hastings ;
3, Hungerford ; 3, Courtenay ; 4, Devon ; 5, Meols ; 6, Botreaux ; 7, Pole ; 8, Plantagenet
(Clarence) ; 9, Provence ; 10, Castile and Leon ; 11, Hohenstaufen ; la, the Empire ;
13, Mortimer; 14, Plantagenet (Clarence) ancient ; 15, de Burgh ; 16, Lacy; 17, Nevill ;
18, Montacute ; 19, Monthermer ; 20, Holland ; 21, Zouche ; 22, Quinci ; 23, Beaumont ;
24, Plantagenet (Kent) ; 25, Wake ; 26, Beauchamp ; 27, Warwick ; 28, Bigod ; 29, de
Soencer ; 30, Clare. Barbara, Sir Edward's wife, added the following quarterings to the
Hastings' achievement :— i, Devereux ; 2, Ferrers ; 3, Ferrers (ancient) ; 4, Chester ;
5, Bourchier ; 6, Plantagenet (Gloucester) ; 7, Bohun ; 8, Mandeville i p, Braose ; lo, Mar-
shall ; 11, Clare (Pembroke) ; 12, Badlesmere ; 13, Wydvile ; 14, Luxemburg ; 15, Chatillon ;
16, Brienne ; 17, Sicilv ; 18, Lusignan ; 19, Champagne ; 20, Jerusalem ; 21, Komnenos ;
33, de la Roche ; 33, de Baux ; 24, Orsini.
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with Thomas Woodcock, banker, of Newburgh House, in the
parish of Ormskirk, and of Bank House, Wigan.
4. The Stanleys have for centuries been acknowledged as
pre-eminent amongst Lancashire families. They added the
Luxemburg quarterings to their already famous " Harts' Heads,"
when George Stanley, who was so near losing his' head on the
eve of the battle of Bosworth, married Joan, the heir of Lord
Strange and Jacquetta, the fourth daughter and co-heir of Jac-
quetta of Luxemburg. George Stanley, who thus became Lord
Strange, was the son of the first Earl of Derby, and left (with
other issue) two sons, of whom the elder was the forefather of
the next nine Earls of Derby, and is now represented by the
Duke of Athol, whilst the younger was the founder of the cadet
branch of the family which inherited the Earldom, on the extinc-
tion of the male line of the elder branch in 1736, and from which
the present Lord Derby is descended.
These descents are shortly given (especially in the cases of the
better known families), for it would be out of place to set down
in a concise article, as this must of necessity be, every step in
such long genealogies. As it is, the paper appears to consist too
much of mere strings of names : the purpose, however, with
which it was begun has now been accomplished, and it has esta-
blished the right of four Lancashire families to place in their
shields some foreign coats of arms, of which even a Grey, a
Hastings, or a Stanley may be proud.
Note. — Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King-of-Arms in Elizabeth's
reign, mentions the following quarterings in the Stanley Shield : —
Luxemburg, Chatillon, Lusignan, de Baux, and Orsini. Jacquetta's
claim to represent the Kings of Cyprus and the Dukes of Athens
is concisely given by the Bishop of Chester in his Lectures on
Mediceval and Modern History^ p. 205. The historical reader
will not have forgotten the 62nd and 69th chapters of Gibbon's
Decline and Fall^ in which he gives a certain amount of informa-
tion about the de la Roches, the de Briennes, and the Orsini ;
10 Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields.
there are three great branches of this last family still extant, viz.,
the Dukes of Gravina at Rome, the Counts d'Orbassan at
Florence, and the Princes of Rosenberg in Carinthia. A very
complete pedigree of the Komnenoi is given in Smith's Dictionary
of Greek and Roman Biography, The ancestry of the de Baux
may be traced in Moreri's Dictionnaire Historiqtu. Any good
genealogical account of the families of Grey, Egerton, Hastings,
and Stanley, will verify the statements made above as to the
descendants of Jacquetta's co-heirs ; Jane Hastings' descent was
fully proved, when the male heir of her father's younger brother
successfully claimed the Earldom of Huntingdon ia 1819.
WINDLESHAW CHANTRY AND CEMETERY.
By the Rev, Austin Poivell.
«
(Read loth February, 1887.)
AT a distance of a little more than a mile from St. Helens is
" Windleshaw Abbey." To English, and especially to Lanca-
shire, Catholics it is a place of surpassing interest. They cannot
be otherwise than deeply impressed when they gaze on the tower,
hoary with age, on the few remaining stones of the chapel walls,
on the vacant spot where erst stood the altar. But it is not to
view the ruins of the little chapel that thither hie them, of a
summer afternoon, groups formed of old and young, groups from
near and afar. It is the graves within the ancient sanctuary and
around it which are the chief objects of interest and regard.
" To man alone of all animals," says Pliny, " is given the care of
"sepulture," " uni, sepulturae curia." His soul being immortal,
he cannot be indifferent to the spot where his body is to rest, until
** this mortal must put on immortality."
Hence the interest which a ramble through a cemetery begets
in the mind of a thoughtful man. " 1 doubt," says Longfellow, on
visiting a beautiful Catholic cemetery, ** whether any one can
" enter this enclosure without feeling the religion of the place
" steal over him, and seeing something of the dark and gloomy
" expression pass off from the stern countenance of death."
In his " Lines written beneath an elm in the churchyard of
" Harrow," Byron sings —
'* Oft have I thought ^t would soothe my dying hour,
If aught may soothe when life resigns her power ;
To know some humble grave, some narrow cell
Would hide my bosom where it loved to dwell.
With this fond dream methinks 'twere sweet to die."
12 Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery.
And Shelley in his preface to " Adonais, an elegy on the death of
** John Keats/' after picturing the romantic and lovely cemetery
hard by the pyramid of Caius Cestius, adds — " It might make
" one in love with death to think one should be buried in so
** sweet a place." Far be it from me to pretend to Jipply this
beautiful though fanciful utterance to the subject of the theme on
which I am engaged. And yet I have known some whose dying
hour has been soothed, when they have been assured^that the old
graveyard at Windleshaw would receive their remains. It is but
a few months ago, that a youth, whose life was on the wane,
pleaded passionately for a last resting-place there, and grew calm
and resigned when his petition was granted. Not that there is
anything grand or imposing or even beautiful in this quiet spot,
where sleep the kQvta. vcKpiov. Of granite there is but little, of
marble there is none. Around one or two graves only is there
iron railing ; for pyramids and obelisks, vases and broken pillars,
you may look in vain.
When Mr. Barrett, the antiquary of Manchester, who visited
Windleshaw in 1780, wrote " the priests lie buried within the now
" fallen chapel walls under handsome gravestones," his. imaginative
powers must have tinged with roseate hue the results of his obser-
vation. As with the priests, so with the laity, there is nothing
obtrusive, nothing pompous.
* * Two grey stones at their head and feet,
And the daisied turf between."
It is this modesty and simplicity which lends a charm to the place.
To this we must add the feeling of veneration which is engen-
dered when we look on anything ancient. Especially is this true
when there is a connection between the past and the dead.
Hence Cicero observes — " Statuae intereunt tempestate, . . .
" sepulchrorum autem sanctitas in ipso. solo est, quod nulla vi
" moveri neque deleri potest ; atque ut cetera extinguuntur, sic
" sepulchra fiunt sanctiora vetustate." — Orationes Philipp, ix.,
c. 6.
The old cemetery at Windleshaw is in extent merely 39 yards
from east to west, by 47 yards from north to south, thus contain-
WindUshaw Chantry and Cemetery, . 13
ing 1830 square yards, that is somewhat less than two-fifths of an
acre. A belt of chesnuts and elms encircled the little spot, some
fourteen of which are still remaining. The number of graves is
615, nineteen of which are within the chapel walls.
Within this plot are the remains of the ancient Chantry. The
tov^er at the west end is still standing. It is 36 feet high, and
12 feet square. The doorway is somewhat buried, as the earth
has been gradually raised through the making of graves. In each
side of the tower there is a window 5 feet high by some 3 feet in
width. The muUion in the window on the east side has perished.
There is also a second window on the west front, midway between
the upper one and the doorway. It has also lost its mullion.
Although small, the tower is strongly built, the walls being 3 feet
6 inches thick. Access was gained to the chantry from the tower,
through a lofty archway, which thus allowed the rays of the
evening sun to penetrate the chapel.
The chapel itself is 34 feet long by 13 feet wide, internal
measurement. Including the tower, the total length, external
measurement, is 50 feet. There are no remains of any windows
in the chapel, the walls having been levelled to within 18 inches
of the ground. The traces of the Sanctuary arch however are
still perceptible. The sanctuary is a foot narrower than the nave,
and is 14 feet in length, thus comprising nearly one half of the
chapel. The north wall has been built up again with the old
stones to the height of about 14 feet, nearest the tower, and
gradually stepped down towards the east. A piece of more
recent stone-work connects the portion rebuilt with the east
end. The archway has been built up so as to strengthen the
tower, the approach to the chantry being now at the west end of
the south wall, which has been levelled with the ground. The
material of the building is a yellowish sandstone, quarried in
the neighbourhood. The plinth stones appear to have been
brought from some distance, being red sandstone without the
yellowish intermixture which is characteristic of the immediate
neighbourhood. These latter stones are 3 feet long, by 1 8 inches
in depth. There is a massive stone occupying the place of the
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altar. It is 6 feet in length and 2 feet 6 inches in width. The
material is red sandstone. Whether this stone formed the original
altar-slab, or whether it served for a reardos, and falling forward
assumed a horizontal position, it is now impossible to say. On
the Gospel side, the impressions in the stone of a human hand
and foot in their nude state are distinctly visible. The architec-
ture is Early English. Such is the ruin as it is now to be seen.
A little to the south of the chantry is a cross of Calvary.
Hallowed by the centuries which have passed over it, furrowed
by storm and rain, by the biting frost and the chilly blast, it stands
a true relic of the past. There are the usual three steps from
the ground to the base of the cross, covering a space of some
12 feet square. The base is 2 feet 4 inches in height and of a
like width. On it is the date 1627. The west side of the socket
is completely worn down, so that the cross looks as though it
were placed in a stone seat. The shaft is 3 feet 4 inches in
height, and is in the form of an obelisk. There are no arms to
the cross, but on each of the four sides of the upright is carved
in relief a small cross, some 16 inches in height.
I mentioned that the old grave-yard was but two-fifths of an
acre in extent. As now seen, however, the cemetery comprises
nearly an acre. For in 1835 Sir John Gerard gave an additional
plot, to the extent of nearly three-fifths of an acre. The earlier
boundary wall was then thrown down, the two portions of land
joined together, and the wall which enclosed the old portion
extended so as to include the new. Room for 700 additional
graves was thus obtained, so that the enclosure now contains 1300
graves. The most conspicuous object in this new portion is a
remarkably handsome cross, the gift of Messrs. William, Thomas,
and James Tasker, of Greenfield House, Billinge. The material
is Billinge stone, from the quarry which Mr. Thomas Tasker
worked. The shaft of the cross is 10 feet in height, the base
resting on a flight of three steps. The Gerard vault is in this
new portion of the cemetery. It is plain and massive. A flight
of stone steps conducts to the iron door which closes it. Sir
John Gerard, who died February 21st, 1854, was the first whose
Windleshdw CharUry and Cemetery, 15
remains were laid there, his ancestors being buried in the Gerard
chantry at Winwick. Here also repose the bodies of Mrs. Clifton,
mother of the present Lady Gerard, and of Mrs. Frederick Gerard,
of Aspull house, who died March 28th, 1883.
Having thus briefly described the chantry and burial-ground,
it is time to devote some attention to their historical aspect.
Windle, or according to the ancient spelling " Wyndhull,'* is
probably so called on account of the eastern portion of the town-
ship being hilly, and consequently exposed to the wind. The
word "Shaw" is derived from the Saxon "Scutha," a shadow;
and hence, by metonomy, a tuft of trees, a wood, which creates
a shadow. Thus Windleshaw means a wood on a windy hill.
Before the reign of King John, Windhull gave name to a family,
of whom was Edusa, the widow of Alan de Windhull, who gave
one mark to the king for a writ of summons for her dower, against
another Alan de Windhull (Baines' Lancashire), The latter Alan
was son of the former, and, I surmise, step-son to the claimant.
In the reign of Edward the Third, Peter de BurnehuUe held
the manor of Windhull of William Boteler, and performed for it
suit and service to the county and wapentake. The Gerards
acquired the manor of Windle, together with that of Bryn, by
marriage with the heiress of Peter de Brynhill (Baines' Lanca-
shire),
Wyndell Shae is termed a manor in 4 Edward VI. when it
belonged to Sir Thomas Gerarde, in pleadings of that date
respecting the title to common of pasture in the waste called
Blakehyll Moss, in the lordship of Wyndhull, and the common
waste called Withinsha - Mosse, in the lordship of Eccleston
(Cal, PL Due, Lane, vol. ii., p. 106). The manor house of Windle
is situate on Moss Bank, and is visible from the city of Liverpool.
Blakehyll Moss is still recalled to one's mind by Bleak Hill farm.
It is a mistake to call the ruins at Windleshaw, " Windleshaw
" Abbey." The popular error evidently arose from a little false
reasoning. Seeing that abbeys were in ruins, the profanum vulgus
inferred that the converse was also true, that ecclesiastical ruins
must have been abbeys. Thus, on this principle, the Domestic
16 Wifidleshaw Chantry and Cemetery,
Chapel of St. Catherine at Lydiate is called " Lydiate Abbey."
So also the old chantry at Windleshaw has, from time immemorial,
been designated "The Abbey."
A chantiy is a chapel, sometimes attached to a church, some-
times an aisle or part of an aisle in a church, but more frequently
in olden times a separate building, set apart for the offering of
the Holy Sacrifice for the especial benefit of the soul of a particular
person, generally the founder, and for the souls of the members
of his family, and all the faithful.
The chantry at Windleshaw was founded by Sir Thomas Gerard,
of Bryn, Knight, who was living in 1435, ^^ '3^^ Y^^ ^^ ^^
reign of King Henry VI. Like his father before him he possessed
the confidence and regard of King Henry V., his high military
skill and valour, in the wars against France, being subjects of
public commendation. It is of him that P^re Daniel has recorded
(Hist, of France^ vol, vi.^ that in 1437, at the siege of Montereau,
when the king of France attended in person, the garrison behaved
with great valour, having at their head an English knight named
Thomas Gerard. The king of France here alluded to was
Charles VII., who owed his crown to the heroism of the im-
mortal Joan of Arc.
The chapel was probably dedicated to St Thomas of Canter-
bury. Mr. Barrett, the Manchester antiquary, so suspects,
because a famous well in the neighbourhood takes its name
from that saint. Canon Raines (Lane, Chantries^ p. 79,) says,
" This chantry, said to be dedicated to St. Thomas." Mr.
Baines (Lancashire) rather too authoritatively says, " It was
" an old chantry chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas." Of course
the proximity of St. Thomas' well to the old chapel is a
reason for surmising that St. Thomas was honoured by the latter
being dedicated to him, but is certainly insufficient to lead to a
conclusion. The best argument in favour of the chantry having
been placed under the patronage of St. Thomas is that the donor's
name was Thomas. So was his father's, so also his grandfather's,
and so his great-grandfather's. It is almost certain, then, that a
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saint, who gave his name to so many of the family, would be
adopted as the patron of the little chapel.
The endowment, as certified in 1548 to Edward VI.'s Com-
missioners, was ^At i6j., going out of the lands of the founder
lying in the lordship of Wyndle, and paid at two times equally.
The obligation of the priest was " to celebrate for the souls of
"the founder's antecessors for ever." Chantry priests in the
country were not wealthy men. It would appear otherwise with
their brethren who ministered at St. Paul's in London ; for
Chaucer, in commending his " Persone," says —
** He did not run unto London unto Saint Poules
To seeken him a chanterie for soules."
Still our ideas of the value of money must be considerably modi-
fied, to enable us to estimate correctly the income of the chantry
priest at Windleshaw. At the time of the dissolution there were
in all about a thousand chantries in the country, and some ninety
in Lancashire. Where religious houses were many, chantries were
few ; where the former were but sparsely planted, the latter were
more plentiful. Thus Lancashire, having but a small number of
religious foundations, had more than the ordinary proportion of
chantries.
The income of these chantries ranged from 30X. tO;^io, the
average being ;^5 6j. M. In Lancashire the total income was
;£'5oo 1 5^.8^., thus giving an average of ;^5 ris.^d, CanonRaines,
in accordance with Stillingfleet's principle, triples the amount, on
account of the diminished standard of money, and further multi-
plies the product by eight. Following his course, and multiplying
^^^ £4 i6j. by twenty-four, we find that the priest at Windleshaw
received the equivalent to ;^ii5 4^. of our money.
From the date of the foundation of Windleshaw chantry to
1535 we have no notice respecting it. In that year, the 26th of
the reign of Henry VIIL and the first after his rebellion from the
Holy See, the Subsidy Commissioner for the Deanery of War-
rington assessed the " Cantaria apud Wyndell infra parochiam
" praedictam (Pryscotte) ex fundatione Thomae Gerard de Bryn
" for tenths gs. Tj{d. and for the subsidy Ss, T^d" (ZancMSS.,
ct
16 Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery,
Vol. xxii.) The money thus obtained was handed over to the
new supreme head, for the augmentation of the royal estate and
the maintenance of the supremacy.
In IS4S Windleshaw was in danger. In November of that year
Parliament gave to the king, for the term of his natural life, aH dian-
tries, colleges, hospitals, and free chapels, with the lands thereunto
belonging. The number of all these religious establishments is
said to have been 2374, and they were erected by the ancestors of
those whose property was thus invaded by a power against which
there was no appeal. As, however, Henry died a little more than
a year after this act of spoliation was passed, many of these esta-
blishments, and more especially the poorer ones, escaped. In
his case, moreover, the object was merely greed. There was no
religious animus on his part against such foundations. This is
abundantly evident from the monarch's own Will, wherein, amid
many prescriptions of a like nature, he orders that there "be
" provided an honorable tombe, and a convenient aulter honour-
" ably prepared and apparailled with all m^er of things requisite
■''and necessary for dayly masses, there to be said perpetuelly
" while the world shall endure." When, then, on January 28th,
1547, the king went to his account, in Windleshaw Chantry
" The hymn of the priest was still heard the while,
Sung low in the deep mysterious aisle."
But sadder times were at hand. By an Act passed in 1547, the
first of King Edward VI. (i E. VI., c. 14), there were given to liim
all the colleges, free chapels, chauntries, hospitals, fraternities or
guilds, which were not in the actual and real possession of the late
Kling Henry VIII., to whom the Parliament had made a grant
thereof in the 37th year of his reign, nor in the possession of the
then king. There are several points to be remarked on with refe-
rence to this Act. Cranmer, knowing that the Court harpies would
get the lion's share of the spoil, spoke against it at first, though he
afterwards deemed it prudent to withdraw his opposition. In the
Commons a strong objection was made to that clause, which went
to deprive the guilds of their lands, but the leaders of the Oppo-
sition, the members for Lynn and Coventry, were silenced by a
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promise that the Crown would restore to those towns the lands of
which the Act might deprive them. It is singular that it is in
virtue of the statute passed on this occasion, that lands and goods
subsequently given for what are termed superstitious uses, are
forfeited to the Crown, although there is nothing in the Act to
make it prospective.* Owing to this Act it was that Windleshaw
chantry became deserted, and subsequently fell into decay.
In the following year, 1548, the Chantry Commissioners
reported as follows : —
" The Chauntrie within the Chapell of Wyndell Richard ffrod-
sham preist incumbent the? of the ffoundacion of Thomas Gerard
Knight to celebrate the? for the soules of his antecessors. The
sam is within the Paroshe of Prescott and distant from the Church
II {IV] myles and the said preist is remanyng the? and doth
celebrate accordinglie."
" Plate, none. The same preist hayth and receyveth yerlic one
annuall rent goinge furth of the lordship of Wyndell of iiii^^ xvi*
payd at two termes equallie. Sum totall of the rental iiii^^ xvi».
Reprises, none."
As there was no plate to plunder, and as the foundation was
not a leprise, that is a rent charge, it seems probable that the
Commissioners could seize on nothing except the building, which
being in an out-of-the-way place, and of small dimensions, sur-
rounded moreover by the Gerard property, would probably be
restored to them for a small consideration. f
The words, " the said preist is remayning there and doth
" celebrate accordinglie," certainly seem to imply that he was not
then disturbed. The priest was at that time 54 years of age,
and he may have continued in the exercise of his sacred ministry
at Windleshaw until his earthly course was consummated.
The Act of 1549, enjoining the use of the Book of Common
Prayer, he would have little difficulty in eluding. In July, 1553,
King Edward died, and the chantry priest, during the next five
* See, however, in this connection the statute 23 H. VIII., c. xo.
^ On the one hand we have it stated by the Commissioners that " upon the examynaciooi
"of this foundation of Sir Thomas Gerarde, Knight, to celebrate for the souls of his
*^' afipceators for ever, it could not appear that any lands were assessed for the intent above
" said " \Ex libfo £. Duck, Lan.\ On the other, however, under date of 9 Elizabeth, there
is mention of a decree of the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster, in proceedings " //f4er
" Reginam and Gerard" concerning " the discharge of Lands in Wyndle supposed to be
'* ChmKMy Lands, from paying rent to the Queen " {lAUtc. and Chesk. Records, p. m).
It would appear, therefore, that this matter was subsequently further inquired into, with the
result that tne condusioa at which the Commissioners of Edward VI. arrived was ratified.
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20 WindUshaw Chantry and Cemetery,
years of Mary's reign, would be left unmolested. With the
accession of Elizabeth his trials would be renewed. He would
be then 65 years of age. In the first Parliament of Queen
Elizabeth, it was enacted that the Book of Common Prayer
should alone be used by the ministers in all churches, under the
penalties of forfeiture, deprivation, and death. It is probable,
however, that the chantry priest would not be affected by this
enactment, and that he would continue the old service to the
end. He would, however, be the last priest to offer up the Holy
Sacrifice within the ancient walls ; at least to offer it regularly.
The priests sent forth from the seminaries abroad, to keep alive
the dying embers of the ancient Faith, carried their lives in
their hands. As a rule, they moved about from place to place,
receiving hospitality in the houses of the nobility and gentry. It
is not improbable that the inmates of tVindle Hall often thus
harboured priests, and it may be that on such occasions the little
chantry hard by served for its ancient purpose. And this leads
me to the legend of St. Thomas's Well.
The Well is some 300 yards from the chantry ruins. It is
far larger than any ordinary well, being some 9 yards long by
six yards wide. At present the water is but 2 feet deep, and
there is a fall of some 7 feet before the surface of the water
is reached. The sides are built up with stone, and the place
would appear to have been suited for bathing purposes. Barrett
speaks of it ** being bathed in oft in summer in regard of
" extraordinary virtues being credited to the water." This may
have been true at the time that he wrote, but since the sides
were built up it would be impossible. At the head of the well
there is the inscription : "St. Thomas's Well W. h e. 1798."
The initials represent William and Elizabeth Hill, the then pro-
prietors of the adjacent land, the date referring to the building
up of the sides of the well. Since the above date the water was
obtained by letting down cans into it. It was said to be very
efficacious for the curing of sore eyes. Formerly a footpath passed
through the old graveyard and led to the well, and thence onward
to Windle Smithy. When, however, the present cemetery at
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Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery. 21
Windle was formed, the footpath was closed, and the public
debarred from access to the well. Thus the recollection of the
virtues formerly ascribed to its waters is passing away. The
tradition with regard to the well — a tradition which comes from
ancient sources, but does not appear to have been widely circu-
lated — is, that a priest saying mass at Windleshaw was discovered
by the pursuivants ; that he fled, was pursued, overtaken at the
spot where the well is, cut down and his head struck off, and that
where his head fell, the spring gushed forth. There are of course
numberless legends touching the origin of wells, and this one has
a remarkable resemblance to many better authenticated stories.
It is not the supposed origin of the well, but the tradition that a
priest was put to death in the neighbourhood, that I would call
attention to. Now this tradition is confirmed by another, which
in its circumstances must be erroneous, but which may very
probably have some foundation in fact. This second tradition is
to the effect that, a priest fleeing from his persecutors, was cap-
tured whilst endeavouring to leap over the wall which bounds the
graveyard, and that the mark of his hand was left on the coping
stone. As regards this last wonderful circumstance there can be
no truth, for the wall was not built until 1778, the very year in
which the first relaxation from the penal laws was granted. Still,
setting aside the marvellous in each of these cases, we have the
tradition that a priest was captured and slain in the neighbourhood
of the old chantry. This tradition, especially as in the one case
the priest is said to have been discovered whilst saying mass in
the old chapel, would lead one to infer that the chapel was possibly
made use of occasionally during the time of persecution. I have
already mentioned the fact that the impression of a hand and foot
is distinctly to be seen on the large stone occupying the place of
the altar. Whether such impression suggested the origin of the
tradition, or whether some one, hearing of the tradition, exercised
his ingenuity by carving the above resemblances, it is impossible
now to say.
As to its final destruction, Barrett, writing in 1780, says — " the
" place said to be demolished during the wars of Charles I." This
22 WindUshaw Chantry and Cifmtery,
seems to be the general tradition, but there is no documentary
evidence to confirm it. There is a fond story amongst the people
that Oliver Cromwell planted his guns on Billinge Hill, and from
that position battered down the chapel. Had his artillery been
furnished by Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, or Krupp, the task
would have been feasible. But as the balls would have a little
more than three miles to travel, without making any allowance
for parabolic curves, we may safely dismiss this feature of the
story. Still the tradition in its substance helps to point out the
time when the old chantry fell beneath the destroyer's hand. We
know certainly that if either Cromwell or any of his troops had
known of the existence of such a place, and had been near to it,
its fate would have been sealed. Now, in 1644, Lathom House,
distant some nine miles from Windleshaw, was besieged during
eighty-eight days, by three thousand troops under Fairfax. In the
following year it was again invested, and eventually captured by
General Egerton, who had four thousand men under his command.
It is pretty certain that bands of marauders would divert the
monotony of the siege by making excursions in the neighbour-
hood, and pillaging the property of so-called malignants. It is
far from unlikely that some such band tore off the roof and
broke down the walls of this ancient sanctuary. As far then as
may be conjectured, the date of the destruction may be said to
be 1644 or thereabouts.
The first written notice regarding the chantry since the visit of
Edward VI.'s commissioners is that of the antiquary Barrett,
above alluded to. He visited Windleshaw in 1780, made a
drawing of the ruins, and gave a description thereof, which
description, allowing for lesser inaccuracies, is applicable at the
present day. Mr. Baines has copied Barrett's description. The
ivy, however, which the antiquary so graphically pictured, no
longer clothes the tower. Three elderberry trees within the
chantry walls are now the sole living things.
Mr. Foley (Records oj the English Prmnnce^ series xii., p. 407,)
publishes a letter on the subject from Rev. Henry Beeston, of
Portico, to Dr. Oliver, dated Sept. 3, 1834. The letter contains no
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information, but mentions a tradition " that Windleshaw Priory,"
as he calls it, " was dependent on the Abbey at UphoUand, not
** far distant to the north-west." This mistake arose from calling
Windleshaw an Abbey. There was no connection at all between
the places, and they are seven miles asunder. Mr. Foley adds
some comments of his own, which are more erroneous than the
text which he is endeavouring to elucidate. He ends by saying
that the public cemetery for St. Helens being opened, the ancient
burial-ground, being quite full, was finally closed. There is not
a word of truth in this statement. The old burial-ground was
never closed. No fewer than sixty-six people were laid therein
during the last year. But when was it opened? Here again
there is nothing definitely known. The old cross is of the pre-
Reformation period. It is similar in form to a number of crosses
which stood in the neighbourhood. Such were Marshall's Cross,
Peasley Cross, a cross at Cronton, another at Eccleston Hill,
and 'a third at Rainhill, the last alone now standing, though
removed to a less exposed position. Now the crosses here men-
tioned occupied conspicuous situations, and could not therefore
have been erected during any post-Reformation period. The
form of the Windleshaw Cross resembling the above, the inference
that they were all made about the same time is clear. But, on
the other hand, it does not seem probable that the ground was
made use of for interments before the Reformation. Prescot was
the Parish Church, and the Vicar would probably assert his rights.
Then there is the date on the base of the cross, 1627. Now in
1 611, as we learn from a letter of William Blundell, the cavalier,
" a bitter storm of persecution extended its fury in these parts to
" y* bodies of deceased Catholics. The Churches in all places
" denyed them buriall ; some were layd in y« fields, some in gar-
'' dens, and others in high-wayes as it chanced. One of thes
** being interred in a common land had her Corps pulled out by
" y* hoggs and used accordingly *' (Trans, Hist, Soc,^ vol. xxxi.,
p. 51). He then goes on to say that his grandfather enclosed a
piece of ground for the burial of Catholics, to prevent the like for
the future. It is most probable, then, that the same reason, the
24 Windleshaw Ckantry and Cemetery,
refusal to bury Catholics in the old parish yards, led to the opening
of the grave-yard at Windleshaw. The " Harkirke," the little
cemetery formed by Mr. Blundell, was opened in 1611, that is,
only sixteen years before the date on the Windleshaw Cross.
My conclusion, then, is that the latter date, 1627, marks the
time when the cemetery began to be generally used. A few
interments probably took place before that date, but the date
must have been inscribed for some purpose. It cannot mark the
time when the cross was made, as we have already seen. It
must then denote the opening of the grave-yard. Whether the
cross always stood in its present position, or whether it was
removed thither when the cemetery was formed, cannot be de-
termined. If the latter were the case, there would be more
reason for affixing the date ; but whether originally erected there
or brought from elsewhere, the date 1627 seems to denote the
opening of the cemetery.
But little light can be thrown on this question by referring to
the gravestones. It is well known that many of the stones have,
like those who slept beneath them, crumbled into dust. The
oldest inscription is within the chantry walls. It is written on
one of the blocks of red-sandstone which formed the plinth of
the Chapel, and which now rests where the altar once stood, and
is as follows : — " Here lieth the body of Thomas Parkenson, P.C.,
" who departed this life March 7th, 175 1. Etatis 38. Requies-
" cat in pace." P.C. stands for " Presbyter Catholicus" (Catho-
lic Priest). A reference to the Douay Diary shows a Thomas
Parkenson born July 27, 17 13: evidently the same person.
Bishop Dicconson's List of Priests, compiled in 1741, represents
him as serving Black Brook and St. Helens.
The oldest stone in the open yard records the name of John
Fletcher of Denton's Green, who departed January 3, 1757.
I must, however, add that there is a single inscription which
appears to be much older than either of the above. It is as
follows : — " Here lieth the body of James the son of James and
"Alice Banks, who departed this life Oct. 3, 1700. Aged one
**year." If the date be really 1700, there is no disputing the
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fact that this is the oldest stone in the graveyard. The first
cipher is not, however, very plain, and it may be a nine. If the
figure be a cipher there is a gap of 57 years between the first
and the second mortuary inscription, which would seem very
improbable.
As to the tract of country for the inhabitants of which Windle-
shaw was the burying-place, it may be said to comprise all
between Warrington and Ormskirk, and between Wigan and
Liverpool. Until the grave-yard and the vaults at St. Nicholas's,
Copperas Hill, were opened, there were many interments from
Liverpool. ^
As a place of sepulture for the Clergy, Windleshaw holds a
unique position. I doubt if there be any cemetery in the country
where, since the Reformation, so many priests have been buried.
One can still read the inscriptions on the tombs of one bishop
and nineteen priests ; but many more are known to have been
buried there. The number probably exceeds sixty. As to the
laity, though most of these were natives of Lancashire, yet in the
old ground repose the remains of Edward John, son of William
Thomas Salvin, Esq., of Croxdale, in the county of Durham, as
a representative of the north ; and of Elizabeth Varco, of Truro,
in the county of Cornwall, for the south.
Unfortunately, the Catholics were not always in undisputed
possession of their cemetery. About the year 1760, the Quakers
became possessed of the adjoining land, and as there was no wall
to divide the burial-ground from their possession, they pretended
to have a claim over the cemetery itself. They made themselves
very disagreeable, maintained that there was no right of road for
funerals, insisted on levying heavy charges, and were the cause of
constant heart-burnings and endless disputes. About 1778, they
sold their property to Mr. William Hill, the gentleman above
alluded to in connection with St. Thomas' Well. The wall round
the little plot was then built by the Catholics. Mr. Hill was of
the Presbyterian persuasion : he was charitable and kind-hearted,
and all troubles ceased when he became possessed of the adjoining
land. He took a great interest in the old ruin and grave-yard,
26 Windkshaw Chantry and dmdery,
and used to spend hours on the spot. On one occasion, when
dining with Thomas Basil Eccleston, Esq., of Eccleston Hall,
Charles Orrell, Esq., of Blackbrook, and Thomas West, Esq., of
Croppers Hill, he resigned all right and title which might be his
to the grave-yard, bestowing it on the Catholics for ever. He
further conceded a right of road to the grave-yard. This road is
now included in the ground purchased by the St. Helens Ceme-
tery. Mr. Hill at the same time expressed a strong desire to be
buried at Windleshaw, and described the spot he had selected for
his grave. Seeing, however, that the ideas of his friends did not
coincide with his own on this latter point, he exclaimed — " Well,
" I will be buried in my own field, close to the wall, and will creep
" under to you ". The Rev. Henry Beeston, in the letter above
noticed, says that '^ Mr. Hill left directions in his will that his
'* body should be interred in accordance with this expression of
" his wish ". Whether his will contained such a clause or not I
am unable to say. His executors, if it did, did not pay any atten-
tion to it, for the old gentleman was buried at Prescot, and thus
had no opportuhity of testipg his capabilities for post-mortem
excavations.
About, the year 1824, Mr. Hill's son sold his estate to Sir
William Gerard for the sum of ;^i 1,000. As before mentioned,
in 1835 Sir John Gerard, successor to Sir William, gave an ad-
ditional plot of ground, which was then incorporated with the old
grave-yard. The ground was given to the Catholics worshipping
at the Churches of Birchley, Ashton, Lowe House, Blackbrook,
and Portico. The above congregations then erected the sexton's
lodge, hearse-house, and gateway, and enclosed the newly-obtained
ground with a wall.
In 1861, the adjoining land was purchased from Lord Gerard
by the Burial Board of St. Helens, and the Windle Cemetery laid
out. Iron gates, erected by the administrators of the Windleshaw
grave-yard, allow of communication between the latter and the
new cemetery.
A few remarks with reference to those interred at Windleshaw,
WindUshaw Chantry and Ctmetiry. 27
who occupied a more prominent position whilst running their
earthly course, may now be added.
Firstly^ as to the Bishop. The inscription is brief: "Also of
" the Rt. Rev*^ Dr. Thomas Penswick, Bishop of Europum, who
"died January 28th, 1836, aged 63 years." It is worthy of
remark that the Bishop's memorial notice is just half the length
of that of his niece, Elizabeth Mary Talbot, a girl of nine years
of age. The Bishop was born at the Manor House, Ashton ;
his father, Mr. Thomas Penswick^ being the agent of Sir Thomas
Gerard. When the College at Douai was invaded by the
Republicans, in 1793, Thomas Penswick was one of those chosen
by the President to secrete the plate from their rapacity. It was
a task which demanded skill and courage. Entering on the
Mission, he was, after some time, appointed to St. Nicholases,
Copperas Hill, of which church he was the first Incumbent. A
tablet to his memory may there be seen. Selected by Dr. Smith,
Bishop of the Northern District, as his coadjutor. Dr. Penswick
was consecrated June 29th, 1824. On the death of the above-
named Bishop, he succeeded him July 30th, 1831. Suffering
from dropsy and heart disease, he betook himself to the house of
his brother, Randolph Penswick, situate in Lower Lane, Ashton,
where he ended his days.
The Bishop's brother, the Rev. John Penswick, was, from the
year 1804 to 1849, ^^ pastor at Birchley. He then took up his
abode near Ashton Cross, becoming private chaplain to Sir John
Gerard; and on the death of the latter, to his successor, Sir
Robert, now Lord, Gerard. He died on the 30th of October,
1864, aged 86 years, during 66 of which he had been a priest.
He was the last of the Douai priests, a College which, founded
on Michaelmas Day in 1568, continued to send forth priests to
England until October 12th, 1793, when it was seized by the
soldiers of the French Republic. In the beginning of the same
year Daniel O'Connell had bid adieu to his alma mater (Douai),
the ship in which he sailed taking the news to England of the execu-
tion of Louis XVI. Mr. Penswick, at the request of Canon John
Walker, then of Blackbrook, wrote an account of the downfall
28 Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery,
of the great College, of which he was the last, though not least
worthy, son. Mr. Penswick's last resting place adjoins the vault
of his friend and kind patron. Lord Gerard. The inscription on
his tomb is as follows : — "Pray for the soul of the Rev. John
" Penswick, who died at Garswood, October 30th, 1864. Aged
" 86 years, in the 62nd year of his priesthood. R.I.P." There is
a marble tablet at the base of the Cemetery Cross of Birchley to
the memory of this venerable man, on which is recorded the fact
that he was the last of the Douai priests.
" Kev. Marmaduke Stone, S.J., died August 21st, 1834, aged
*'85." These lines call to mind one who was in his day great
amongst his brethren — ^^ clarum et venerabiie nomen^\ Born at
Draycot, co. Staff., November 28th, 1748, he, in co-operation with
Father Strickland, worked successfully for the restoration of the
English Province of the Jesuits. May 19th, 1803, he was named
the first Provincial since the dissolution of the Society, in 1773, by
virtue of the famous Constitution of Clement XIV., " Dominus
ac Redemptor Noster^\ In 1829 he removed to Lowe House,
where he became perfectly blind, and died as above stated. At
Stonyhurst College a marble tablet records his distinguished
services. Mr. Shell, M.P., who was at Stonyhurst when Father
Stone was Superior, speaks, in his Recollections of the Jesuits^ in
eulogistic terms of his many virtues.
"To the memory of Philip Butler, C.A.D., who lived 26 years
" at Blackbrook, and died there the 9th day of December, 1777,
" aged 52 years." The initials C.A.D. stand for Collegii Anglorum
Duaci — " of the College of the English at Douai ". From the
College Diary we learn that he was born December 8th, 1724,
his parents being William and Dorothy Butler, nek Ashton. He
was a member of the distinguished but now extinct family of the
Butlers of Rawcliffe. Being a person of means, he was the chief
contributor to the erection of the first chapel at Blackbrook,
" with two chambers over it, and a cellar under it," and likewise
secured the site from Mr. Orrell for 500 years, paying the yearly
rent of one shilling on the 29th September. He was the Vicar-
General of Bishop Francis Petre.
Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery, 29
On a handsome elevated stone, to the east of the chantry
ruins, one reads : ** Here lie the remains of Jean Bapt. Fran.
** Graux de la Bruyere. He was the first who brought to perfection
" a work of very considerable magnitude and importance to the
" commercial interest of the British nation, the Cast Plate Glass
" manufactory (sic) In memory of the distinguished abilities
" of so deserving a man these lines are inscribed." He was born
at St. Gaubain, in Picardie, in France. He died at Ravenhead,
December 5th, 1787, in the 48th year of his age. How much
does not the town of St. Helens, with its 60,000 inhabitant?, owe
to this man ; and how few there are who know it. The British
Plate Glass Company was established in 1773, and erected their
manufactory at Ravenhead, near St. Helens. It occupied thirty
acres of land, and was enclosed by a wall, round which were
placed the houses of the workmen, so that it was a sort of
distinct colony. The buildings cost ;^4o,ooo, and gave employ-
ment to 300 workmen. The manufacture was introduced by
workmen from France, Monsieur de la Bruyere being at their
head. Within the chantry lies a relative of the above, Mr.
Angelique Graux, of Picardie, in France, who died "apud Raven-
"head, April loth, 1786, aetatis 26. R.I.P."
** Here lieth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Low, of Cowley Hill,
"Widow, who departed this life the i8th of November, 1766,
" setatis suae 96." The husband of this lady was Anthony Low,
M.D., of an ancient family in Derbyshire. His name appears in
the list of those who complied with an Act of Parliament
(i Geo. I.) entitled "An Act to oblige Papists to register their
" names and real Estates **.
Winifred, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Low, married
John Gorsuch Eccleston, Esq., of Eccleston Hall ; and on his
demise retired to Cowley Hill, where she lived with her mother.
She was fifty-one years a widow, and dying June 15 th, 1793,
aetatis 81, was buried within Lowe House Church, St. Helens. To
the mission of Lowe House she was the principal benefactress, in
fact the mission owes its existence to her generosity. Hence its
name. She herself, being the widow of Mr. Eccleston, was always
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80 Windkshcnv Chantry and Cemetery,
known as Dame Eccleston, but she wished the name of her own
family to designate the place which her charity founded.
Within the chantry walls there is the following epitaph : —
"Here lies interred the body of the Revd. Francis Crathome,
"of Garswood. He was bom at Scarborough, the 21st of
"October, 1762, and was unfortunately drowned off Southport,
" the 23rd of May, 1822.** He was most probably a member of
the distinguished family of Crathorne of East Ness, in Yorkshire.
He was the priest at Garswood, or HoUin Hey. In addition to
exercising his priestly functions, he practised medicine with
signal success. The writer possesses a letter directed to Mr.
Crathome from Fishwick, beyond the Ribble, and asking for his
advice respecting corporal ailments. On the fatal day named
above, viz., Thursday, May 23rd, he, Mr. John Gerard, of Windle
Hall, father of the present Lord Gerard ; Mr. Adamson, a manu-
facturer, of Ashton ; his son Roger ; and a boatman named Ball,
went out for a sail in Mr. Gerard's yacht. The latter gentleman
was of a very venturesome disposition, and gloried in carrying as
much canvas as possible. The result was that the boat capsized.
Mr. Crathome was an excellent swimmer, and though 60 years
of age, and encumbered with a thick overcoat and heavy top-
boots, he could have saved his own life. But he knew his duty
better. Not for an instant did his presence of mind forsake him.
The excited throng on the beach could plainly descry how with
one hand he bore up the sinking form of Mr. Gerard, whilst with
the other he made the sign of the Cross over his drowning
comrades ; pronouncing, doubtless, at the same time, the words
of absolution, and exhorting them to fervent acts of repentance.
At last the weight of water bore down the dauntless priest, and
when, on the Sunday moming, his body was discovered near the
spot where he sank, his hands were grasping the ill-fated boots,
from which he had striven in vain to free himself. The remains
of Mr. Gerard were washed up on the shore at Cockerham, on
Saturday, June ist. Intense was the excitement caused by this
sad accident, and probably it was the gravest catastrophe which
Southport had witnessed up to the late loss of the lifeboat.
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WtndUshaw Chantry arid Cemetery, 81
The handsomest monument within the walls of the chantry is
that of the Thicknesse family. This family, late of Beech Hill,
near Wigan, but formerly of Barterley Hall, in the County of
Stafford, was one of great antiquity. It descended from Eobert
Thicknesse, who was Lord of Barterley in 1274, the second year
of the reign of Edward I. The estate descended from father to
son for five hundred years, in unbroken succession. Later on,
by marriage with Elizabeth Stockton, daughter of Thomas
Stockton, of London, and of The Oaks, Cheshire, the latter
property fell to the Thicknesses. Ralph Thicknesse, bom in
1693, married Alethea, daughter of Richard Bostock, M.D., of
Whiscall. This Alethea was a Catholic, her father, Richard
Bostock, being one who registered his name and estates, in
accordance with the Act above-mentioned. He died in 1747,
and there is a monumental inscription to his memory in Bath
Abbey Church. The Alethea above-named is buried at Windle-
shaw. She is described as widow of Ralph Thicknesse, Esq., of
Barterley Hall, in the County of Stafford. It is probable that
her husband did not become a Catholic, and that he died and
was buried at Barterley. The date of Alethea's death is not
inscribed on the tomb at Windleshaw. But the Thicknesses
have also a burying place in the Parish Churchyard at Wigan.
A handsome cross — now, alas ! perishing — rises over their vault j
and on the cross are recorded die deaths, not of those only who
sleep below, but of those also who rest at Windleshaw. It is
worthy of remark that whereas in the Catholic cemetery English
is the language written on the monuments, in the Protestant
burial ground Latin is adopted. From the Wigan inscription we
learn that "Alethea conjux Radulphi Thicknesse de Barterley
^ Armigeri, ex prosapia Bostock de Bostock, obiit die 11. Mensis
" Martii Anno Domini mdcclxxii. apud Wigan. Sepuha apud
^ Windleshaw '\
The next inscription is as follows : — " Also the body of Ralph
** Thicknesse, M.D. He departed this life in the 72nd year of
**his age, on the loth Day of February, a.d. 1790/' The Wigan
inscription adds the day of his birth — October 1 8th, 17 18. This
82 Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetefy.
Ralph, the only Catholic male of the family, sold the Staffordshire
and Cheshire estates in 1747, and bought Beech Hill, near
Wigan. He was a distinguished physician, and author of many
medical works of repute.
The next inscription is : " And his wife, whose remains are
**also deposited here, died November 8th, a.d. 1804, ^iged 76."
Her name, as we learn from the Wigan record, was Anne
Dorothy, also of the Bostock family — " ex prosapia Bostock de
" Bostock '\
The tombstone at Windleshaw also records the name of
Winifred Monypenny, daughter of Ralph and Dorothy Thick-
nesse, and widow of John Monypenny, Esq. She died on the
20th of July, 1836, aged 72 years.
The mortal remains likewise are interred here of Roda
Thicknesse, who died on the 8th of May, 1837, aged 79. This
beautiful name, Roda, recalls to one's mind the damsel who came
to hearken when Peter, delivered by the angel out of prison,
knocked at the door of the house of Mary the mother of John,
who was surnamed Mark.
The girls, then, continued in the Catholic Faith. It was
otherwise with the son. I said that Alethea Bostock had brought
the Catholic Religion into the Thicknesse family ; but as James
the Fifth of Scotland said of his crown, when he heard that a
daughter was born to his house, *' It cam wi* a lass, and it '11
" gang wi* a lass," so was it with the Thicknesse religion. For
Ralph Thicknesse, Esq., son of the above Ralph and Anne
Dorothy, married Sarah, daughter of John and Mary Anne
Woodcock, of Newborough House, and conformed to the estab-
lished church. Wealth and honours were his. In 1792, in con-
junction with his brother-in-law, Thomas Woodcock, Esq., he
founded the Wigan Bank. The Bank was firstly in the names of
Thicknesse and Woodcock, subsequently of Woodcock, Son, and
Eckersley, and latterly was merged in the well-known Parr's Bank-
ing Company. Mr. Thicknesse had likewise the honour of
representing the borough of Wigan in Parliament. He died
October 6th, 1842, and was interred in the grave-yard of the
Windleshaw Chantry and Cemetery, 83
Parish Church at Wigan. His son, Ralph Anthony Thicknesse,
Esq., of Beech Hill, married his cousin Mary Anne, daughter of
Thomas Woodcock, Esq., of Newborough. He also was member
of Parliament for Wigan, and was likewise Deputy-Lieutenant for
Lancashire. His son Ralph was born April 15, 1833. The
tourist, as he passes from Bowness to Ambleside, cannot fail to
notice a plain cross standing oh the waters edge. If he draw
near he will read —
Ralph Thicknesse, 13th Sept., 1853. Aged 20 years.
Thomas Woodcock, 13th Sept., 1853. Aged 19 years.
Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour.
Opposite the cross, the waters of Windermere closed over the
struggling, forms of the youthful cousins. Thus ended the race
of Thicknesse. The final story is told pathetically on a marble
tablet erected in Wigan Parish Church : — " Sacred to the memory
" of Ralph Anthony Thicknesse, some years a Member for this
" Town, who died at Harrogate, August 22, 1854. Aged 54. He
" was suddenly cut off, the last of his name and race, having fol-
" lowed his only son to an untimely grave but a few months
" before. '*
" Here lieth the body of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Weldon, of
"Scholes. Obiit 26th of April, 1786. Aetatis 75." Of him we
read (Records of the English Province^ vol. v.) that in 1736, being
25 years old, he was invited by Colonel Pippard, his maternal
uncle, commanding Walshe's Regiment in the Irish Brigade, to
accept a commission under him. He was an officer at the siege
of Philipsburgh, when, June 12, 1734, he saw the head of his
commander, Marshal the Duke of Berwick,* carried off by a
cannon ball. After the above incident, Mr. Weldon chose the
ecclesiastical state. His military proclivities do not seem, how-
ever, to have been utterly uprooted, for to the end of his life, the
sword which he wore at the siege of Philipsburgh hung over his
head whilst he slept. This priest was also perhaps the last, in
these parts, who was subjected to annoyance on account of his
• The Duke of Berwick was a natural son of the Duke of York, afterwards James II., his
mother bein^ Arabella Churchill, sister of the famous Duke of Marlborough. He had the
military genius of his uncle. He was, moreover,' a man of honour and a true Christian.
" Never, '^ says his biographer, " did man practise religion so much, and speak of it so little".
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84 lVindles?MW Chantry and Cemetery.
profession. Down to 1778, the law of William III., awarding a
hundred pounds lo any successful informer who discovered a
priest, was in full force. Some base fellow, in hopes of obtaining
the reward, had Father Weldon arrested and taken before Mr.
Hughes, J.P., of Sheardley Hall, on the charge of exercising
faculties as a priest. The informer • was, however, disappointed.
Mr. Hughes, being a Christian gentleman, declined to hear the
case, saying that Mr. Weldon was a quiet, amiable neighbour.
I cannot do better than conclude with the following verses,
which, to my mind, are far superior to the ordinary poetic effusions
which one reads on tombstones.
There is a handsome Gothic tablet placed against the South
wall of the chapel. The inscription is as follows : — ** I.H.S. Sacred
" to the memory of John Barnes, Esq., Attorney-at-Law, who died
"on the 30th December, 181 1. Aged 32 years. He was a dis-
" tinguished member of his profession and a man of strict honour,
" a sincere Christian, and a kind friend to his numerous acquaint-
" ances and to the poor. R.I. P.'' Then follow these lines, which
I copied down some years ago, before the rude elements had
rendered them illegible : —
** Stranger, tread lightly here this hallowed earth,
Here lie the ashes of departed worth.
True to his God, a friend sincere he proved.
And died lamented, as he lived beloved.
His virtues with his eager spirit flew
To realms of light, where joys are ever new.
There, resting from its toils and mortal strife.
From heaven-born springs it drinks eternal life.
Generous pilgrim, whilst you're lingering here,
Shed o'er this grave one tributary tear.
And learn of him, o'er whose remains you sigh.
To live for heaven, that you like him may die."
THE DOMESDAY RECORD OF THE LAND BETWEEN
RIBBLE AND MERSEY.
By Andrew E, P. Gray, M.A.y F.S.A.,
RECTOR OF V/ALLASEY.
(Read ist December, 1887.)
A REALLY critical edition of the Zzder de Wintonid. (as
Domesday Book is technically called) — one which Would
bring the fall resources of modern scholarship to bear upon all
the points suggested by it, — is still a desideratum, and, as Pro-
fessor Freeman says, it is an object which ought to be taken up
as a national work. A considerable amount of Domesday litera-
ture has appeared since the royal order in 1767 for the publication
of this amongst other records ; but much remains to be done,
for a great deal of that which has been given to the world on the
subject is deficient in breadth of treatment and in accuracy of
criticism. We in this part of the country are greatly indebted to
Mr. Beamont for his Introduction and Notes to the photozinco-
graphic facsimile of the Domesday Record of the two north-
western counties palatine. Mr. Beamont has been a member of
this society almost ever since its foundation 40 years ago, and is
one of whom the society is justly proud. It seems, indeed, rash
for me to venture upon "the subject which I have chosen, lest
I should be supposed to be putting myself in competition with
him, or setting myself up as a critic upon his Introduction ; but
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86 The Domesday Record of the
I thought that perhaps we might be led over some new ground
to-night, if we turned to the Domesday account of the land Inter
Ripam et Mersham^ and considered, firstly, the history of that
territory, and then its hundreds, the townships mentioned, the
landlords, and the churches. Into general points afflicting the
whole country (as, for example, the differences between radmen
and drenghes, or the dimensions of the carucate and hide of
land), we need not enter this evening ; but perhaps we may find
time, at the end of the paper, for a momentary glance into the
bye-laws (so to call them) and customs which were then in force
in this particular neighbourhood.
I. As to the history of the territory. Whilst our heathen
English forefathers were gradually first devastating, and then
themselves settling down in, the eastern and southern parts of
the country, to which they gave their name, the British princi-
palities in the north-west drew together into the kingdom of
Strathclyde — a kingdom which stretched from the Clyde to the
Mersey, and from the sea to the hills that form the watershed.
The capital of this kingdom was Alclwyd, or Dumbarton, which
was strongly fortified to protect the British from the incursions of
the Scots and Picts of the north ; the hills guarded them on the
east from the Northumbrian English and the Britons of Elmet
(which, roughly speaking, answered to the West Riding) ; south
of the Mersey was another British kingdom, Gwynedd, of which
the capital was Chester. It was not until the seventh century
that the southern portion of the kingdom of Strathclyde, that
part which now forms the county of Lancaster, became English
territory ; it was gradually dismembered by the Northumbrian
English. In the year 613, -^thelfrith, the King of Northumber-
land, whose grandfather Ida had founded the Bernician kingdom,
advanced over the moors at the head of Ribblesdale into our
south Lancashire, and, crossing the Mersey, marched on to
Chester, where his rival, Eadwine, had taken refuge. The
battle of Chester need not detain us ; it has been fully described
by Mr. Green in his Making of England, It was a decisive
Land between Rihble and Mersey, 87
victory, and marked an important step in the English conquest
of Britain, for it thrust a wedge of English territory between the
Britons of what we now call Wales and their kinsmen of Strath-
clyde ; and amongst other results of the battle was the transference
of the land between Ribble and Mersey from the kingdom of
Strathclyde to that of Northumberland. Elmet, thus cut off from
other British principalities, yielded to Eadwine thirteen years later ;
and Leeds (which was then called Loidis or Lothene, and which
it is consequently difficult to distinguish sometimes from the
Lothian which stretched from the Forth to the Tweed) — Leeds
had become Northumbrian before 655 ; and about twelve years
later, lands on the Ribble and in Amounderness were granted to
St. Wilfrith, so that part (at any rate) of Lancashire north of the
Ribble must have become English by that time. It would be
interesting to enquire into the further dismemberment of Strath-
clyde, and speak of the long-continued independence or semi-
independence of Galloway and Cumberland ; but to do so would
lead us too far from the subject in hand.
Lancashire south of the Ribble became Northumbrian, then,
in 613, and seems to have continued to belong to Northumber-
land until the arrangement made in 877 between the Danish
host and Ceolwulf, the underking of that part of the Marchland,
which the English still retained : in the previous year Yorkshire
had been parted amongst Danish landholders, and then, in 877,
the eastern half of the Marchland was in the same way parcelled
out amongst the Danes ; but a long strip of territory, embracing
the valleys of the Mersey and the Severn, was handed over to
Ceolwulf ("an unwise Thegn," as the Chronicle calls him), and
the name of Marchland was afterwards confined to this territory,
stretching from the Ribble to the Bristol Avon, and shut in east
and west by the Danes ai\d the British. This was the first con-
nection between South Lancashire and the Mercian kingdom — a
connection, that we may regard as having become an incorpora-
tion, when the great King Eadward, who was almost the peer of
his father Alfred, set about, in 923, the building of a fort at
Thelwall (a township near Warrington, partly in Lancashire and
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partly in Cheshire, for the Mersey runs through the township),
and despatched thence a Mercian force to garrison the old
Roman town of Manchester, which had probably lain desolate
since the days of -^thelfrith. These fortresses of Manchester
and Thelwall, together with two built a few years before by King
Ead ward's sister at Chester and Runcorn, were intended no
doubt to render any effective alliance between the Danes and
the Britons impossible.
South Lancashire from that time was part and parcel of the
Mercian Ealdermanry, or earldom, as it was afterwards called; and,
although not absolutely incorporated with Cheshire, it was regarded
as an appendage to that county, which at the time of Domesday
Book embraced also a considerable portion of Flintshire and Den-
bighshire, the Hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan being after-
wards handed over to Wales : it will be an interesting question for
those who advocate Home Rule or Disestabhshment for Wales
to decide what the boundary of Wales is ; will they go by
Domesday Book, or will they prefer Henry VIH.'s ipse dixit in
1536 as to what is Wales, and what is England ? It is of course
commonly said that South Lancashire appears in Domesday Book
under the head of Cheshire, but this is not strictly true; the
account of it is given on two pages, after the account of Cheshire,
and just as each page of the portion about Cheshire is headed
by the word Cestrescire in red ink, so these two pages relating to
South Lancashire have their own separate heading, also in red
ink. Inter Ripam et Mersham. This anomalous district was
granted to Roger of Poitou, of whom we shall speak later on ;
and, after his second forfeiture, the greater portion of it was
given by Henry I. to Ranulf, the third palatine Earl of Chester,
though it never became part of the palatinate. On the extinction
of the male line of these Earls of Chester in 1232, the land
between Ribble and Mersey was mherited by the great house of
Ferrers ; and either in that year, or in 1266, at the downfall of
that restless family (which had shared in every intrigue and con-
spiracy since the reign of Stephen), it must have been incor-
porated with the newly-formed county of Lancaster. That county
Land between Rihble and Mersey. 89
had previously consisted of the Honor of Lancaster and the
Hundred of Amounderness, and it was shortly to be augmented
by the Liberty of Furness, taken from Westmoreland in 1295,
and again seemingly in 131 2 by that portion of South Lancashire
which had not been granted to the Earls of Chester, viz., the
Honor of Clitheroe, which Thomas Earl of Lancaster inherited
in right of his wife.
Such is a sketch of the vicissitudes which the land between
Ribble and Mersey went through before it finally became part of
the county of Lancaster.
IL And now we will turn to its Hundreds. This of course is
not the place to enquire into the history of the division of the
country into hundreds ; the Bishop of Chester in the first volume
of his Constitutional History has said (I suppose) all that can be
said on the subject. But one can not forbear quoting the
delightfully naive remark of Baines, which is (I am sorry to see)
repeated in the edition now being issued in monthly parts :
" There are evidently no sufficient data to determine into how
** many hundreds South Lancashire was divided in the Roman
" period, and still less in the time of the aborigines,** which is
very much the same sort of thing as if one were, to wonder
into how many bishoprics Asia Minor was divided at the. time of
the Trojan War. Between the Ribble and Mersey there are now
four Hundreds — West Derby, Leyland, Blackburn, and Salford ;
the last three of these are the same now as they were in the days
of Edward the Confessor; but, where we have now the one
Hundred of West Derby, Domesday gives us three — Derby,
Newton, and Warrington : when were these three condensed
into one ? It would appear that various changes in local boun-
daries were made either slightly before, or very early in, the reign
of Henry IH. : the Lancaster, that appears in the Pipe Rolls
from 1 1 65 onwards, is not the County but the Honor, and we
can not be sure of the existence ^ of the county of Lancaster
before 1-221. A year or two after that date the Hundreds of
Newton and Warrington had certainly been condensed into the
40 The Domesday Record of the
Hundred of West Derby ; it may be that whatever year saw the
amalgamation of Amounderness and the Lancaster Honor into
the county of Lancaster (the germ of the present county), saw
also the amalgamation of these three Hundreds into one.
It would be interesting if some one with local knowledge could
point out why it is that the boundary between Newton and
Derby Hundreds runs through the middle of the parish of
Wigan ; the townships of Holland, Dalton, Winstanley, and
Orrell being in the latter Hundred. The boundary of the Hun-
dred of Newton is here very nearly, but not exactly, the same as
that of the later Fee of Makerfield, which included the greater
part of Wigan parish. At the present time there is one township
in that parish — Aspull by name — which is in Salford Hundred,
all the other townships being in West Derby. This fact had
escaped the notice of the lawyers who drafted the Act by which
the Liverpool Bishopric was founded ; and the Bill had made
some progress, before I caused it to be pointed out to Lord
Beauchamp (who had charge of it in the Upper House) that the
Bill, if its wording remained unaltered, would leave the one
township of Aspull in the middle of Lancashire, as an island (so
to call it), under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Chester.
We may notice in passing that there have been many changes
in the Hundreds of Cheshire also. Wirrall appears in Domesday
as Wilaveston, Macclesfield as Hamestan, and other names
are changed, and not only that, but the present Hundreds of
Buckland and Edisbury . each contain two of the Hundreds of
Domesday Book.
HI. As to the Townships mentioned in South Lancashire.
It is well known that Domesday is here much more meagre than
in most parts of England. Newton and Warrington are the only
places spoken of by name in their respective Hundreds. In
Blackburn Hundred we have the names of Blackburn, Whalley,
Huncoat near Accrington, Walton-le-Dale, and Pendleton near
Clitheroe ; in Salford Hundred those of Salford, Ratcliff, Man-
chester, and Rochdale ; whilst Leyland and Penwortham are the
Land between Ribble and Mersey, 41
only names given in Leyland Hundred. On the other hand, in
Derby Hundred we have the names of more than 40 townships
or hamlets ; but this is all out of the 188 manors which Domes-
day itself says existed between Ribble and Mersey.
Every one knows that amongst these manors Liverpool is not
mentioned, or at least only appears under the name of Esmedune
or Smithdown, a place mentioned in documents of the 13th
century in connection sometimes with Toxteth and sometimes
with the forest of West Derby. Four hundred years later, we
find receivers appointed for the crown-rents of Toxteth, Smith-
down Moss, and Liverpool ; and the name is still perpetuated in
Smithdown Road, that runs towards Liverpool along the boundary
of the townships of Toxteth and West Derby. Smithdown then
probably lay west of Derby and north of Toxteth, and contiguous
to both, and therefore occupied the site of, at any rate, a con-
siderable portion of Liverpool, which latter name was perhaps
confined at the time of Domesday to the well-known, pool or
inlet of the Mersey, now built over, answering to Wallasey Pool
on the opposite side of the river. If this be so, the transference
of the name from the inlet to the group of houses on its banks
is exactly paralleled by the instance of the modern village in
Cheshire, which is now called Hoylake, a name formerly applied
to the tidal channel washing the coast at that spot. This theory
would of course account for the name Liverpool not appearing in
Domesday Book. Our learned Secretary, however, believes in
an ingenious and probable derivation of the word from a British
source, which would make it the name of a place, and not of a
pool, from the very first,
Judging from the scantiness of the information, it would cer-
tainly seem as if the Domesday Commissioners had contented
themselves with crossing over from Chester to the king's manor
of Derby, and there had gathered sworn information about that
Hundred, and gleaned further pieces of knowledge about the ^y^
other Hundreds (especially about the king's land in them), with-
out troubling themselves to penetrate into a part of the country
so wild and desolate, and inhabited by people full of a sturdy
independence.
42 The Domesday Record of the
IV. When we pass on to the Landlords, we naturally take first
those with whom our sympathies lie — the Englishmen, who are
spoken of in the past tense, some of whom were dead and gone
before the Domesday survey, but many of whom must have been
living on, dispossessed of their lands for no other crime than love
for England. The first and foremost of these is, of course. King
Eadward, who (besides being, as it seems. Lord of the Hundreds
of Warrington, Blackburn, Salford, and Ley land) owned West
Derby and six unnamed berewicks or hamlets dependent on that
manor, Warrington and three hamlets in that neighbourhood,
Blackburn Huncoat and Pendleton in the north-east, Salford and
Ratcliffe in the east, Walton-le-dale Leyland and Penwortham in
the north. These 19 townships belonged to the Confessor, and
passed at his death to his nobler successor King Harold, whom
the compilers of Domesday Book mention as seldom as possible;
indeed, when they have to speak of the nine months of his reign,
they generally use some periphrasis, such as, ** after the death of
" King Eadward, before that King William had come into
" England." We, who have been born between Ribble and
Mersey, may be proud to think that our native district must thus
have contributed largely to the assistance of the one king of the
English who has died fighting in defence of his country, — helped
him (we will hope) by both men and means in his struggle against
the Norwegian King and the Norman Duke.
The dispossessed Englishmen of lower degree are not named,
excepting those in the Hundred of West Derby, and one, Gamel
of Rochdale, in the Hundred of Salford. There were many
different landholders in the Derby Hundred. One of them was
a lady, Godgifu by name, frenchified into Godiva, but no doubt
a different person from Earl Leofric's famous wife ; whether the
name of Teos, the owner of Barton, is feminine or not, I am not
scholar enough to say ; it is no doubt the French clerk's ignorant
way of pronouncing some good old English name. Of one of
these landholders we would gladly know more — Uhtred, a great
man in the district, for he held more than 15 townships in the
Hundred, viz., Kirkby, Roby, Knowsley, Crosby, MaghuU,
Land between Ribhle and Mersey, 48
Aughton, Kirkdale, Little Woolton, Speke, Litherland, Dalton,
Skelmersdale, Lathom, Lydiate, and Altcar, together with part of
Scarisbrick and Marton. We would gladly identify him, if we
could, with one of the Uhtreds of the great House of Eadwulf,
which held the northern counties against all the inroads of the
Danes, and for generations ruled Northumberland so inde-
pendently that up to the eve of the Norman Conquest the writs
of the king at Winchester did not run north of the Humber — a
House which was so famous, that Scotch kings and Galwegian
princes and Cumbrian lords were proud of their descent from it,
and which still exists in the direct male line, the head of it bear-
ing the surname of Nevill, which an ancestor of his took from
his Norman mother in the twelfth century. Such identification,
however, would be mere guesswork. Gamel of Rochdale may
have been a kinsman of Uhtred, for his name, too, was not
unknown amongst the descendants of Eadwulf of Bamborough,
and he and Uhtred appear to have had rights and liberties not
possessed by all the landlords of the district. We may notice,
before we pass on, that the Uhtred of whom we have been speak-
ing owned Wallasey, and Wallasey only, on the south bank of the
Mersey ; this connection between Wallasey and the land between
Ribble and Mersey may allow us to conjecture that the time was
not then far distant when Wallasey had been an island, and when
the more important of the two mouths of the Mersey had been
where Leasowe Castle now stands, thus leaving Wallasey a part of
the Hundred of West Derby rather than of the peninsula of
Wirrall.
It is with a certain malicious satisfaction that an Englishman
finds that ** held," and not " holds," is used of Roger of Poitou
himself, to whom the Conqueror had granted the whole land
between Ribble and Mersey, together with 210 other manors —
398 in all. Roger " of Poitou " was so called from his residence
(one would suppose) at his wife's castle in Poitou rather than at
his own at Lancaster, or at the one, which he had himself built
at Penwortham, — the only castle then existing between Ribble
and Mersey, — and doubtless the abode of such oppression and
44 71u Domesday Record of the
cruelty as he and his knew well how to exercise. Roger had
married Almodis, Countess, in her own right, of La Marche, in
Poitou. He was the third son of Roger of Montgomery, who
was the head of a house connected by " the spindle side " with
the dukes of Normandy, and who, at the great battle of 1066,
had been in command of the right wing, which consisted of
Frenchmen and other " soldiers," i.e. (for the word was then used
in its strict sense) mercenaries, — the same Roger of Montgomery,
who, when Earl of Shrewsbury, became the one Norman robber
that left his surname to be borne in future ages by a county in
this island. Roger of Poitou's mother was Mabel Talvas, the
heiress of the chiefest of all Norman families in power and in
wickedness, " small in stature, talkative, clever, and witty " (as
the old chronicler calls her), guilty of fearful crimes and doomed
to a fearful end \ she passed on her evil nature to her eldest son,
the famous or infamous Robert of Belesme, Earl of Shrewsbury
and Arundel in England, Count of Ponthieu and Alencon in
France, a horrible tyrant of the worst feudal type, who drew
down upon himself the hatred of our English forefathers in a
more abundant measure than did any other Norman oppressor.
But, if the wickedness of the family culminated in Robert of
Belesme, we cannot say much to the credit of his younger
brother, Roger of Poitou. In 1077, forgetful of what he owed
to the Conqueror, he espoused the cause of King William's
rebellious son Robert, and was deprived of his EngUsh posses-
sions, the revenues of which William, with characteristic grim
pleasantry, employed in hiring mercenaries to fight against their
former owner.
Thus, when Domesday Book was compiled, the King himself
held the land between Ribble and Mersey ; and the names of the
few tenants mentioned as having received lands from Roger of
Poitou (Ralph, Tetbald, Osmund, Adelard, and others,) are too
insignificant to detain us, with the exception of two, who
apparently held between them the Hundred of Blackburn, and
whose descendants still own estates between Ribble and Mersey.
The first of these is Roger de Busli or Bussel, afterwards Baron
Land between Ribble and Mersey, 46
of Penwortham, whose descendant, Avice Bussel, just before the
year 1279, brought to her husband, William fFarington, as her
maniage portion half the manor of Leyland, which is still held
by her descendants in the male line ; and the second is Albert
Greslet or Gresley, the founder of a family which held Manchester
from the days of the Conqueror to those of Edward II., when
Joan, its heiress, carried that barony into the house of De la
Warr ; it was from these Gresleys that the great Lancashire family
of Assheton received that carucate of land in Ashton-under-Lyne,
which gave them their surname, when Emma Gresley became the
bride of the Englishman, Orm, the son of Eadward.
To return, however, to Roger of Poitou. He was afterwards
reinstated in his lordships by William the Red, but, joining in the
insurrection of his elder brother against Henry I., he once more
lost all his English fiefs hi 1103, and England finally got rid of
the house of Montgomery, though both Robert and Roger left
children to inherit in France the lands, the power, and the evil
name, of their forefathers.
V. I have already tried your patience too much, and can
only allow myself a word about the churches. The only two
churches alluded to in the Derby Hundred are Childwall, under
which name we read " there was a priest, having half a carucate
** of land," and Walton-on-the-Hill with twice that amount of
glebe. Newton Hundred was much smaller than Derby, but we
hear of two churches there also, Wigan and Winwick ; " the
** church of the same manor had one carucate of land, and
** S. Oswald of the same vill had two carucates ;" it is well known
that the rectors of those two churches are still considerable
owners of glebe-land. In Warrington Hundred, Warrington
church is the only one mentioned, and was called then, as now,
S. Elphin. Blackburn and Whalley were the churches of the
north-eastern Hundred ; I.eyland Church stood alone in its
Hundred ; whilst in Salford Hundred we find " the church of
" S. Mary and the church of S. Michael ;" the former of these is
the " old church " at Manchester ; as to the latter, Mr. Beamont
46 TA€ Domesday Record of the
hesitatingly identifies it with the ancient church of S. Michael,
Ashton-under-1-.yne, which was within the original parish of
Manchester. There can, I should think, be little doubt about
the truth of this conjecture ; it is certainly preferable to Mr.
Whitaker's idea of a S. Michael's Church at Aldport, in Man-
chester, — a church, the very existence of which remains to be
proved. Mr. Whitaker adduces the two Manchester fairs to
demonstrate the existence of two Manchester churches, and,
because neither of these fi^irs coincides with the Feast of S.
Michael, he attempts to shew that Michaelmas day was at one
time held in April ; the great thing, that he does prove, is the
length, to which a man will go Btxriv Siai^vXaTTwv, in support of a
favourite theory.
It is pleasant to think that at any rate there were ten times as
many churches as there were castles in this district, and indeed it
is possible that, besides these ten, other churches may have
existed ; but still the parishes between Ribble and Mersey in the
eleventh century must have been very much like what South
African parishes are now, and, where we have in these days the
busy hum of huge towns and overgrown villages without number,
in those days there seems to have been nothing but the silence
of a vast solitude. Indeed we know that great tracts were unin-
habited, for we read of a forest in the Manor of Derby, (the
predecessor probably of the extra-parochial district of Croxteth,)
two more in connection with some of Uhtred's manors, (one of
which is now perhaps represented by Simon swood, which is also
extra-parochial,) a fourth at Lathom, two more at Melling and
Lydiate, and another at Woolton, — seven in the Derby Hundred
alone. In the little Hundred of Newton there was a forest
15 miles long and 9 broad, and another almost as large in
Salford Hundred, whilst two are mentioned in each of the
Hundreds of Leyland and Blackburn.
The country had indeed been more civilized a short time
before than it was at the time of the Domesday survey. " In King
" Eadward^s time" the six Hundreds were " worth ;^i45 2s. 2d. ;
" when Roger of Poitou received it from the king, it was worth
Land between Ribbk and Mersey, 47
**;^i2o"; in the same way the fifteen drenghes of Newton Hun-
dred had been diminished to six ; though all this, of course, is as
nothing compared with the terrible devastation that had fallen
upon Yorkshire, which then included Lancashire north of the
Ribble. The accounts that we have of William's harrying of the
country in 1069 are graphic enough, but they are outdone by the
passionless witness of Domesday, where the significant word
" waste " is attached to Yorkshire manors through page after page.
To take the Lancashire Hundred of Amounderness as an instance,
for it, as I have just said, in those days belonged to Yorkshire ;
the Survey reckons up 62 manors in that Hundred, which had
belonged to Earl Tostig, King Harold's brother, and had after-
wards been granted by the Conqueror to Roger of Poitou, and
then it quietly adds : — " Sixteen of these have a few people living
" in them, but we do not know how many ; the rest are waste" !
Perhaps the missing drenghes of Newton Hundred, and many
another valiant man from the land between Ribble and Mersey,
were amongst the large body of Englishmen who made their way
to Constantinople, and there, in the service of the eastern
Emperors of the House of Komnenos, they not uncommonly
had the' satisfaction of meeting in open battle the kinsmen of
their conquerors, for the Norman invader in the eleventh century
found the shores of Epeiros guarded by the axes of Englishmen
no less than the hills of Sussex \ and the strangely abiding tie,
which the Waring (or Varangian) Guard thus formed between
England and the New Rome, lasted until the death-throes of the
Byzantine empire, when Harold, the son of Godwine at length
found a worthy compeer in Constantine Palaiologos.
Under such a ruler as Roger of Poitou the value of the district
would rapidly decline still further, and civilisation would go back-
ward, and even Christianity relax a little of its former hold upon
the people. So indeed we may gather from the startling fact that
the fine for violence against the weaker sex was, between the
Ribble and Mersey, only one quarter of what it was in Cheshire,
no more, in fact, than the fine imposed on one who wilfully
absented himself from the shire-moot ; thus, too, in Cheshire
48 The Domesday Record, Gfc.
certain offenders paid a double fine if the offence was committed
on a Sunday or during a holy season ; but. all days were esteemed
alike in the wilder district north of the Mersey.
With this rather dreary view of the church man ship and of the
prosperity of our predecessors here in the eleventh century, I
must conclude. I have kept you long enough, and must abstain
from touching upon further points of interest. But may 1 ask
whether any Liverpool man can prove himself the heir of a certain
^thelmund, of whom Dopesday speaks ? for, if so, he might
lay claim to a property which has considerably increased in value
during the last 800 years. " jEthelmund," we are told, " held
" Smithdown," i.e., as we have already seen, Liverpool ; " it was
"worth 32d." !
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RECENT ROMAN DISCOVERIES IN LANCASHIRE
AND CHESHIRE.
By 4he late W, Thompson Watkin.
(Read loth March, 1887.)
SINCE reading my last paper on this subject (Nov. 13th,
1884), the discoveries of Roman remains in the two
counties have not been very extensive, though some of them are
of considerable interest ; and I now propose to embody informa-
tion brought to light from MSS., &c., hitherto unpublished, as
well as the actual discoveries of the last two years.
LANCASHIRE.
Here a singular fact has first to be noticed. When
writing my work on the Roman remains of the county, I stated
at p. 238, on the authority of Mr. Hardwick in his History
of Preston^ and various newspaper reports, that in 1840, a hoard
of 400 Roman silver coins, denarii^ had been found near the
landmark at Rossall Point, Fleetwood. They were reported by
Mr. Hardwick and others to be of the reigns of Vespasian, Titus,
Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Sabina, Antoninus Pius,
Faustina, Severus, and Caracalla, consequently ranging from
A.D. 70 to about A.D. 217 ; and they were said to have been in
^ Et
60 Recent Roman Discoveries.
the possession of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, at Rossall Hall (being
purchased at the sale of his effects by Alderman Brown of
Preston), with the exception of about forty, which came into the
possession of the late Rev. W. Thornber.
I found out immediately before the publication of my book,
that the hoard owned by Alderman Brown was still in the
possession of his son, Dr. Brown, but it was too late to give any
particulars. After the issue of the work, however, Dr. Brown
presented the coins (401 in number) to the Museum at Preston,
but very singularly they turn out to be a hoard of an entirely
different date, ranging from about a.d. 353 to a.d. 408, and are
of the following emperors : — Constantius II., 14 ; Julianus, 28 ;
Valentinianus I., 15 ; Valens, 46 ; Gratianus, 64 ; Magnus
Maximus, 1 1 ; Flavins Victor (son of Maximus), 6 ; Valen-
tinianus II., 8; Theodosius I., 19 : Eugenius, 14; Arcadius, 113;
Honorius, 52 ; illegible, i ; fragmentary, 10. This list proves
the hoard to be the latest in point of date yet found in Lancashire,
and they were probably concealed in the first decade of the fifth
century, at the time of the abandonment of Britain by the
Roman forces. Some of them, especially those of Flavins Victor
and Eugenius, are very rare. The number (14) of those of the
latter emperor is particularly noticeable.
But the question arises, can this be the hoard described by
Mr. Hardwick ? In the 6th volume of this Society's Transactions^
p. 108, Mr. Thornber says, " In the Fleetwood set of coins,
" Vespasians were not uncommon." It is hardly possible that
both Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Thornber could mistake coins of
Constantius II. and his successors for those of Vespasian and
Titus, some three centuries earlier ; and if not, there can be
but one alternative, i.e., that two hoards were found at the same
place, one of the Higher, the other of the Lower Emphre ; unless
the hoard presented to the Preston Museum came from some -
other part of the country.
An urn of the Britanno-Roman period, of rude pottery, has
been found, so I am informed, by Mr. Wilkinson, of Burnley, at
the upper end of the Swindon valley, in that neighbourhood,
Excavations at Chester, 61
near to where the Roman forts called ** Ringstones Camp " and
" Twist Castle " (described at pp. 210, 21 1 of Roman Lancashire)
exist. It was about 3 feet beneath the surface, and within a rude
stone chamber, 18 inches square. The urn contained calcined
bones, believed to be those of a mother and child, and a bronze
pin, and was covered by a stone, on which lay a deposit of bones
and charcoal.
A Roman inscription which refers to the Roman regiment
which at one time garrisoned Lancaster, the Ala Sebusiana^ or
second ala of the Gauls, has been found during restorations at
Cliburn Church, Westmoreland. I exhibit a photograph of the
stone, the inscription on which is rather puzzling, and very
imperfect, being only a fragment of the original. Sufficient,
however, remains to shew that the Ala Fetriana, together with
the Ala Sebusiana, restored a bath, &c., which had collapsed from
age. We cannot gather the date, there being no clue to it.
CHESHIRE.
Turning now to Cheshire, I will first take Chester itself. In
my last paper I announced that Mr. Frederick BuUin, of Chester,
who owned the site of the large Roman building discovered in
White Friars in 1884, had promised me to pull down a stable on
the opposite side of Holland's Court, with the view of ascertaining
whether the Roman building extended in that direction. He
was proceeding to do so, intending to erect a building of much
greater elevation and proportions, when he was restrained by an
injunction obtained in Chancery by a property owner on the
opposite side of White Friars, on the ground that it would
interfere with his light. Determined, however, to solve the
question, Mr. Bullin had excavations made in the floor of the
building, into which I had the pleasure of descending, and which
proved that not only the Roman building and street extended
across the site, but that the church of the destroyed White
Friars monastery likewise covered the same ground, the layer of
mediaeval glazed tiles, which formed its floor, being found to exist
above the Roman level, at this side of Holland's Court as well as
52 Recent Roman Discoveries.
on the other. The plan which I exhibit, and which has been
engraved on a small scale for my former paper, shews the results
obtained.
Amongst various fragments of tiles found there, was one
which bore the name of " ivlivs," a drawing of which I exhibit.
It has probably had two lines of inscription, the upper one
naming either the 20th legion or one of its auxiliary corps, the
lower one the name of the maker, of which ** ivlivs " formed
part. A similar instance occurs at the large Roman station at
Maryport -in Cumberland. A very singular sculptured stone was
found at the depth of seven feet near the same spot, but so
much worn that it is almost impossible to make out the figures.
Some have thought that they resemble the figure of a snake
being thrust through by a sword, the latter implement being held
by a human hand and arm. It is only a fragment, but in its
present state is 24 j4 inches wide, and on one side 2 2j^ inches
high, being broken diagonally from the base of this side nearly
to the top. its thickness is i foot.
The extent of frontage of the building which has been
traced is 54 feet, without termination at either end, but its purpose
has not yet been ascertained.
On the loth June, 1886, whilst workmen were engaged in
excavating for a new gas-holder on the Roodeye, about 50 yards
distant from the river, they found in a bed of river gravel, which
was covered by about 20 feet of silt, a number of oaken piles,
logs of wood, &c., which seemed to have been the remains of a
wooden pier, and amongst them were two human skulls, frag-
ments of " Samian " ware and Upchurch pottery, part of a
layer of concrete, " first brass " coins of Vespasian and Titus
(with others), and a pig of lead. This latter is 24 inches in
length at its base, and upon its upper or inscribed surface
20 inches, in thickness it is 4J4 inches, its breadth at the base
5 inches, and on the inscribed face 3 inches. The inscription
IMP. VESP. AVG. v. T. IMP. III. **
The letters are ij4 inches in height, with triangular stops,
and the termination of the inscription (marked by asterisks),
Pig of Lead and Tiles^ inscribed. 68
which has been effaced by the oxidation of a small "lump'' of
lead upon it, has no doubt been, as in other inscriptions, cos ;
probably the o has been made small and placed within the c.
Upon the side of the block are the words, de. ceangi.
With the exception that the word xwGfusto) is added in that on
the principal face, the two inscriptions are identical with that on
the pig of lead now preserved at Eaton Hall, found about a mile
from the city in September, 1838, and is of the date a.d. 74,
when .Vespasian for the fifth time, and Titus for the third time>
were Consuls ; and the inscriptions read Imperatore Vespasiano
Augusto quint Tito hnperatore tertio consulibus and de Ceangi(s)
respectively ; the last one proving that the lead of which it was
composed was from the territories of the Ceangi or Cangi, The
weight of the pig is i92lt)s. Possibly either the western side of
the Robdeye estuary originally extended to the point where the
pig was found, or the wooden pier, known to have been carried
westwards from near the Watergate into the estuary, extended
thus far, though in either case the main channel must have been
altered. It is a matter that will cause much discussion.
In June, 1885, during excavations in Newgate Street, two
fragments of inscribed tiles were found, bearing the termination
of inscriptions. One was, — nto ; the other, — anto. There
can be little doubt but that these are portions of tiles which
when entire have borne the usual stamp of the twentieth
legion, with the addition of anto for Antoniniana. In fact, in
the second one, part of the v, standing for Victrix, is visible
ligulate with the a. It is the first intimation we have that the
twentieth legion took the title, though many other corps did so.
The second legion at Caerleon has expressed it upon its tiles in
a still shorter manner, leg. ii. avg. ant. being all that is given ;
and the sixth legion at York was equally concise, sev. and gor.
standing respectively for Sever iana and Gordiana, after the other
titles of the corps.
In June, 1886, the workmen engaged in making a connecting
sewer between Black Friars and the intercepting sewer on the
Roodeye, after having excavated under the walls at the end of
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Black Friars, and a little way up that street, found beneath the
centre of the roadway, at 13 feet below the present surface, the
remains of a Roman Hypocaust. It was opposite the house
occupied by Mrs. Blackburne. The plans I exhibit will shew its
chief features, but the building could only be partially examined,
the trench cut being only 2 feet 6 inches wide. It was, however,
satisfactorily ascertained that the external length of the room (for
1 take it to be only a portion of a villa) was 26 feet, and the
internal length 19 feet 8 inches. The breadth was not ascer-
tainable. The walls were 2 feet 9 inches to 3 feet thick. Twelve
of the pillars were found in position, and the remains of others
could be traced. The former were at the semicircular west
end of the building, and supported a floor of concrete 6 inches
thick, which was 5 feet 3 inches in length, terminating in a square
worked edge. I think this had been cQvered by a tesselated
pavement, which has been destroyed, as in the case of other
villas, e,g., that at Medbourne, Leicestershire. The floor on
which the pillars stood was likewise formed of concrete, and
each pillar was composed, first of a base tile 16 inches long,
by 10^ inches wide, and 2 inches thick ; then seven tiles
which formed the shaft, each 8 inches square; above these
were two other tiles forming the cap, the lowest being i foot
square and i J^ inches thick, the upper one 17 inches square and
2 inches thick, and these were covered by large tiles 2 feet square,
reaching from pillar to pillar. The pillars were i foot 8 inches
high, and 14 inches apart.
Near the walls of the building, it was noticed that stone slabs,
cut exactly of the same shape and dimensions as the tiles, formed
the pillars. Remains of flue tiles were found, but not in situ.
The distance from the inside of the city wall to the semicircular
end of this building is 63 feet, and from the outside 68 feet. No
Roman work was visible in the city wall when the sewer was cut
beneath or through it. The floor of the hypocaust is 21 feet
above the level of the Roodeye, and the soil above is entirely
" made ground," full of fragments of Roman debris, including
fragments of tiles and bones, both animal and human. Several
Silver Denarii. bb
coins were found, one of silver, and one of Constantine. A
fragment of tile found bore the inscription —
OCO. PR
which taken in connection with another fragment found some
years since at Chester, inscribed
LEG* XX*
Z VBLO
suggests that the reading liiay be either Sub Loco Praediij or Sub
Loco Privato, but it is as yet rather premature to pronounce on the
subject. It cannot, however, be Sub Loco Praetorii, as some of
my archaeological friends in France have asserted, for the building
to which it belonged was outside of the castrum^ whilst the
prcutorium would be in the centre of the latter. The discovery
still further proves what I have frequently asserted, that (unless in
late Roman times a town wall, and not that of the cast rum,
enclosed this portion of the modern city, as at Lincoln) the
western slope of the hill upon which Chester is built was covered
by villas and their, private cemeteries, which extended lo the
water's edge, /.^., the modern Rood eye.
Another fact which has only recently been made public, is that,
at Eccleston, near Chester, and close to a large mound (or boton-
tinus) of the Roman period, there w^as found_at the beginning of
this century a hoard of 43 silver denarii. They were for a long
time in the possession of Mr. G. Cuitt (author of a history of
Chester), and were afterwards owned by the late Mr. W. Ayrton,
of that city, a well known antiquary. They are still in the
possession of his widow ; and in August last, by her kindness, I
had the pleasure of inspecting them, when I found that the
following emperors and empresses were thus represented : —
Vespasian i, Domitian 2, Nerva i, Trajan 15, Hadrian 6,
Sabina i, Antoninus Pius 7, Faustina (senior) 3, Marcus Aurelius 5,
Faustina (junior) 2. As the latest coins are very fresh looking,
and little worn, I conclude that they were hidden in the great
insurrection in the reign of Commodus, the successor of Marcus
Aurelius, who is the latest emperor embraced in the series. I am
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glad to say that the revelation of this " find " was the first result
of the issue of my Roman, Cheshire, A second result is also
interesting. It arose as follows. At pp. 298-9 of the work I
record the existence, from the Foote Gower MSS. in the British
Museum, of a large Roman camp at Hulme Wallfield, near
Congl'eton, perfectly visible in 1725, but destroyed by 1744.
Mr. Thos. Cooper, late Mayor of Congleton, has given me- par-
ticulars of a charter to that town (without date, but which by
internal evidence must be between 1313 and 13 16), by Edw. II.,
in which " the way which leads from Yeyton (or Eaton) Castle "
is mentioned. As there is no record whatever of any mediaeval
castle existing at Eaton, nor any remains of it, whilst the place is
in juxtaposition to what Foote Gower describes as the large
Roman camp at Hulme Wallfield, there can, I think, be little
doubt, but that they are one and the same. We have many
instances of this inversion of terms, e.g.^ the earthwork (British)
in the Broxton Hills is called ** Maiden Castle," and the British
camp at Bucton is styled " Bucton Castle." The witnesses to
this charter include Sir Hugh de Audeley, Richard de Fouleshurst
(Sheriff of Cheshire), Sir Symon Tuschet, William de Venables,
Richard de Moreton, Randle de Astbury, Richard the Clerk, and
others.
From vols. 2014, 2084, and 21 1 1 of the Harleian MSS. 1 have
found that in the reign of Charles I. a Roman Hypocaust, evi-
dently belonging to a villa, was discovered in the grounds of Mr.
Crewe, of Crewe, near Farndon. It was 12 feet square, and 5 feet
beneath the surface. Its pillars seem to have been composed of
flue tiles entirely, probably, as in other cases, filled with mortar,
and the large tiles of the roof bore the well-known stamp of the
twentieth legion (leg. xx. v. v.) (See Roman Cheshire^ p. 306.)
Additional evidence as to the existence of a Roman station at
Stockport has also been forthcoming, by the publication of Dr.
Stukeley's Diaries (Surteeig' Society's publications, vol. 76, p. 53),
where it is said: — "January, 1750-1, Mr. Peel, an officer of
** Excise, sent me a coyn of Honorius, taken up on removal of
" some rubbish at Stockport \on the Mersey, in Cheshire. Rev,
" A garland, voT." \
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In March, t886, whilst *' breaking a clod" in a field, close to
" Peck Mill,^^ between Alvanley and Dunham-on-the-Hill, a fine
gold coin of Nero and a jewelled ring were found. The latter
has disappeared, but the former is in the possession of Mr.
Humphreys, a resident in the neighbourhood, who recently sent
it for my inspection. . It has : Obverse, Head of the emperor to
the right — nero caesar avgvstvs ; Reverse, Jupiter seated to
the left, holding a thunderbolt in the right hand, a sceptre in the
left, with the legend, ivppiter cvstos. [The two P's in the word
Jupiter frequently occur in this type of coin.] The coin is a very
well preserved one, and weighs 113 grains, being the same weight
as the fine gold aureus of Vitellius found at Wigan, now preserved
in this Society's cases at the Mayer Museum, Liverpool.
In opening the ground for laying the line of pipes for the new
Vyrnwy water supply, at Eaton, near Tarporley, fragments of
Roman tiles, mortar with the usual pounded tile in it, and a first
brass coin of Marcus Aurelius were found, about twelve months
since. The coin was sent for my inspection. It is highly pati-
nated, and has : Obverse, m. avr. antoninvs. tr. p. cos, head of
emperor to right . Reverse, vota. sol. decenn. it., a figure
sacrificing at an altar, between the letters s. c. It is in the pos-
session of a Mr. Fotherby, in the neighbourhood. The site has
probably been that of a Roman villa, only just touched upon by
the excavators.
Lastly, I have again to refer to the ten Roman coins, ranging
from the time of Augustus to that of Constantine II., found at
Aston, near Halton, and described by me at a recent meeting of
the Society.
ERRATA.
A careful study of Moreri's great work shews that the writer
of " Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields "* has been misled
by Dethick, Queen Elizabeth's ** Garter King of Arms." Jac-
quetta's descent from the families named is established, as is the
descent from her of the Greys, Egertons, Woodcocks, and
Stanleys : but she was not her father's heir, for her brother's son
continued the male line of the House of Luxemburg : her de-
scendants, therefore, have no claim to use her achievement.
Dethick is also wrong in making the mother of Margaret de Baux
an heiress ; her name was Su^ve (not Justine, as stated in the
text), and she was the daughter (but not the heir) of Nicholas
Orsini, Count of Nola, whose grandmother Anastasia was a
granddaughter (and the representative) of Simon de Montfort,
Earl of Leicester.
It might also be added that a tract, published at Augsburg in
1605, and called " Regum Neapolitanorum vita et effigies,
" auctore B.G.," which is now in the Bodleian Library, gives the
arms of the Norman kings of Sicily as ** Argent, two bendlets
** cheeky, Azure and of the field." This has been followed in
the engraving, for which the writer desires to take this opportunity
of thanking his friend, Mr. W. C. A. Pritt. A. E. P. G.
* AnUf page i.
Zhc descent of the ^asc
Hamon Massy, Baron of Dunham Massy, co. Chester, temp. William the Conqueror,
from whom descended Robert MaSSy de Tatton, CO. Chester, vvhose younger son.
Sir Hamon le Massy, was, in right of his wife, "of Rixton." He wa
of Cheshire 1332. Wed. 1332-3. A Knight 1347. Dead in 13
2nd wife, Matilda, widow of William de Horton. ^ RlchaPd le MaSCy de Ri
Alive 1414. ' Wed. 2nd wife 1400.
Hamon le Masey de Rixton. = Elena, daughter and heir Peter Mascy, younger
Wed. before 1 400. Died 1436. | of William de Horton. Died 1430.
I I I
William Mascy of Rixton. = Petronilla, daughter and Richard Mascy. John Mas
Wed. 14 1 5. Died about 1448.
heir of Rich. Werburton Wed. 1432 Alice, Alive 14-
of Burges in Cogeshull. wid.of Sir Ralph
Langton, Knt.
Hamon Masey of Rixton. = Johanna, daughter of Sir Robert Bothe
Wed. 1438 . Died 146a. | of Dunham Massy, Knt.
Hamon Masey of Rixton. = Alice, dau. of Sir William John Masey of Rixt
Born .... Wed. 146$. Died
1502
John Boteler of Mascy. heir to his brother Han
Bewsey, Knt. A priest Wed. 1500. Died 151
1497.
Two daughters William MaSCy of Rixton. Born — Anne, daughter 01
and co-heirs. 1504. Wed. 1519. Died 1538. | Aston, of Asto:
Riehard Mascy of Rixton. Bom 1525. = Anne, daughter of Thurstan John Mas
Wed. 1 53 1. Died 1579. | Tildesley of Tildesley, Esq. linsgre
William Mascy of Rixton. Born = Dorothy, dau. and heir of Peter Richard Ma<
1552. Wed. 1572. Died 1595. Daniell of Over Tabley, Esq. Died 1623-
Richard Mascy of Rixton. Born 1573. Wed. about 1595. Died 1645.= Anne, dau.
• I
Hamlet Mascy, son and heir apparent. = Dorothy,daughterof Thomas Mascy, a soldiei
W^ed. 1615. Died bef. father 1636. | Roger Bradshagh of Died unmar'd abroad.
I Haigh, Esq^
i \ '
2nd wife, Alice, = Richard MaSCy of Rixton, = ist wife, Frances, Thomas Mi
dau.ofSirCuth- ' ' ^ . -.
bert Clifton of
Lytham, Knt.
heir to his grandfather Richard
Mascy. Born 1619. Wed. ist
1640. Died 1667.
dau.of Francis Plow- a priest
den of Plowden, co. Born 16^
Salop. Died 1645. Alive 16^
Richard Mascy. Catherine, Hamlet Mascy, son and = Margaret, dau. and co
o.s.p. 168 r. a nun. heir apparent. Born 1641.
Wed. 1662. ob.v.p. 1665.
of Sir Edw. More of 1
r, ^
wall, CO. Chester,
Mary Mascy, sole child and heir. Born Nov. 2nd wife, Katherine, widow = RlchaH
1662. Wed. 1 681 George Meynell, the younger, of Robert Dalton, Esq. 1675. !
of Aldbro* and Dalton, co. York, Esq. ; her son |
George Meynell being the ** kinsman " to Francis Mas^
whom Francis Mascy of Rixton left his estates. Bequeathed hi
of IRtyton anb (Blasebtook,
Alan de Rixton, lord of Rixton; co. Lancaster, under William Pinccrna, temp. King
John, from whom descended Alan de Rixton, whose eldest daughter and heir,
^lieator = Katherine de Rixton, married January, 1332-3, and had for
I dower the Manor of Rixton and moiety of Glasebroke.
Q. Born 1348. = 1st wife, . . . (Possibly John Mascy.
ead 1407. I a Wa^burton.) Alive 1365.
I I
--^^ Margaret, daughter and co-heir John Mascy, chaplain. Johanna. Wed. in 141 3
of William de Horton. Alive 1448. Sir William Troutbek.
I I I I
George Mascy. Thomas Mascy, clerk. Elizabeth. Margaret. Matilda. Douce.
Alive 1454. Rector of Warrington Wed. 1423 Wed.1431 Wed. John Wed. 1430
1444 to 1464. John Ley- Thomas Hyde. Harre
cester. Hesketh. Atherton.
I
Edward Mascy. Hugh Mascy. Ellen.
Alive 1438. Alive 1438. Alive 1435.
i i I .1 I
=^ Anne, dau. of Sir John Margaret. Pernel. Maude. Alison. Joan. Wed.
Bothe of liarton, Knt. Wed. bef. Wed. 1462 Unmar'd Unmar'd aft. 1463 John
She wed. 2ndly Thos. 1464 Hen. John in 1463. in 1463. Domville.
Starkye of Stretton. Risley. Culcheth.
chard Hamlet Mascy. James Mascy. Became ** of Richard Mascy.
Iscj. Alive 1538. Carlton." Alive 1538. Alive 1 538.
of Hul- Thomas Mascy. Dulcia. Wed. before 1538 Anna Alive Mergot. Alive
1576. Alive 1538. Thos. Aston of Glaisebrok. 1533 and 1538. I533 and 1538.
\ i i \ ^1
James Mascy. John Mascy. Dorothy. Ditd Mary. Wed. before Jane. Wed.
Died 1628-9. Dead bef. 1615. unmar'd 1605. 1573 to Rob. Blundell 1590 to Ham-
of Ince Blundell. let Bruche.
. . . Middleton of . . . William Mascy, a priest. Thurstan Mascy. Ah ve 1 578,
Alive 1578. ^^^
William Mascy of Stan- Prisca. Died Elizabeth. Mary. Wed. 1st Anne. Wed.
dish. Died before 1 641. unmar'd 1623. Wed. Abraham Edw. Eccleslon, 1637 Richard
Langton. 2ndJohnWarde. Eltonhead.
^ George Mascy. William Mascy. John and Anne, Dorothy. Wed. Ellen.
Alive 1665. Dead 1652. Hamlet. a nun. Gervase Clifton a nun.
Died inf. of Westby.
ir
Francis Mascy of Rixton, se- = Elizabeth, dau. of . . . Dorothy, Frances,
;1- cond son, heir to his brother. Born Wed. 2ndly, i683,John a nun in a nun in
abt. 1642. Wed. 16... Died 1675. Bl undell of Crosby fam. 1664. 1664.
tfasey of Rixton. Bom — ist wife, jane, dau. of William Fitzherbert of Anne.
id. 1st 1696. Died 1724. | Norbury and Swinnerton, Esq. Died 1704. Born 1672.
Living 1687.
of Rixton. Born 1703. Died unmarried 1748. A nun.
:states to his kinsman, George Meynell of Aldboro'.
THE DESCENT OF THE MASCYS OF RIXTON, IN
THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
(from original documents.)
By Mrs, Arthur Cecil Tempest.
SOME time ago, whilst searching in the muniment safe at
Broughton Hall, in Craven, I came across a schedule, made
in 1786, of the deeds then in the possession of Mr. Stephen
Tempest of that place. By that schedule I discovered there was,
at the date of its making, a consecutive series of deeds relating
to the Mascys of Rixton, in Lancashire, dating from their first
conection with the Rixtons to the death of ihe last of the line.
Tempted by the descriptions, I searched for the originals ; but
they were nowhere to be found amongst the other Tempest
papers. Determined, if possible, to trace them, I have succeeded
in finding 120 out of some 255, and live in hopes of the others
being some day returned to their proper resting place.
In 1837, 135 of the most ancient were lent to Mr. Joseph
Francis Tempest, F.S.A., who does not appear to have returned
them, as his acknowledgment, giving the numbers, &c., remains
in the box in which the other deeds were found. Mr. Joseph
Tempest is now dead ; but fortunately he made full transcripts
of the 135 deeds he borrowed, to which copies, through the
60 The Moseys of Rixion, [1330
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courtesy of his widow, I have had full access ; thus, with the
exception of about six unimportant ones, which were already
missing in 1837, I have been able to go through the whole
series.
In addition to the deeds scheduled, I found a bundle of
119 various deeds and papers, relating chiefly to the Mascy
property in Warrington ; also a number of old leases. From
these materials I have extracted the following sketch of the
family of " Mascy of Rlxton " and their possessions. In referring
to the various deeds, I describe those in the Schedule as " R,"
while those in the miscellaneous bundle are distinguished by " W."
The Village of Rixton in Lancashire, situated near the banks
of the Mersey, about five and a half miles E.N.E. of Warrington,
anciently provided a surname for a family who, from the time of
King John, held largely there under the Pincernas (Butlers) and
their successors. (Testa de Nevily &*e.)
Il^amon Ht illascs* 1330-
I. In the reign of Edward III. Katherine de Rixton,
daughter and coheiress of one Alan lord of Rixton, intermarried
with Hamon de Mascy, son of Robert de Mascy of Tatton,
descended from Hamon, fourth Baron of Dunham Massey, and
thereby founded the family whose pedigree I propose to trace.
The earliest Mascy charter preserved amongst the Tempest
records, is one dated at Mere, Saturday, 29th September, a.d.
i33o> by which Hamon le Mascy de Tatton (as he describes
himself) grants to Gilbert de Leigh, chaplain, all his goods,
moveable and immoveable, and his land in the town of Mere
(W. 16).
Hamon Mascy's marriage with Katherine de Rixton probably
took place between Michaelmas, 1332, and the January following.
By an indenture, dated Monday, the Vigil of St. Michael, a.d.
1332, Alan de Rixton enfeoffed "Robert fil. Alan de Rixton,"
of all his manor^of Rixton, a moiety of the manor of Glasebroc,
with certain homagi^, services, and the reversion of a messuage
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1332-3] Hamon de Mascy. 61
and land in Rixton (held for life by Robert de Moston), rendering
yearly to Alan and his heirs 200^^ in silver ( R. 55).
By an indenture of fine, dated at Westminster, in the Octave of
St. Michael in the same year, Alan de Rixton settles and entails
his manor of Rixton, the moiety of Glasebrok, the reversion of
the premises held by Robert de Moston, with the services and
homages of Alan de le Hagh, William Malotesone (elsewhere
called fil. Matilde), and Margaret, daughter of Henry Betokson
(elsewhere called fil. Beatrice), all which he had previously granted
to Robert fil. Alan de Rixton, on himself and his male heirs, on
failure of whom, on his daughters Katherine, Sibilla, Elizabeth,
Emma, Matilda, Margaret, and Agnes, and on their heirs male in
succession. In default, on Richard de Rixton and his heirs
male, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Alan de
Rixton (R. 56). This fine of settlement I take to have been
made prior to the marriage between Hamon le Mascy with Alan's
daughter. By Monday after St. Hillary, 6 Edward III (i8th
January, 1332-3), they were man and wife ; as the wording of the
following deed shews, by which Alan de Rixton grants to Hamon
de Mascy de Tatton and Katherine " my daughter his wife," the
mediety of the manor of Glasebrok, with the services of William
fil. Matilda de Glasebrok and of Margaret, daughter of Henry
Betoccessone To be held by Hamon and Katherine his wife
and their heirs male, of Alan and his heirs, rendering a Rose at
Midsummer, and doing the customary service to the lord of the
fee. The witnesses to this deed are Richard Wolston, Richard
Brege (Bruche), Richard de Rixton, and Robert de Moston.
The seal is of red wax, and has on a shield A bend charged with
three covered cups^ circumscribed ** siG : alani de rixton."
(R- 57-)
There appear to have been some further arrangements between
Hamon and his father-in-law ; for an Indenture, in old French, of
1 8th January, 1332-3, witnesses (apparently to qualify the grant
or to explain its uses), that an agreement had been entered into
between Alayn de Rixton and Hamon le fitz Robert de Massey
de Tatton, that Hamon should take to wife Katherine, daughter
62 The Mascys of Rixton. [^333
of the said Alayn, and that on the solemnization of the marriage
Hamon should pay Alan jQ^o, in consideration of which Hamon
leases to Alan for five years at a rent of four marks yearly, the
moiety of Glasebrok manor, which had just been granted to
him and his wife. Further arrangements are agreed on, in case
Alan should have male issue surviving, as to the payment of a
portion to Katherine in lieu of the moiety of Glasebrok, which she
was only to inherit on failure of her father*s male heirs. This is
attested by the same witnesses, and in addition by Robert de
Sonkey and Richard de Martinescroft. (R. 60.) The arrange-
ments do not seem to have been quite satisfactory, for on 17th
February, 7 Edward III, Alan confirms the grant of the moiety
of Glasebrok to his daughter Katherine and her husband Hamon,
son of Robert le Massy de Tatton, but instead of the Rose at
Midsummer, they are to pay six shillings and eightpence yearly
to Alan for his life (R. 58) ; Hamon on the same day confirming
the lease of the moiety for five years to his father-in-law Alan de
Rixton. (R. 57^)
In addition to Katherine sCnd her six sisters, Alan de Rixton
had a son Alan, who died without issue. An Indenture made
24th May, 7 Edward III, between Alayn de Rixton and John
le fitz Richard de Radeclif, witnesses that the said John, Margery
*' le Dame de Bury," Richard son of William de Radecliff,
Richard son of Richard le Redych, Thomas del Dene de Maker-
feld, Thomas del Bury de Hinderlegh, William de Lynaker de
Hinderlegh, Elys Huddeson, and Thomas son of Richard are
bound to Alan in forty marks. Alan now agrees chat if Elizabeth,
who was wife of " Aian le fitz le dit Alayn," will not enter, nor
claim during her life the moiety of the manor of Glazebrook, or
its appurtenances, which Alan the son had of the said Alan
the father, nor disturb Hamon de Mascy de Tatton and Katherine
his wife, nor their heirs, in the said moiety, he, Alan, will annul
the bond for the forty marks ; John son of Richard de Radecliff
-^mdertaking that if Elizabeth does so disturb, he and his heirs
shalTlj^responsible ; binding himself to Hamon and Katherine
de Mascy tp make good and restore any such intrusion. (R. 59.)
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On 6th October, 1341, Hamon, son of Robert Mascy of
Tatton, with others, entered into a recognizance to Henry de
Ferrars, and John de Pirye, of no marks yearly, for the farm of
the Manor of Frodsham, to be held by them for sixteen years.
(36M Report Dep, Keeper Public Rec, p. 463.) Sir Peter Ley-
cester states that the Hamon le Mascy who was Escheator of
Cheshire 6 Edward IH, was the husband of Katherine de Rixton,
and that in 1342 he represented Oliver de Ingham (the purchaser
of the reversion of Dunham Massy) in a suit. (Ormerod's Hist.
Cheshire^ New Ed., vol. i, p. 522.) If Leycester is correct in
this assertion, the affidavit made by Richard de Chorlton in 1375
points to Hamon's father, Robert Mascy of Tatton, being a son
of Hamon Mascy sixth Baron of Dunham Massy, and not as re-
presented in the History of Cheshire a grandson of Hamon, the
fourth baron. De Chorlton swears that forty years before (1335),
Sir Hamon de Mascy. Knt., Lord of Dunham Massy, was at
Kelsale, and died there in his presence, " and that his son Hamon
** took the seal of his deceased father " and conveyed it across
the sea to Burdecos [Bordeaux ?], and in the presence of him,
the said Richard, gave it to Sir Oliver de Ingham, Knt.,
&c. (HarL MSS., cod. 2038, fol 23B.) It is also stated
that in 1347 he was described as knight. Sir Hamon died about
1360, as amongst the fines paid to Henry, Duke of Lancaster, in
the tenth year of his dukedom, was one for a recognizance of a
debt of eighty marks by Katherine, widow of Hamo le Mascy,
chiv*^, to Thomas del Bothe. {12nd Report Dep, Keeper P,R,^
p. 340.) This also proves that Katherine de Rixton outlived
her husband.
II. Richard le Mascy de Rixton, who appears to have
been the son of the above-named Sir Hamon, as we find him
in possession of Rixton manor in 1384, gave evidence in the
" Scrope and Grosvenor '* controversy, and was then declared to
be aged thirty-eight years and more in October, 1386. He would,
therefore, be born about 1348. As Sir Hamon was married
64 The Mascys of Rixion. [1384
in 1332, there were possibly older children, of whom perhaps
John le Mascy, living in 1364, was one, to whom on the Tuesday
before St. Laurence the Martyr, 38 Edward III, Isabella, the
widow of Alan de Rixton, granted all her lands, tenements,
rents; services, and free tenancies in Rixton and Glazebrook,
with the lands and tenements (held of her in the same place by
Roger Banastre) To be held by him for her life, rendering to
her yearly nine marks m silver, and performing all customary
services to the lord of the fee. The seal is of green wax, and
bears a shield. Quarterly, first and fourth a mullet^ second and third
lozengy, over all a f ess ^ circumscribed "sigill : johis le masci."
(R. 66.) On the nth March, 1385, a certain John Mascy had
letters of protection on his going to Spain in the retinue of
John, Duke of Castile.
Who Isabella de Rixton, the widow, was, I have not dis-
covered, unless she and the Elizabeth de Rixton named in the
deed with the RadclifFs, 24th May, 7 Edward III (R. 59), are
the same,
Richard le Mascy was ** of Rixton " in the 6th year of
Richard II, as he then granted to Henry de Rixton and
Alexander de Lynalis, in fee, his manor of Rixton and moiety
of Glasebrok (R. 77). From the evidence Richard le Mascy
gave as to Sir Robert Grosvenor's right to the "Bend Or," we
gather that he had fought under the banner of the illustrious
Edward III ; and probably the occasion of which he speaks,
when he noticed Grosvenor bear the debated coat of arms, was
on his first introduction to camp life, at the time when the king
sailed from Sandwich for France, the 28th October, 1359, accom-
panied by eleven hundred transports, and the most numerous
and best appointed army which had been raised in England for
more than a century. He would either be in the train of Sir
William Boteler, his superior lord of Rixton, or in that of John,
Duke of Lancaster, whose tenant he also was, under the Halton
Fee. I am inclined to suppose the latter ; for on 26th August, 48
Edward III, the Black Prince, as Earl of Chester, gave letters of
protection to " Richard de Mascy de Rixton " on his going into
— 1407] '^^^ Moseys and the Warhurtoni, 66
North Wales for the defence of " Beaumarreys Castle " (38M
Report Dep. Keeper P, R., p. 70) ; and we know from the various
orders printed in Rymer's Fadera, that the Duke of Lancaster
had, at different times, just previous to this date, been enjoined
to fortify his castles in Wales.
There appears to have been some connection between the
Mascys and the Warburtons at this date, for on the iyth June,
5 Richard II, Geoffrey fil. Hugh de Werburton grants to William
de Werburton de Sutton the land and premises in Rixton and
Glasebroc, which he had of the feoffment and gift of William de
Rixton. The witnesses to this deed being William de Athirton,
chiv', Thomas Gerard, Alan de Rixton, John de Rixton, and
Alexander de Lynalis. The seal has on a shield between the
letters h. w., two lions passant, (R 75.) William de Werbur-
ton de Sutton, on the Monday before St. John the Baptist, 8
Richard II, granted these same lands, &c., to Gilbert de Rixton
and Thomas fil. Geoffrey de Werburton, Knt. senior, sealing the
charter with a shield bearing Two chevrons and a canton^ circum-
scribed siGiL : WILLI : DE WERBURTON (R. 74), and on the 9th
July, 8 Richard II, these two last named Released to Richard
Massi de Rixton all claim to the same lands, which they had of
the feoffment of William de Werburton de Sutton, in Rixton and
Glasebrok. Of the two seals attached to the Release, one is plain
and the other has a shield bearing On a chief a trefoil slipped^
impaled with a bend, circumscribed thomas warbirton (R. 80.)
The same day, William de Werburton de Sutton also gives a
Release to Richard Massy de Rixton of the same lands in Rixton
and Glasebrok, which he had of the feoffment of Geoffrey fil.
Hugh de Werburton. The seal bears a similar shield of arms to
that attached to No. R. 80, only the legend around is sigill :
WILLI: DE werbirton. (R. 81.) Possibly these releases, &c.,
were consequent on the death of an elder brother of Richard
Mascy, or perhaps on his marriage.
In December, 1384, Richard le Mascy de Rixton enfeoffed
John del Wyche, chaplain, Richard de Boseley, John de Hale,
and Gylowe le French, of all his lands and tenements in Rixton
Ft
66 The Moseys of Rixton, [1384 —
and Glasebrok ** que quondam fuerint Witti' de Rixton que et
" quas habui ex demissione et feoffamento Witti*. fil. Mathi' de
" Rixton." To have and to hold the same to the said John,
Richard, John, and Gylowe, &c. Witnessed by .... de Rixton,
Gilbert del Bruche, Nicholas de Rixton, and Thomas Sonky. The
seal bears a shield, Quarterly^ in the first and fourth qtiarters
a mullet^ circumscribed sigillum hamonis de massy. (R. 82.)
William de Rixton released to Richard le Mascy de Rixton
in July, 8 Richard II, his claim to these premises in Rixton
and Glasebrok, which his father Matthew de Rixton had of
the feoffment of Hugh le Strong, chaplain, (R. 83) and at the
same time Hugh le Strong releases the same to Richard le Mascy,
describing the premises as held of the feoffment of Henry de
Rixton and Alexander de Lynalis, (R. 78) they being the two
trustees to whom Richard le Mascy had in 1382 granted his
manor of Rixton and moiety of Glasebrok.
I have thought it possible that Richard Mascy's first wife was a
Warburton, though I find no such marriage suggested in any of
the Warburton pedigrees that I have seen ; for, besides the trans-
actions I have already quoted between the Warburtons and
Mascys, which seem to point to some relationship, Richard's
grandson, William Mascy, had to obtain a dispensation for his
marriage with Petronilla Warburton, as they were related in the
fourth degree.
In Mr. Beamont's Records of the Honour of Halton^ mention
is made that, when, in 1385, John Duke of Lancaster, Baron of
Halton, set out fcJi* Spain to claim his throne of Castile and L^on,
a Richard Mascy, one of his tenants of Halton, who engaged
to accompany him, drew back and refused to go. This
Richard Mascy was of Rixton, and he was doubtless not
allowed to evade his foreign service without the finding of
substitutes. By two receipts preserved amongst the Rixton deeds
I gather that Thomas de Torbek de Melling and William Orede-
bury were these substitutes. By one receipt, dated at Weryngton,
Wednesday before St. Matthias the Apostle, 13 Richard II,
— 1407] Tenants under the Rixton Manor. 67
Johanna, widow of Thomas de Torbok de Mellyng, his executrix,
acknowledges she has received from Richard le Massy de Rixton,
"omes denar. p'dco Thorn debit, p vadiis suis cu Jofee Rege
** Castell. Due. Lane, in uhio viagio suo in Spannia." (R 84.)
A similar acquittance was given by William le Spencer, chaplain,
and Agnes, wife of William Oredebery, the Saturday after St.
Valentine's day, 13 Richard II. ^W. 35.) Perhaps it was in
connection with this voyage that the Duke of Lancaster had
retained Richard Mascy and promised him " dys livres de la
" monoye d'engletre p an." for life. (Duchy of Lane, Reg,, fo. 1 16.)
It may not be uninteresting to record the names of the tenants
under the Rixton manor, taken from an old Court Roll, dated
Tuesday, the feast of St. Martin, i Henry IV, namely : — Richard
le Smyth, Richard le Shepherd, Robert de Fexley, Robert de
Woley, Gillowe le Frencheman, John Smoke, Henry de CophuU,
Laurence del Grome, Felix de Rycrofte, Henry Page, John le
Baker, Adam de Torbok, Thomas de Torbok (could these be the
sons of the Thomas who accompanied the King of Castile to
Spain in 1385 ?) John Assheton, William le Smyth, John fil. Hugh,
Richard de Werburton, Richard Webster, Margaret wife of Dakyn,
and Cecil le Gardener. (R. 23.)
In June, 1395, Sir John le Botiler, Knt., granted to Sir John de
la PuUe, Knt., Peter Dutton, Peter de Legh, and Richard le
Mascy de Rixton, the Tolls in the town of Warrington with all
appurtenances, for which they were to render a grain of pepper
yearly at Midsummer's Day for five years ; and after this term
was completed, a hundred pounds in silver, or forfeit the lease.
(W. 37.) This grant may have had some connection with the
recognizance for ;£^2oo into which the same four entered the
26th March, 1395, to Margaret, widow of Sir Laurence de Dutton,
Knt., and Hugh, son of Edmund de Dutton. This Sir Laurence
de Dutton had no children, his heir being his nephew Edmund de
Dutton, whose mother was Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Boteler.
In 1395, the Rixton Mascys owned land in Cheshire ; for on the
24th August, 19 Richard II., John del Wyche, chaplain, granted
tF 2
68 The Mascys of Rixton, [1384 —
back to Richard le Mascy de Rixton, the manor of Rixton, with
all premises and appurtenances there, and in Glasebrok, co. Lan-
caster ; and also all the lands and tenements in Bowdon and
Rostheme, co. Chester, which the said John had received of the
feoffment of the said Richard. The witnesses to this deed being
Sir John le Botiler, Knt, Sir John de la Pulle, Knt., Peter Button,
Peter Legh, and John Leycester. (R. 85.) The date of the
grant to John del Wyche being December, 1384. Probably the
possessions in Bowdon and Rostheme had descended from the
Mascys of Tatton, who owned land in these two townships.
In January, 1396-7, Richard le Mascy de Rixton was one of
the sureties for Robert de Holden when the King leased to him,
during the minority of the heir of Thomas de Boydell, the passage
of the Bridge of Warrington, with the fishery called " Lacheford-
" yorde." (Appendix ii, 36M Report Dtp, Keeper RR., p. 237.)
Whoever might have been Richard Mascy's first wife, he appears
to have married a second one named Matilda, living 1400, as he
names her in a deed of that date, of which the following is a
copy : — " Ego Ricardus Massie de Rixton dedi Petro filio meo
" omnes terras, &c., in Bowdon, Knottesford, Yarwood, Horton,
"et le Hogh cum pertinentiis Habendum et tenendum sibi
" et heredibus sub condicionibus subsequentibus, &c., quod quan-
" docunque Hamo le Massy filius meus et Elena uxor ejus fecerunt
*' predictum Petrum et Margaretam uxorem suam ita securos tota
" vita sua de medietate manerii de Horton, predictis Hamoni
" et Elene post mortem Matildis uxofis mee, de hereditate Will-
** elmi de Horton patris predict orum Elene et Margarete cujus
"heredes ipse sunt, &c., tunc bene licebit, &c. Dat. anno
** I Henry IV." This transcript was made by Dodsworth the
24th July, 1634, from the original deed in the collection of John
Bothe, of Twemlowe, co. Chester ; it had attached to it three
seals, the centre one having the inscription, s. hamonis de
MASCY, encircling a shield bearing the arms. Quarterly, in the
first quarter a mullet. The other two seals bore the arms only.
(Dodsworth MSS. Bodl, Lib,, vol. 41, fol. 91.)
— 1407] Richard le Mascfs Sons, 69
In the 39th volume of the Dodsworth MSS., at folio 152,
is a very confused and erroneous pedigree of the Mascys of
Rixton, which makes Richard Mascy marry Matilda, who, 17
Richard II, was the widow of William de Horton ; and
further represents Mascy's two sons, Hamon and Peter, to
be by her, giving them for wives her two daughters by William
de Horton — in other words, marries them to their uterine
sisters, which must be a mistake. Either Horton's daughters
were by a first wife, or Mascy's sons were by a former marriage :
the latter is the most probable if Matilda was William de Horton's
widow as late as 1394. ( Dodsw. MSS. 39, fol. 152.)
Probably this Matilda was sister or aunt to John de Oulton
who died in October, 1397. On the 6th October, 1403 : ** Hamo
** filius Rici le Massy de Rixton et M^tildis de Oulton, heredes
" Joliis de Oulton nuper defuncti," of the diocese of Lichfield,
appoint proctors to act on their behalf in certain causes and
actions, (R. 89,) which doubtless was the lawsuit by which they
attempted to prove John de Oulton's marriage with Pelerine
Cradock invalid, and her daughters illegitimate. (Ormerod's
Cheshire, vol. ii., p. 190.) In case these daughters had been
proved illegitimate, Matilda, as sister or aunt of John de Oulton,
would have been heir to his property. (The question is, what
connection had Hamon, son of Richard le Mascy de Rixton,
with her affairs, unless she was some relation.)
/
Richard Mascy died between 1406 (W. 38) and 1407 (R. 91).
His wife, Matilda, survived him, for we find on the 24th December,
1414, John and Robert, the sons of Sir Richard de Winnington,
Knt., with others, bound over to keep the peace towards Matilda,
widow of Richard le Mascy de Rixton. (Appendix ii, 37M
Report Dep, Keep. P. R.y p. Soi.)
Richard Mascy left two sons, namely Hamon (who succeeded
to the family estates) and Peter. In a Mascy of Rixton pedi-
gree, compiled by Mr. William Beamont, and now deposited in
the Warrington Museum, Richard is stated to have had also two
other sons, John, and Thomas the Rector of Warrington. C>t
70 77ie Mascys of Rixton, [1384 —
John, it is stated that he was feoffee of his sister Johanna, and a
trustee, with Roger Holme and others, of the Troutbeck estates,
1 8th August, 22 Henry VI, 1444. From the Chester Recogni-
zance Rolls we learn that this John Mascy, the trustee, was a
chaplain, to whom with Roger Holme, parson of Astbury
Church, and others, was granted premises in Parva-Cristelton,
Ledesham, Wodechirche, and Chester, by William Troutbeck, as
early as 20th March, 1 440-1. (Appendix ii, part 2, 37M Report
Dep, Keep, P, R.^ p. 719.) And again, by a deed dated 23rd,
September, 1444, John Mascy, chaplain, and others, were
to act as trustees and to find, after the decease of William
Troutbeck and Joan his wife, a fit and proper Chaplain to cele-
brate divine service for the soul of the said William in the
Church of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, in Chester, in a chapel called
" La Trinite Chapell," built by William and Joan, and to pay to
the chaplain for so doing ;;6S • ^ • ^ yearly. {Ibid, 720.) Pro-
bably to this John was granted, 3rd February, 1448-9,
the custody of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist outside
Chester {Ibid, 523); and whom, the 15th of June„ 1472, Henry
Glazebrook and Peter Button were bound over not to molest.
{Ibid, 305.) A John Mascy was rector of Sefton Church,
in October, 1489. {Ibid, 456.) I can nowhere discover that
John Mascy the chaplain is called "brother " of Johanna Trout-
beck, neither have I come across his name amongst the Mascy
papers ; but I see no reason why he should not have been a son
of Richard.
Thomas Mascy, the Rector of Warrington from 1448 to 1464,
was not the son, but the grandson of Richard Mascy, as I hope
to prove hereafter.
Richard's son, Peter Mascy, married Margaret, one of the
daughters and co-heirs of William de Horton, as mentioned in
the deed quoted from the Dodsworth MSS. On the Thursday after
Easter, 7 Henry IV. (1406), Peter le Mascy enfeoffed Richard
le More vicar of Bowdon Church, Cheshire, William le Spencer,
chaplain, and John le Baker, of all the lands, tenements, rents, and
services, &c., in Knodesford, co. Chester, which he had of the
— 1407] Peter le Mascy, 71
gift of Richard le Mascy his father. The charter is attested by
Richard le Mascy de Rixton (his father), Hamon le Mascy (his
brother), Hugh de Nedham, John Bowden, and Henry Deynall.
The seal, of which only the lower portion remains, shows the
arms on a shield to have been Quarterly^ but no charge appears on
either the third or fourth quarters^ which are entire. (W. 38.)
Peter witnessed a deed of his brother Haraon in 1407 ; and
in 1409 was appointed attorney by Richard del More, vicar of
Bowdon, and Richard le Westhend to deliver seizin to Hamon le
Mascy of premises in Rixton and Glazebrok, of which Hamon
had previously enfeoffed them. (R, 92.)
In December, 14 14, John and Robert Winnington were bound
over in a recognizance of ;£^ioo to keep the peace towards Peter
de Mascy [Recog, Rolls of Chester)^ which was doubtless necessary,
owing to the dispute as to common of pasture in Horton and
Hartford, which some years later caused Sir Thomas Grosvenor
and Randle Mainwaring to act as arbitrators between the Mascys
and Winningtons. {A r ley Deeds,) On the 1 6th July, 1414. Peter
le Mascy, is called " of Horton," when acting as surety for
Nicholas de Poulton, a fellow monk of Richard, Abbot of
Dieulacre. (Append, ii, part 2, 37M Report Dep. Keep. P. R.
p. 596.) He acted as arbitrator in August and September in the
same year, between John de Kingsley de Nantwich and Sir
William de Brereton, Knt. {Ibid. p. 430.) Probably this is
the Peter de Mascy who, the nth June, 1416, was appointed
serjeant-at-law in the counties of Chester and Flint, with a salary
of five marks yearly, during pleasure. (31^/ and ^^th Reports
Dep. Keep. P. R.) In January, 141 7-18, he acted as arbitrator
between Sir Thomas Grosvenor and Randle Mainwaring, and the
same year was a surety with Robert de Mere and others for
Roger de Venables, parson of Rousthestorn. In September,
6 Henry V, he was one of the Justices appointed to hold
an Assize at Middlewich. (^ist Report Dep. Keeper P. R.
p. 249.)
In February, 142 1-2, Peter le Mascy and John Dedewood
obtain the custody of the lands, and marriage of Thomas, son
72 The Moseys of Rixton, [1384 —
and heir of Christopher de Hogh ; the same Thomas de Hogh
having livery of his lands, 28th December, 1425 (Appendix ii.
part 2, 37M Rep. Dep, Keep, P. R^ p. 516). This Thomas de
Hogh was of Leighton and Thornton, co. Chester, and married
Margery Davenport.
According to one of the Arley charters, Peter Mascy, or as he
is called in the deed, " Piers ", with his wife Margaret, one of
the daughters and heirs of William de Horton, had some dispute,'
touching common of pasture in Horton and Hartford, with Sir
Richard Wynnington and his sons Robert and John ; in which
dispute Sir Thomas Grosvenor, Knt., Randle Main waring, Robert
del Mere, and others acted as arbitrators, 23rd December, 1427.
{Arley Charters , p. 20.)
The writ " Diem clausit extremum,'* on the death of Peter le
Mascy, is dated 24th April, 1430 (Appendix ii. part 2, 37//^ Report
Dep, Keep, P, R, p. 518). It is possible he may have married
a second wife, Ellen, who took a second husband ; for in 1 3
Henry VI, Ellen, wife of John de Par, late wife of Peter le
Mascy, claimed dower, out of twelve messuages in Hertford and
North wich, of Isabel, the daughter of the said Peter. (29M Report
Dep, Keeper P, R,, p. 82.) According to the Par pedigrees, this
Ellen was the daughter and co-heiress of Richard Radcliffe of
Backford. Of this daughter, Isabel Mascy, I can find no further
trace. Peter Mascy's daughter and heir, or co-heir, Matilda,
married, 35 Henry VI, Sir Richard Aston of Aston, and had
issue. (Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. i. p. 723.)
Mr. Beamont, in the pedigree already-mentioned, gives Richard
le Mascy of Rixton three daughters, namely, Katherine, the wife
of William Chisnall, alive 5 Richard II ; Sarah, wife of John
Mascy of Grafton ; and Johanna, wife of William Troutbeck.
Of these alliances I can find no trace in the deeds of this date,
excepting that of Troutbeck. No marriage between the Mascys
of Rixton and those of Grafton appears in any of the published
pedigrees of the Mascys of Grafton, and the John Mascy who
about this date, 16 Henry VI, was "of Grafton," became so in
right of his wife Margaret, one of the daughters and co-heirs of
— 1407] Hamon Mascy, 78
William de Grafton. (Ormerod's Cheshire^ new edition, vol. ii.
p. 704.)
In Dugdale^s Warwickshire, p. 739, I find that a William
Mascy of Sirescote, co. Stafford, grandson to William Mascy of
Swanley, co. Chester, had an only daughter and heir, Katherine,
who married, 39 Edward III, William de Chisenhall of Chisen-
hale, CO. Lancaster; perhaps it is this match which has been
taken as belonging to the Rixton Mascys.
The marriage of Johanna Mascy, in the Troutbeck pedigree
in Ornierod d^^cnhtd as "de Rixton", with William Troutbeck,
esquire, must have taken place not later than 1412, as at the
taking of her Inq. p, w., 31 Henry VI, 1453, her son and heir,
John Troutbeck, was found to be aged 40 years and upwards
(Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 39). In 1435 William Troutbeck
acted with others as trustee for the Mascys (W. 45), which points
to a relationship. Possibly this Joan was the one described as
wife of William Troutbeck, to whom, 9th March, 1439-40, an
annuity of ;^2o was granted during pleasure, in consideration of
the services rendered by her to the king's mother. (Appendix ii.
part 2, 37/^ Report Dep, Keep, P, R, p. 719.) The writ "diem
clausii extremum " on her death is dated the 9th December, 1452.
{Ibid, p. 720.)
Ilamon iWtascs^ 1407-
III. — Hamon, son and heir of Richard le Mascy de Rixton,
succeeded his father in the Rixton estates, and the Thursday
after St. Martin's in Winter, 9 Hen. IV, received from the Trustees,
John del Wyche, chaplain, Richard le Boseley, John Hale, and
Gylowe le French, all the lands, tenements, &c., in Rixton and
Glasebrook, which they had received of the feoffment of Richard
le Mascy de Rixton, by his charter dated December, 1384. The
witnesses to this surrender are Peter le Mascy, John le Baker, and
William le Spencer, chaplain. (R. 91.) By a deed, dated nth
August, 14 1 9, it appears that Hamon le Mascy de Rixton had exe-
cution on all the messuages, lands, &c., belonging to Robert le
Mascy de Hale in Ordwyck and Hale, co. Chester, by force of a
74 The Mascys of Rixtan. [1407 —
recognizance made by Robert for ;£ioo. In consideration,
however, of Robert paying annually to Hamon, at Bowdon
Church, twenty shillings in silver during the lifetime of Peleryne,
wife of the same Robert, Hamon demises the premises to Robert
for life. (W. 40.) .This Peleryne was the widow of John de
Oulton, whose marriage was disputed, as already mentioned, in
1403, by this same Hamon Mascy and Matilda de Oulton. Could
the debt be in kny way connected with this suit ?
In 1426, Hamon added to his possessions in Rixton by pur-
chasing land and premises of Richard le Smyth. (R. 96 and 97.)
He married, before 1400, Ellen, daughter and co-heir of William
de Horton. On the 23rd December, 1427, he and his wife Ellen
were parties to a dispute with the Wynningtons as to the common
of pasture in Horton and Hertford ; Ellen his wife, with her sister
Margaret, the wife of Peter Mascy, being described as daughters
and co-heirs of William de Horton. [Arley Charters^ page 20).
The Mascys of succeeding generations have always quartered
Argent^ a squirrel sejant^ Gules ^ as the arms of de Horton,
which leads one to conclude she was the mother of Hamon's
children.
Hamon was one of the executors to the will of Richard Wer-
burton. Sheriff of Cheshire 1424 to 1428 (W. 44), and on the
1 2th August, 13 Henry VI, we find that Hamo le Mascy de
Rixton, with William le Mascy de Rixton, Richard le Mascy de
Rixton, and John Holcroft, became sureties for Cecilia, widow of
Sir Ralph de Radcliffe, Knt. (who died in March, 1 1 Henry VI),
the same Cecilia being indicted for felony. (33^/ Report Dep,
Keeper R, (9., page 35.) Was this Cecilia related to the Rixton
Mascys, as three of them became answerable for her appearance?
She was the widow of William de Venables, Baron of Kinderton ;*
and Sir Ralph de Radcliffe paid a fine of 50 marks for marrying
her without license.
Hamon Mascy had, besides his eldest son and successor Wil-
liam, four other sons and four daughters.
Richard Mascy, the second son, was granted by his father on
10th 'January, 14 Henry VI (1436), for life, a mediety of his lands
— 143^] Hamon Mascfs Sons. 76
in Cheshire, which grant Richard's brother William Mascy con-
firmed, 2oth January, 1436. (R. loi.) This Richard acted as
trustee for his nephew Hamon Mascy in 1453 (R. 95 and R. 103),
and with his brother Thomas, the parson of Warrington, and
others in 1454. (W. 52.) He apparently married Alice, widow
of Sir Ralph Langton, Knt. By the Duchy of Lancaster Calendar
of Chancery Rolls it is shown that James de Langton, parson of
Wigan, and Henry de Kighley were bound in a recognizance
to Alice, widow of Sir Ralph de Langton, Knt., to assign her
reasonable dower from her late husband's lands ; but the recog-
nizance was cancelled the loth September, 10 Henry VI, by
order, Richard le Mascy, the husband of the aforesaid Alice,
appearing personally before William Troutbeck, Chancellor of the
County Palatine. The same day, Hamon le Mascy of Rixton
(father of Richard the husbamd), Richard Sherburne (who married
Joan, daughter of Sir Ralph Langton of Newton), and Nicholas
Botiler of Raweclyf, bound themselves for the payment of Alice's
dower. (33^^ Report Dep. Keeper R, O.y page 40.) I conclude
she was the widow of Sir Ralph Langton of Newton, who died
9 Henry VI ; though Baines gives him to wife Johanna, the
daughter and co-heir of William Bolderston. {Baines' Hist.
Zanc, vol. iii, p. 642.) She died in 1439, ^^^ writ, " diem
" clausit extremum," after her death, being dated 1 6th August,
17 Henry VI. This Richard had a son, William, living 5th
March, 1437-8, when he was commissioned, with William Mascy
of Rixton and others, to arrest William Venables late of Ridley.
(STtk Report Dep, Keep, F, R.y part 2, app. ii, page 762.) In
1452 we find this Richard, when acting as trustee for his nephew,
Hamon Mascy of Rixton, sealing with a squirrel sejant^ the
inscription round his seal being " rig : massy." (R. 95.)
To John Mascy, son of Hamon, his father, on loth January,
14 Henry VI, granted 2 messuages, 2 barns, 48 acres of land,,
and 2 acres of pasture, with appurtenances (in the tenure
of Hugh Wylme and John Wylkynson) in Rixton, for life ; the
witnesses to the deed being John de Leycester, William del
Bruche, and Ralph de Swettenham. (R. 100.)
76 The Mascys of Rixion, [1407 —
George Mascy, another son of Hamon, was, an 9th of January,
14 Henry VI, granted by his father a mediety of his lands in
Cheshire for life ; which grant George's brother, William Mascy,
confirmed the 19th January in the same year. (W. 46.) In
August, 1435, we find this George Mascy taking part with his
brother William in the family feud with the Carringtons, and in a
recognizance of that date he is described as " yeoman/' George
acted as trustee for his nephew Hamon Mascy, 32 Henry VI,
and also 17 Edward IV. (W. 52 and W. 63.) He is stated to
have married Katherine, daughter and heir of Oliver Barton of
Barton, co. Chester, and left a daughter and heir Petronilla, who
became the wife of Edmund Lathum, and was the mother of
George Lathum of Irlam. {St, George's Visitation of Lancashire,
1613.)
The other son of Hamon and Ellen Mascy was Thomas. He
is described, in the various deeds to which he was either a party
or a witness, as " clerk," ** rector," or ** parson of Warrington
" Church," and also, which proves his identity most clearly, as
brother to the Richard Mascy who is designated *'son of
" Hamon."
In November, 31 Henry VI (1452), Thomas Mascy, parson
of Warrington Church, with his brother, *'Ricardus filius
** Hamonis Mascy," and other trustees, released to Hamon Mascy
de Rixton, the then owner of Rixton, all the manors and lands in
the counties of Lancaster and Chester, which they held by the
grant of William Mascy de Rixton (Hamon's father). (R. 95.)
And the 24th May following, 31 Henry VI (1453), Thomas,
with others, was enfeoffed by his nephew, the same Hamon, of
all his lands, &c., in the before-named counties. (R. 103.) He
also acted as trustee iri 1454. (^W. 52.) The seal with which
this Thomas Mascy sealed, displays a pelican in its piety, circum-
scribed '* THOMAS MASCY." (R. 95.) On 27th September,
1 46 1, he and his brother Richard, and two of the other trustees
surrender, at the request of their nephew, Hamon Mascy, to
Master John Bothe, clerk, Sir William Bothe, Knt., and James
Hall, clerk, the manors and lands in Rixton which they had held
— 1436] Hamon Mascy^s Daughters. 77
by his grant in 31 Henry VI. (R. 168.) Thomas Mascy was
Rector of Warrington in 1452, and died before 4th July, 1464.
(R. 95, and Beamont's Warrington Church Notes.)
As to Hampn Mascy's daughters, Sir Peter Leycester states
that his ancestor, John Leycester, married, 10 Henry V (1422),
Elizabeth, a daughter of Hamon Mascy of Rixton. John Ley-
cester acted as witness to several deeds about this date for the
Mascys, and took part with them in their quarrel with the
Carringtons in 1434. In December, 1432, Hamo le Mascy of
Rixton, John de Legh del Rigges, William son of Hamo le
Mascy, and Randal de Swetenham, are bound in a recognizance
for j£/^6 13s. 4d. to John de Leycester, Robert de Leycester de
Modburley, Randal de Mainwaring, and two others. {Chester
Recog, Rolls.) This may have had some connection with Eliza-
beth Leycester's marriage portion.
Margaret, another daughter of Hamon, married, about 1431,
Thomas, second son of Sir Thomas Hesketh of RufFord, Knt.
Thomas Hesketh died the 8th October, 1463, when it was found
that his son and heir, Robert, was then aged thirty-one years.
(Play fair's Baronetage^ and Croston's Lancashire County Families.)
According to the ** Hyde of Norbury " pedigree, John Hyde,
who died 1460, married, for his first wife, Matilda, daughter of
Hamon Mascy of Rixton. (Ormerod's Hist, of Cheshire^ vol. iii,
p. 810.) We find John Hyde siding with the Mascys in 1434
and 1435 against the Carringtons.
As to Hamon's other daughter, Douce, there is no doubt ; for
her marriage contract is preserved, dated Wednesday next
before the Ascension, 8 Henry VI (1430). By this indenture it
is agreed " bytwene Hamonet Massy of Rixton of the one parte,
*' and Hdrre, son and heire to Nicholas of Athirton, on tother
" parte : . . . that Harre shall wed Douce, doghter of the said
" Hamonet, bytwene the date of this indenture and missomer
" next suying." In consideration of which marriage, Hamon
undertakes to pay Harry Athirton 100 marks, namely, forty marks
the day of the espousals, ten at Martinmas next ensuing after the
date of these presents, ten at Midsummer following, and so on,
78 The Mascys of Rixton, [1436 —
each Martinmas and Midsummer ten marks, until the one hun-
dred are fully paid. Harry on his part undertakes that if Douce
dies within six years after the espousals without issue, he will
repay to Hamon sixty marks within two years of Douce's death.
(R. 105.)
Hamon Mascy died 1436, the writ " diem clausit extremum,"
being dated 9th July, 14 Henry VI. (33^// Report Dep, Keeper
F. R.y p. 37.) Unfortunately the Inquisition is nowhere to be
found in the Record Office, though every search has been made
for it.
wmiiam ^astg. 1436.
IV. William, the eldest son and heir of Hamon Mascy of
Rixton, confirmed, as already mentioned, the grants which
Hamon made to his younger sons Richard and George in
January, 1436. He married, before his father's death, Petronilla,
daughter and heir of Richard de Werberton of Burgh. The
dispensation for the marriage is dated from Constance (where the
Pope awaited the verdict to be pronounced on his two rivals,
Gregory and Benedict), 5 th day of January, 5th year of Pope
John XXIII ; and at Lichfield, loth August, 14 15, wherein the
contracting parties are described as "William son of Hamon
"le Massey, layman, and Petronilla daughter of Richard de
"Werburton, spinster," they being related within the fourth
degree of consanguinity. (Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. i, p. 571,
quoting the Lichfield Diocesan Registers.)
Richard Werburton, the father of this Petronilla, was High
Sheriff of Cheshire from 1424 until his death at the end of 1427.
By this marriage the Mascys acquired lands and tenements in
Altryncham, Thelwall, Hale, Cogeshill, Over and Nethe/ Whitley,
and Comberbach, co. Chester, also lands in Penyngton, co. Lan-
caster. (R. 141 and R. 151.)
The only deeds relating to these estates preserved among the
Mascy charters (in connexion with the Warburtons) are, a Letter
of attorney, dated Monday before Christmas, 7 Henry V, from
Richard de Werburton and Elizabeth his wife to deliver seisin of
— 144^] William Mascy. 79
lands, &c., in Altryncham and Hale, to William le Couper and
William le Spencer, chaplain, whom they have enfeoffed of the
same (W. 41) ; and the Confirmation of a grant from Ralph de
Rouley to Richard de Werburton of land and premises in Cog-
geshull, Over and Nether Whitley, and Comberbach, with the
reversion of those messuages, &c., which Hamon and Robert de
Wynyngton held for the life of Hamon de Wynyngton, as well as
the reversion of those premises which Henry de Workesley and
Margaret his wife, formerly wife of Laurence de Burghs, fil. John
de Burghs, held in the same towns, in the name of dower, Ralph
Rouley having the reversion from Richard, son of Randle de
Wynyngton. The witnesses to the deed are Sir Thomas le
Grosvenbr and Sir Edward Den, Knts., Ralph Maynwaring,
Robert de Davenport, and Robert de Hyde. It is dated at
Burghs, Tuesday in the octave of Pentecost, 9 Henry V. (W. 43.)
The will of Richard Werburton, Petronilla Mascy's father, is
dated 27th December, 1427 ; in it he names his brother William
Werburton. He appoints his wife Elizabeth, with Hamon and
William Massy, his executors. He leaves to the parish priest of
Budworth ;^io, for two years, for the good of his soul ; but gives
no direction as to where he was to be buried. The will contains
many small legacies of beasts, measures of corn, and clothes, —
e.g,y " una toga virido enbrauderdi," &c. Administration of the
will was granted in June, 1428. (W. 46.)
In April, 1429, William le Mascy, described "of Burghes,'*
was, with Geoffrey Starky, Ector de Ince, and others, appointed
to collect the debts due to Richard de Werburton, deceased, as
Sheriff of Chester; and on 19th January, 1429-30, Hamon Mascy
with others was bound in a recognizance of 200 marks that
" Elizabeth who was the wife of Richard de Werburton of Burwes
" deceased, and William Mascy of Burwes," will abide an award
to be made by William Troutbeck, Esq., touching disputes between
the same Elizabeth and William with Richard de Werburton and
John son of Hugh de Legh of Legh. {Chesh, Recog, Roll.)
To return to William Mascy and his Rixton possessions, we
find that a charter was enrolled at Chester, dated 26th July, 1429,
80 The Mascys of Rixton, \}A7fi —
by which William, son of Hamon Mascy, granted to William
Troutbeck, Esq., Robert del Mere, Richard Bolde of Chester,
John Harwardyne, and William Hulme, chaplain, the fee of a
moiety of the manor of Horton, and all his lands, &c., in Hert-
ford and Horton, {Chesh. Recog, Rolls, jyih Report Bep, Keeper
P. R., p. 517,) and the same trustees surrendered the lands to
William Mascy, the 21st March, 13 Henry VI. (W. 45.)
An indenture made the 5th February, 1438, between Sir Robert
Bothe, Knt., of the one part, and William Mascy of Rixton, Esq.,
of the other, recites that William Mascy with " Harre de Atherton,
" John Holcroft, and Richard del Bruche are bound to Sir Robert
" in two hundred marks," but that in consideration of William
Mascy performing his part of the covenant contained in certain
indentures made between him and Sir Robert touching the mar-
riage of Hamon, son and heir of William, with Janet, daughter
of Sir Robert, the statute merchant shall be void. This indenture
for defeasance is sealed with the seal which the Mascys for
several successive generations used, namely, within an octagon
two covered cups crossed saltirewise, and above them the name
iWawg. (W. 47.)
By a fine for settlement and entail, dated at Chester, Tuesday
after St. Lawrence, 16 Henry VI, John de Gunclif, chaplain,
being querent, and William de Mascy de Rixton and Petronilla
his wife deforciants, of 27 messuages, i mill, 104 acres of land,
8 acres of meadow, 6 acres of wood, and 4 acres of moor, with
appurtenances in Thelwall, Altryncham, Hale, CoggeshuU, Over
Whitley and Nether Whitley, and Comberbach, the Mascys settled
the lands and tenements named, on themselves for life, then to
the use of Hamon de Mascy, their son and heir, and his heirs
male ; in default, on Edward de Mascy, Hamon's brother, and
his heirs male ; in default, on Hugh de Mascy, Edward's brother,
and his heirs male ; with remainder to the right heirs of Hamon
de Mascy. (W. 48.)
By the Patent Roll, 20 Henry VI (No. 6), amongst the Duchy
of Lancaster records, we find that William le Mascy of Rixton,
Esq., was granted the custody of the lands of Elizabeth, late wife
— 144^] William Mascy^s Sons, 81
of Sir William Botiler, Knt., during the minority of John Botiler,
the grandson and heir of Sir William and Elizabeth Botiler —
(40th Report Dep. Keep, F, R,y p. 536) — which lands had been
excepted from the grant made by the King to Sir Peter de Button
and others, of the Botiler estates during John's nonage. (Lords
of Warrington^ 255.) This Mascy acted as trustee for Sir John
Botiler in 1444 — {ibid, p. 263) — and in the same capacity for Sir
Geoffrey Warburton of Arley in June, 1447. In a deed relating
to this last trust, dated i8th December, 33 Henry VI (1455),
William Mascy is described as "deceased** — (Arley deeds) —
though I think his death occurred in 1447-8, for in a Botiler deed
of July, 26 Henry VI (C448), we find his son Hamon acting as
trustee in his place, and he was certainly dead in 145 1, as Hamon
was then the owner of Rixton. Of William's three sons named
in the fine of entail, Hamon succeeded him.
Edward Mascy, the second son, I suggest was the Edward le
Mascy of Altryncham, (Petronilla Werburton his mother owned
land in this town,) who, with William le Mascy of Rixton and
others, undertake that John Mascy of Hale keeps the peace, 1434;
and who, (with Hamo, George, and William le Mascy of Rixton,)
was bound in a recognizance, nth August, 1435, ^^ abide an
award in a dispute pending between them and Sir John Caryngton.
Edward Mascy is also named in a commission with several of the
Rixton Mascys, in May, 1436, to arrest William le Venables and
others ; and again in March, 1437-8. {App, II, part 2^ jyth Re-
port Dep. Keep. P, R,) An Edward Mascy is named in 1442 as
holding land in Partington of William Bothe of Dunham Mascy.
(Chesh. Recog, Rolls,)
Hugh le Mascy, another son of William named in the fine of
settlement, does not appear again in any of the Mascy charters,
nor have I discovered anything about him elsewhere.
William Mascy had a daughter named Ellen, about whom
serious discords arose between her family and the Caryngtons of
Caryngton. On i8th March, 1434-5, Sir John Caryngton and
his son Thomas were bound in a recognizance of 500 marks to
the king, that they will abide the award of Sir John de Stanley,
Gt
82 The Mascys of Rixton. [1448—
Knt., William Troutbeck, Esq., and William Chauntrell, touching
" oinib's debatis accions querelis & demandis inter ip5s Jofeem de
" Caryngton & Thomam et suos ex una parte, et Hamonem le
" Mascy de Rixton & Elenam filiam Witti le Mascy de Rixton &
** suos ex alPa parte, ab inicio mundi vsq. in banc diem feitis
"motis sive ppetratis." (Chesh. Recog. Rolls, 13 & 14 Hen. VI.
m. 6. R. O.)
Unfortunately, I can find no record of the origin of the dispute
nor of its ending. Perhaps Thomas Caryngton set the example
to William PuUe and forcibly carried off Ellen Mascy. I am
inclined to suppose that the quarrel ended amicably, and suggest
that Thomas married Ellen Mascy, for in 1454 we find him acting
as a witness to a Mascy deed, which rather points to a relation-
ship. (W. 51.) Numerous recognizances were entered into by
various members of well-known Cheshire and Lancashire families,
during the years 1434 and 1435, ^^ account of the Mascy and
Caryngton feud. Amongst those who sided with the Mascys we
find Sir Geoffrey de Werburton, Knt , Thomas Legh of Baguley,.
John de Leycester, Randal Swetenham of Rycroft, John le Mayn-
waryng, John de Davenport, John de Harv/ardyne of Chester,
William son of William Hawardyne, George Boudon of Boudon,
Henry and Adam de Atherton, John Huyde, and many others.
As partisans of the Carringtons, Sir William de Stanley, John
Button of Button, Robert Grosvenor, several Caryngtons, Thomas
Bold, John Savage, junior, Ector de Ince, and others appear.
( App, II, part 2, 3ph Rep. Dep. Keeper P, R. )
V. Hamon, son and heir of William Mascy, married in 1438
Janet or Johanne, daughter of Sir Robert Bothe of Bunham
Massey, Knt, the marriage contract, already quoted, being dated
5th February, 1438. (W. 47.)
On 20th May, 1451, William, Bishop of Coventry and Lich-
field, gave license to his dear son in Christ, Hamon le Mascy,
Esquire, and Johanne his wife, for Mass and Bivine office to be
celebrated in their Chapel Oratory within their manor of Rixton,
— 1462] Hamon le Mascy, 83
the same being situated in the said diocese. (R. 102.) This
proves that at this date Hamon had succeeded his father in the
family estates.
The 4th November, 31 Henry VI {1452), Richard, son of
Hamon Mascy, John Leycester, John Holcroft, and Thomas
Mascy, parson of Warrington Church, released to Hamon Mascy
of Rixton and his heirs, all the manors, messuages, &c., in the
counties of Lancaster and Chester, which they held of the feoff-
ment of William Mascy of Rixton ; Richard and Thomas Mascy
being uncles to young Hamon. (R. 95.)
Hamon forthwith proceeded to re-settle his estates on 22nd May,
31- Henry VI (1453), granting to Nicholas Birom, Robert Legh
of Adlington, senior, James Skarisbrek, William Bothe, son of
Sir Robert Bothe, Knt., John Chauntrell, Master John Bothe,
Geoffrey Bothe, and Hamon Bothe, his manors and messuages,
lands, &c., in the town of Hertford, co. Chester, also the manor
of Horton in the same county : Witnesses to the deed being
John Harford and Geoffrey Mascy, Knts. ; Thomas Sutton, John
Denne, John Dokenfeld, Thomas Caryngton, Thomas Duncalf,
John Worth and Aluered Radcliff. The deed is sealed with the
crossed cups. (W. 51.) Two days afterwards Hamon granted his
Lancashire manors and lands to Sir Robert Bothe, Knt. ; Thomas
Mascy, Parson of Warrington ; William Bothe, son of Sir Robert \
Richard Mascy, brother of the said Thomas ; John Holcroft,
Master John Bothe, John Urmeston, Vicar of Bowdon ; and
James Hall, Vicar of Legh : the witnesses being Sir John Botiler,
Sir John Honford, Sir Geoffrey Massy, Knts. ; Thomas Sutton,
John Troutbec, Robert Legh of Adlington, Peter Werberton,
Peter Legh, and Thomas Bothe of Barton, Esqrs. (R. 103.)
In August, 1453, Richard Norman, prior of the monastery of
Birkenhead, of the order of St. Benedict, on behalf of the
Religious of the house, granted to Thomas Massy, Rector of the
Church of Warrington, Hamon Massy of Rixton, Richard Massy
of Rixton, and George Massy of Rixton, a Lease of the lands
and tenements, rents and services, with tithe of sheaf, which the
convent held in the parish of Bowdon, also all that appertains to
Gt 2
84 The Moseys of Rixton, [1448 —
the same in Bowdon, Dunham, Partington, Caryngton, Tymperley,
Altryncham, Asshelegh, Hale, and the mediety of the towns of
Bolington, Akdon (Acton), and Assheton, and two parts of the
town of Bagulegh. To be held for thirty years ; paying to the
convent ;^4o yearly, namely, at Michaelmas ten marks in silver,
at Martinmas twenty marks, at Easter ten, and at Midsummer
twenty ; also in alms to the rector of Bowdon Church seventeen
shillings of silver yearly at Midsummer. Hamon Mascy was
further, during the term of his Lease, to keep in repair the chancel
of Bowdon Church, and the tithe barn of Hale. What remains
of the seal attached to this lease is of red wax, displaying on a
diapered ground a figure in a long gown, with a staff in his right
hand ; a wallet hangs at his left side dependent from a strap which
passes over the right shoulder. His left hand holds a clasped
book. Upon his head is a wide-brimmed round crowned hat,
fiom which hang down strings or lappets. (W. 51.) The atti-
tude and dress are similar to the figure displayed in the sketch of
Birkenhead Priory seal, 14 Rich. II, in the HarL MSS, 2074, and
is doubtless meant for St. James, the patron saint of the priory.
On the 27th September, 1461, at the request of Hamon Mascy
of Rixton, Thomas Mascy, Parson of Warrington, Richard
Mascy his brother, and John Urmeston, Rector of Bowden,
retired from the trusteeship held by them, in virtue of the deed
of 24th May, 31 Henry VI, releasing to the remaining trustees,
namely, Master John Bothe, Sir William Bothe, Knt, and James
Hall, clerk (Sir Robert Bothe, Knt., being dead), their title to the
property (R. 108) : and the next day an Indenture is executed
between Hamon and his existing trustees, declaring that as
" Master John Bothe and Sir William Bothe, Knt., are brether of
"Johanna wyfe of the said Hamond,'* and "considering they
" stode so negh to the sayd Johanna to performe the entent of
" the saide Hamond and Johanna, which is this," that the -,
Trustees shall suffer Johanna to take the profits of all the said
manors, messuages, &c., for twelve years after the decease of
Hamon, " for to marye and helpe the childere begeten and to be
" geten betweene the sayd Hamonde and Johanna and for to
\
— 1462] Hamon le Moseys Will. 86
" fynde Prestes by the discrecion of the sayd Johanna and her
" brether and the said James (Hall) to do divine services for the
** saule of the sayd Hamond and hys ancestres and for the good
** prosperiti and sauls weele of the sayd Johanna and for the
** sayd childeres and for all christen saules. And parte of the
" sayd profettes to the use of the sayd Johanna above her
" dower and estates made to her or to other persons for her use
** afore this tyme, by the discrecion of the sayd Master John,
** Sir William, and James, and to paye the dettes of the sayd
" Hamonde and for to hold uppe suffiently the sayd manors,
" messuages, lands and tenements, and for to marie and dig for
** the increase of the sayd premises during the sayd twelve years
**or longer if necessar." (R. 109.) In September, 1461, the
trustees demised to Hamon all these manors, &c., in Lancashire
and Cheshire, "ad voluntatem nostrum " (R. 107 & W. 58).
Hamon Mascy made his Will the 9th April, 1462, leaving his
body to be buried in the Parish Church of Warrington — doubtless
in the Rixton Chapel. The Rector of Warrington was to have
the best beast for mortuary ; Twelve pounds of wax were to be
burnt, and thirteen shillings and fourpence distributed in
oblations the day of his burial ; To a fitting chaplain, seven marks
were to be given, that he might say masses for the soul of
Hamon and for the souls of all faithful departed, in the chapel at
Rixton for the space of a whole year ; To his wife Johanna,
Hamon leaves the Lease of land and tithe in Bowden, held of
the Priory of Birkenhead, which Richard Norman the late prior
had granted him for a term of years ; The residue of his goods
he leaves to his wife Johanna for the benefit of his children,
constituting her and James Hall, Rector of Northerden, William
Mascy his son, and George Mascy, executors of his will; with
Master John Bothe and Sir William Bothe, Knt. supervisors.
Administration was granted 26th April, 1462 (R. no).
Hamon had by his wife Johanna, Hamon, who succeeded to
the property, William, and John. Also five daughters, viz.,
Alison, Maude and Janet (or Joan), all unmarried m 1464^
Margery and Pernel.
86 The Mascys of Rixton, [1448—
William Mascy, the second son, is named as executor to his
father's will in 1462, though he must have been very young at
the time. He was under the age of sixteen in January, 1464-5,
as it was then agreed that his mother was to have charge of him
and his brother John, with their portions, until they should
arrive at the age of sixteen years. (R. 116.)
On the I St August, 4 Edward IV (1465), Master John Bothe,
clerk, and the two other trustees, demised to William, the
son of Hamon Mascy, the messuages, lands, &c., with housebote
and haybote in the several tenures of Thomas Mulyngton, John
Clerk, senior, and Hugh Clare in Rixton, and a messuage, &c.,
let to Oliver Hurdesfeld, "super le Greene," in Rixton; To be
held by William Mascy for life, on the " condition that if he or
"any feoffee to his use, have by purchase or any other gift,
" other lands or tenements either in fee tail or fee simple to
"the yearly value of 12 marks, over all charges and reprisals,
" that on this promotion the estate or demise now made shall be
** void and cease " Remainder of the lands to Hamon Mascy,
son and heir of Hamon Mascy the father. Witnesses to the
deed being John Chauntrell, John Holcroft, Richard Bruche,
Hamon Assheley and Henry Hesketh. (R. 117.) The same day
William gives a letter of attorney to receive seisin of the same.
(R. 118.)
William Mascy became a priest, and as such, in 1497, his
brother Hamon settled upon him an annuity of ^£10 a year
(R, 141). From his being mentioned before his brother John in
the settlement of the family disputes in 1465, and also being
named executor to his falher^s will, it is probable that he was the
second son, although John, his brother, succeeded to the Rixton
manors, &c., which William, being a priest, would not do. I
have been unable to discover the date of his death or where he
officiated. Of John Mascy, the third son, who became " of
Rixton, '■ we must treat more fully hereafter.
In January, N^ Edward IV, three of the daughters of Hamon
and Johanna Mai^cy are named as unmarried, namely Alison,
Maude, and Janet ; for whom it was agreed that their mother
\
— 1462] Hamon Mascy's Daughters. 87
should have certain rents, " to mari and fynde competently unto
"such t5niie as they be mariet." (R. 116.) Of these three, the
only one I can trace is Janet or Joan, who married John Dom-
ville senior of Lymme, who was living 13th March, 1460. The
Domville pedigree in Ormerod's Cheshire does not record the
Christian name of Joan Mascy's father,^ but from the fact that we
find John Domville a witness to Mascy deeds in 1476 and 1487
(W. 60 and R. 134), and that Hamon Mascy had "a daughter
nan>ed Joan or Janet, we may safely suppose John Domville's
wife to have been this daughter.
John, son of Gilbert Culcheth, is stated to have married Pernel,
daughter of Hamon Mascy, in 1462, and he dying in 1476, she
married Robert Kirkham [Afr. Ry lands' Pedigree of Culcheth).
Mr. Beamont states that her second husband was Robert Rixton.
John Culcheth was a witness to a Mascy deed 14th November,
16 Edward IV. (R. 127.)
Margery, the wife of Henry, son and heir apparent of Richard
Risley of Risley, in a deed of 3 Edward IV, is described as
daughter of Hamon Mascy of Rixton.
Johanna Mascy^ Hamon's widow, outUved her husband some
years ; and the rental of the various farms and lands assigned to
her for dower on ist November, 1462, amounted to jQii \^s. ^d.
in Rixton, with eighteen shillings and eleven pence from the
" Pele de Thorlemore " with land in Altrincham, making a total
of ;£i2 12^. 4//., and averages amounting to jQi ^s. $d. (R. 86);
which premises John Bothe and the other trustees demised to
her the same day for her life. The witnesses to the deed being
John Chauntrell, Robert Leycester, John Holcroft, John Fyton
de Pennall, and George Mascy. (R. in.)
Whether Hamon Mascy the son and heir was not satisfied with
the allotments made by the trustees to his mother, or whether on
account of his marriage it was necessary to have his rights firmly
defined, on the 6th January, 4 Edward IV, Sir William Bothe,
Knt., John Chauntrell, Esq., and Hugh Gartside, made an Award,
by which, (after reciting that there had been " varience discords
** and debate " between Johanna late wife of Hamond Mascy
88 The Mascys of Rixton. [1448—
sometime of Rixton, " squire," and William and John sons of
the said Hamond, with Hamond Mascy son and heir of the said
Hamond the father,) Johanna was to enjoy for her life all the
messuages, lands, &c., which Hamond the father, (or feoffees to
his use) were seized of at the time of his death in the towns of
Pynyngton, co. Lancaster; in Hertford, Horton, Hale, Altryncham,
with lands called the Burghes, and lands in Comberbach and
Whitley, co. Chester ; but she was to allow Hamond the son
peaceably to enjoy all the other lands and tenements, &c., of
which Hamond the father (or feoffees to the use of him or
Johanna his wife) were seized, at the time of his death, excepting
those lands above awarded to her, except also certain lands, &c.,
in Rixton to the yearly value of 1 2 marks, in which William and
John, or their trustees, have an estate for the terms of their lives.
These last named premises Hamond the son was to permit his
brothers William and John to enjoy \ Johanna their mother,
or her assignee, having " the rewle and governance of the said
" William and John sonnes of the s^ Hamond the fadre and of
** the s*^ lands and tenements to the yearly value of 12 marks
" with their appurtenances, with the rents and all other proffettes
" to be receyved of the same unto the tyme that the said
" William and John " come to the age of sixteen years. Then,
referring to the demise of these lands to William and John
(ist August, 4 Edward IV) it was awarded that if either of them
die, or is *' promoted " to other estates, Johanna is to have for
her life 4 marks out of the lands named. Johanna was further
to be allowed to enjoy all the " goods, cornes, and catell, which
" the said Johanna or any other person hath to her use, in the
'* town of Rixton or elsewhere unto Michaelmas," provided she
removes the same before Easter following. She or her assigns
were " peasible to receyve and enjoye at her liberty all such
" money and every parcell thereof, of which the dayes of pay-
" ments be comen, or for to come, as is oghing for the marriage
** of the said Hamond the son, and sewertie founde to the saide
** Johanna for the same, without any impediment, distorbance,
" or lettyng of the s^ Hamond the son." *' For whiche summe
— 1462] Haman U Mascy, 89
" of money so to be receyved, we deme, ordeigne, and awarde to
"the saide Johanna to marie and fynd compitently Alison,
" Mawde, and Janet, doghters of the s** Hamond the fadre unto
" suche tyme as they be mariet and to fynde the s** William and
" John, sonnes of the same Hamond the fadre unto such tyme as
"they shall have their owen lyvelode afore reherced." An
annuity of thirteen shillings and fourpence a year, granted to
Thomas Duncalf by the feoffees of Hamond the father, is to be
paid in equal portions by Hamond the son, and by Johanna.
Johanna was also to enjoy "all fermes and every parcell of
" thaym '' which Hamond the father died seized of in the parish
of Bowdon. (R. 116.) Under this award Johanna appears to
have done well, so she could afford, on account of " love and
"affection," in August, 6 Edward IV (1467), to assign to her son
Hamond the lease which the Prior of Birkenhead had, in 1452,
granted to her husband of the farmes and tithes in Bowdon, &c.,
and which he, by his will, had left to her. The seal on this
assignment bears, within a circle, a stumpy covered cup, between
the letters **j." and " m." (W. 59.)
I do not know if she can have lived until 1497, but a fragment
of paper is preserved, dated at Halton, 22 nd October, 12 Henry
VII, which runs — " As touchyng a relef demanded of Hamlet
" Mascy of Rixton for the land in Coggeshull, he saith that his
" father caused a feoffment to be made thereof to his wife for
" term of her life. And he will prove by suffycyent record or
"the King's councell at Waryngton." (W. 77.)
I^amon \t iWascg. 1462.
VI. Hamon, the son and heir of Hamon Mascy of Rixton,
esquire, succeeded his father in 1462, and was, as decided by the
award made 6th January, 4 Edward IV, to enjoy peaceably all
the Mascy manors and lands in Lancashire and Cheshire, except-
ing those adjudged for the use of his mother and brothers for
the term of iheir lives.
Hamon married, about 1464, Alice, the daughter of Sir John
Botiler of Bewsey, Knt. On 27th February, 3 Edward IV
90 TUke Moseys of Rixton, [1462 —
(1463-4), Master John Bothe, clerk, Sir William Bothe, Knt, and
James Hall, rector of Northerden (Hamon Mascy's feoffees)
granted to Alice, daughter of Sir John Botiler, Knt., the mes-
suages and lands, with appurtenances in the several tenures of
Hugh Knolles, Roger Yate, George Clare, Thomas Bold, John
Clare, Richard Hall, John Wright, and Roger Yate,* junior, in the
towns of Thelwall, co. Chester, and in Rixton, co. Lancaster,
with certain parcels of land and meadow, wood, &c., in Rixton,
called " Nerewood in Swalleslegh," " The 10 acre in Swalleslegh,"
**The Stramard," "The Brenderethe," "The Rede mede,"
" The three Parrokkes," and "West Crofc," containing 15^ acres,
and two closes called " North fields," containing 4-J^ acres. (These
named crofts or fields formed part of the demesne lands attached
to the capital messuage of Rixton Hall.) All which messuages
and lands Master John Bothe and the others had, inter alia, of
the feoffment of Hamon Mascy late of Rixton, Esq., deceased, and
which were valued, over all averages and reprisals, at jQi^* iis,
per annum : To. have and to hold to the said Alice for life, and
then to Hamon, the son of the aforesaid Hamon, and his heirs
for ever : Witnesses, John Holcroft, Richard Bryche, and Richard
and George Mascy. (R. 114.) This grant was evidently made
just before Hamon's marriage ; a further confirmation of this sup-
position being, that in the award of January, 1464-5, it was settled
that Johanna Mascy was to have any money that was owing for
the marriage of Hamon her son. The deed also proves that the
Christian name of the Botiler lady who married Hamon Mascy
of Rixton was Alice, and not Elizabeth, as is stated in the notes
to Lancashire Chantries and elsewhere. Hamon's wife is also
named as " Alice " in a deed of settlement made October 6th,
1497, and in the license for HoUynfare chapel in 1498.
In the Annals of the Lords of Warrington it is stated that Sir
John Botiler, who was born in 1402, married in 141 1 Isabella
Harrington, and died in 1430, left three daughters, Elizabeth,
Alice, and Ellen, also a son John, born after his sisters, March,
1439. This last John married, in T444, Margaret Gerard, and
— 1502] Lease from Birkenhead Priory. 91
had by her two sons and four daughters, Margaret, Jane, Isabella,
and Elizabeth. It is also stated that Elizabeth, the daughter of
the first Sir John, and also Elizabeth, the daughter of the second
Sir John Botiler, married a Hamon Mascy of Rixton, which is
doubtless erroneous, for it is proved by the Mascy deeds that
Alice was the name of young Hamon Mascy's wife, and the elder
Hamon died in 1463, leaving a widow named Johanna. The
question therefore is, to which generation did the Alice Botiler
belong? If she was the daughter of Sir John Botiler and Isa-
bella Harrington she could not, in 1464, have been aged less than
thirty-six years, (for her brother John, born after her, did not
come into the world till 1429,) and this would be an age rather
advanced for marriage in those days of juvenile betrothals. If,
however, she was the daughter of the second Sir John, who in
1414, being then eleven years of age, married Margaret Gerard,
she might have been born about 1449, and so have been of a
suitable age for intermarriage with the young squire of Rixton
in 1464.
The lease held of the Priory of Birkenhead, which Hamon*s
mother had in 1467 assigned to him, he appears to have sur-
rendered ; for on the Saturday after the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin, 7 Edward IV (1468), Thomas Raynford, the then Prior of
Birkenhead, grants to Hamon Mascy de Rixton, Oliver Smult,
clerk, Henry Lervet, and Nicholas Page, the lands, rents, tenements,
&c., and tithe of sheaf belonging to the Priory, in the parish of
Bowdon, and in Partington, Dunham, Caryngton, Tymperley,
Altryngham, Astheley, and Hale, the medieties of the towns of
Bolyngton, Acton, and Astheton, and two parts of Bagulegh, to
be held for thirty-nine years of the Priory, at a yearly rent of
;^4o, to be paid to the monastery, and sixteen shillings of silver
every midsummer to the Rector of Wylmeslow church. During
the tenancy Hanion was bound, as before, to repair and maintain
at his own cost the chancel of Bowdon church and the tithe-barn
of Hale. The seal attached to this lease is the same as on the
lease of 32 Henry VI, from Prior Richard Norman, but, though
92 The Moseys of Rixtm, [1469—
more damaged, it shows a portion of a canopy over the figure.
(W. 62.)
On the 1 2th March, 17 Edward IV, Sir John Hurste, Sir
William Harrington, Knts., John Holcroft and Thomas Hawar-
dyne, Esqrs., granted to Hamon Mascy of Rixton, Esq., George
Mascy, Edmund Latham, and James Hall, Rector of Northenden,
all their messuages and lands, &c., in Statham, under the town
of Lyme, co. Chester, which were John Hurst's, deceased.
(W. 63.) This feoffment was probably in trust for some one,
though who it might be does not appear.
In 1478 (i2th June, 17 Edward IV.), Hamon Mascy of
Rixton, Esqr. ; John (Bothe), Bishop of Oxford ; and James
Hall, Rector of Northenden, demised to John Chatherton, and to
George Chatherton his son, the manor called " The Pele '' and
its appurtenances, with the manor attached, called the " Pele of
" Thorlesmere,*' in Altrincham, co. Chester ; all which premises
were in the tenure of Christopher Hulme and Robert Joyce. To
be held of the chief lord of the fee, &c., rendering to the grantors
and their heirs a peppercorn yearly for the first five years, and
afterwards eighteen shillings of silver. Witnesses to the deed
being Peter Werberton, George Bothe, Hamonde Assheley,
esquires ; Richard Mascy and Nicholas Parker. (W. 64.)
James Hall, the Rector of Northenden, probably on account of
advancing age, on the 12th April, 1480, relinquished the Mascy
trust, granting to Sir Geoffrey Mascy, Knt., John Byrom, George
Bothe, Esquires, Ralph Penketh, and William Wigan, chaplain,
all the lands, manors, &c., which he and others with him were
enfeoffed of by Hamon Mascy of Rixton, now dead, in the
counties of Lancaster and Chester. The deed is witnessed by
Sir John Trafford, Sir William Haryngton, Knts., Peter Werburton,
Richard Rymington, and John Leycester, Esquires. (R. 130.)
On the 8th December, i Henry VII, Hamon Mascy of Rixton
was granted by Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, an annual
\ rent of ten marks for life out of the lordship of Assheforth in the
Pejce, CO. Derby. (W. 96.) Nothing in the grant explains why
this\ent-charge was given ; perhaps it was for some service
\
— 1502] Hanwn le Mascy. 98
rendered by Hamon to Ralph before the latter succeeded his
uncle in 1485 ; but Ralph Nevill having married Margaret, the
daughter of Sir Roger Bothe of Barton, was, through this union,
connected with the Mascys.
By an Indenture of 12th March, 1487, reciting a deed made
two days before, by which his brother Hamond had given him
for life certain lands and tenements in Rixton, John Mascy
agrees that his brother Hamon shall have all yearly averages and
services of the tenants, with all the ** mouraden dwellyng in and
" upon the said messuages and lands " during John's life, so long
as John receives the rents due out of the farms. (R. 132.)
In 1488 Hamon had a dispute with Piers Worthington as to
the title of some lands and tenements in Glasebrok, which disptte
was decided 21st September, 4 Henry VII, by an arbitrator,
Piers Orell, who declared that Worthington was, on receipt within
a certain time of J[^i ioj., to deliver to Hamon Mascy "a
** sufficient and lawful releshe" of all the messuages, &c., in
Glasebroke under dispute (R. 135 and W. 71); which release
was given 27th September, 1488. (R. 136.)
On the 6th October, 1497 (12 Henry VII), Hamon made an
Indenture of settlement, which recites that he had, the ist October,
12 Henry VII, enfeoffed Sir John Bothe of Barton, Knt., William
Bothe of Dunham Massey, Thomas Davenport of Henbury,
John Assheley, Thomas Hyde of Norbury, Esqs., WiUiam Tatton,
Gilbert Domeville, Henry Risley, Hamond Bruche, William
MynshuU, Vicar of Bowdon Church, Thomas Legh of High Legh,
and Roger Chapman, Parson of half the church of Lyme, of all
his manors and lands, &c , in the counties of Lancaster and Chester,
for certain uses, and then explains these uses. First, that the
feoffees should stand seized of premises to the yearly value of
forty marks, over all charges and reprisals (in such places as **I,
" Hamon fil. Hamon Mascy de Rixton," shall appoint), to the
use of Alice his wife for her life. The feoffees are further to be
seized of land and tenements " to the yearly value of V;^, over
-" all charges and reprisals, in places and parcels following, that
" is to say : a messuage and land in Glasebroke, now in the
94 The Mascys of Rixton, [1462 —
"holdyng of Edward Millyngton, to the yearly value of 20
" shillings ; a messuage and lands in the said town of Glassebrook,
" now in the holdyng of Henkyn Bothe, to the yearly value of
" twenty- six shillings and eight pence ; a messuage and lands in
" the town of Glassebroke, now in the holdyng of Robert Gierke,
" to the yearly value of thirteen shillings and four pence ; a mes-
** suag^ and lands in the town of Rixton, now in the holding of
" Nicholas Yate, of the yearly value of forty shillings, to this
" intent, that with the issues and profettes therof a honest prest
" and chapleyn may be founde and have salar therof to say masse
** and do devyne service in the Chapell of Holynfere Green, late
" by me edifiet, and to bye necessares yerely for the said chapell
" and ornaments therof, according to the ordenaunce of me the
" said Hamonde the son, therof in honour of God made. And
** also to performe all other ordinancez touchyng the said landes
" and tenementes to the yearly value of five pounds, and Chapell
" by me ordeigned and made. I also will that the lordes of
** Rixton have the services and averages of the tenants of this
" seid iiij messuages assigned to the said prest and Chapell."
Also whereas " I the said Hamonde the son, for the tranquilite
** of myn heirez and eschewyng of controversies that might ensue
** after my decese have, by the advise of Robert Chauntrell,
** Edmonde Bulkeley and William Tatton serched myn evidencez
" and fyflde that " the manor of Rixton and moiety of Glasebroke
were tailed by Fine upon and to Katherine, daughter of Alan
Rixton, and her heirs male, " which Katheryne took to husbande
" Sir Hamonde Mascy Knyght, of which Sir Hamonde and
** Katheryne I the said Hamonde son of Hamonde am
** lyneally comen and descendet as heir male." Wherefore
he settles the manor of Rixton, and moiety of the manor
of Glasebroke (except such lands as are to be charged with
the forty marks a ,year for his wife Alice's jointure, and for
the payment to the Chapel Priest of Holly nfere) for his own use
and his male heirs, and in failure to the use of his brother John
Mascy and his male heirs, remainder to the male heirs of Sir
Hamonde and Katherine. From his evidences he further finds
— 1502] Hamon le Mascy, 96
that his lands and tenements, &c., in Bowdon and Yarwode were
tailed upon his ancestors and their heirs general, and that his
lands, &c., in Altrincham, Thelwall, Hale, Cogesill, Over and
Nether Whitley, and Comberbach were given to William Mascy
of Rixton and to Pernel his wife for the term of their lives,
remainder to Hambn Mascy, son and heir of the same William
and Pernel and his male heirs, " whose heire male I the said
" Hamonde son of Hamonde am," with remainder to Hugh
another son of William and Pernel and his heirs male, with
remainder to Edward, another son of William and Pernel and
his heirs male. But as it is considered by himself, his kinsmen
and friends, that the lands in Bowdon and Yarwood, which are
tailed on the heirs general, would be more convenient for the
heirs male who have the manor of Rixton, and that the lands in
Thelwall, Coggeshull, Over and Nether Whitley and Comberbach
lie more conveniently for the heirs general, Hamonde settles the
lands in Bowdon, Hale, Altrincham, and Yarwood on himself
and his male heirs, remainder to his brother John and his male
heirs, while the land in Coggeshull, Over and Nether Whitley,
Thelwall and Comberbach are settled on himself and his right
heirs general, " which as yet be my doghters." Further, as from
his evidences he finds that his lands, &c., in Penyngton, co.
Lancaster, were given to Richard Werburton and Elizabeth his
wife for their lives, with remainder to Pernell their daughter and
her heirs general, and the lands in Horton and Hertford, co.
Chester, were tailed on his " ancestors and their heirs general of
old time, and no disturbance made to the contrary," he decides
that they shall so decend to his heirs general. The land he
purchased in Glasebroke, and the tenements he bought in
Warrington and Pulton are to pass after his death, without male
issue, to his brother John and his male heirs, provided that
neither John nor his heirs disturb the settlements and rents of
the premises set aside for the payment of the chaplain of
HoUynfere Green Chapel. Hamon further provides that his
feoffees are to grant by deed on his death ** to my brother William
" Mascy prest," an annual rent of ;^ 10 to be paid half-yearly, the
96 The Mascys of Rixton, [1462 —
first payment to commence at Midsummer or Martinmas, which-
ever feast should first occur after his death. (R. 141 and 151.)
This deed of settlement must be, I think, . the one quoted in
" Lancashire Chantries," from Sir Peter Leycester^s " Liber C,"
where it is erroneously called a Will. It would seem unnecessary
to make a Will securing an endowment to Hollynfer Green
Chapel, when that had already be«n done by Indenture.
The following is a list of the lands and tenements purchased
by Hamon : — In Warrington, premises in " Baglaune," lying
between those of Ralph Ryxton and those of the heirs of
Pasmyth, bought 4th April, 1483 (W. 65) ; and a messuage and
garden, bought a few days afterwards, let to Richard Ryder, lying
between a burgage house belonging to Thomas Botiler, Esq.,
on one side, and a messuage of Richard Bryche's on the other
(W. 66) ; in November, 2 Richard III, a parcel of land in HoUay,
let to Edward More and Richard Ryder, which lies between the
lands of Hugh Bryche and ** Downehouse meadow " on one
side, and the parish church lands on the other (W. 68) \ in 1489,
a tenement and close called " Dadfield," let to John Matthew,
and lying between Richard Wenington's land, also a headland
abutting on Warrington Heath on the one side, and the king's
highway on the other (W. 72); in June, 6 Henry VII, Hamon
purchased another messuage and garden in Warrington, lying
between the lands of Sir Thomas Botiler on the west, and lands
of Hugh Bruche on the east, also a headland abutting on the
" Kyrkstret," and one adjoining the lands of William Arrowsmith
(W. 73) ; and in June, 12 Henry VII, a parcel of land situated
between that of Sir Thomas Botiler and the " Heght feyldes "
near Dadfeld Cross. W. 76.) The whole of these premises
being bought from Henry Gernet xA Warrington.
In Glasebrook, Hamon purchased from Richard, the son, and
Agnes, the widow of William Robynson, all their premises in that
town in 1474. (R. 124 and R. 126.)
By deed dated 4th November, 16 Edward IV, Thomas Com-
berbach conveyed to Hamon Mascy all his part of the messuages
and lands which he lately had of the feoffment of Richard More
— 1502] HoUinfare ChapeL 97
and Cecilia his wife, in Glasebroke. John Culcheth, Humphrey
Mascy, and others, are witnesses to the deed. (R. 127.)
In January, 1483, John, son of Thomas Comberbach deceased,
sold all his premises in Glasebroke to Hamon Mascy. The
witnesses are Hugh Breche, Edmund Lathom, Richard Mascy,
John Shawe, and George Mottehewe (? Matthew). (R. 131.)
The Richard More who, with Cecilia his wife, granted these
last lands to Thomas Comberbache, was of Asheley, co. Chester ;
and thje messuages in question descended to Cecilia More on the
death of Margaret, wife of Adam Lyke. Thomas Comberbache
is described as son of Robert Comberbache of Bolynton. (R.
121.)
In June,' 1480, a messuage, which John Shawe held at will, in
Glasebroke, was granted to Hamon by John Sutton of Maccles-
field, CO. Chester, gent. (R. 129) ; and in July, 1492, the same
Sutton sells the premises in Fernehead, within the parish of
Warrington, which Hugh Breche holds of him for a term of
years. (W. 74.) The sum paid for these two last farms appears
to have been ;^45 6j. Zd. (R. 139), Alice, the widow of John
Sutton, in February, 1496, giving Mascy a full acquittance for
the same. In January, 1492, Hamon again became the purchaser
of a messuage and land in Glasebroke, one John Hatton, late of
Coventry, draper, being the vendor. (R. 137 and 138.)
Whether or not Hollinsfer Chapel was completed when Hamon
Mascy made the settlement in October, 1497, for its endow-
ment I cannot tell ; but on 4th September, 1498, Dr. John
Veysy gave license, dated at Manchester, to his beloved in
Christ, Hamlet Mascy, Esq., and Alice his wife, for mass and
Divine office to be celebrated in their chapel of Holynfer, within
the parish of Warrington in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry.
(R. 151 B.) According to Ormerod's Cheshire^ vol. i, p. 115,
New Ed., John Veysy was not admitted to the archdeaconry of
Chester until 27th August, 1499.
Ht
98 The Mascys of Rixton, [1463 —
In 1500, arrangements were entered into for the marriage of
John Mascy, the younger brother of Hamon. It was by inden-
ture dated 20th March, 15 Henry VII, agreed between Hamon
Mascy of Rixton, Esq., and Sir John Bothe of Barton, Knt.,
that " John Mascy, brother unto the said Hamon, shal be redy
" by the grace of God lawfully to take to wyfe and wedde Ann,
** doughter unto the seid Sir John Bothe, afore the fest of Seynt
" Margaret next ensuing the date of this indenture /' and that
Hamon will within twenty days after the wedding make, to certain
trustees, an estate in lands of the yearly value of 1 2 marks, for a
jointure for Anne, with remainder to John Mascy for life, and if
Hamon has no male issue, then to John Mascy's heirs male. It
is further agreed that if Hamon has any legitimate sons he under-
takes to settle an annuity of ;£^32 a year on Anne for her life.
The settlement of the 6th October, 1 2 Henry VII, is recited and
confirmed, by which on failure of Hamon *s male heirs the manor
of Rixton and moiety of Glasebroke with their appurtenances and
lands in Rixton, Glasebroke, Bowdon, Pulton, and Warrington,
are at Hamon's death to pass to his brother John, excepting
always the jointure for Alice, Hamon's wife, and the lands charged
with the endowment of ;^5 a year for Hollynfer Chapel, also a
rent charge of ;^io a year to William Mascy, priest, Hamon's
brother. On these conditions Sir John Bothe agrees to pay to
Hamon, on the wedding day of John Mascy and Anne Bothe,
20 marks. The witnesses to this indenture are Sir Thomas
Assheton, Sir John Werburton, Knts., Richard Radcliff of Radcliff,
Robert Werkesley of the Bothe, and Robert Langley. (R. 142.)
Hamon Mascy died about 1502 : whether Alice his wife sur-
vived him or not I have been unable to discover. Hamon left
no sons, but two daughters and co-heirs; namely, Margaret,
married to John Holcroft, to whom she is stated by Ormerod
and Baines to have conveyed the manors of Horton and Hert-
ford ; and Alice, who married Robert Werkesley or Worsley of
Bothe, CO. Lancaster. {Flower's Visit, of Lanc,^ 1567.) The
marriage probably took place before 1500, as Robert Werkesley
was one of the witnesses to the agreement on John Mascy's
— 1502] John Mascy. 99
marriage, just cited. This Alice probably had for her portion land
in Pennington, Horton, Hertford, and Bowden; for we find Robert
Worsley (her son) suffering a recovery of premises in these towns
in 1547. (Ormerod's Cheshire^ vol. ii, p. 198.)
Mr. Beamont, in his " Mascy of Rixton " pedigree (in the
Warrington Museum), assigns to this Hamon Mascy two other
daughters, namely Katherine and Margery. Katherine is given
as wife to William Hyde of Hyde. I can find no trace of such
an alliance amongst the deeds of this period. Thomas Hyde
of Norbury was one of the feoffees of Hamon Mascy, in 1497,
but he was related to the family, being grandson to the
John Hyde of Norbury (who died in 1460), having married
for his first wife Matilda, daughter of Hamon Mascy of Rixton
by Ellen Horton. Margery is stated to have married Henry,
son and heir-apparent of Richard Risley, and, in 3 Edward iV,
to have described herself as such, and daughter of Hamon
Mascy of Rixton. This match belongs to the previous
generation. It is scarcely possible for a man who only married
in 1464 to have had a daughter, already a wife, the same year.
Neither could she have been by a former marriage, as Hamon's
parents, Hamon and Johanna, were not married until after
February, 1438.
ffofin i^asts^ 1502.
VII. — ^JOHN Mascy, the third son of '* Hamon the father,"
succeeded his brother Hamon in the family estates, paying to his
superior lord. Sir Thomas Botiler of Bewsey, Knt., the 7th March,
1502 (17 Henry VII,) twenty shillings and ten pence for his relief
of his manor of Rixton, and doing homage to Sir Thomas at
Holynfer, the 20th year of Henry VII, before Sir John Bothe,
Knt., Matthew Snede, and Thomas Hawarden and others.
(Homage Roll of Warrington,)
On 25th September, 23 Henry VII, Sir John Bothe, Knt.,
acknowledges and gives acquittance for the sum of thirty-one
shillings, paid by John Mascy, brother and nearest heir of Hamon
Hf 2
100 The Mascys of Rixton. ['S^^ —
Mascy of Rixton, as relief for the lands which he holds of the
Crown in Coggeshull and Whitley, under the manor of Whitley,
within the Halton fee. (W. 88.)
John Mascy appears to have refused to be dubbed a Knight, for
on 17th January, 20 Henry VII, Thomas Hoblis, clerk, gave a
receipt to John Mascy of the county of Lancaster, Esq., for five
marks, being the part payment of his fine to the King for pardon
to be released from ** thorder of Knighthood of the Bathe at the
" creacon of my lord prince Henr" ; and on 26th January in the
following year, on payment of a further five marks, he received a
full acquittance of the fine. (R. 146 & 146 b.) Another memo-
randum of fines shows that at Trinity Term, 2 Henry VIII, John
Mascy de Rixton, Esq., was again made to pay for his unwilling-
ness to receive knighthood : the sum his refusal cost him being
53J. 4//. (R. 145.)
John Mascy added to his property by purchasing from William
Gemet of Warrington, in December, 3 Henry VIII, a mediety
of one acre of land in Warrington, lying between Sir Thomas
Boteler's lands on one side and touching " the Merce" on the
other side. (W. 93.) He also bought, the next year, from James
Johnson, late of Rixton, (son of John Gynkynson, sometime of
Bowdon), premises in Glasebroke, which had belonged to John
Gynkynson. (R. 147, &c.)
John acted as trustee, with Thomas Leycester de Nether Tabley,
Thomas Legh de High Legh, Thomas Hawardyne de Wolston,
Gilbert Domvile de Lyme, Simon Byrome, and Laurence Langton,
chaplain, for Gilbert Mascy, son of John Mascy late of Warring-
ton, on the 7ih December, 15 10, (W. 89-90 and R. 144,) which
Gilbert describes himself as "chaplain," and is evidently the
same person who, on 30th September, i Henry VIII, paid to Sir
Thomas Boteler 105. relief of his lands in Warrington. Gilbert
was doubtless a connection of the Rixton family, though how
does not appear. I am inclined to suppose he was grandson of
the Richard Mascy who in 1432 married Alice, widow of Sir
Ralph Langton. There is no deed to explain the uses of his
feoffment of 15 10.
— 15 13] John Mascy at Flodden, 101
We find John Mascy of Rixton amongst the Commissioners
appointed, 3 Henry VIII, to collect the subsidy in Lancashire.
(Rot. Pari., vol. vi. p. 40.) . He also seems to have joined with
the many Lancashire knights and gentlemen who obeyed the call
to defend their country from the ravages of the Scotch king, and
was possibly amongst those
" The lusty Stanley stout did lead,
*' Strong of heart ;
'* Brought up from babes with beef and bread,
" From Warton unto Warrington."
But like his father-in-law. Sir John Bothe, John Mascy fell on
Flodden Field, or as it is called in his Inquisition post mortem,
at the battle of *' Branxton Moor," on the 9th September,
5 Henry VIII (15 13). The Inquisition after his death was not
taken until the 2nd September, 10 Henry VIII, when it was
found that, at his death in 15 13, his heir was his son William,
aged then nine years. He died seized of the manors of Rixton
and Glasebroke, and land in those two places as well as in Pen-
yngton, Warrington, and Pulton, co. Lancaster. (Inq.p.m.
Duch. Lane., vol. v., 10 Henry VIII, No. 9.) He also held land
in Cheshire. John was, as we have seen, under the age of sixteen
years in 1465, and he married in June, 1500, Anne, daughter
of Sir John Bothe of Barton, Knt. (R. 142) by whom he had
issue four sons, namely, William, Hamlet, James, and Richard.
Anne, his widow, married, before 1526, Thomas Starkey, of
Stretton, co. Chester, Esq.
On the 15th March, 17 Henry VIII, Sir Alexander Radcliff,
Knt., Edward Molyneux, clerk, Thurstan Tyldsley, Roger
Bradshagh, and Thomas Gerard, Esquires, acted as arbitrators
between William Mascy of Rixton, co. Lancaster, Esqr. (son
and heir of John Mascy deceased), and his mother Anne, with
Thomas Starky his step-father, as to the thirds and dower due to
Anne as widow of John Mascy, and they decided that the
Starkys were to " suffer such things for the determynation and
" extynguishment of all such right, title or interest of Dower or
" thirds," as they had in right of Anne in the lands that were
102 The Moseys of Rixton. [1502—
John Mascy's in Lancashire and Cheshire. William Mascy was
on his part to secure an annuity of jQ^» 6s, Sd. to Anne for life, in
recompense of her thirds and dower. (R. 152.) The terms of
the arbitrations were agreed to, and on ist May in the same year
(17 Henry VIII) the two Starkys released the dower, &c.
(R. 154.)
Hamon or Hamnet Mascy, second son of John, is named in
the will of his brother William in 1538, and is said to have
married Alice Kuerdale. James Mascy, the third son of
John is also named in his brother's will, 1538, and married
Anne, daughter of John Cheyny of Wisterton, co. Chester, gent.
{J^lawer's Visit, of Lane, ^ 1567.) This James founded the family
of Mascy of Carlton, who entered their arms at Flower's
Visitation of Lancashire in 1567, as Quarterly: i. Quarterly
guks and argent^ in the second quarter a mullet sable [Mascy] ;
2, Argent^ on a bend sable three covered cups of the field [Rixton] ;
3, Vert^ three falcons^ argent [Pennington] ; 4, Argent^ a squirrel
erects gules [Horton] ; In fess point, a crescent. (Vol. 81, Chet,
Soc, p. 56). These arms vary in the marshalling of the quarters,
and in the third quarter, with the arms entered by the Mascys
of Rixton, at Benalt's Visitation in 1533.
James Mascy, who was living in 1567, had by his wife Anne
three children, George Mascy, son and heir in 1567, Alice
Mascy, who became the wife of John Butler of Kirkland, co.
Lancaster, gent., before 1567, and John Mascy, the second son,
who was of Lay ton, co. Lancaster, and as such is named in
the marriage settlement of Hamlet Mascy of Rixton, with
Dorothy Bradshagh, in 1615. (R. 174.) He married Ellen, only
daughter of Thomas and Alice Singleton of Stayninge, Esq., and
died 30th October, 161 8, leaving two daughters and coheirs, viz.,
Ellyn, wife of Edward Veale of Meathorp, co. Lancaster, and
Alice, wife of Thomas Bamber of Poulton, co. Lancaster {St,
George's Visit, of Lane, ^ 1613).
John's other son, Richard Mascy, was named in his brother
William's will, 1538, but I have found no further record of
him.
— 15 1 3] William Mascy. 108
asatUtaw iWascg. 1513-
VIII. William Mascy, son and heir of John, born 1504,
being aged nine years when his father was killed at Flodden
field in September, 15 13. He was in ward to Sir Thomas
Boteler, lord of Warrington, the 6th October, 1523 {Annals of
the Lords of Warrington^ p. 431).
On 24th April, 15^27, John Assheley released to William, son
and heir of John Mascy, late of Rixton, four messuages in
Rixton in the several tenures of Ralph Caldwell, Richard Abbot,
John Partington and John Yate, with two messuages in Glase-
broke let to Pernel Hasilhurst and Alice Ashton, which were
amongst the premises granted to John Assheley of Assheley, co.
Chester, Sir John Bothe, &c., in 12 Henry VII, by Hamon
Mascy, uncle to the said William (R. 153) but there is no deed
to explain the release.
William must have been married before this date, as his eldest
son and heir was born in December, 1525. William's wife was
Anne, daughter of Richard Aston of Aston, near Runcorn ; Sir
Peter Leycester giving the date of their marriage as 10 Henry
Vin(i5i9).
In March, 18 Henry VIII, William Mascy and John Assheley
grant to Humphrey Barlow of Barton, a lease for eighty years
(the term to commence after the death of George Clarke and
Letys his wife), of the messuage held by the Clerkes " in the
" tunshyp of Glasebruke," paying a yearly rent for the same to
Sir Laurence Langshawe, priest, at the Chapel of the Holynfare,
and to his successors, of 13^. 4^., "also the average as hath been
" accustomed." Humphrey is bound by the lease to ** well and
" sufficiently reparell and uphold " the messuage and buildings
during the period of his tenancy. (R. 155.) This lease adds another
name to the list of Holynfer Chapel priests in Warrington
Church Notes, Laurence Langshawe was seemingly the im-
mediate predecessor of Randle Woodward, the lease being made
just before the agreement was entered into by William M3S(.y
and John Assheley, with Richard Warburton, the 19th May,
104 The Afascys of Eixton, [^S^S —
1 8 Henry VIII, as to the next presentation to Holynfer Chapel
being given to Woodward ( Warrington Ck. Notes, p. 206).
On 1 2th April, 29 Henry VIII, William Mascy enfeoffed
John Aston, son and heir apparent of Thomas Aston, Esq., and
William Mascy, chaplain, of four messuages in Glasebroke, let
severally to John Gatcliff, John Clare, Petronilla Shaw, widow,
and Gilbert Fynche, also certain pasturage in Rixton called
** Barrowfield,'* and a part of the enclosure called " The farther
" Northfeld," for securing an annuity of 46J. 4^. to his son John
Mascy to take effect upon his (William's) death. (R. 167.)
The same day certain other premises in Rixton were granted to
the same trustees for an annuity to the same amount for
William's other son Thomas Mascy. (R. 157.)
William Mascy, at the requisition of Thurstan Tyldesley, Esq.,
and in compliance with certain covenants made between them
on 1 2th April, 29 Henry VIII, "for the marriage of Richard
" Massy, son and heir of the said William, with Anne, daughter
" of Thurstan Tildesley and now wife of the said Richard," by
his deed dated i6th April, 29 Henry VIII (1538), enfeoffs Thomas
Starkey of Stretton, Esq., William Radcliff, Esq., and James
Massy of Carlton, gent., of certain closes — amongst which appear
the names of those granted for the jointure of Alice Botiler in
1464 — and certain pastures in Rixton, to the yearly value of ;^i2,
to be held for the use of William Mascy during his life, and then
to the trustees for them to hold the same for seven years, for
raising of portions for William's two daughters, Anne and
Margaret, and after the seven years have expired to the use of
Anne, " now wife of Richard Massy " ; on her death the same to
revert to the said Richard Mascy and his heirs male, on failure of
whom to the heirs male of Hamon Mascy, his ancestor. (R. 158.)
The following day, also at Thurstan Tildesley's "request,"
William Mascy grants to the same trustees his capital messuage
in Rixton, called Rixton Hall, together with all his lands,
tenements, and hereditaments in Rixton, Glasebroke, Pulton,
Penyngton, and Warrington, co. Lancaster, and in Coggeshull,
Comberbach, Nether and Over Whitley, Thelwall, and Altrin-
—1538] Wiliiam Masc^s Will. 105
cham, CO. Chester, in settlement, after William's death, for the
use of Richard and Anne Mascy and their heirs male. (R. 159.)
William Mascy'awill is dated 18th May, 1538(30 Henry VIII),
and in it he leaves his body to be buried in the Rixton Chapel in
Warrington Church, and makes the follovving bequests to his
relations : A black garment to his son-in-law Thomas Ayston
(Aston) ; a stagge to his brother Hamnet Mascy ; a bay nag to
his brother James, and a gelding to his brother Richard ; to
the Chapel of Hollyn Green a calf, to maintain God*s service.
To his mother, Mrs. Starkey, he leaves a white gelding ; and a
heifer, to keep up the Chapel of Stretton. His son John Mascy
was to have a black ambling colt, and his other son Thomas his
sword. He also names his daughters Anne and Mergot. [Lane,
and Chesh. Wills^ Chet. Soc, vol. 11. pp. 201 and 202.) He died
the 19th day of May, 30 Henry VIII, the inquisition after his
death being taken 7th September, 32 Henry VIII, at which latter
date his son and heir Richard Mascy was declared to be aged
fifteen years and nine months. (/^. p- w. Duch, Lane, vol. viii.
32 Henry VIII, No. 17.) Besides dying seized of the manor of
Rixton, with lands there in Glasebroke, Pulton, Holyngrene, and
Warrington, he also held, under the king, land in Over Whitley
and Coggeshull. (W. 102 and 103.)
This William Mascy entered his arms at the Visitation of
Lancashire by Benalt in 1533 as, Quarterly^ firsts Argent^ on a
bend Sahle, three covered cups of the field ; second^ quarterly^ Gules
and Argent^ in the second quarter a mullet Sable ; thirds Argent^
three birds close Vert ; fourth^ Argent^ a squirrel sejant Gules y
holding a nut Or, (Chet, Soc, Pub, vol. ci.)
William Mascy had, besides his son and heir Richard, two sons,
Thomas and John, both of whom, as already shewn, had annuities
for life settled upon them, and who are also named in their
father's will.
John Mascy, in 1576, acted as guardian to his great nephew
Hamlet Aston of Glasebroke, being then described of Hollyns-
grene. (Duch, Lane, Plead,) He was still alive in 1588 ; as
William Mascy of Rixton, Esq., leased to one John Smith on the
106 The Moseys of Rixton. [151 3 —
9th of November, 30 Elizabeth, a messuage, cottage, and land in
Glasebroke, the rent of which he was to pay to the said William
" immediately after the death of John Mascie of Glasebroke,
"gent." {Rixton Leases^ No. 11.)
Mr. Beamont gives William another son named Hamlet, who
he states married Joan, daughter of William Bothe of Dunham
Massey, but no mention appears of this Hamlet, nor is such a
marriage recorded in the Bothe pedigrees. In the pedigree of
the Rixton Mascys, amongst the Dodsworth MSS. (vol. xxxix.
fol. 152), a like match is given, but as this Hamlet has issue —
Hamlet, William a priest, Anne, John, married to Anne, daughter
of Sir John Bothe of Barton, it becomes evident that the match
is intended for that between Hamon Mascy and Johanna, daughter
of Sir Robert Bothe of Dunham Massey, in 1438.
In Benalt's Visitation three daughters are accredited to William,
namely. Douce, Anne, and Margaret. Douce became the wife
of Thomas, son and heir of John Ashton of Penketh {Floiver
and St. Georgis Visits, of Lane. ^ 1567 and 1613). The marriage
must have taken place before 1538, as William Mascy names
"Thomas Ayston, my son-in-law," in his will. Some dispute
arose between the Ashtons and Mascys in later years, for,
in 18 Elizabeth, " Hamlet Ashton of Gray's Inn, son and heir of
" Hamlet Ashton of Glasebroke, co. Lancaster, deceased," com-
plained that, his father dying seized of certain premises in
Glasebroke, they should have descended to his son, the com-
plainant, but that certain deeds and writings relating to the same
coming into the possession of John Mascy of HoUingrent
(Hollingsgreen), co. Lancaster, gent., he by colour of the deeds
entered possession, and during the minority of the orator " has
" taken away marl to the quantity of six thousand loads."
Hamlet Ashton therefore prays the Court of Chancery that
John Mascy be made to produce the writings. {Duchy Plead. ^
vol. lix. a. 13, 18 Eliz.) In another bill of complaint of the
same date, he declares he is lawfully seized of a third part of the
— IS3S] William Mascy's Daughters. 107
manor and moss of Glasebroke and of Glasebioke waste, which
he and his ancestors had enjoyed in common with Richard
Mascye, lord of the other two parts. But now, Richard Mascye
perceiving that " your orator is young and unskilful and without
" friends *' ; Richard further " being a man of great wealth and
" greatly allyed there, and having gotten sundry evidences and
" writings into his possession, doth suborne and maintain all his
" tenants of another manor called Ryxton, to enter and put their
** cattle on the waste of Glasebroke, and hath also enclosed
" several portions of the waste.*' Ashton prays, therefore, that
John and Richard Mascye may appear at Westminster to make
answer. The bill is dated nth March, 1576. Richard Mascy
dying 21st July, 1579, answer is made to the bill, 28th January,
1586, by William Mascie, who for himself disclaims any right or
claim to Glasebroke or the wastes there, named in the bill,
excepting as guardian of his son Richard Mascie, who is about
thirteen years old, and states that his (William's) father Richard
Mascie was lawfully seized of the manor of Glasebroke and the
waste, and denies that Hamlet Ashton's father was seized of any
part of it. {Duchy Plead, vol. 95, a. 46.) I fancy the Ash tons
must have been able in the end to prove their right, as when
Richard Mascy in 1598 purchased from Ireland the manorial
rights of Glasebroke, there was a chief rent of six and eight
pence due from John, son and heir apparent of Hamlet Ashton,
late of Glasebroke, to the chief lord for his premises in Glase-
broke.
The other two daughters of WiUiam Mascy, Anne and Mergot,
or Margaret, had portions assured them by deed, dated r6th
April, 29 Henry VHI, (R. 158,) and were at the time of their
father's death both quite young. I have not discovered if they
married. Mr. Beamont gives William another daughter named
Jane, who he states married John Davenport of Davenport, but
by the Devonport pedigree in Ormerod's Cheshire^ this Jane
Mascy is said to be daughter and co-heir of Richard Mascy, a
)Ounger brother of Sir Geofirey Mascy of Tatton. No mention
of the Davenports occurs in any of the Mascy papers of this date.
108 The Moseys of Rixton, [iSS^ —
iHieiiattr iMascg* 1538.
IX. — Richard Mascy, son and heir of William, being aged
fifteen years and nine months at the taking of his father's
Inquisition post mortem in September, 1541, was therefore born in
December, 1525. He succeeded to the Rixton estates, having
married in childhood Anne, daughter of Thurstan Tildcsley of
Wordley, Esq. When Benalt made his Visitation of Lancashire
in 1533, the marriage had already taken place, as he states it in
his entry of the Rixton Mascy's pedigree, remarking that " the
"elder of them passeth not vii years." {Chetham Soc, Pub,,
vol. ci.)
In 1556 Richard Mascy set about the buying back of those
lands and farms with which his great-uncle, Hamon Mascy, had
endowed the chantry or chapel of Hollynfare, and which, at the
dissolution of the chantries, i Edward VI, had been confiscated
by the Crown. The indenture of purchase is dated 8th October,
2 and 3 Philip and Mary, by which **Sir Thomas Holcroft of
*• ValeryauU, co. Chester, Knt.", in consideration of £100 re-
ceived, agrees to sell and convey to Richard Mascy of Rixton,
Esq., *' all that the late chauntry foundet in the chapel of Hol-
" lynfare within the parish of Warrington," with all the lands,
tenements, &c., to the late chantry belonging, situate in Glase-
broke and Rixton, and let to Charles Spakeman, Hamnet Yate,
Thomas Yate, and George Clerke, " which chauntry and lands
** the said Sir Thomas had conveyed to him (amongst other
*' things) by the gift or grant of our Sovereign Ladye the Queen,
" by her graces Letters patent, bearing date Winchester 23 July
" in the 2d year of her reign." It is agreed that another ;^ioo
is to be paid by Richard Mascy when the lands have been finally
conveyed to him. (R. 160, 160 b, 161, and W. 100.) The Fine
of the sale is dated at Lancaster, Monday after the Assumption,
3 and 4 Philip and Mary, Richard Massye, Esq., plaintiff,
Thomas Holcroft, Knt., deforciant of four messuages, gardens,
and orchards, 60 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 6 of pasture,
20 of wood, and 40 of common and moor, with 100 acres of
— 1579] Richard Mascy, 109
moss and turbary, with appurtenances in Glasebroke and Rixton,
along with the chantry of Hollynfayre in the parish of Warrington.
(R. 162.) The licence of alienation from the Crown is dated
29th May, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, the seal to which is in splen-
did condition. (R. 163.) A lease, dated loth Dec, 2 Edward VI,
from the Duchy of Lancaster, shows that on the confiscation of
the chantries, HoUynfare and its lands of endowment were let to
Sir William Norreys, Knt., for 2 1 years, at ;^5 a year, to be paid
into the Duchy revenues. (R. i6o c.) I conclude he muist have
surrendered this lease, as no mention is made of its existence in
the deeds of conveyance and sale from Holcroft to Mascy. In
1560 and 1561, Richard paid four shillings as his fine for homage,
&c., to the Crown for the chantry of HoUynfare. (W. 10 1.) He
bound himself to Thomas Boteler, the feudal lord of Rixton, the
1 8th April, 1563, to pay 20 pence yearly for his homage and
fealty at Bewsey, at the close of Easter each year. (Homage
Roll of Warrington^ p. 38.)
Richard Mascy, by deed dated 19th December, 14 Elizabeth,
grants to William Liversage of Whilock, co. Chester, Esq., and
John Massie of Coddington, Esq., certain premises in W^arrington,
Pulton, Fernehead, Rixton, and Glasebroke, co. Lancaster, and
in Thelwall, co. Chester, of the yearly value of ;;^2o. os. o//., to be
held in trust for the use of " Dorothy Massie, daughter and heir
" of Peter Danyell, deceased, and now wife of William Massie,
^ son and heir apparent of the said Richard Massie," as was
specified and agreed on in a pair of indentures of the marriage
contract of the said William and Dorothy, made between Richard
Massie of the one part, and Thomas Danyell of Over Tabley,
CO. Chester, of the other, and dated 14th December, 14 Elizabeth.
(R. 164.) Dorothy Danyell was declared, at the death of her
father, Peter Danyell of Over Tabley, the 9th November, 1557,
to have been aged four years and three months (Ormerod^s
Cheshire^ vol. i. p. 473); and she was evidently under the guar-
dianship of her uncle, Thomas Danyell, who succeeded her
father in the possession of " The Hall of the Wood,'* in Over
Tabley.
110 The Moseys of Rixton. [1538—
A bill was filed in chancery, 25 Elizabeth, to perpetuate testimony
of a claim, in which William Mascy of Rixton, and Dorothy his
wife, the daughter and heir of Peter Danyell, late of Over Tabley,
CO. Chester, recite how Dorothy's late father was, by Letters
Patent dated loth April, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, granted the
capital messuage with appurtenances, called " The Hall of the
" Wood," situate in Over Tabley, co. Chester, to be held of the
king and queen, by knight's service "in capite;'* and Peter
Danyell dying so seized of the same, they ought to have descended
to the said Dorothy, his daughter, but that one Peter Danyell, son
and heir of Thomas Danyell, a younger brother of Peter Danyell,
deceased, " dothe wrongfully detain possession of the premises
" and to give colour to his unlawful and injurious dealings hath
" published that Peter Danyell, the father of Dorothy, made his
"last will and testament the 27th day of July, 1557, and by it
"bequeathed the premises to Peter Danyell junior and his heirs
" male ; whereas Dorothy and William say they are able to show
" the true will of Peter Danyell the senior, of the same date,
" written in his own hand, where there is no mention of such a
"demise." (W. 105.) It is feared that Dorothy was unable to
prove the will to be forged, and therefore did not obtain her
rights ; at any rate Peter Danyell, junior, and his descendants
continued to possess the debated estates.
Richard Mascy and William his son, on ist August, 1574,
granted to Edward Tildesley of Morleys, co. Lancaster, and to
William Starkye of Stretton, a rent charge of j[^^o a year, to
take effect on Richard's death, for securing portions of 100 marks
apiece to such of Richard Mascy's daughters as might remain
unmarried at their father's death. (R. 165.)
Richard Mascy died the 15th July, 21 Elizabeth, and by his
Inquisition post mortem taken at Wigan, co. Lancaster, the
9th October, 21 Elizabeth, it is declared that he died seized of
the Manor of Rixton with its appurtenances — 20 messuages,
2 cottages, I water mill, i windmill, 50 acres of land, 100 acres
of meadow, 300 acres of pasture, and 50 of moor, moss, and
— 1579] Richard Mascysinq, p, m. 111
turbary with appurtenances in Rixton ; the right of fishing in the
Mersey; also, 4 other messuages, gardens, and orchards, with
20 acres of land, 6 of meadow, 20 of pasture, and 20 of moor,
moss, and turbary, with appurtenances in Rixton and Glasebroke
once parcel of the Chantry of HoUynfare, lately dissolved. Also
the manor of Glasebroke with its appurtenances, 6 messuages,
4 cottages, 10 gardens, 50 acres of land, 20 of meadow, 50 of
pasture, and 100 of moor, moss, and turbary, with appurtenances
in Glasebrook. Of these, the messuages and gardens, &c., late
the possession of the Chantry of Hollynsfare are held of the
Queen by military service " in capite," and are valued at a clear
annual rent of xxx® ; the remainder of the premises being held
of Thomas Butler, Knt., by military service, and by a rent of
jQi 2s. i}4d,y and valued yearly at ;^xvj. He was also seized of
two burgages and two gardens, with appurtenances, in Warring-
ton, held of Sir Thomas Butler, Knt, by fealty, and valued at
eight shillings a year. In the margin of the Inquisition it is
noted that Richard Massie, being seized of all these lands, had
by a deed dated 17 th September, 20 Elizabeth, granted to Sir
William Bothe, Knt., and others, his manors and lands for the
use of the said Richard for his life, and, after his death, to the
use of Richard the son of William Massie, son and heir to the
said Richard, and to the male heirs of Richard Massie the
younger, and for default to the use of William Massie, son of the
said William Massie, and his male heirs, and for default to
Thurstan Massie^ Richard Massie, further, died seized of a
messuage and three acres of land, meadow, &c., in Fernehead,
held, with other land, of Thomas Langton, Esq., in socage, and
valued at eighteen shillings. (R. 169.)
Besides William, the son and heir, Richard Mascy had
Richard, the second son, living November, 161 5, when he is
named in the settlement made on his nephew William's marriage.
(R. 174.) He was the father of four sons, Thurstan, Richard,
Thomas, and Tildesley, all named in his will in 1632. Of these
four sons, in a settlement of March, 1642, Thurstan is described
112 The Mascys of Rixton, [^538 —
"of Southwarke, co. Surrey," and Thomas, "of Rixton."
(R. 185 B.)
In August, 8 James I, William Tatton of Withemshawe,
gave this Richard a lease of a farm at Etchells, co. Chester, for
the lives of his two sons Richard and Thurstan Mascy [Rixton
Leases^ No. 162), which lease was assigned in 1625 to William
Mascy, his nephew. (W. m.)
Thomas Mascy, this Richard's third son, became a yeoman,
holding farms in Rixton and Glasebroke of the head of his
family. In October, 1629, we find Richard Mascy, the then
lord of Rixton, leasing to his kinsman Thomas, for 21 years, a
certain messuage, &c., in Glasebroke, on payment of ;£'6o fine
and an annual rent of 20s, lod. (Rixton Leases^ No. 43.) And
the 20th October, 1641, a cottage in Rixton is let to him for the
lives of Thomas himself, of Anne his wife, and of Dorothy their
daughter. {Rixton Leases ^ No. 156.) He surrendered these
leases 23rd February, 1655, to Gilbert Ireland, who then held
the confiscated estates of " Squire '^ Mascy, and on payment of
;;^3o obtained a new lease of his premises for the same three
lives, and at a yearly rent of only Sj"., with the doing of "one
** day's weedinge of corne, one day's drawing turves, one day
" filling and hooking marles, two sufficient rent hens at St.
" Thomas the Apostle's * feast,' together with the shearing of one
" half acre of corne and setting up the same in riders of eight
" sheaves betwixt the number of thirteen and fifteen thraves of
**the said half acre." He was also to grind all his corn and
grain at Ireland's mill, appear and do suit at the court, &c.,
besides all the amercements, boons, services, &c., usually due
for the lands. {Rixton Leases y No. 142.)
The above-named Richard made his will the 27th of December,
1632, describing himself therein as "of Rixton, gentleman."
He directed that he was to be " buried at my Parish Church of
" Warrington in our auntient buriale (place) wheare my ancestors
" have been laide." He divides his goods into three equal parts,
one of which he leaves to his " now wyfe," Margaret Mascye ;
another part to his sons Richard, Thomas and Tildesley Mascy,
— 1579] Richard Masc^s Will, 113
" equally to be devided amongst them for their childe's portions."
The third part he reserves for himself, out of which his debts and
funeral expenses are to be paid, and " unto Thurstan Mascye my
** sonn the sum of Fortie shillings for a full satisfaction of his
" chyldes p' of goods in regard that the said Thurstan hath been
** a chargeable chyld unto me and hath putt me to more chardge
"than any other of my children are like to have for their
" portions." The residue of his own part of his goods was to
be divided between his wife Margaret and his son Richard. He
desires that whereas " theire is a bedsteed of myne within the
" Hall of Rixton in my nephewes chamber," it is to form part of
his goods to be divided. The will was proved in April, 1633.
{Chester Registry of Wills,) He was buriet^at Warrington, 17th
February, 1632-3.
The third son of Richard, ** the squire " of Rixton and Anne
Tildesley, was James Mascy, named in the settlement of
November, 1615. He entered Gray's Inn in 1587, and married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Singleton of Staining . (5/. Georges
Visit,^ 1 61 3), but left no issue. He was buried at Warrington,
29th January, 1628-9, being described in the Parish Register as
" gent and lawier."
Another son was John Mascy, named in the will of his sister
Dorothy Mascy in 1600, with his brothers Richard and James,
but no mention is made of him in the settlement of 161 5,
which leaves one to suppose he was then dead, and probably
he died childless, as the Rixton property was settled, on failure
of the male issue of William, Richard, and James, on John
Mascy of Lay ton, who was a cousin. Of daughters, Richard
Mascy had by Anne Tyldesley three, namely, Mary, Jane, and
Dorothy.
Mary Mascy married, before her father^s death, Robert, son
and heir of Robert Blundell of Ince Blundell. The bond from
Robert Blundell of Ince to Richard Mascy of Rixton, lo fulfil
articles of an indenture in regard to a marriage to be had between
Robert the son of Blundell and Mary the daughter of Mascy, is
amongst the Blundell family papers preserved at Ince Blundell,
it
114 The Mascys of Rixton, [^579 —
and is dated 30th day of August, . . . Elizabeth ; but the Rev.
T. E. Gibson, who, having carefully exanvined all the Ince
Blundell muniments, kindly affords me this information, notices
that, curiously enough, the year of the Queen's reign has beep
omitted, and no further deeds appear relating to the marriage.
As Robert Blundell, their heir, was, at St. George's Visitation
of Lancashire, declared to be aged forty years in 16 14 {Chet. Sec,
vol. Ixxxii. p. 77), we may conclude that the marriage of Mary
Mascy with Robert Blundell took place about the 15 th year of
Queen Elizabeth's reign. She was still living in 16 14. .
Jane Mascy, daughter of Richard, is, I conclude, the Jane
Mascy named in the will of her grandfather, Thurstan Tildesley,
in 1547, and she married, loth February, 5 Elizabeth (1563),
Hamlet, son and heir of Thomas Bruche of Bruche, co. Lan-
caster. On 6th February, 5 Elizabeth, Richard Mascy, in
consideration of this marriage, had undertaken to pay J[y2oo in
various stated sums to Thomas Bruche, but it appears by plead-
ings in Chancery that he failed to perform his part of the
contract, the executors of Thomas having to sue him for what
remained. (Duch, Lane. Plead,^ 5 Eliz., vol. xvi., V. No. i.)
Dorothy, Richard Mascy 's other daughter, died unmarried in
1605, making her will the 14th May, 1600. In it she names her
brother Richard Mascy, with his children Dorothy, Richard, and
Anne, also her brothers John and James Mascy, and her cousin
Thurstan Tildesley, with his children Edward, Thomas, and Anne
Tildesley. Her will was proved 23rd September, 1605 (Chester
Registry).
Richard Mascy's wife Anne (nee Tildesley) survived him some .
years, being alive ist August, 33 Elizabeth, when she joined with
her son William in the letting of a farm at Rixton. (Rixton
Leases, No. 121.)
X. William Mascy, son and heir of Richard, was born in
1552, being aged 27 years at the date of the taking of his father's
Inquisition post mortem^ the 9th October, 21 Elizabeth; and he
— iS9S] William Mascy. 116
married, as already mentioned (in 1572), Dorothy, daughter
and heiress of Peter Danyell of Over Tabley.
By an indenture, dated 1 5th January, 1 7 Elizabeth, he and his
wife assign to Richard Mascy (his father), and to Edward Tildesley
of " Morlet," co. Lancaster (his uncle), the jointure of ;;^2o
a year which had been settled upon Dorothy Danyell on her
marriage with the said William Mascy. The same jointure was
by this deed to be held by Richard and Edward during William's
life, on this condition, that " for the life of the said William,
" Richard Massye and Edward Tildesley are to well and suffi-
" ciently fynde and maintain the said William and Dorothy his
" wife, and also one man servant and one maid servant to attend
" and wait upon the said William and Dorothy ; with meat and
** drink, clothes and lodging at the now dwelling house of Richard
" Massye, or at the dwelling house of Edward Tildesley where he
" shall be conversant and abiding." (R. 167.) .
Livery, under the Great Seal, was granted to William Mascy,
gent., the i6th of May, 22 Elizabeth, of all the premises in
Lancashire of which his father, Richard Mascy of Rixton, Esq'.,
died seized held of the Crown. (R. 170.)
The parish church of Warrington was about this time being
restored and enlarged ; by which latter, it seems the Mascy
Chapel was encroached upon^ and some dispute engendered
between William Mascy and the parish of Warrington. Dr.
Leche, Chancellor of the Consistory Court of Chester, was, there-
fore, called upon to decide between the parties, and on the
1 2th April, 1586 (28 Elizabeth), he made the following award
" between Mr. William Massie and the Churchwardens of the
" Church of Warrington concerning a distance of place between
" the chapel of the said Mr. Massie and the said parish church."
" I doe injoyne the churche wardens toe build uppe the roume
"or place betweene the steeple and Mr. Massie his chappell
** upon the charges of the parish. And for that (as the said
" chappell is nowe altered from the frame or fisisshion of the oulde
It 2
116 The Mascys of Rixton, [i579 —
** buildinge) ihe saide buildinge by the parish toe be made cannot
" convenientlie and decently goe forwarde withoute some de-
" facinge either of the said churche or of the saide chappell
" except the saide parishe maie build upon the arches and piller
** of the said chappell. Therefore I do order that the saide
" parishioners shall give and allowe toe the saide Mr. Massie the
" smn of fyve poundes of lawfull money towardes the charges he
" hath been att in makinge the saide piller and arches. And that
** the saide Mr. Massie and his heires shall forever hereafter
** suffer and permitt the saide parish toe laie theire buildinge up
" of that saide rowme or place upon the saide arches and piller."
In case William Mascy or the parish will not agree to this
decision, they are to show cause, &c. " Moreover for that one
" William Shire freemason one of the workmen of the saide
'* chappell affirmeth that the saide arches are weake and flatte
" and not able to beare a greate waighte therefore the church-
" wardens be admonished that they overcharge not these twoe
*' arches with toe much waighte upon perill to re-edify and mak«
** uppe the same againe at the charges of the parishe." The
award being agreed to by the various parties concerned, Mr.
Mascy having received the said five pounds, ** agreed to permitt
'*the said parish to erect their buildinge upon the piller and
" arches aforesaide.'' The instrument of agreement being made
public, at the request of the parish, by ** Mr. Parson Hurward,"
and by Gilbert Taylor acting for Mr. Mascy, the 20th October,
1586, it being recorded in the presence of Edward Butler of
Bewsey, Esq., Thomas "Norris, gent., John Asshton, gent.,
" Simon Hurward, parson there," John Stopforth, one of the
churchwardens, and Gilbert Taylor, &c. (R. 171.)
From the wording of this Award one is led to conjecture
that the Mascys had lately made some alterations in, or rebuilt
their chapel, which seems confirmed by Sampson Erdeswicke
having a few years before (in 1572) called it " le Nova Capella."
It was doubtless when the alterations in the church at this time
were taking place that the crypt was filled up, as noticed in
Warrinpon Church Notes,
^^
— 1595] Richard Mascy. 117
In 1587, William Mascy, with Miles Gerard, was called upon
to furnish a demi-lance towards the armament of the country.
He died in 1595, having had by his wife, Dorothy D^nyell,
Richard (who succeeded him), William (a priest, named in
Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire^ 1664, and on whom the
Rixton estates were settled, in failure of his brother Richard's
male issue in 1578), and Thurstan (also named in the settlement
of 1578) ; but of neither can I learn more. There do not appear
to have been any daughters, or, if there were, they perhaps died
in infancy. Dorothy survived her husband some years, and had,
39 and 40 Elizabeth, some trouble to obtain a portion of her
jointure, having to sue certain tenants for unlawful possession of
premises in Rixton and Glasebroke and Fernehead. {Dttch, Cat.
of Pleadings^ vol. iii, p. 379)
Utrtiarir i«asfp. 1595-
XL — Richard Mascy succeeded to his father's estates in 1595,
and as he was aged 13 in 1586 (Duch. Pleadings^ vol. xcv. 46 a),
was born in 1573. He married (but in what year I cannot dis-
cover) Anne, daughter of Richard Middleton of Middleton Hall,
CO. Westmoreland. ( Du^dales Visitation^ 1664.)
In July, 1597, Edward Norris of Speke, Henry Stanley of
Bickerstath, and Richard Mascy of Rixton, Esquires, made an
agreement with Miles Gerard of Ince, Esq., concerning the fur-
nishing of one demi-lance " for her majesty's service in warres,"
by which the three agreed to pay J[^i2 to. Miles Gerard for their
three parts of the expense of this demi-lance. Gerard on his
part undertakes to find the said demi-lance's horse and his furni-
ture, viz., ** arrow complete, lance stafTe and cast of pistolles,
" sword, dagger, and girdle, demi-lance saddle, brydle, aud their
"furniture all new and serviceable, of the value of ^y loi."
He is also to keep in readiness " the demi-lance horse with a
" rider arrayed and well appointed," in case they are required.
It is further agreed that if the lance is called to serve in the
wars, then the three are to pay Miles Gerard ^£2 each for his
expenses, but if, after being called out, he is not required to go
118 T/t€ Moseys of Rixton, [^595 —
to the wars, then Gerard is to refund to each of them their £2,
(W. 106.)
The 14th April, 1598, Richard Massye was able, for the sum
of ;^5o paid to THomas Ireland of Bewsey, co. Lancaster, Esq.
(now his superior lord in place of the Butlers) to change the
tenure of his manors of Rixton and Glasebroke— which had
hitherto been held " of the manor of Warrington by Knight's
" service, suite to the Corte Baron of the said Thomas as of his
** manor of Warrington, de tribus septimanus in tres sepiimanus^
" and also by suite to the Corte Leete of our Sovereigne Ladie
" the Queen, twyce in the yeare houlden at Warrington,'* and by
a yearly rent of ;^i. 2J. \\d, for Rixton, \2d, for Glasebroke,
and 5^. \d, for premises in Warrington — into a socage tenure.
Thomas Ireland releasing for himself and his heirs all claim to
Knight's service, suit of Court Baron, homage, ward, marriage,
and relief in any way formerly due from the said manors, saving
a rent of \d. yearly for the manors of Rixton and Glasebroke
and the premises in Warrington, with fealty and appearance at
the Court Leet twice a year. Thomas Ireland and Mary his wife
giving full warranty of the change. (R. 173.) For a further sum
of ;^5o, Thomas Ireland sells all manner of improvement and
encroachment made in the lordship of Rixton and Glasebroke ;
with all wastes and commons, waifs, wards, and other manorial
rights, together with 6^. Zd. chief rents, with all the duties and
services payable and due from John Ashton, son and heir of
Hamlet Ashton late of Glasebroke, gent., deceased. (R. 173 b.)
In 16 10, Richard Mascy being seized jointly with Thomas
Wilne of a close in Poulton, called " y*^ Bothomes," containing
4 J acres and 32 wood falls, they agreed to divide the same,
22nd May, 8 James I. (W. 109.)
Richard Mascy of Rixton was executor to the will of Henry
Byrom of Byrom, dated 14th April, 16 13. (W. no.)
In February, 11 James I (16 13), we come across the reward to
a faithful servant in the shape of a lease, granted by Richard
Mascy of Rixton to Isabel Daniell, alias Hall, " in consideration
" of twenty marks, but most especially for the consideration of
— 1645] Marriage of Hamlet Mascy. 119
" her long and trustie service of twenty years done to Dorothy
** Mascy, mother of the said Richard, and the said Dorothy before
" her death willing and requiring that so it be done," of the
messuage and tenement in Warrington, late in the tenure of
George Keuardale, for the term of twenty-one years, at a yearly
rent of seven shillings and the usual boons, averages, &c. {Rixten
Leases^ 208.) In the inventory of Richard Mascy's goods in 1645,
one of the rooms in Rixton Hall is called " Isabelle's chamber";
perhaps this was in memory of the faithful servant pf the family.
On nth November, 1615 (13 James I), an Indenture was made
between Roger Bradshagh of Haigh, co. Lancaster, Esq., of one
part, and Richard Massye of Rixton, Esq., and Hamlet, his son
and heir apparent, of thb other, which states ~that a marriage is to
take place at or before St. Andrew the Apostle, in Winter next
ensuing, between Hamlet Massye and *• Doretye," daughter of
Roger Bradshagh, and that in consideration of this marriage
and of ;^7oo by Roger to Richard paid, the two Massyes
undertake to convey to Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton, Knt.
and Banneret, Sir George Bothe of Dunham Massye, Knt. and
Baronet, Sir Peter Legh of Lyme, Knt., and Robert Blundell of
Gray's Inn, co. Middlesex, as Trustees, the manors of Rixton
and Glasebroke, with all manorial rights, also land and premises
in Pulton, Ferny head, and Warrington, so as to insure a jointure
of jQ6o a year to Dorothy, as wife of Hamlet. The estates are
to be held for the use of Hamlet and Dorothy, and after their
death to the use of Richard the father, if he live so long, he
being bound to maintain Hamlet's children. On his death the
estates were to pass to Hamlet's sons in tail male, " for default to
" Richard Massye, uncle to Richard Massye, the partie to these
** presents," and his heirs male ; for default ** to James Massye,
*• another uncle to the said Richard Massye, the partie to these
" presents," and his heirs male ; for default to John Massye of
Layton, co. Lancaster, Esq., and his heirs male ; for default to
William Massye of Cadueshed, co. Lancaster, and his heirs
male; for default to Thomas Massye, one of the brothers of
William Massye of Cadueshed, &c. ; remainder to the right
120 Ihe Mascys of Rixton. [iS95—
heirs of the said Richard. Power was given to raise Dorothy's
jointure by another jQ^o a year if she survived Hamlet, and had
issue by him, and remained unmarried. Powers were also given
to raise ;^2oo apiece for each of Richard^s daughters, and
;^3oo for each of Hamlet's, while twenty nobles a year for
Richard's, and £,\6 a year for Hamlet's younger sons was
arranged for. A further clause to the settlement was added,
that if Hamlet's eldest son or heir married without the consent
of Hamlet (or, if he was dead, of Richard), that then this heir
was to forfeit 2,000 marks to the heirs of Richard. Roger
Bradshagh signs this deed, dating it 14th November, 16 15.
ITie seal bears. Quarterly ^ firsts ttuo bendlets between two martlets;
second and thirds three bars ; fourth^ a mullet. On a helm with
mantling is a stag near a tree, (R. 174.) I name this seal
because the first quarter is different to the arms given in Flower's
Visitation of Lancashire, 1567, where they appear: Argent^ two
bends Sable, a crescent for difference^ for Bradshagh of Haigh, but
are similar to the coat given by St. George, 1613.
The Fine for the settlement of the Rixton manors, &c., is dated
Monday in the fourth week after Easter, 18 James I, Sir Richard
Molyneux, Knt. and Banneret, Sir George Bothe, Knt. and
Baronet, Sir Peter Legh, Knt., and Robert Blundell, plaintiffs,
Richard Mascy, Esq. and Anne his wife, Hamlet Mascy, gent.,
son and heir apparent of Richard Mascy, Esq., and Richard
Mascy, gent., deforciants of 32 messuages, one water mill, 35
cottages, 10 orchards, 30 gardens, 360 acres of land, 40 acres of
meadow, 360 acres of pasture, 2 acres of wood, 100 acres of
furze and bog, 100 acres of moor, 100 acres of moss, and 60
acres of turbary, with common of pasture, &c., in Rixton, Glase-
broke. Pulton, Fearnyhead, and Warrington, and f^\ 3^. 2d,
free rents, with all appurtenances and the right of fishing in the
river Mersey. (R. 176.)
Mr. Beamont in his Mascy of Rixton Pedigree^ already quoted,
mentions a deed dated 22nd April, 1624, by which Richard
Mascy of Rixton, and Richard Mascy the elder, of the same
—1645] Thelwall. 121
place, conveyed land to the Mores of Thelwall in (I conclude)
Thelwall. A deed was enrolled at Chester, 31st March, 1624,
by which Richard Mascy of Rixton, the younger, and Richard
Mascy of Rixton, his uncle, sell to John More of London, and
William More of Thelwall, his brother, a messuage in Thelwall,
the conveyance being for the performance, in part, of covenants
contained in certain indentures made by the same parties the
27th March, 1624 (29 Report Dep. Keeper P. R.y p. 191), which
is probably the sale named b}! Mr. Beamont, the two Mascys
being evidently Richard, the son of William by Dorothy
Daniell, and his uncle being Richard, son of Richard by Anne
Tildesley, the latter being the ** uncle '' named in the marriage
settlement of 1615, and who died 1633.
Land in Thelwall was named in the contract of settlement on
the marriage of Richard Mascy and Anne Tildesley in 1538, and
amongst the premises charged with the jointure of Dorothy Dan-
yell in 1572, is a farm in that town, let to John Caldwall at i6j.
yearly ; but no further mention occurs of Thelwall amongst the
Mascy deeds.
In the interesting Chronicles of Thelwall^ in vol. i. of " The
"Topographer and Genealogist," by Mr. James Nicholson, F.S. A.,
mention is made of the family of Mascy of Mascy Green, in
Thelwall ; but unfortunately the able writer offers no suggestion
as to their pedigree, neither does he give any idea as to the
dates when they became possessed of or when they relinquished
their freehold. That they were of the Rixton family of Mascys
is, I think, pretty certain, and possibly the Mascy Green men-
tioned formed part of the land in Thelwall which Petronilla
Werburton brought to her husband, William Mascy of Rixton,
in 141 5. It is said that "Mascy Green" passed to the Drink-
waters of Warburton. In October, 1723, Richard Mascy of
Rixton refers in a letter to the sums of money which he then
owes to a Mr. Drinkwater.
The 5th October, 19 James I, 1622, Richard Mascy obtained,
in consideration of ;^ioo, a lease from Sir Thomas Ireland of
122 The Moseys of Rixtm, [i595—
Bewsey, Knt., for 31 years, of the corn tithes of Rixton and
Glasebroke, having to pay for the same yearly twelve pence as
long as a lease heretofore made of the said tithes to John Ashton
of Glasebroke, gent., existed, and on its expiration the sum of
£,2 yearly for every unexpired year of the remainder of the term.
(Rixion LeaseSy 27.) The tithe of hay and grass Mascy already
possessed.
About this date, namely 162 1, a dispute arose between Richard
Mascy and Alice the wife of William Hawarden (formerly
wife of Thomas Rixton), and the Rector of Warrington, on
account of their encroachment on the choir or chapel' of the
Mascys in Warrington Church, the Rector having put a stall or
desk, and the Rixtons a large pew therein. The matter being
referred to the Bishop of Chester, he ordered the Mascy chapel
to be restored to its former condition, the Rector's desk was to be
removed, the Rixtons* pew taken away, and the old forms replaced ;
Mrs. Hawarden and the posterity of Thomas Rixton being
assigned the lowest form. (Lane, Chantries,) There existed,
before the restoration of Warrington Church in 1858, a pew, on
the door of which was carved, ** richard massye an^ dni 1617,"
with the arms Quarterly ^ fi^^iy on a bend three covered cups ;
second^ quarterly ^ in the same quarter^ a mullet ; thirds three birds
close; fourth i a squirrel sejant. This pew must have been
carved to shew Mascy's " right " to a seat in the parish church as
owner of Rixton ; a right which the Bishop of Chester evidently
recognised, for the family were Catholics, and, as we shall see,
heavily fined for their recusancy in the next reign. Perhaps the
carved pew door was one of the " forms " which had to be
replaced in the Mascy chapel in 1621.
A general pardon under the Great Seal was granted to Richard
Mascy of Rixton, Esq., the 20th February, i Charles I (R. 177),
which was probably a necessary precaution, adopted by many
other Catholics at this date. In 1629, Richard Mascye of Rixton,
CO. Lancaster, Esq., a " convicted recusant," personally appeared
at York "before his Majesty's Commissioners authorized to com-
" pounde for the forfeiture of the lands and goods of recusants
— 1645] ^^ Concerning a Foot Race.^^ 128
" convicted in Lancashire and other counties," and he then made
composition * for himself, Anlie his wife, Hamlet his son, and
Dorothy his daughter-in-law — of all his manors of Rixton and
Glasebroke, and of all the messuages, lands, and tenements in
Warrington, Pulton, and Pemberton, and of the tithe of corn in
Rixton and Glasebroke, "and on account of this appearance
" shall be free from further disquietude and trouble as a recusant,
" so long as he pay to his Majesty the rent so compounded for."
This composition paper is signed by Charles Radcliffe, chief
commissioner, and dated 12th December, 1629. (R. 178.) Un-
fortunately, amongst the family papers it is not stated what was
the rent he had to pay.
Besides being, we hope, a devout Catholic, Richard was,
possibly, fond of a little sport, if we may venture to judge
him so from a carefully drawn up indenture of the conditions for
a foot race, dated loth May, i Charles I, between himself on the
one part, and John Sharpies of Freckleton in the said county
(of Lancaster), gent., of the other, " concerning a foot race, or
" match to be run by and betweene Thomas Rothwell of Rixton
* aforesaid, yeoman, and one man shewed and called ~ by the
" name of Simon Poynter of Freckleton, husbandman." It is
agreed that Richard or his assigns shall bring Thomas Rothwell,
**if he then liveth," three **tryers," and one judge, to Kirkham
Cross, CO. Lancaster, upon the 24th day of June next ensuing,
before two o'clock in the afternoon to run the foot race with and
against Simon Poynter from this Cross in Kirkham to the Maypole
in Weeton, within the same county, and back to the Cross, " the
" ending place of the race," for the sum of ;^2o. Richard Mascy,
or his assigns, being bound to deposit this sum of ;^2o, before the
race begins, in the keeping " of one sufficient man then shewed
'* and chosen to be judger of the said foot race ;" so that if it is
judged Thomas Rothwell loses the race to Simon Poynter, " the
** money may immediately be paid by the judger " to John
Sharpies. Mascy further covenants that if, after the starting,
Thomas Rothwell, Richard Mascy, or his assigns, " shall will-
**fullie or willinglie caste downe or hinder the said Simon
124 The Moseys of Rixton. [1595—
" Poynter during the continuance of the said foot race, by the
''judgment of the greater number of the tryers," that then the
j^20 deposited by Mascy shall be paid over to Sharpies, A
forfeit of ;^ I o is to be paid if Mascy does not bring his man to
the start. John Sharpies is bound by exactly the same conditions
both as to the ;^20 and the racing, &c. This curious agreement
was signed in the presence of Thomas Horner, Marmaduke
Banister, John Thelwall, &c., is signed by "Richarde Mascy,"
and sealed with, on a shield Quarterly of four : first, on a bend
three covered cups ; second, quarterly, a mullet in the second
quarter ; third, three birds close ; fourth, a squirrel sejant. [Rixton
Leases, 313.)
Richard Mascy died in 1645, being buried at Warrington, 14th
January, 1645. An " Inventory of all the goodes and chattels of
" Richard Mascye of Rixton in the co. of Lancaster, Esq.,
** deceased, prised and vallued by Henry Chiveley, William
*'• Spakeman, Thomas Mascy and William Clare, the 19th dale of
" January, 1645," shows he possessed the usual farm stock, corn,
and implements ; amongst the latter being two coal carts, *• one
** olde and one new coal waine." The rooms enumerated in
Rixton Hall are— "The Chappell Chamber," "The Little Parlor,"
"The Great Parlor," "The Bride's Chamber," "The Great
"Chamber," " Isabeirs Chamber," **The Greene Chamber,"
"The Closet," "The Stearehead Chamber," "Mr. Thomas'
"Chamber" (one of the sons), "Mrs. Eltonheade's. Chamber "
(one of the daughters), " Mr. Mascy's Chamber," in which,
amongst other things, were books to the value of three shillings
and four pence ! " The Kitchen Chamber " and " Richard
" Robinson's Chamber." There were also " The Hall," with its
tables and forms; "The Kitchen," "The Storehouse," *^ The
" old Kitchen," and " The Seller." Amongst some of the mis-
cellaneous articles valued is " i bell and part of a clock, 131. 4^."
In this inventory no silver is named, and the linen is apprized at
jQi 10s. only. (R. 189.)
Amongst some accounts dated 24th January, 1645, ^^r the
funeral expenses of Richard Mascy, the following items occur : —
— 1645] Richard Mascfs Children, 126
The church dues, 2s, ; for making the grave, 25. ; for ringing, 31. ;
the coffin, los,; for links and chist (?) 151./ to the poor, 5^. ;
for bread and drink, ;iQ^ ; and for wine, 3^. 3^. Possibly Richard
had been ill for some time, as amongst the wages paid to servants
is £2 to ** The Nurse." There were fifteen men paid as
** servants," and nine women including the nurse. There are
also receipts dated 29th January, 1645, for ^^20 2j. 6//.; and
again, 8th February, 1645, for j(j2^, paid by John Piers to John
Hampson, "for Mr. Richard Mascy's, of Rixton, composition made
** for his estate, 1644.** The sum of jQ^/^ was paid the year before
on account of this same composition. {Tempest Papers^ box 69.)
Richard's wife, Anne, predeceased him, being buried at War-
rington Church, loth December, 1636 ; hardly a month after her
eldest son Hamlet. The issue of the marriage were — Hamlet,
son and heir, Thomas, and William ; with four daughters, Prisca,
Elizabeth, Mary, and Anne.
Thomas Mascy, the second son, to whom his father, on 2nd
February, 16 16, leased the tithes of hay and grass in the town
meadows of Rixton, with the hereditaments belonging, for eighteen
years, at a yearly rent of three shillings (due to the Parson of
Warrington Church, at Easter) and also three peppercorns.
{Rixton Leases y 315.) He is stated in Dugdale's Visitation to
have been a soldier, and died unmarried in Flanders. His will
was made 2nd August, 1622, before he started for the wars.
William Mascy, third son, was baptized at Warrington, 2nd
July, 1599; and his father, in February, 1616, secured to him an
annuity of 20 nobles out of premises in Rixton. {Rixton Leases^
1 01.) He married Jane, daughter of Edmund Standish, a
younger son of Standish of Standish, and had by her two sons,
Thomas and Hamlet, both of whom are named in the deed
of settlement on the marriage of Richard Mascy " the younger "
of Rixton with Mary Plowden, in 1642. William is in this deed
described as " late son of Richard Mascy the elder, party to
"these presents," which proves he was dead before 1642.
William's elder son is called Thomas Mascy of Standish, where it
is concluded he resided. (R. 185 b.)
126 The Moseys of Rixton. [1595 —
Richard Mascy's daughter Prisca was granted by her father,
the iSth January, 17 James I (1619), a rent charge of ;^ioo for
two years as her child's portion. (R. 175.) She died unmarried
in 1623, being buried at Warrington the 13th August in that
year.
Elizabeth Mascy was baptised at Warrington 20th July, 1601,
and married Abraham Langton of the Lowe, co. Lancaster.
(Dugdale's Visit of Lane)
Mary Mascy married Edward Eccleston of Eccleston, co.
Lancaster, and had by him a daughter, who was buried at War-
rington 9th July, 1629. She married, secondly, John Warde of
Capesthorne, co. Chester, but had no issue. This second
marriage took place prior to 1634, for, in Michaelmas Term,
9 Charles I, an action was brought against Richard Mascye and
Robert Blundell by George Warde of Capelthorne [Capesthorne],
whose son John had married Mary, the defendant Mascy's
daughter, and who had promised her a dower of ;£^iooo
upon certain conditions. (Lane. Record Series Excheq, Depos,)
Some portion of the promised dower must have been money
derived from Mascy's Eccleston marriage, as Richard Mascy
was only empowered to raise ;;^2oo for each of his daughters.
(R. 174).
Anne Mascy, another daughter, married Richard, son and heir
of Richard Eltonhed of Eltonhed-in-Sutton, co. Lancaster. The
20th April, 13 Charles I (1637), Richard Mascy, acting on the
powers contained in the settlement of 161 5, granted to Richard
Eltonhed, the father, an annuity oi jQioo for two years (the same
to commence after Mascy's death), as the portion due to Anne.
(R. 181.)
Hamlet, "eldest son and heir apparent, while he lived, of
"Richard Mascy," married, as stated in November, 1615,
Dorothy Bradshagh, and dying ** in vita pairis^^ was buried at
Warrington the 21st November, 1636, having had by his wife four
sons and three daughters, namely :
Richard Mascy, the eldest son, succeeded his grandfather in
the Rixton estates.
— 1645] Richard Mascfs Grandchildren. 127
Thomas Mascy, the second son, was born in 1622, and became
a priest. He was educated at the Jesuits' College at St. Omers in
Belgium, where he studied to the end of ** Poetry," />., the
highest class but one in the course. He entered the English
College at Rome ist November, 1642, under the alias of Middleton
(his paternal grandmother's maiden name). He was ordained
priest 8th December^ 1647, ^^^ was sent on the English mission
1 8th April, 1648 (Fr. Foley's Records Eng. Jesuits^ series xii.)
He was living in May, 1673, and was then residing in Paris,
from whence he wrote to William Blundell of Crosby. In
November, 1652, he petitioned Parliament for the annuity of ;^io
due to him for life out of his brother Richard Mascy*s forfeited
estates in Pulton, Fernehed, and Warrington, which annuity had
been granted by his father Hamlet in an indenture dated i8th
June, 7 Charles I, to the following trustees for his use, namely,
James Anderton of Clayton, Edward Dumville of Lyme, and
William Radclyff of Manchester : the grant to take effect on the
death of his grandfather or father, whichever lived the longest.
In this petition Thomas's mother, Dorothy Mascy, makes oath
that she "intermarried in 16 15 with Hamlet Mascy, son and heir
" apparent, while he lived, of Richard Mascy of Rixton, deceased,
" by whom she had four sons, namely, Richard, Thomas, George,
" and William (which William is since dead), and three daughters,
"Anne, Dorothy, and Ellen." She further declares that her
husband died sixteen years ago, and Richard Mascy the elder,
his father, in January, 1645 — " immediately whereupon the
" manors, lands, &c., charged for the said annuities, fell under
" sequestration for the delinquency e of Richard Mascy e, eldest
'*son and heyre of the said Hamlet by this deponent." (R. 194.)
Thomas Mascy is also named in the marriage settlement of his
nephew Hamlet Mascy with Margaret More in 1662. (R. 201.)
Geoj-ge Mascy, the third son, was born before 1631, but though
he is named in the settlement of 1662, I can find no further
mention of him.
William Mascy, the fourth son, died between loth March,
17 Charles I (when he is named in his brother Richard's marriage
128 The Mascys of Rixton. [^595 —
settlement) and November, 1652 (as his mother's affidavit de-
dares). (R. 194.) It was one of these two last named Mascys
who, in 1650, joined the party of Royalists who plundered the
Rectory of Winwick, and thereby caused the apprehension and
undeserved death of the domestic chaplain at Rixton, the Jesuit
father, John Harrison, alias Smith. (Dodd's Church Hist.,
vol. iii., p. 3r2.)
The Warrington Parish Register records the burial of two sons
of a Hamlet Mascy of Rixton, gent , namely, John, buried 14th
September, 1636, and Hamlet, buried i6th December, 1637-
These are doubtless children of Hamlet and Dorothy, but they
probably died infants, as no provision for their fortunes was
made.
Anne, the eldest daughter of Hamlet, petitioned Parliament in
November, 1652, for her portion oi jQ^oo, due out of her brother
Richard's forfeited estates. In her petition she recites how her
father Hamlet, by deed dated 18th January, 1631, secured to
trustees for her use this sum. Dorothy, her mother, makes affi-
davit that she remembers her husband about 1631 making some
provision, in the way of rent-charge, for the portions of his
younger children, " Ellen excepted, who was not then born."
Among those who swore to the signatures of the grants of 1631
was one John Leigh, who states that he is " the rather intiuced to
" believe the name of the said Henry Hill (one of the witnesses)
" to be his handwriting, for that the same Henry Hill was the
" said deponant's schoolmaster, and did teach him amongst other
"schollars to write." (R. 195.) This Anne became a nun in
Flanders. (Dugdale's Visit.)
Ellen, the youngest daughter, not born until after 1631, and for
whose portion provision was made in the articles of agreement
prior to her brother Richard's marriage in 1640, also became a
nun " beyond the seas." (Dugdale's Visit.)
Dorothy, the second daughter, married "Gervas Qifton of
" We^stby in cofl Lane' gent", as he is described in the endorse,
ment to the deed securing his wife's portion. In Dugdale's
Visitation of LancashirCy 1664, he is said to be a younger son of
— 1645] Richard Mascy. 129
Sir Cuthbert Clifton of Lytham. Dorothy's portion of >f 300
was secured by deed of i8th June, 1631, to the same trustees
as those named for her brother and sister Thomas and Anne.
(R. 179.)
Itltti^arir inaiscs. 1645.
XII. RicHAKD Mascy, the eldest son of Hamlet and
Dorothy, succeeded his grandfather, Richard Mascy the elder,
in the Rixton estates, 1645, being born, I apprehend, in 16 19, as
he entered himself as aged 45 years at the Visitation of Dugdale,
nth March, 1664.
Articles of Agreement were entered into on 8th May, 1640,
" between Francis Plowden of Plowden, co. Salop, and Francis
** Plowden his son and heir, of one part, and Richard Mascye
" the younger, son and heir of Hamlet Mascye, late of Rixton,
" Esq., deceased, and William Bradshagh of London, uncle of
" the said Richard Mascye the younger, and one specially to this
" purpose intrusted by Richard Mascye the grandfather,*' as to
the marriage shortly to take place between Richard Mascye the
younger, and Mary Plowden, daughter of the said Francis
Plowden the younger. It is agreed that Richard Mascye the
younger is to have a marriage portion of ^£"1,700, of which
;^ 1 00 is to be paid to old Mr. Plowden, and ;£ 1,600 to Francis,
the father of the bride. It is covenanted that within twelve
months after the marriage is solemnized, the Mascyes are to levy
requisite Fines and Recoveries to settle the estates, and to
secure a jointure of ;^i7o per annum for Mary, with powers
for Richard Mascye the younger to raise it by ;£3o. The
portions of Richard the younger's three sisters, Ann, Dorothy
and Ellen, ;^3oo a-piece, are to be paid on the death of
Richard the elder. (R. 183.) The Deed of Settlement on
the marriage is dated loth March, 17 Charles I, and is the
only deed of the series that has suffered from neglect, having
been much damaged by mice. By it the lands in Pulton,
Femyhead and Warrington are charged with the jointures of
Mary, wife of Richard Mascye the younger, as well as that of
Kt
180 The Moseys of Rtxton, [1645—
Dorothy his mother, the widow of Hamlet. The manors of
Rixton and Glasebroke, and all lands, &c., in Rixton, Glasebroke,
Pulton, Fernehead, and Warrington (excepting the jointures
named), "the Gatehouse," and capital messuage of Rixton Hall,
are settled on Richard Mascye the yoQnger and his sons in
tail male ; in default, on George Mascye, brother of the said
Richard the younger, and his sons ; in default, on Thomas
Mascye, brother of George, and his sons ; in default, on William
Mascye, brother of Thomas, and his sons; in default, on
Thomas Mascye of Standish, eldest son of William Mascye, late
son of Richard Mascye the elder, and his sons ', in default, on
Hamlet Mascye of Standish, another son of the late William
Mascye, deceased, and his sons ; in default, on Thurstan Mascye
of Southwarke, co. Surrey, son of Richard Mascye, the uncle
of Richard the elder, and his sons; in default, on Thomas
Mascye of Rixton, another son of the said Richard, deceased,
and his sons ; in default, on Robert Blundell of Ince Blundell,
Esq., and his heirs, upon the body of Joane, wife of William
Baysdon, Esq., of the parish of St. Giles', Middlesex, and his
male heirs ; in default, on Edmund Veale of Whynis Heyes, co.
Lancaster, and his male heirs, upon the body of Joane, wife of
William Westwoode of London, and his male heirs ; remainder
to the right heirs of the said Richard Mascye the elder (R..183 b.)
The Fine was levied in Easter term, 17 Charles I, Abraham
Langton and Ralph Worthington being plaintiffs, Richard Mascye,
Esq., Dorothy Mascye, widow, Richard Mascye, gent., and
Mary his wife, deforciants of the manors of Rixton and Glaze-
broke, 70 messuages, 80 gardens, 60 orchards, i dove cote,
I water mill, 50 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 300 of
pasture, 600 of moss, 100 of furze or bog, i acre of wood
and 100 of moor, with appurtenances in Rixton, Glasebroke,
Poulton, Fernehead, and Warrington ; likewise six shillings and
eight pence, free rents in Glasebroke, the right of fishing in the
Mersey and Glasebroke, with frankpledges, &c., in Rixton and
Glasebroke. (R. 186.) The Recovery was suffered the same term,
Sir Cecil Trafford, Knt., Francis Plowden and William Bradshagh
— 1667] Sequestration of the Estates. 181
being demandants, Abraham Langton and Ralph Worthington,
tenants, Richard Mascye, gent., vouchee. (R. 185.)
The appearance of the two last-named families in the settlement
is puzzling, as no relationship can be traced. I have been unable
to discover that any Robert Blundell married a Joan Mascy, nor
does any mention appear of a widow Blundell marrying a William
Baysdon. At one time I fancied Joan might be a clerical error
for Mary, the same Mary Mascy who, in /1573, had married a
Robert Blundell, but as she was still living a Widow Blundell in
1 6 13, and her son was aged forty at that date, I can hardly think
it likely she took a second husband or had issue by him. The
Joan, widow of Edmund Veale of Whynis Heyes, presents equal
difficulties. Perhaps she is intended for the Ellen Mascy,
daughter of John Mascy of Layton, who was the wife of Edward
Veale of Methorp, in Lancashire.
In 1642, the Parliament issued orders that all wealthy or
dangerous Catholics should be arrested, and their estates se-
questered; an order which doubtless caused Richard Mascy
the younger, in his Will, to make provision for his younger chil-
dren, which he did 14th February, 1643. By it, he leaves to
his " well-beloved wife, Mary,'' two-thirds of the manors, &c.,
settled on him to her use during the minority of their son and
heir, "that she may employ the rents during that term for the
" education and bringing up in virtue and learning of any such
" younger child or children as I shall have at the time of my
" death, for the raising of them stocks in money or otherwise for
" their maintenance, and to perform according to her wisdom
"and discretion." (R. 187.; This Will never took effect, as
Mary, the " well-beloved wife," died before Richard ; being
buried at Warrington the 17 th February, 1644-5.
On the death of Richard Mascy the elder, in 1645, ^^^
estates to which Richard, his grandson, should have succeeded
were sequestered, as mentioned in Dorothy Mascy's affidavit of
1652. He was at this date (1645) serving in the Royal Army;
Kf 2
182 The Mascys of Rixton, [1645 —
his commissron, as "captain of fifty horse in Lord Herbert's
"regiment," is dated i8th August, 19 Charles I (1643); t)eing
signed by Edward, Lord Herbert (R. 188), who, being himself a
Catholic, collected many of the same creed to serve under him.
On the I St January, 1651, Edward Aspinwall of Toxteth, co.
Lancaster, Robert Cunliffe of Sparth, and George Pigott of
Preston, co. Lancaster, Commissioners for Sequestered Estates
in Lancashire, grant to John Peeres of Rixton, a lease for seven
years (counting from the 2nd February last past) of the capital
messuage or mansion house called " The Hall, Rixton," with the
demesne lands of about 162 acres of the large measure, and one
water corn mill, " late belonging to Richard Mascy, but now for-
" feited for recusancy and delinquencies," at a rent of ;^i58 a year
to be paid to the Commonwealth. (R. 192.) This John Peeres,
must, I think, have acted as agent for Richard Mascy, as he was
much associated with his financial affairs subsequently. He had
become a tenant of two messuages on the Mascy estate early in
1640, and the family continued to hold farms at Rixton and
Glasebroke till 1774, when a John Peeres had a lease granted
him for twenty-one years of the mill dam of Glasebroke. {Rixton
Leases »)
The Indenture of Bargain and Sale, enrolled in Chancery, is
dated 25th March, 1653, by which the six surviving Trustees
appointed by two several Acts of Parlianient, (one Act being
entitled ** An Acte for the sale of several lands and estates for-
" feited to the Commonwealth for Treason," and the other " An
** Acte for the several lands and estates forfeited to the Common-
" wealth for Treason appointed to be sold for the Navy,") together
with Matthias Valentine, one other Trustee for the sale of forfeited
estates appointed by Parliament, sell and convey to Gilbert Ire-
land of Hutt, CO. Lancaster, Esq., for the sum of ;^i722. 10s, 2\d.
the manors of Rixton and Glasebroke, and all other the posses-
sions (except those charged with certain jointures and annuities),
late parcel of the freehold estate of Richard Mascy of Rixton.
— 1667] Deed of Assignment 188
Gilbert Ireland was to hold the same during the natural life of
tlie said Richard Mascy. The Indenture was acknowledged and
passed the 26th August, 1653, by " Robert Keylway, Master of
"the Chancery in Ordinary." (R. 196.) On the petition of
Alice, Richard's second wife, she was, 26th November, 1650,
ordered to receive one-third of the income of her husband's
estates as allowance for herself and children, due since 24th De-
cember, 1649, ^^^ oji the 29th January, 1650- 1, a like order was
issued. (State Papers.) There is no trace of any settlements
made on this second marriage.
On the 2nd February, 1665, Gilbert Ireland with Richard Mascy
of Rixton leased for three years, to Jane Lathom of Erlam, widow,
two closes called the "Ten Acre" and " Strawmeyre," being part
of the demesne lands belonging to the Hall of Rixton, (Rixton
Leases^ 64,) which shows, I conclude, that at this date Mascy was
enjoying, in right of his wife, her "third" of the Rixton property.
Poor Richard probably found the calls on his purse too many
for his means, for by Deed of T2th April, 1658, he assigned to
John Peers of Glasebroke and Hamlet Mascy of Sankey, yeomen,
and three others, all his personal estate, furniture, plate, jewels,
&c., " being in his mansion or manor house of Rixton, wherein
" the said Richard now liveth," for the security of the payment
of certain debts amounting to ;^54o, for which the said five have
stood surety. The~ Schedule expressing the goods and chattels
intended for security shows some improvement since 1645 ^^ ^^
furnishing of Rixton Hall. There are in the " Dyneringe Roome,"
besides the usual tables and court cupboard, " one dozen and a
" half leather chairs" : and whereas in the inventory of 1645 ^^1
one bed appears (Mr. Mascy's) as having valence and hangings,
now four others claim similar luxuries. Some of the rooms in
the house haVe changed names, while a "New Chamber" and
" Corne Chamber" appear as additions. Of linen, there were one
dozen pair of flaxen sheets, twenty pair of "teere hemp"(?) sheets,
besides six table cloths, and ten dozen napkins. There are only
18 silver spoons mentioned ; but let us hope the Mascys were
not so reduced in this world's goods that this represented the sole
184 The Moseys of Rixton, [1645 —
contents of their plate chest. We know that in 1547 Thurstan
Tildesley left his son-in-law Richard Mascy a " gilt goblet without
"cover," but one fears that had gone to ihe "melting pot" ere
this date. " One glass case"' is also mentioned in the schedule
as being in the " butterie," which one is tempted to wonder at.
In the stables were nine draught horses, valued at ;£^3o, six colts,
two saddle geldings, two " cloake bay horses," two pad mares,
and one " pad nag," the whole of the twenty-two horses being
valued at ;£84. i^s. ^d, (R. 197.)
On the 3rd February, 1658, Gilbert Ireland of Hutt, in considera-
tion of forty shillings, sells to Richard Penington of Gray's Inn,
Peeres Lee of Bruche, and Arthur Burrows of Warrington, the
lease he holds for Richard Mascy's life, under the Commonwealth,
of the manors, lan<h, &c., in Rixton, Glasebroke, Poulton, and
Warrington. For them to hold the same during the remainder
of the term, at a rent of sixpence a year. (R. 198.) Whatever
was the reason of Ireland's relinquishing the Rixton property, he
doubtless had made a successful speculation out of it diu-ing the
seven years he held it, as he granted new leases to nearly, if not
all, the tenants at low rents, for considerable " considerations,"
as a bundle of twenty-four of his old leases shows.
A specimen of a Rixton lease of this date may not be unin-
teresting. I take, therefore, one, dated 20th September,
I Charles I, by which Richard Mascy of Rixton, Esquire, lets,
in consideration of jC^2>^ to John Yate of Rixton, husbandman,
for twenty-one years, a messuage or tenement in Rixton, " now
" or late in the holding or occupation of the said John Yate,"
with all its buildings, orchards, gardens, lands, meadows, under-
woods, " libertie to such common of pasture which the said
•* Richard Mascy or his heirs shall not improve or enclose in
** Rixton," right of turbary, with ways, &c., belonging, at a yearly
rent of ;£i. 6s. 8^., " together with the yearly husbandlike
** ploughing of one acre of ground for oats, and harrowing,
** weeding, shearing, and setting up the same acre in Ryders of
** eight sheaves between the numbers of twenty-six and threttie
— 1667] A Rixton Lease. 186
** (30) thraves of the same acre, any one of the same severally in
** their seasonable and due times without any fraude or deceit,
** when and where the said Richard Mascy or his heirs do appoint
** the same acre in some part of his demesne lands within Rixton.
** Also one day's delivering turves, one day weeding of corn, and
'* one day leading muck, one day leading so many sufficient loads
" of turves as the carts of the said Richard Mascy and his heirs
** do or shall usually load.-' Three sufficient rent hens at
St. Thomas' before Christmas, four days' shearing of corn with
one able and sufficient workman at the direction of the said
Richard Mascy ; four days of corn weeding yearly, with one
workman for the several and respective wages hereafter following,
that is to say, for a shearer four pence a day, for a weeder two
pence a day. Doing suit of Court upon reasonable summons at
the Court of Richard Mascy, to be holden at Hollynfare Green
during all the said term, or else to be fined and pay fine upon
neglect. To grind the corn used upon the farm at the landlord's
mill and doing all other amerciaments, boons, duties, averages,
services, and reasonable demands (ploughing, shearing, harrowing
only excepted and foreprised) as the other tenants and plough-
lands of the said Richard Mascy. John Yate is further bound
to pay three shillings and four pence for every day's default in
these services. He is also to keep in tenantable repair the
edifices and ditches, or be fined three shillings and four pence
each default. (Rixton Leases, 3.)
The Assignment of Ireland's lease of Rixton manors to Pen-
nington and the others was evidently on behalf of Richard
Mascy; for the 29th August, 1662, an Indenture is made be-
tween Richard Massye of Rixton, Hamlet Massye, his son and
heir apparent, of the one part. Sir Ralph Bradshagh of Haigh,
Knt, John More of Kirklington, co. Notts, Hugh Dicconson of
Wrightington, and Richard Pennington of Gray's Inn, of the second
part, Robert Birley of Warrington and Robert Ashton of Salford,
of the third part, by which, in consideration of a marriage already
solemnised between Hamlet Massye and Margaret More, one of
186 Tk€ Mascys of Rixton, [1645 —
the daughters of Sir Edward More, Baronet, deceased, brother
to the said John More, and of ;^2ooo, the marriage portion of
Margaret, the Massyes undertake to settle their estates at Rixton
so as to secure to Margaret her jointure, " and so that the manors
*' and lands, &c., may remain, as long as it pleases Almighty God
** to keep, in the name, blood, and kindred of the Massyes ".
For that purpose Birley and Ashton are enfeoffed of the manors
of Rixton and Glasebroke, with lands, &c., there, and in War-
rington, Poulton, Fernehead, and Mosscroft. The limitations on
the property are for the jointures of Dorothy, widow of the late
Hamlet Massy e deceased, and for Alice Massye, now wife of the
said Richard. The estates are settled upon Hamlet, eldest son
and heir apparent of Richard, and his sons in tail ; in default,
on ** Francis Massye, second son of the said Richard," and his
sons; and in default, on ''Richard Massye, third son of the
** said Richard," and his sons ; in default, on Thomas Massye,
second son of the late Hamlet Massye of Rixton deceased, and
his sons ; in default, on George Massye, third son of the late
Hamlet Massye, and his sons — ** Remainder to the right heirs of
** Richard the party to these presents." By this Settlement a pro-
vision was made that if Hamlet Massye and Margaret his wife died
leaving no sons, but only daughters, that the sum of ;^2ooo was
to be divided amongst them ; if only one daughter, then she was to
receive the entire sum of ;^2ooo, on her attaining the age of sixteen
years ; and in default of this sum being paid by the then owners
of Rixton, it should be lawful for her to distrain and re-enter
both for the ;^2ooo, as well as any portion of it, as also for
damages for the forbearance. /R. 201.) The Chirograph of Fine
is dated 23rd August, 14 Charles II, Robert Birley and Robert
Ashton being plaintiffs, and Richard and Hamlet Massye defor-
ciants of 38 messuages, 36 cottages, 80 gardens, 60 orchards,
one dove cote, one water mill, 50 acres of land, 60 of meadow,
300 of pasture, 600 of moss, 100 furze and bog, and one acre
of wood ; with common of pasture, &c., in Rixton, Glasebroke,
Poulton, Fernehead, Mosscroft, and Warrington, with six shillings
— 1667] Richard Moseys Children, 187
and eightpence free rents in Glasebroke ; the right of fishing in
the river Mersey and Glasebroke, &c. (R. 200.)
Richard Mascy died in 1667, and was buried the 21st Decem-
ber, at Warrington Church. In January following administration
of his goods, &c., was granted to John Peers of Glasebroke, yeo-
man, Alice Mascy (the widow) and PYancis Mascy (the son)
renouncing.
Richard Mascy's first wife, Mary Plowden, whom he married in
1640, died in February, 1644-5, and he married secondly, Alice,
the daughter of Sir Cuthbert Clifton of L3rtham, co. Lancaster,
Knt., but I have thus far failed in discovering the date of this
second marriage. No papers are preserved to show if any
settlement was made on her marriage ; and the Lytham Parish
Registers extend back only to 1679. The marriage had, however,
taken place when Dugdale made his Visitation of Lancashire in ^
March, 1664, when by it there were two children living.
By his first wife, Richard Mascy had two sons and two
daughters, namely, Hamlet, who pre-deceased his father, and
Francis, who succeeded to the family estates. The daughters
were Dorothy and Frances, who were both nuns before 1664.
The receipt for Dorothy Mascy's portion is thus worded — " I
" under written do confesse to have rec«* from my nev. Mascy of
" Rixton, Esq*"., the sum of ^£300 sterling as y* portione due to
" my coz. Dorothy, his dau', for y« use and benefitt of her and
"her Superiors at Graueling, and in witness do subscribe my
**name, Christ. Bradshaigh, April, 1662." {Tempest Papers^
box 75.) This Christopher Bradshaigh was a brother to the
Dorothy Bradshaigh who married Hamlet Mascy, and was
probably a priest. He acted as tutor to the Scarisbrick children.
By his second wife Richard Mascy had a son, Richard, named
in the settlement of 1662 as "third son." He was buried at
Warrington in 16S1, being unmarried. There was also a
daughter, Catherine, said in a note amongst the Tempest Papers
to have become a nun.
Alice Mascy, the widow, was buried at Warrington, nth May,
■
188 The Moseys of Rixton, [1645 —
1674. Hamlet, the elder son of Richard Mascy by his first wife,
is entered in Dugdale's Visitation as aged twenty-four in 1664,
but as his parents were not married until after 8th May, 1640^
he could only have been in his twenty-fourth year. He married
early in 1662, Margaret, the daughter and coheir of Sir Edward
More, of Thelwall, (created a baronet by Charles I in 1636 for his
fidelity,) the nephew of Dr. John More of Thelwall and Kirk-
lington, of whom it is related that he was granted no less than
five different coats of arms in succession, the final one being
Sabie^ a cross Argent, which his great niece, Margaret Mascy,
used. This Margaret More was baptised at Grappenhall, i6th
November, 1638. {The Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i,
p. 440.) The only issue of Hamlet's marriage with Margaret
More was Mary, born in November, 1662, of whom more anon.
Hamlet died in 1665, being buried at Warrington Church on
December i8th ; and as he left no son, the reversion of the estates
passed to his brother Francis. Hamlet's widow, Margaret Mascy;
long survived him. In November, 1696, she leased to Richard
Mascy of Rixton her " part in the manor house called Rixton
" Hall, her one-third of the Pidgeon House, stables," &c., and
all her portion of the demesne lands at Rixton, namely 115
acres, for the remainder of her life for the sum of ;^iio a year.
(R. 205. ) Her seal to this deed bears. On a bend three covered
cups, and a label of three points impaled, with a cross. She went
to reside with her daughter at Aldborough, in Yorkshire, and was
buried at Stanwick, in October, 1 704. Her Will is dated 25th
April, 1704, "in the 3^ year of our gracious Sovereign Lord
" James the third by the grace of God King of England," &c.
Little doubt which way lay her sympathies ! In the Will she
describes herself as widow of " Hamlett Mascy late of Rixton,
CO. Lancaster, Esq.," and names her " cousin More of Kirk-
*'lington" and "his sister Awthas," also "my daughter, Mary
" Meynell, and my two grandsons, George and James Meynell."
( Will, penes Simon Scrope, Esq,)
On the death of Richard Mascy, in 1667, he was, on failure of
his son Hamlet's male issue, succeeded by his second son, Francis.
— 1667I Francis Mascy. 189
jj^rancts iWascg* 1667.
XIII. Francis Mascy, son of Richard, is not entered in
Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire^ 1664, although he is named
as " second son " of Richard in the marriage settlement of 1662.
Mr. Beamont supposes him to be by the second wife (pedigree in
Warrington Museum) ; but I am inclined to believe, from his
bearing the Christian name of " Francis," that he was by Mary
Plowden, the first wife, whose father and grandfather were both
called Francis. The Plowden marriage was " shortly to be
solemnized on the 8th May, 1640" (R. 183) ; it is quite possible,
therefore, for four children to have been born before she died in
February, 1644-5, ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^o ^^ve died on the birth of her
last child. Another reason for my considering Francis to have
been by the first wife is, that if he had been the elder of two sons
by Alice Clifton, the second wife, she would surely have taken
care, when the family pedigree was recorded by Dugdale, in 1664,
that her eldest son should have been entered, as well as her other
children, Richard and Catherine.
There are very few traces of this Francis Mascy amongst the
family papers, excepting a few leases granted by him between the
dates 7th May, 1669, and 20th October, 1674.
He appears to have resided at Rixton, as, amongst the Crosby
MSS. is a letter from Mr. William Blundell of Crosby to Thomas
Mascy, the priest (uncle to Francis), dated 25th May, 1672, in
which he names, as being amongst his guests the week before
"at XB," Mr. Mascy of Rixton; and the 25th December, 1672, this
same Blundell writes as follows to Francis Mascy at Rixton — " I
" wish you a good Xmas and a happy New Year, and withal I must
** beg your lady's pardon in behalf of my wife, who having heard
" nothing of her delivery till the month was complete could not
" for that reason perform the usual ceremony, which was due to
" have been paid at that time. My wife doth now (so late)
" present to yours by this bearer three small sugar loaves. I
" would be glad to receive a pardon testified by your own hand.
" We shall likewise be glad to hear that your little daughter is
140 The Masfys ef Rixton. [1675 —
" well and do heartily wish that you may in good time be the
" father of a son or two who may long ^continue your name in
" that antient family." ( Crosby MSS.)
Francis Masc/s wife was named Elizabeth, but her maiden
name and date and place of her marriage, I have been unable to
discover. She married secondly at Warrington Church, 24th No-
vember, 1683, John, a younger son of Robert Blundell of Ince
Blundell. William Blundell of Crosby, writing of this John Blun-
dell's marriage with Mascy's widow, the 3rd January, 1693-4, says,
" He now lives upon a small estate of inheritance which he hath
** by that wife, in the furthest northern parts of Lancashire
** about 60 miles from hence" {Crosby MSS.) John Blundell,
writing 30th July, 1692, describes himself as "of Dalton, co.
" Lancaster," so I conclude Mrs. Francis Mascy^s property was
somewhere in Dalton-in-Furness.
Francis Mascy died 1675, ^^^ Warrington Register stating
that he was " buried in the North 26th August, 1675." Admini-
stration of his effects was granted to Richard Chiveley and
John Peers, his creditors — Elizabeth, his wife, renouncing.
Of children by his wife, he had two who lived : — Richard, who
succeeded him in the Rixton property, and Anne, "the little
"daughter," named in William Blundell's letter of December,
1672, who became a nun, and died abroad. There is an entry
in the Warrington Register of the burial of a Hamlet, son of
Francis Mascy, 24th August, 1697, but I do not think he was a
son of this Francis.
HitfiarK iWascs. 1675.
XIV. Richard Mascy, the son and heir of Francis, was
with his sister Anne, under the guardianship of their stepfather,
John Blundell, but owing to the non-payment of the ;£2,ooo
due to Hamlet Mascy's daughter and heiress, there arose endless
money quarrels and suits betwen the Blundells, acting for the
infant Richard, and George Meynell, who had married the
heiress, and now demanded her fortune. No doubt Margaret
More's portion of ;^2,ooo had been received by the Mascys at
— 1724] Suit to recover under a Marriage Settlement. 141
the date of her marriage, but since then the estate seems to have,
become impoverished, doubtless owing to the fact that its owners
were Jacobites and Catholics, the ruin of many an ancient family
in the 17th century.
In 1685 we find the Meynells waxing impatient, and filing a
bill at Trinity Term, in Chancery, against Richard Mascy, an
infant, and John Blundell and Elizabeth his wife, mother of the
said infant, Hugh Dickenson of Wrightington, surviving trustee,
Edward Trotter, Esq., Sir Richard Bradshaigh, Knt., and others,
claiming the ;£^2,ooo and damages, and praying that the lands of
Rixton and Glasebroke, &c., charged for the payment of this
;^2,ooo, &c., under the settlement of 1662, might be sold to raise
the necessary sum. The Blundells for themselves and the infant
make answer that, while acknowledging the marriage settlement
of Hamlet Mascy and Margaret More, by which this money was
secured for Hamlet's daughter and heir on her attaining the age
of sixteen years, wish to point out that they are unable to pay
the amount. For, though in possession of part of the lands
liable to be charged, since the complainant (Mary Meynell)
arrived at the age of sixteen, the lands have only been worth
;^i2o or thereabouts, and one year, when they were only
worth ;£^9o. They also declare that they paid Alice, the widow
of Richard Mascy, ;^ 100, and also for two years have paid ;^2o
for Richard Mascy. "That the keeping up of the estate had
** cost them ;;^3oo in necessary building and repairs, and the
** reason so much had been expended was, because two kilnes
**and one stable had been burnt down, which cost J[,^zo to
" rebuild."
Nothing was done towards selling or mortgaging the property,
and the charge was paid off by small sums at various dates.
On the 25th November, 1686, George Meynell writes to Hugh
Dicconson (or Dickenson) that ** Mr. John Blundell claims too
** much money for the maintenance of the children, tho' I would
" be kind in allowance, when I am satisfied of the care and
" method taken for the payment.*' It was probably in reply to
some remonstrance from Dicconson as to the " care and method"
142 The Mascys of Rixton. [1675—
employed towards the children that John Blundell writes on
2nd April, 1687 : — " Now as to last year's profitts of the land,
" they were employed unto the immediate use of the heire and
" his sister, for I went over at Midsummer and paid two years'
** pension for him, the which with the charges of conducting
" them thither and fetching the heire back and defending the
*' land against Mr. Meynell who pretended (as appeared by his
" bill) to have it sold ; but for your further satisfaction as to par-
" ticulars, the children's Diet was sixteen poundes a year for each,
** and here is a note under the Mother Abbess' own hand of my
" son Massey's other expenses for his first year. I had it when
" I went over last and paid it : and for his sister there goes nine
" Poundes a year for apparell, learning and other necessaries
"which makes up ^25 a year; and when I put her into the
** Cloister, I was forced to buy her nine changes of all sorts of
" Linen (because they wash but once in two months) besides
" other chargeable clothes ; so I leave it unto you to judge what
" I have gotten by the last years profitts. At Mid-summer there
" will be a years Pension to be paid for my daughter-in-law (step
** daughter) also a years keeping of her brother with me, and I
" have now against Easter so fitted him with apparell that he is
" in a condition to be sent any whither for schooling, towards all
" these expenses I thought you would not have scrupled to have
" allowed the Rents and Boones due at Our Lady Day, but Rich :
** Booth tells me you will not, and if so I desire faire notice under
" your hand and then I will send for my daughter-in-law back
" and take bothe the children into Furnes where I can maintain
'* them at reasonable Rates, and I do not question the heire's pay-
" ment when he comes at age for their Maintenance during his
" minority. I have spared neither money nor labour hitherto to
" do Good for them and if it be not so well for the future, it
" cannot be imputed unto me who have but jQ^o annuity from
"my Brother. I observed my daughter in law very religiously
" disposed and therefore I consented she should stay a year
" longer, and I would run the hazard of paying her pension my-
" self, but if now I must teare her from her Vocation and nippe
— 1724] Richard Mascfs Boyhood, 143
** as it were in the budd all her religious thoughts and designs,
" it will ly at your Doore. So desiring y"^ answer, I remain &c."
( Tempest papers y box 75.)
George Meynell the elder, who managed the business affairs
of his daughter-in-law's portion, writing to William Dicconson
(who acted as Trustee after his father Hugh's death, 1691), 13th
February, 1693-4, says, '*as to Mr. Massey, I am very sensible
" that jQ2o a year cannot maintain him as he ought to be, there-
" fore at y"^ request I am willing to forbear ;^3o a year out of
" what you used to pay me, untill the young gentleman come att
'* age, which my sister Massy tells me will be a yeare sooner than
" you mention."
From the various papers and bills I have had access to I sur-
mise that Richard Mascy attained his majority in 1695. Neither
the Warrington register, nor that of Dalton-in-Furness, where I
fancied he might have been born if his mother Elizabeth owned
property near, throw any light as to the date of his birth. The
glimpse we have of Richard's childhood, through John Blundell's
letter, does not suggest much of
*' Those joys which childhood calls its own."
Like all Catholic gentlemen of that date, his education was
received abroad ; far from home and mother ; a fugitive in a
strange land ; trained in his religion and learning (by force of
his country's laws) clandestinely !
Amongst some of the accounts of expenses incurred during
Richard's youth is a note dated 29th November, 1693, stating
that on that day ;^i5 was paid to Mr. Henry Tasburgh for Mr.
Massy 's pension, ** tho' his second year will not be compleat till
*' June next year." This Henry Tasburgh was of an old Norfolk
family, and was superior of the Jesuits in the Lancashire district
in 1 701. Being the missioner at Ince Blundell, he was doubtless
well known to John Blundell, and for this reason entrusted with
the arrangements of young Mascy's education, either at his own
house at Ince, or abroad.
In 1694, Mascy acknowledges that he owes one ** Mr. James
Juness '^ jQi2 ioj., for board and cloathes and other expenses
144 The Moseys of Rixton. [1675 —
** the space of about six months I was at his house. Given in
** Flanders at Douay," which points to his being at that date at
the Jesuits* College there.
I do not know if the whole of his school days were spent at Douay
or not, but on 31st January, 9 William III, a license or free liberty
was granted under the Privy Seal to " Richard Massey who went
** into the French King^s Dominions since the nth day of De-
•* cember, 1688, without License from us or our late Royal Consort
** the Queen and is since returned in this our kingdom without
** Licence as aforesaid, to stay in this our Realme of England
** or any other our Dominions/' (W. 117.) When Richard came
of age he filed another Bill in Chancery, complaining that one
moiety of his estate was still in jointure to Margaret, widow of
his uncle Hamlet Mascy, and that though ;^i4oo or ;^i5oo had
been paid towards his cousin Mary Meynell's claim, he could not
more rapidly discharge the remainder. He offered to pay 4 per
cent, interest on this ; but the Meynells claimed ;£3ooo in all,
insisting on 6 per cent, for damages and costs. There is no
date to the copy of this Bill, but I take it to be about 1695 ;
for an agreement was made 20th November, 1696, by which
Richard Mascy undertook to pay ;^i3oo to the Meynells before
certain dates, and in certain portions, at Skipton-in-Craven.
(Deed^ penes S» Scrape,)
With reference to the payment of this money, George Meynell
writes to William Dicconson, 26th January, 1696-7, " My father
** would be ready to do anything that might render the payment
** of money easy to my cos. Mascy, but old money at 5J. 2d,
** per oz. passes not at all with us, for the mint is not obliged
** to take it at any price, so others presume to refuse it at that,
" and therefore my father cannot dispose on it." ( Tempest
papers,)
In November, 1696, as mentioned, Richard freed his property
of his aunt's dower or thirds ; and in March, 9 William III, he
suffered a Recovery of the estates (R. 207, &c.), and commenced
tO'-mortgage them ; and probably this was done to enable him to
discharge the Meynell debt.
— 1724] ^^ Sic transit gloria muniiiy 146
He married, in 1697, Jane, eldest daughter of William Fitz-
herbert of Norbury, co. Derby, by his wife Elizabeth Owen.
Writing in May, 1697, to Mr. Dicconson, young Mascy says,
** Pray when you see Mr. Fitzherbert give him my very humble
** service, hoping very soon to be his son-in-law." (Tempest papers,
box 75.) The post-nuptial settlements on this marriage are dated
i8th February, 10 William III., 1698, and shew that Jane
Fitzherbert had a portion of ;^22oo, and that a jointure of ;^220
a year was settled upon her. (R. 215.)
The pecuniary difficulties which never left this poor Mascy now
began to crowd upon him, and in 1701 we find him mortgaging
his manor of Rixton and Glasebroke to Nicholas Starkie of
Preston, and increasing the debt next year. (R. 216 to 219.) An
old paper thus states his case: ** In or about 171 1, Richard
** Mascy, being greatly indebted, went into the Mint, and the
** mortgagee (Nicholas Starkie) entered upon possession of the
** said manors and rents, and hath ever since, by virtue of the
** conveyance before mentioned (24th December, 1701, and June,
** 1702), continued in the receipt of the rents and profits
** thereof, and no part thereof was received by Richard Massey,
** only some small allowance made to prevent his starving."
(Tempest papers, box 75.) How sad a picture this conjures up
of the last but one of the ancient family ! this son whom friendly
neighbours like William Blundell had hoped to see born ! Well
may one exclaim ** Sic transit gloria mundi,'* at the thought of a
descendant of the great and proud Barons of Dunham Massey,
dependent on the charity of a Preston lawyer.
An Indenture was made the 24th August, 17 14, between
Richard Massey of Rixton, Esq., of the one part, and Hugh
Johnson of Warrington of the other, as to the division of Glaze-
brook Moss ; which declares that Mascy and Johnson stand
seized of the manor of Glazebrook, and of all wastes, commons,
&:c., there, in the ratio of Mascy three parts to Johnson's one
part, as into four parts the whole divided. Various parcels of
moss ground, "moss rooms," &c., each described, are then
allotted to these joint lords of the manor. (Eixton Leases, 325.)
Lt
146 The Moseys of Rixton, [i7a4—
In 1 7 15, Mascy registered his estates at Rixton as a Catholic at
:^35i. OS, gd,f " in possession of James Boyle " (/?. C Nonjurors^
1745), but I cannot discover that he was tempted into joining
the rising of 1715.
Richard's wife, Jane Fitzherbert, was buried at Warrington,
8th September, 1704, leaving an only son, Francis, born in 1703.
(Tempest Paper s^ box 72.) He is said to have married secondly,
Elizabeth, the daughter and coheir of Sir George Selby of Win-
laton, CO. Durham, Baronet, and widow of John Dalton of
Thurnham. (Baines' Lanc.^ vol. iv, p. 542.) No mention of the
lady appears amongst the Mascy papers.
In Trinity term, 7 Anne (1709), in a judgment for debt,
Richard Mascy is described as *' late of Rixton and now of
"Southampton Street, Middlesex." (R. 225.) He was, however,
probably on account of his debts, some time a resident on the
Continent. In a letter to Nicholas Starkie, dated 17th October,
1723, he writes, "with great difficulty I am at last got into my
" own Country, where I wold most willingly stay if I cold any
" ways bring my unhappy affairs to Conclusion which I believe
" with your concurrence and assistance might still be brought about.
" I have prevailed with my good friend Mr. Drinkwater to wait
" upon you with this letter and hope you and he may amicably
** adjust all matters without any further Charge in Chancery.
** By letting me know what has been paid and what still remains
" due, you will in this extremely oblige your humble servant," Ac.
From various memoranda, Drinkwater appears to have advanced
money to Mascy. (Tempest Papers^ box 75.)
Richard Mascy died in 1724 (R. 243), but so far I have been
unable to ascertain the exact date, or where his death occurred ;
probably in London. It took place after i8th May, 1724, as the
Courts Baron, &c., for Rixton and Glasebroke were held that day
in Nicholas Starkie's name. {Court Roils.)
iFvancts iMascs. 1724.
XV. Francis Mascy, only son and heir of Richard, born 1703,
succeeded to the family property on his father's death, "and>
—1748] Cutting off the Eniaii. 147
" though not obliged, paid some of the debts his father left, and
" by his will directed that any such as remained unpaid were to
** be discharged out of his personal property." He inherited a
property suffering sadly from an unprincipled landlord, for, to
quote " a case " of this date, " the tenants taking advantage of
" Mr. Richard Massey's necessitous circumstances got their
** leases renewed for trifling considerations, some surrendered
" their leases and took new ones, others took leases in reversion
" . . . . and in some of these, less rents are reserved than
** the tenants paid before." {Tempest Papers^ box 75.)
Francis Mascy cut off the entail of his estates in March, 1729
(R. 234), and by his will, dated 27th February, 1741, directs that
his own and any of his father's debts that remain unpaid at the
time of his death are to be discharged out of his personal pro-
perty, and if that does not suffice, the real estate is to be charged.
He leaves to his " kinsman, George Meynell of Aldbrough, co.
** York, Esq., his heirs and assigns," the manors of Rixton and
Glasebrooke, the mansion house called Rixton Hall, the demesne
lands, and all lands and tenements, &c., in Rixton, Glasebrooke^
Martinscroft, and elsewhere ; charged, however, with an ** annuity
"of ;^ioo a year to Basil Fitzherbert, son of William Fitzherbert
** late of Swinerton, co. Stafford, and brother of Thomas Fitz-
** herbert of Swinerton." To his executors he leaves ;^iooo, to
be applied as he shall direct in writing. To Thomas Fitzherbert ;
to Edward Dicconson^s child, Mascy's god-daughter ; to Francis
Mannock (the Jesuit father, alias Arthur, who had been chaplain
to the Fitzherberts) ; to Thomas Culcheth of Culcheth ; and to
Hamlet Clarke of HoUinsgreen, he leaves legacies ; desiring also
that Mr. John Chadwick shall receive ;^5o, ** to be applied as
"shall be directed;" probably in masses. The executors to the
will are, Richard Clayton of Adlington, John Halliwall of Wright-
ington, and John Chadwick of Burgh. (R. 239.)
Francis Mascy died unmarried, at Culcheth, the 27th Sep-
tember, 1748. Amongst his executor's accounts as to his death
and funeral expenses, occur, — ** By 9 servants at Culcheth
" 5x, od. each (according to custom when any of the family die
Lt 2
148 7%^ Mascys of Rixton.
** there) JE^2, ^s. To Mr. Blackburn's coachman for driving the
" Herst and corpse to Warrington Church, 29th September,
** loj. 6//." The coffin cost ^5, the shroud i8j.
The marble monument to his memory (fully . described in
** Arms in Warrington Churchy' p. 9) was placed in the Mascy
Chapel of Warrington Church, by Stephen Walter Tempest of
Broughton-in-Craven (one of the heirs at law), at a cost of
;£i5 151., but it was removed from the Chapel some time prior to
1836, as Baines mentions its absence {Hist, Lane, vol. iii., p. 671).
It seems sad it should have been deemed necessary to displace
this tribute to the last of the Mascys of Rixton from the site of
their ancient Chapel, where, " from tyme paste the memorie of
"man," his ancestors had been laid at rest. But fortunately
friends have not been wanting ; Mr. J. P. Rylands rescued the
fragments of the monument from acting as organ bellows
weights ; and to Mr. William Beamont, that most generous of
Lancashire Historians, we are indebted for its restoration to the
church wall in all its former glory — one more of his countless
thoughtful acts in the preservation of the relics of the past, for
which future generations, as well as the present, must ever
remain his debtors.
To trace how George Meynell of Aldborough, co. York, came
to be ** kinsman " to Francis Mascy of Rixton, we must return to
Hamlet, the eldest son of Richard Mascy and Mary Plowden,
who married in 1662, Margaret More. Dying during his father's
lifetime in 1665, Hamlet left an only daughter, Mary Mascy,
born in November, 1662, who married, in May, 1681, George
Meynell the younger, son and heir of George Meynell of
Aldbrough and Dalton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and
descended from the ancient Barons Meynell of Wherlton, &c.
The post-nuptial settlements are dated 2nd September, 43
Charles H, 1682 {Penes S, Scrape of Danby),
We have already noted the trouble which this Mary MeynelFs
portion caused to her cousin Richard Mascy. She had by her
marriage with Meynell, three children, James and Mary, who died
The Heir to the last of the Mascys, 149
young, and George, baptised at Stanwick, 28th August, 1683.
This last named George Meynell married, in 1722, Elizabeth,
daughter and sole heiress of George Cockson of Colpigs Hill,
CO. Durham, and it is this George Maynell whom Francis Mascy
designates in his will as his " kinsman," and to whom he left his
property. Dying intestate a month after Mascy's will was made,
namely, 24th March, 1741, the reversion of the bequest passed to
his son George, who, dying unmarried 14th January, 1747-8, left
three sisters his coheirs, and they, on Francis Mascy's death, in
September, 1748, inherited the Rixton estates as such.
Of these sisters, the eldest, Elizabeth, married, in May, 1748,
Dr. Thomas Witham of Old Durham, M.D., the second son of
William Witham of Cliffe, co. York, Esq. ; and she had, as her
share of her brother's and kinsman's estates, half the manor of
Rixton, with the Old Hall and demesne lands, the Mascy
Chapel in Warrington Church, and lands and tenements in
Rixton.
Anna Clementina, the second sister, married in 1749, Simon
Scrope of Dan by-upon- Yore, co. York, Esq., and had the manor
of Dalton in Yorkshire. Frances Olive, the youngest, baptised
at Stanwick, 27th September, 1727, married, in December, 1748,
Stephen Walter, the son and heir of Stephen Tempest of
Broughton-in-Craven, Esq., and had as her share, half the
manor of Rixton and Glasebrook, with free fishings in the
river Mersey and Glasebrook, the Little Hall, Rixton, with its
demesne lands, certain lands and tenements in Rixton, Glase-
brook and Martinscroft, with the ferryhouse and boat of Hollings
Green ferry, over which, from 1765 to 1771, Sir Peter Warburton
and Mr. Tempest had much dispute, owing to the former
removing the post on his side of the ferry, and demanding that
his tenants should be ferried across free. {Tempest Papers ^ box 72.)
The deeds of partition, by which the division of the estates is
agreed to and settled, are dated 21st and 22nd April, 1751.
(R. 249 and 250, &c.)
Dr. Witham sold his wife's share of the Mascy property to the
Patten family some time before the loth October, 1785, as on
160 Tk€ Moseys of Rixtan.
that day the Courts were held in the joint names of Stephen
Tempest and Thomas Patten. (Rixton Court Rolls,) Most of
the Tempest moiety remained in the family until after the death
of Sir Charles Robert Tempest of Broughton-in-Craven, Baronet,
in December, 1865 \ ^^o> ^y ^^ ^"^ dated 25th March, 1863,
directed that what remained of the Rixton and Glasebrook
property was to be sold. Portions had been sold in 1829 and
1854.
That the series of Rixton deeds remained at Broughton, instead
of becoming the property of the elder heiress, I attribute to
Stephen Walter Tempest's fondness for genealogy, which doubtless
led him to guard the papers and prevent their being dispersed ;
and if so, by his care he has enabled us to trace the descent of
the man whose property he inherited, and whose virtues, judging
by the inscription on the monument he erected, he so much
admired.
On an old map, showing the boundaries of the property of the
coheirs of Francis Mascy, is a curious sketch of Rixton Old
Hall, which shows it at that date to have been a three-gabled
house facing south, with abnormally high chimneys, and having
buildings, also with gabled roofs, projecting on either side behind
it, giving a suggestion of a ground plan in the shape of a Ti the
building on the east side being longer, and having two gables
instead of one. The " Little Hall " looks much like the houses
of the 17 th century one sees so often in Lancashire and the West
Riding of Yorkshire, having a big square porch running up the
whole height of the house, Of course, one cannot be sure these
are faithful representations ; but as the two houses are drawn
carefully (after the draughtsman's lights) , I think they probably
give a good idea.
One cannot close this sketch of the Rixton Mascys without
some remarks on the arms accredited to them, or which they used.
The earliest seal on which any arms are traceable is that of
John le Mascy, 1365 (R. 66), on which there is a shield quarterly^
■
Arms. 151
first and fourth a mullet^ second and third lozengy^ aver all a fesSy
and circumscribed sigil : johis : le masci. The next armorial
seal in the series of deeds is attached to a grant from Richard le
Mascy de Rixton to certain trustees in 1384 (R. 82), and bears on
the shield quarterly^ and in the first and fourth quarters a mullet ;
around is the legend, sigillum hamonis de masci, which points
to the seal having belonged to Richard's father Hamon. The
descriptions of these two seals are copied from the notes made
in 1837 by Mr. Joseph F. Tempest when he transcribed the
Mascy deeds. Unfortunately the deeds to which these seals were
attached are amongst those that are missing, and therefore cannot
be illustrated.
From these two examples one is inclined to suppose that at
first the Mascys of Rixton bore two mullets, one of which they
shortly abandoned. I perceive, however, from a quartered seal
in the Warrington Museum, that in 1597 John Mascy of Layton
(a junior branch of the Rixton Mascys) used the two, though he
bore them in the second and third quarters.
The sketch of the seals attached to the charters of Richard le
Masci de Rixton to his son Peter le Masci in 1400, as depicted in
the Dodsworth Collections in the Bodleian Library, shows the
arms borne at that date to be quarterly^ in the. first quarter (only)
a mullet ; and the seal used by Peter le Mascy, the husband of
Margaret Horton in 1406, of which only the lower portion
remains, shows it was quarterly, and that there was no mullet in
the fourth quarter. (W. 38.)
The seal used from 1438 (W. 47) to 1538 (R. 159), was that
of two covered cups crossed saltirewise^ with the name massy, in
old English characters, above. These impressions were evidently
from a signet ring, as on two of the seals one can trace the sides
of the ring. The ** covered cup " appears to have been adopted
by the Mascys as a badge, and afterwards used as a crest ; in 1467
Johanna, widow of Hamon Mascy, had for a seal one covered cup
between her initials. (W. 59.)
The first instance of the quartered arms that I have found j
on a seal, amongst these Rixton papers, is on an agreement of
152 The Moseys of Rixtan,
1625 (Rixton Leases^ 313), where they are on a shield quarterly of
four^ firsts on a bend three covered cups ; second^ quarterly^ in
the second quarter a mullet; thirds three birds close; fourth^
a squirrel sejant. This seal was constantly used for the next
two or three generations, but of course shows no tinctures. In
1696 Richard Mascy used the same quarterings, but added a
helmet with mantling, surmounted by his crest, the covered
cup. (R. 207.)
In 1728, Francis Mascy uses the same quarterings {Rixton
LeaseSy 254) ; but the next year, seals with a shield bearing only
quarterly, Or and Gules, a mullet in the first quarter, and a crest
above of the covered cup (R. 234) ; having a seal in 1730 with
the arms quartered, namely, first and fourth quarterly Or and
Gules, in the first a mullet Sable, second Argent, on a bend Sable
three covered cups of the field, third, a squirrel Gules, with
helmet and mantling and crest (R. 238); showing that the
Mascys then adopted Dugdale's opinion as to their arms in pre-
ference to that of the older heralds, and to the coat formerly dis-
played in the old painted glass of the windows of Warrington
Church.
I am indebted to Mr. J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A., for the following
note : — ** Francis Mascy, Esq., of Rixton, Lancashire," is the
inscription on a book-plate engraved by Skinner of Bath, in 1739.
The arms upon this plate are quarterly, first and fourth Mascy,
second Rixton, and third Horton, with the covered-cup for a
crest. The shield on Francis Mascy's monument, however, dis-
plays the arms quarterly, first Rixton, second Mascy, third War-
burton (?), and fourth Horton.
The seal used by Margaret, the widow of Hamlet Mascy, in
1696, bears the Rixton coat with a label of three points, impaled
with the More arms of Sable, a cross Argent. (R. 209.)
That the Mascys of Rixton used the Rixton arms, putting into
secondary consideration the Mascy coat, from the middle of the
fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century, is evident, not
only from the painted glass in Warrington Church, but also from
the seals I have quoted.
Arms, 168
This use of the Rixton coat in the first quarter, which should
correctly have borne the Mascy arms, accounts no doubt for the
absence of "the Mascy shield on the Troutbeck tomb in St. Mary's
Church, Chester, and the presence of the Rixton one. At the
date of Sir William Troutbeck's death, 1445, this arrangement of
quarters would have existed, and it is obvious the designer of the
tomb would appropriate the coat usually borne by the Mascys
to be their paternal one, regardless of other quarters. The
covered cups were used by the Mascys as a badge in 1436.
Benalt, in his Visitation of Lancashire in 1533, allowed the
arms of " Massye of Rigiston " (Rixton) to ht— quarterly , first
Argent^ on a bend Sable three covered cups of the field ; second^
quarterly Gules and Argent^ in the second quarter a mullet Sable ;
third Argent^ three birds close Vert ; fourth^ Argent^ a squirrel
sejant Gules ^ holding a nut Or. In other words, the arms as found
on the family seals from 1625 to 1728.
Dugdale, however, in 1 664, in his Visitation of Lancashire^
enters the arms of Mascy of Rixton as, ''^quarterly Or arid. Gules,
''''in the first quarter a mullet Sable^ It is puzzling to compre-
hend the reason of Dugdale's change in the blazon of the arms,
for ** Or," never appears, as far as one can discover, on the
Rixton Mascys' shield before.
The arms of the Mascys of Rixton, as they were found in
Warrington Church, in 1572 by Sampson Erdeswick, and in 1640
by Randle Holme, were — Quarterly of four : first, Argent, on
a bend Sable three cups Argent ; second, quarterly Gules and
Argent, in the second quarter a mullet Sable; third. Argent, a
fesse Vert, between three parrots Gules ; fourth. Argent, a squirrel
sejant Gules ; — and a Mascy coat by itself, of quarterly. Argent
and Gules, in the first quarter a mullet Sable* From the coat,
quarterly. Argent and Gules, in the first quarter a mullet, being
found ** in an owld wyndowe" and on the Butler tomb, the
position of the mullet being the same as in the early seals, I am
led to conjecture ihat this was the more ancient bearing, and that
when the Mascys became of Rixton they adopted the Argent field
of the Rixton coat in place of the Or of the Paternal coat, chang-
154 The Mascys of Rixton,
ing at the same time the positions of the coloured quarters. To
continue my conjectures, I hazard the theory that the arms were
so borne until John Mascy, succeeding in 1502 his brother Hamon,
transposed metals and colours and mullet to make a permanent
difference ; and as such — namely, quarterly, Gules and Argent, a
mullet Sable in the second quarter — his son entered them in 1533.
A curious example of a dimidiated coat is used on a seal
attached to a lease from William Mascy of Rixton in 1587, namely,
first quarter, three birds close ; the quarter below, two covered
cups, impaled with a dimidiated saltire. I suggest that this seal
refers to the alliance between Richard, William Mascy's son, and
Anne Middleton, which took place about this date.
Just one closing remark is necessary on the arms attributed to
** Pennington." They appear in the notices of the Mascy quar-
terings, described in three different blazons. Benalt in 1533 gives,
Argent^ three birds close Vert Fowler in 1567, amongst the
quarterings of Mascy of Carlton, a younger son of Rixton, gives
Vert^ three falcons Argent ; while according to the notes of Erdes-
wick and Holme, this coat appeared in Warrington Church as.
Argent, a fess Vert, between three parrots Gules. Query, Which
was correct ? Now, instead of these arms being those of a family
named Pennington, of whose alliance with either Mascy or Horton
there is no trace, were not these birds intended for the pelicans
or cormorants of Richard Warburton, whose heiress brought lands
in Pennington to the Mascys ? There is only a portion left of a
seal used by Richard Warburton in 1420, and this shows a stout-
looking bird, its long beak turned to the right, (W. 41,) which
perhaps represents the form of bird he adopted as a badge, and
which may have been used as the foundation to his arms, as the
Pelican was for the Warburtons of Arley.
. Ormerod finds fault with the arms, ** Argent, a squirrel sejant
** Gules " for Horton, and states they were the bearing of the
family of del Wode or de Bosco of Hassal, who granted the lands
in Hertford to the Hortons. But might not the Hortons,
on acquiring this property, have been permitted to adopt the del
Wode arms as the Bothes did those of the Bartons ?
PLATE A.
2 3
MASCY SEALS.
Seals,
156
In the spelling of the name, the family always, down to Margaret
Mascy in 1704 and Richard Mascy in 17 14, signed as " Mascy " ;
but in the various deeds and papers the name is spelt in different
modes ; I have therefore, throughout the foregoing, given the
name spelt as I have found it in the several documents. Francis,
the last of the line, always signed ** Massey."
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES OF SEALS
DRAWN ON STONE
BY MRS. ARTHUR CECIL TEMPEST.
PLATE A.
Seal I. W. 4 — Green wax seal to undated grant from Roger de Sonky to
his son William.
2. W. 9 — Green wax seal to grant from Henry de Upton to John son
of Robt. de Burconheuyd, 16 Edward L
3. W. 10 — Green wax seal to grant from Ric. de Moston to Ric. fil.
Robert Orme, 20 Edward L
4. W. 12 — Green wax seal to grant and release from William le Botyler
to Alan de Rixton, 28 Edward I.
5. W. 18 — Greeny-brown wax seal to grant from Agnes daughter of
Thos. del Heath to Jordan fil. Henry Fabre, 9 Edward HI.
6. W. 25— White wax seal to grant from Will, del Lee to Peter le Smith,
33 Edward HL
7. W. 32 — Yellow-brown wax seal to grant from Robt. de Hannesone
de Comberbache to John de Burghes, 27 Richard II.
8. W. 31— White wax seal to receipt for Tenths and Fifteenths, Henry
de Torbok and John de Eccleston, collectors, 3 Richard H.
9. W. 34 — Red Wax seal to grant from Sir John Botiller, Knt., to
Nicholas de Rixton, &c., 9 Richard II.
166 The Moseys of Rixton.
PLATE B.
Seal I. W. 36 — Red wax seal to grant from Will. Jackson de Dervyne to
John de Burghe, 16 Richard II.
, 2. W. 37— Red wax &eal to lease for term by Sir John le Botiler, Knt.,
to Sir John de Pulle, Knt., and others, 18 Richard II.
, 3. W. 38 — Red wax seal to grant from Peter le Mascy to Richard de
More and others, 7 Henry IV.
, 4. W. 41 — Red wax seal to letter of attorney from Richard de Wer-
burton to Henry le Massy of Dunham, 7 Henry V,
, 5. W. 43 — Red wax seal to grantfrom Ralph de Rouley to Richard de
Werburton, 9 Henry V.
, 6. W. 45 — Red wax seal to grant from Will. Troutbek and other
feoffees to Will, le Mascy de Rixton, 13 Henry VI.
, 7. W. 47— Red wax seal to indenture between William Mascy of Rixton
and Sir Robert Bothe, Knt., 16 Henry VI.
, 8. W, 58— Red wax seal to surrender by Sir John Bothe and other
feoffees to Hamon Mascy of Rixton, 1461.
, 9. W. 51 — Red wax seal to lease by the Prior of Birkenhead to Hamon
Mascy, 32 Henry VI.
, 10. W. 59 — Red wax seal to assignment made by Johanna widow of
Hamon Mascy of Rixton, 6 Edward IV.
,11. W. 60 — Red wax seal to lease from the Prior of Birkenhead to
Hamon Mascy, 7 Edward IV.
PLATE C.
Seal I. W. 68 — Red wax seal to grant from Henry Gemet to Hamon Mascy,
2 Richard II.
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2. W. 79 — Brown wax seal to receipt for money from Elias Hert to
William Johnson, 15 Henry VII.
3. W. 90 — Red wax seal to letter of attorney from John Mascy, Thomas
Leycester, Thos. Legh, Jas. Domvyle, Thos. Hawardyne,
Simon Byrom, and Lawrence Langton, chaplain, to receive
seizen, 1 5 10.
4. W. 90 — Brown wax ditto.
5. W. 90— Brown wax ditto.
6. W. 102 — Brown wax seal to copy of record from Halmot Court of
Halton, 13 Elizabeth.
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MASCY SEALS.
PLATE C.
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Seal 7. W.104— Orange wax seal to grant of annuity from Adam de Hawar-
den to Ellen his daughter, 1575.
,, 8. W.106 — Brown wax seal to agreement between Miles Gerard and
others. John Ogle, a witness, whose arms these are,
36 Elizabeth.
,, 9. W.109 — Brown wax seal to indenture between Thomas 'Wilme and
Richard Mascy, 16 10.
10. Rixton leases. No. 10 — Brown wax seal to lease granted by William
Mascy of Rixton, Esq., to Richard Georgeson of Culcheth,
** Lynen webster,'*of certain closes in Rixton in the tenure
of William Yate, for the lives of Margaret Gest, daughter of
Richard Gest deceased, and of Edward Thomason, son
of Thomas Geoi^eson of Culcheth. Dated 20th July,
29 Elizabeth.
11. W.ii5^Red wax seal used by Sir Will. Gerard of Bryn, Bart., and
Richard Gerard of South worth to agreement, 1662.
12. R. 146 — Seal impressed on paper on wax to receipt given by Thomas
Hobbys for fine for refusing knightage, 20 Henry VII.
13. R. 174 — Red wax seal of Roger Bradshagh of Haigh to his daughter
Dorothy's marriage settlement, 161 5.
14. R. 160 — Brown wax seal used by Sir Thomas Holcroft of Vale Royal
to bond, 2 and 3 Philip and Mary.
PLATE D.
Seal I. Rixton leases, No. 313— Red wax seal to articles of agreement as to a
foot race between two runners named, made by Richard
Mascy of Rixton with John Sharpies of Freckleton,
loth May, i Charles I.
2. R. 187— Red wax seal used by Richard Mascy the younger to his
will, 1643.
3. R. 205 — Red wax seal used by Margaret Mascy widow of Hamlet
Mascy of Rixton, 1696.
4. R. 205— Red wax seal used by Richard Mascy, 1694, being the seal
of William Dicconson of Wrightington, 1696.
5. R. 2o6--Red wax seal of George Meynell of Aldbro*, co. York, 1696.
6. R.207 — Red wax seal of Richard Mascy of Rixton, 1696.
„ 7. R. 21 5— Red wax seal used by Richard Mascy and his wife to post
nuptial settlementSi 1698.
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168 The Moseys of Rixton.
Seals. R.ail — I{ed wax seal to lease from Richard Mascy to Thomas
Daienpori of Altrincham, gent., 1704.
„ 9. R. 338— Seal used by Francis Mascy of Rixfon, 1738.
,, 10. R.Z34 — Seal used by Francis Mascy of Riiton, 1739.
,, II. RixtoD teases, No. 42 — Seal used lo lease froEn Francis Mascy of
Rixton to Randle Caldwell of Rixton, yeoman, oF a fatm in
Rixton, for the lives of Randle Caldwell aged So, of
Thomas Caldwell, his son, aged 44, and of John Caldwell,
another son, aged 40-
,, 13. — Seal used by Richard Mascy of Rixton on various bonds and letters,
"^~'"-- — ^^ 1701 lo 1704.
„ 13. Rixton lMSes,J!l9i*44 — Seal used to lease granted by Francis Mascy
of Rixlon to William Astall of Rixton-cum-Glasebrook,
husbandman, of a parcel of land "as the same is now
" marked or meared out '* ia Damm Lane in Glaiebiook,
with leave to build thereon, for n)e lives of William Astatt
and Mary bis wife, and of John AsC^l their son.
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PLATE D.
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MASCY SEALS.
SELECTIONS FROM THE ANCIENT PAPERS OF
FORMERLY OF LIVERPOOL AND BANK HALL.
SttbdiM? in West Detbi? Dundted.
[N.B. — The second sums named appear to have been subsequently added.]
15 14. This Indent' made the seconde day of May the vi^*
yere of the Reign of our Souereign Lord Kynge Henr' the viij'^
witnefsith that Wittm Molyneux Knyght, Henr* Norres, Wiifm
More, Esquiers & Wittm Bretargh CoinifsioSs w'in the Countie
of Lan? for the afsefsing of on' subside grantyd at the pliamet
holden at Westfl Beginnynge the iiij'* day of ffebruary in the
iij<** yer of our sofieign Lord's reign And proget vnto the iiij' day
of Nouem1& then next Ensuynge haue delifled to Nicholas
ffasakyrley on' of the Collect'rs w'in the Wapentake of Derby in
the Countie aforesaid the Namis and surnamis of the Constabuls
of efiy towne w' the sumys of money sett opon thayme
chargeable to the said s'bsyde Afsefsid by vs the said Comifsiofis
in the pishous of Sefton, Walton, Childewall, & Huyton by the
said Ni5 ffasakyrley to be receyvit of the said Costabuls at such
tyme as the said Nicholas shall aske or demande the said siimys
of the said Costabuls And the said Nicholas to pay to th'use of
160
Moore Papers,
our said Sofieign Lord in his Escheker assone aftyr the re^ y'of
as he Coveniently may or can that is to say of the
Costabuls of Derby
Cdstabuls of Efiton
Piers Ridinge
Thorn's Tatlock
Roger Mercer
Thorn's Rose
Richard Botehill
Thorn's Eraker
Ivijs y\^ liijs iiij
Costabuls of Walton RoBt Merton
cu ffasakyrley Richard Robynson
nij*
XIX*
Costabuls of Kyrkby
John Pasmyth
Thorn's Jenkynson J
}
[ xj* viij*
Costabuls of Wafitre ^^^ . 1 ?
Henr' Robynetson
}
xiy uij°
Costabuls of Huy ton Will"* Tarleton ) ... ...
cu Roby RoBt Gernet I """^^^ ""^
Of the lord of Huyton
Roger Sefton
Costabuls of Sefton John Lunte }• xxiiij*
Costabuls of Little
Crosseby cu
Morehousez
Piers Derwyn
Wittm Tarleton
Thorn's Johnson
Costabuls of Ince Jamis Blanchet
Bludell Richard Wilson
Costabuls of Mich John Newhouse
x« ij«*
xj* viij**
Crofseby
John Derwyn
Costabuls of Thorne- Matthew Lunte
John Waynwright
ton
Castabuls of Lyther- Jamis Richardson
land
Richard Goore
1
}
IXS
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nid
VI* VUJ
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XV]'
X*
X*
XX*
vj* viij<*
XX*
IX*
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Wfx/ Derby Hundred. 161
Costabul of Ayntre John Blanchard iii« vi<* ij* viij**
i— . u 1 n? u Nicholas Aynesdale | ... . .
CostabulsofFormby ^ ^. v xiii'' vi° xi"*
Roger Rice )
CostabulsofLyfipole ^r ^ t-^.^ I xxx« xxxiij* \\\\^
^ ^ Cristofer Lightfot I ^ ^
Costabuls of Know- Henry Graves [ -s • d
seley John Whitacre J ^^^ ^"^ ^'
Costabuls of Kerk- John Wiswall senior) , '
dale John Wiswall junior! ^"^ "^^ ^"^^ "^^
n-.^^u 1 r o 1 Wittm Nicholafson ) , ^
Costabuls of Speke h xxxnjs iiij^ xxxij* mf
^- 1 « ^x. 1 .„ Thorn's ffyne )
Costabuls of BotehiU , ^ ,.,, v^ viij<i vf
James Gardin ) ' •' •'
Costabuls of Gerstan John Mercer
cu Aykebergh John Hichmogh
Costabuls of Hale- John Newton
wood John Port
I xs iiijd
[ xlijs viij'
Costabuls of Litil Laurence Jenkynson )
Woolton John Holgrave
xjs v]^ ix^ vj^
Costabuls of Much Wittm Corker ^ « «
Woolton RoBt Waynwright i ''"^ """^ ^^^^
|S vmd
i— * u 1 rAii . Thomas Amote . ]
Costabuls of Allerton ^ ^ „, , [ v^ mi«
Raufe Wodewart ;
Costabull of Hale Robt Tokill xvij^ ij^
^ t , ^rw, , , Richard Estehede )
Costabuls of Torbok ^^. , , „,
N icholas Way n wrigh t
xjs viij** xiij« nij°
The Nete sume is xvj^* v* iiij^
S'm totalis xx" xiiij^ ij<i
From the original on parchment. [No. 2.]
162 Moore Papers.
Precepts to the Constables of West Derby.
These precepts apparently concern the collection of one of
the " Three entire Subsidies and three Fifteenths and Tenths "
granted to the King by " the Temporality " in the Act of Parlia-
ment of 21 James I, cap. 34. At the same time ** Four entire
" Subsidies " were granted by the Spirituality. The precepts are
written on separate slips of paper, with original signatures.
Edward Moore was collector for the Hundreds of Leyland
and Salford, as well as West Derby, and paid to the King's
•Treasurer's ;^488. 141. 2d. for the three hundreds, and had his
receipt on the 3rd August, 22 James I (1625). [No. 415.]
1624. To the Constables of flltbetton.
You are to Collect of the sefiall psons whose names are
subscrybed the sefiall somes vpon them & of efiie of them
chargeable, & to pay the same over to Edward Moore Esqr. High
Collector for the Hundred of West Derby at or vpon Munday
the xij'** of this Instant July next. Wherof fayle not at yor
p'ills. Dated the first of July 1624.
S"^ Tho : Ireland Kt. & John Atherton Esq.
in lands
Edmund Bell in goods
Henry Aired in goods
W°* Hurst in goods
Henry Maurice in goods
(Signed) W. Norres
Cha : Gerard Edw : Stanley
x«
xl»
vii'i
xviij' viij"*
Vili
xvj*
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1624. To the Constables of 29aIton.
You are to Collect and gather of the sefiall psons herevnder
named the sefiall somes vpon them taxed, And to make ^sente
payment thereof vnto Edward Moore esquyre, at the house of
Gawther Barton in Ormschurch vpon Monday the xij* of this
Precepts to Canstdfles, 168
Instant July faile not herein at yC p'ills. Dated this firste of
July 1624.
Henry Afshehurste in Land v** xx*
Henry Prescott in goodes iij*» viij*
George Barton iij*» viij*
(Signed) W. Norres
Cha : Gerard Edw : Stanley
To the Constables of Stfton.
S"^ Richard Molyneux Kt. Baronett
in Lands Ixvij" 13* 4^ xiij^* x» 8**
More for Lands late S' Edw. Torbock
More for Lands in Maghull
Peter Hurdis in Lands
George Ryding in<goods
Nicholas Copple in goods
(Signed as before.)
x"
xl»
iiijw
xvj'
XX'
• • • t _
Ulj*
iijK
vuj*
iij'i
vuj*
To the Constables of tPilDesrtes
cum (SIftakerlrfi.
Tho : Tildesley g [ent] in
lands
XX*
lllj*
John Chaddocke g [ent] ir
I lands
XX*
lllj*
Adam Mort Esq. in lands
yli
XX*
Richard Aired in goods
iij" X*
ix* iiij^
RafTe Mort in goods
iij" X*
IX* iiijQ
(Signed as before.)
To the Constables of inellingc«
Robt Molyneux Esq. in Lands
Robt Bootle gefi in lands
Anne Stopforth widow & the heires of John
Secome g [en] for Nobleyes lands
Wiihn Marton gen in lands
Richard Tatlocke in goods
(Signed) W. Norres
Cha : Gerard
Mt a
••••li
111J*»
xvj*
XX*
lllj*
XX*
lllj*
XX*
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164 Moore Papers.
To the Constables of l^aljSall
S"^ Cuthbert Halsall Kt. in lands xxx^» vj^*
The sayd S*" Cuthbert for lands in MaghuU xx^ iiij
The sayd S*^ Cuthbert for lands in Dalton xx^ iiij
Thomas Mawdisley in goods vj^ xvj
Thomas Rymmer in goods vj'* xvj
(Signed) Cha : Gerard Edw : Stanley
To the Constables of I^UHnge anD WAMXzvXt^.
Wittm Bankes esquyre in Landes
Lawrence ffarecloughe in goodes
Wittm Blackburne in Landes
Roger Anderton Esquyre in Landes
Edmund Wood in Landes
John Winstanley in Landes
Hughe Holme in goodes
Wittm Bispham esquyre in Landes
Edmund Bispham in Landes
Lawrence Gaskell in goodes
(Signed) W. Norres
Edw : Stanley
xxxij''
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xuj^ Ulj°
xl'-
viij*
xl^
viijs
XX^
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xx^
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vii
xx^
XX^
Ulj''
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x* viij**
To the Constables of <^(arrtvickf .
Edward Scarsbricke in Lands x^> xl*
John Shawe gent in Lands xl** viij*
Edward Gorsuche gent in Landes xx^ iiij*
Gilbto Sheiphton for goodes iij*^ viij^
Thomas Hill for goodes iij^» viij*
John Ormyshawe for goodes v** xiij* iiij**
(Signed) W. Norres
Edw : Stanley
[No. 114.]
Liverpool Chantries,
166
Xiperpool Cbantrfes.
The four Chantries of Liverpool were those of St Katherine,
St. Nicholas, St. John, and of the High Altar. Their lands
were sold by Sir Thomas Hesketh and William Ashehurst to
William Cooke of Liverpool, husbandman, on the 20th of April,
1598. [No. 400.]
A true and pfect copie of a i^entalie of all the Chaunteries of
Lifipoole given vnder the hand of Raphe Asheton of Leavo"^
Esq. M' Receive'' to Xpofer Ley land Collector"
In^mis S' Edward Warren knight
ix«^
Edward Moore Esq""
xnij*
John Crofse Esq*"
Viijs vj*^
Nicholas ffazakerley ge [n
xxxviijs iiij**
RoBt Moore ge [n^
xxiijs
Edward Robinson
xxj* ij<*
Edward Lathome
vjs \f
The Maio*" of Liu*poole
v«
Henry Mofsock or Thom's Button
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Richard Mellinge
VJs
John Bird
VJs vj<*
Raphe Seacome
xxij<*
Edmund Rose
• • * A
Thom*s Lurtinge
xxix^
Richard Rose
xxvj* viij<*
Thom's Hytchmoughe w'»» y« house y* y* seriant
dwelleth in late Richard Ecclestons
xxxvj* viij**
Widdow Abraham
xijs yiij**
Thom's Hubberstaye
Thurston Woodward
vj* viij«*
Thom's Boulton
iij* nij^
Thom's Richardson alias Dickon
• • — • • • J
Richard Bower
vj* viij<*
Antonie Berrie
vjs Y^
1 hom's Tarlton
xviij**
166 Moore Papers,
Robte Mofse of Efiton
Humfrey Heye of Efiton
Elizabeth Houlden
Rowland Joneson
William Eccleston
Widdowe Crofse
Wyddow Symons & now Richard Dychfeild
Thorn's Greves
John Mofse
William Cooke or Richard Berrie
John Heye
Widdow Williamson ats Barker
Robte Bixtathe for Dorothie Goulborne
Widdow Seacome
Launcelott Walker
John Royle
Richard Higginson
Elizabeth Balief
James Mellinge
William Boulton of Efiton by Robte Joneson
Anne Lawrence
Thom*s Bixtathe senio*"
Thom's Allerton
John Blackmoore
M' Ashurste
Suram total
xxiij^> ij* ix<*
M' Leyland I pray yo" make Collection of theis rents
conteyned in this rentalie & this shalbee yo'" warrant. And I
rest verie muche behouldinge to yo" for y« same.
Yo' Lovinge ffrend
(Autograph) Raphe Ashetoun.
W" Smith y* Carpente*^ hath payd xij<*
[No. III.]
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BootU Court Baron, 167
Sootle Court JSaron.
1612 1T(0U$( iFtantij ]^Uglf Cum Curia Baronis Edwardi Moore
Armigeri Maffij sui de Bootell infra Com' Lancastr' ten't
ibm die Martis videlicet primo die Decembris Anno
Regni Dni n'ri Jacobi dei gra AngP ffran^ et Hib'nie
Regis fidei defensor &c. decimo, et Scotie Quadragefsimo
sexto, Annoq' dni M°*° sex™® duodecimo, Coram ^fato
Edwardo Moore dno eiusdem Maffij fuit De q' : &c.
InquijsUo' Capta ib'm pro Dno per Sacrum Joliis Wiiimson Jacobi
Johnson Wiiti Washington Ric*i Ascrofte Joliis Berrie
Rob'ti Wittmson Johes Cooke Henrici Harper Jacobi
Haughton Witti Haughton Petri Coldocke et Thom. Bell
Jurator Qui dicunt et parlant sup sacrum sufi f dtu' modo
et forma sequen' &c.
Liberi Tenentes et Sectatores
Curie Manerij p'd vt sequitur
Johes Burton
Anna Harvie vid'
Tenentes ad voluntatem
Ric'us Worsley mortuus est
Jacobus Johnson
Wiiius Washington
vxor Joliis Masker
Alicia ffynn vid'
Rob'tus Wiiimson
Nidius Bridge
Wittus Mercer Compuit p vx*
Henricus Harper
Johes Cooke
Henricus Haughton
Margareta Muche vid'
Milo Strange
Ric'us Ascrofte p Thomam fillifi sufi
Johes Berrie
168 Moore Papers,
Jofees Tatlock mortuus est
Jofees Wittmson
Wittus Haughton^
Thomas Coldocke
Wittus Dawbie defaltS fecit
Brianus Lansdale ah Dawber
Jofces Tarlton
3)ucAtor(s( iPdti super sacrum su& ^dtu' dicunt et putant q^
Thomas Johnson aliorfi Siceres Comburivit Ideo
ip*e in mla iiij<*
Et q«* Thomas Ascrofte auerijs suis depast* fecit Co'iter
anglice Leasowed in le barelands tyme Ideo
ip'e in mla iij**-
Et q** Margareta Mache vid. sititer fecit contra formam
Ordinis in Rotulis hujus Curie dependefi Ideo
ip'a in mia iij**
Et q*^ Nictius Bridge sititer fecit Ideo ip'e in mla vj<*
Et q^ Henricus Berrie sititer fecit Ideo ip'e in mia iij<*
Et Q^ Jacobus Johnson sititer fecit Ideo ip'e in mia iij**
Et q^ Ric'us Worsley sititer fecit Ideo ip'e in mia iij**
Et q^ Henricus Harper sititer fecit in le Newe Hey Ideo -
ip'e in mia iij**
Et q^ Rob'tus Wittmson sititer fecit in Le Singerland
Ideo ip'e in mia iij<*
Et q^ Johes Berrie sititer fecit in Le Singerland Ideo ip'e
in mia iij*^
Et q^ Milo Strange sititer fecit in Le Singerland Ideo ip'e
in mia iij^
Et q*^ Wittus Washington sititer fecit in Le Clayfield
Ideo ip'e in mia iij<*
Et q^ Jacobus Haughton sititer fecit Ideo ip'e in mia iij^
Et q^ Nichus Bridge sititer fecit Ideo ip'e in mia iij'^
Et q*^ Margareta Mach vid. sititer fecit in le Singerland
Ideo ip'a in mia vj<^
Et q'^ Eadem Margareta Mache herbam struit et decerpit
in fodina Henrici Haughton in le Singerlande et
eandem secfl asportavit Ideo ip'e in mia - \\^
Et Q^ Wittus Dawbie defaltfi fecit appuendo ad banc Cur'
sect debefi eid' Curie Ideo ip'e in mia
Booth Court Baron. 169
Et Q^ Milo Strange sepimenlfi sufi illegitime servavit ad
eum et nocumentfi Ric*i Ascrofte Ideo ip'e in mla xij<*
Et q«* Brianus Lansdale ats Dawber sititer fecit inter-se i\
Margaretam Mache vid. Ideo ip'e in mia' xij<*
Et q** Henricus Berrie non fodivit in Le Roodes Ideo
ip'e in mia xij*^
Et q*^ idem Henricus Berrie sepimentS sufi illigitime
servavit ad nocumentfi Henrici Harper Ideo ip'e
in mia xij**
Et q** Anna Harvie vid. Transgressionem fecit auljs suis
in le Cloverlonge Ideo ip*e iil mia v)^
Et q^ Joties Cooke sititer fecit in le Newe Hey Ideo ip'e
in mia vj**
Et q<^ Jofees Berrie sititer fecit in le Hay ffielde Ideo ip'e
in mia vj^
Et q^ Margareta Mach vid* Transgr* fecit au'ijs suis Johi
Wittmson in le Roodes Ideo ip'e in mia vj**
Et q^ Eadem Margareta Mach vid. transgr' fecit Jacobo
Johnson transferendo granu' suu' jacent in le
Breadinges Ideo ip'e in mia vj<*
Et q<* J ana vxo** Henrici Berrie affraiu' fecit sup Elizabe-
tham Dawbie et ab ea sanguinem traxit Ideo ip'e
in mia vj^ viij**
Et q** Richus Bridge verba minime decentia ^sus Ri^u
Worsley edidit et publicavit Ideo ip'e in mia vj*^
Et Q^ Elena vxo' Milonis Strange et Margareta Mache
verba indecentia inter se multiplicaver' Ideo
vterq' eor' in mia vj*^ xij^
Et q^ Brianus Lansdale ats Dawber equu' suu* ad largu'
vagare pmisit in le Newe hey in le Barelands
tyme Ideo ip'e in mia iij<*
Et ^ Jofees Wiitmson Radus Pemberton et Will'us Merser
terrain (angli^the Soyle) Diii huius Man'ij reperunt
et asportaver' extra hoc Maniu' sive Don) Ideo
quitib't epru' in mia vj*^ xviij<^
Et q^ Will'us Washington et Anna Harvie vid. verba
indecen' inter se multipli^ in mala exempla et
molestacQem vicinior' suoru' Ideo vterq' eoru'
in mia v]^ xij*^
Et q** Henricus Haughton lignu' (angli^ hedginge woode)
cep'it et asportavit a le Sandie Coppe Ideo ip'e
in mia vj**
170
Moore Papers.
3tttatotff( electi et Jurati ad Curiam j^dtam ad triandu' exitus
inter ptes et ptes.
Johes WiU'mson
Jacobus Johnson
Will'us Washington .
Ricus Ascrofte
Johes Berrie
Rob'tus Wiirmson ^
Jur'
Johes Cooke
Henricus Harper
Jacobus Haughton
Wiirus Haughton
Petrus Coldock
Thomas Bell
Jur'
12
Thomas Harrison de Walton in -Cofl Lan5 yoman quer' ^sus
Wiiram Washington de Bootill ^dta husbandman de ptito debi
xliiij* Def s exactus in Cur' Et in propr* psona sua Compuit, Et
Cognovit totu' Deb'm in plenu' Cur' Coram Dno manerij ^dti
in Cur* sedent Ideo adiudicatu' est p Curiam ^dtam qd quer'
Recuperavit Debm suu' ^dtu' cu' mise et Costagijs suis, occasone
detencbis deBi ^dti, sed ex cefsat quousq' p quer' Requirat Ideo
^dtas defend's sit in mia
Idem quer' ^sus eundem defend'um in ptito defei xx* deft, sititer
exact' et Compuit et propria Cognovit totu' DeBm Coram &c. Ideo
Consideratu' est &c. Et sititr' cefsat Execuco quousq' Et Ideo
^dtus deft, in mia
Idem quer* quesit' fsus Henricu' Haughton de Bootell fd
husbandman de ptito deb'i xvj* ij<^ Deft, sititer exact' in Cur' et
Compuit Et in propria psona sua Cognovit totu' defem ^dm Ideo
adiudicatu' est &c. sed cefsat exe? quosq' Requirat p querentem
Ideo ^dtus Deft, sit in mia
Constabularij
Baloorani
Taxatores
Billagius
Commun'
Inquisitores
®fficiarii pro hoc Anno 1612.
Jacobus Johnson
Will'us Washington
Johes Williamson
Elena Masker vid
Thomas Ascroft
Jghes Will'mson
Will'us Washington
)
(
1
/
Jur'
Jur'
Jur'
Jur'
[No. 113.]
Liverpool Dues, 171
H)ues of tbe port of Xfverpool in 1633.
Outtgatt & acounte ffrome the 23'^ of August 1633 vntill the
20* of September next Ensuinge being the xij mounth
The outt gatt of the Trenittie of Leu'poll
Gilbart Balshey one'
Anthony Rannould ffor one barrell tow sackes tow
panniors one bund' - - - - - - - iiij<*
The outt gatt of the Marriejohn of fFormbie
Richard Rimer one"^
Thomas Drumgould ffor tow barr* - - - - ij<*
The outt gatt of the Elline of fforrobie
James Mathew one'
Nicholas Cumice for tow barrells - - - . - ij**
In the Trenittie pdictu'
James Johnson ffor tow bund' ij<*
The outt gatt of the Cristopher of Liu'poll
Richard Blevine one'
Robart Worrall p Raphe Worrall ffor sixe horse packe - vj<*
The outt gatt of the Grase of God of Grennough
James Garvine one'
George Johnson ffor tow bund' ij<*
Som toto xviij*^
Jo : Walker Maior.
Outt gatt account ffrome the xx'** of September 1633 vntill the
xviij of October next Ensuinge beinge the xiij mounth
The outt gatt of the Marie John of fformby
Ric Rimer one'
Pattericke Moore ffor 7 ff [ardells] vij**
Ether Greeme ffor 5 ff [ardells] . - . . . v<*
John Tallon ffor one bund of tobaccoe - - - - ij<^
172 Moore Papers,
The out of the Trenittie of fformbie
John H . . . son one'
William Weaflfers flfor one pack ----- ijd
one trunck i*^
The Outt gatt of the Elizabeth of Liu'poll
William Barker one"^
John Norres ffor tow packe iiij<*
Rowlad Jacksonn ffor 7 bages of Hopes - - - . xiiij^
The outt gatt of the George of Liu'poll
William Blevine one'
Ric Adames (for 6 bags of Hopes xij<*
In the Marie John pdict*
James Louth ffor one ff[ardell] j**
one trunck j^
one bage j**
one truse - ij**
one hhd' ij*^
In the Henrici ^dict^
Cristopher Bath p M' Robartt Williamson for one trunck - j<*
Thomas Eglestone ftor one bage of Hopes - - - Nies
4» 6<*
Ingatt accbuntts fFrom the 5'** of Aprill 1633 vntill the 3th of
Maij next Ensuinge being the seventh mounth
The Ingatt of the Phenex of T -iu'poU Bryane Blundell one'
Ri^ Dowdell ffor eight pcells of yarne Contt*
17 packs iijs vj°**
Cristopher Mallone ffor one pcell Contt* 2 packs yarne - \^
Eight packs of Skines xvj<*
Liverpool Dues. 178
The Ingatt of the grafse of god of Greenenough
James Garvie one*"
Thomas Elcocke ffor ix bunds of Skines & some ffew
lose skines x<*
One barrel! of beefe j^
tow hundreth w" of ould brafse - - - - - ij^
The Ingatt of the Paterick of fformbie John Norres one"^
Alliexander Plunkett p John Bath ffor 3 pcells & one bund
of yarne Contt^ vj packs & ccc w" - - - -xvj<* ^^^
One bund of Hempe ]^
James Drumgould p John Bath ffor xvij barr' of tallow - xvij**
Cristopher Mallon ffor a bund of Skines - - - - ij^
The Ingatt of the Henrie of fformbie John Gilbartson one*^
Garrould Connon p John Fleminge ffor 5 pcells of Yarne
contt* X packs & cc^"- - ij« ij** *i
Robartt Balfe p Lawrance Hadforth ffor vij pcell of yarne
Contt* XV packes iij*j<io^
William Hamline p garron' Plunckett flfor 7 p*cell Skines - xiiij*^
The Ingatt of the Trenittie of Liu 'poll Ric' Blevine one"^
Edward Williamson flfor 46 . . . . all & locker ....
Ed Williames flfor tow p'cell
The Ingatt of the Marie of Liu'poll M*" Robart Williamson one'
Garrould Terrell p' James Hadfor flfor vij p'cell & one
bund of yarne Contt^ xvj packes & ccc^" - - iij* v^ ^^ <i
ffiue barr of beefe v*^
One bage of lock j**
Thomas Terrell p' Henrie Carie flfor viij p'cell Skines - xvj**
The Ingatt of the George of Liu 'poll William Blevine one'
George Stanley p' George Hudson flfor 5 p'cell & one
bund of yarne Contt* xij pack ij* vj<*
•
174 Moort Papers,
tow small bages of woll - - ij**
tow small bunds of Skines ij«*
Marmaduck Willson ffor tow bund' of yarae Contt* 3
packs & ccc waight - - - - -- ix *i
Henrie Sodonn ffor one bund Contt* 3c w" - - - j^ °^ *»
one bund of Hempe - j**
Soma tota xxv* iiij<* **^ *>
Jo : Walker Maior.
[No. 14.]
. /
PROCEEDINGS,
THIRTY-NINTH SESSION, 1887
The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at the
Royal Institution, Liverpool, on Thursday, the 20th of January, 1887 ;
F. J. Bailey, M.D., Vice-President, in the chair ; when the
ANNUAL REPORT
was read and approved of, as follows : —
Little has happened in the Society's life during the past year to call for
comment.
In August the British Archaeological Association held its Autumn meeting
in Liverpool, when arrangements for the entertainment of the strangers, and
their conveyance to and from objects of interest in the neighbourhood, were
made by the officers of this and of the Liverpool Architectural Society. It is
believed that a pleasant and instructive week was spent. In connection with
* this visit excavations were made at Burscough Priory, by permission of Lord
Derby, a record of which will presently appear in our Transactions.
Recently the Society has been so fortunate as to obtain the loan of the most
extensive and valuable collection of Charters, Deeds, and Muniments which
has ever been seen in this city. It was formerly the property of the Moore
family, who, during the 13th, 14th, 15th, and i6th centuries, lived in the heart
of Liverpool, and were intimately connected with the history of the place.
These muniments, which have been kindly lent to the Society by their present
owner, Capt. Stewart, of AUtyrodyn, Llandwyssil, South Wales, are being
transcribed and prepared for publication under the auspices of this Society and
of the Corporation of Liverpool, who have allowed Mr. T. N. Morton, our
Hon. Assistant Secretary, at present in their service, to undertake this work,
for which he is so well qualified. *' One copy of the Transcript is to remain
** the property of the Corporation."
During the past year seven Papers have been read before the Society, one of
them by a new member, Mrs. Arthur Tempest, who has given an exhaustive
account of the " Family of Mascy of Rixton and Glazebrook," drawn from
materials in the possession of her brother-in-law, Sir Henry Tempest, of
Broughton Hall, near Skipton, baronet.
Sixteen new members have joined the Society, and seventeen have died or
resigned since the last Annual Meeting. On the whole, considering the
powerful rivalry of the kindred societies at Manchester and Chester, in
numbers, at all events, this Society has held its own. Each Session, however,
it becomes more difficult to get papers to be read before the Society, and the
attendance of members at the meetings is still far from what could be
desired.
In response to the circular as to sale of back numbers of Transactions^
orders to the extent of some fourteen pounds have been received.
The Council regret to have to announce that Mr. Hance has resigned the
post of Honorary Secretary to the Society, which he has filled since July,
[ 176 ]
i884» a^nd they desire to place on record their high appreciation of his laborious
and self-denying services to the Society. At the same time a general wish
was expressed that Mr. Hance would reconsider his decision, and the acting
President (Dr. Bailey) was requested to embody this desire in a letter to Mr.
Hance, and acquaint the General Meeting with his decision.
LIST OF PAPERS READ.
1887.
January 27th. — " Some Ormskirk Singularities." James Dixon.
February loth. — " Windleshaw Abbey." Rev. Austin Powell.
February 24th. — ** Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields." Rev.
Andrew E. P. Gray, M.A , F.S.A.
Mar. 10.- ''Recent Roman Discoveries in Lancashire and Cheshire." W.
Thompson Watkin.
March 24th. — "Ancient Precedents of the Town of Liverpool.*' E. M.
Hance, LL.B.
November 3rd. — **The Mascy Family of Rixton and Glazebrook " (Part I.)
Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest.
December ist. — **The Domesday Records of the land between Ribble and
** Mersey." Rev. Andrew E. P. Gray, M.A., F.S.A.
December 15th.—'' The Mascy Family of Rixton and Glazebrook " (Part II.)
Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest.
NAMES OF MEMBERS ELECTED DURING THE YEAR 1887.
Jan. 20. Wm. George Ainslie.
William Brown.
James Harrison.
Sir Thomas Storey, Knt.
John Unwin.
Feb. 10. Sir Henry Fox Bristowe,
Q.C.
Professor McKay, M.A.
Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest
(Life).
91
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Mar. 24. Wm. L. Hutton.
,, Rev. Edward Powell.
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»)
Nov. 3. Philip Thicknesse.
17. Albert Mead, B.A.
„ W. C. Ashby Pritt.
„ Rev. W. E. Torr, M.A.
I. Frank John Leslie.
15. Rev. J. Langfield Ward,
M.A.
if
Dec.
THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE
In Account with tht Hon. Treasurer ^ for the year 1887.
Receipts.
£, s. d.
Balance from 1886 21 17 4
Subscriptions —
For 1887 /^(yi 9 6
For 1888, in advance., i i o
Arrears 44 a o
107 la 6
Sale of Transaciioru o 9 3
Payments.
;C s. d.
Sessional Expenses — RentjPrinting,
&c 48 15 5
Paid on account of vol. 35 (Index).. 330
Do. do. 36( do. ).. 2*2 o
Balance carried forward 75 x8 8
; Cigo »Q «
INDEX.
Abraham, wid., 165
Adams Ric, 17a
Adamson — , 30
Adlington, 147
iEthelfrith, 36
Aigburth, i6z
AUerton, 161
AllertonT., 166
Aired H., 162
Altcar, 43
Altrincham, 78, 80, Z05
Amote T. , 161
Amounderness, 47
Anderton Jas., 127 ; Rog., 164
Arley, 81^ 154
Arrowsmith W., 96
Ascroft Ric, 167, 168 ; T., 167, 168, 170
Asshehurst, 163 ; — , 166 ; W., 165
Assheley J.,, 92, 103 ; Hamon, 86, 92
Assheton fam., 45; J., 67,116; Ra., 164, 166;
Sir T., 98
Ashton, 26
Ashton-under-Lyne, 45, 46
Ashton Cross, 27
J., 106, 107, 118, 122; Hamlet, 106, ii8 ;
Rob., 136
Aspinwall E., 132
Aspull, 40
Astall W., 158 ; Mary, 158 ; J., 158
Astbury, 70
Aston 57 ; Hamlet, 105 ; J., 104; Ric, 103 ; Sir
, Ric, 72 ; T., 104, los
Atherton, 162 ; A., 82 ; H. de, 77, 80, 82 ; J., 162 ;
N., 77 ; W., 6s
Aughton, 43
Aynesdale Nic, z6i
A3a»tree, 160
Ayrton W., 55
Backford, 72
Bagulegh, 84
Baker J. le, 70, 73
Balfe Rob., 173
Balief Eliz.. 166
Balshey Glib., 171
Bamber T., 102
Banastre Roger, 64
Banister Marm., 124
Banks J. and A, 24 ; W. 164
Barbarossa F., 2
Bare-lands, 168, 169
Barker, wid., 166 ; W., 172
Barlow Humph., Z03
Barnes J. , 34
Barrett — , 12, 21, 2a
Barton, 42*5 G., 162 ; Gauthier, 162 ; O., 76
Bath Chr., 172 ; J., 173
Baxter W., 161
Baysdon W., 130
Beauchamp Lord, 40
Bcamont W., 35, 66, 6q, 72, 99, 106, 120, 145
Bedford John Duke of, 2
Nt
Beef, 173
Beeston Rev. H., 22, 26
Belesme Bobt. de, 44
Bell Edm., 162 ; T., 167, 170
Berrie A., 165 ; H., 168, 169; J., 167, 170; Ric,
166
Berwick Duke of, 33
Betokson H., 61 ; Margt., 61
Bewsey, 99, 116, 118, 122
Billinge, 164
— HUl, 22
Birchley, 26, 27, 28
Bird J., 165
Birkenhead Priory, 156 ; seal, 84, 92
Birley Robt., 136
Bispham W., 164 ; Edmund, 164
Bixteth Robt., 166 ; T., sen., 166
Black Brook, 24, 26, 27, 28
Blackburn, 39, 40, 42, 45
^:,^^
. 64
Black Friars, Chester, 53
'blackmore J., 166
Black Prince, 64
Blakehill Moss, 15
Blanchard J., 161
Blanchet Jas., 160
Blevine Ric, 171, 173 ; W., 173
Blundell Brian, 172; Eliz., 141 ; J., 140, 141, 143 ;
Robt., 113, 119, 120, 126, 130, 140; W., 23,
127, 139, 145
Bodleian Library, 151
Bold Ric, 80; T., 82, 90
BoUand's Court, 51
Booth fam., 7 ; Geoff., 83; Geo., 92, 119, 120;
Hamlet, 83 ; J., 68, 76, 83, 84, 85, 90, 98, 99,
loi, 103, 156; Bp. J., 92; Ric, 142; Sir
Robt., 83, 106; Sir Rog., 93; T., 63, 83;
Sir W., 76, 83, 87, 93, 106, III
Bootle, 161, 170
Bootle Court Baron, 166-170
Bootle manor, 166
Robt., 163
Boseley Ric. de, 65, 73
Bostock fam. , 32
Botehill Ric, 160
Botiler Alice, 89, 9c, 104; Sir J., 67, 68, 81, 83,
89, 155, 156 ; Nich., 75 ; T., 96, 99, 100, 103,
109; W., 15, 64,81, 155
Boulton T.. 165 ; W., 166
Bourchier W., 8
Bowdon, 68, 70, 83, 84, 85 ; church, 84, 91, 93, 95
Bowden G., 82 ; J., 71, 74
Boydell T. de, 68
Boyle J., 146
Bower Ric, 165
Bradshaigh arms, 120; Chr., 137; Dorothy, 119,
126, 157 ; Sir Ra., 135 ; Sir Ric, 141 ; Rog.,
loi, 119, lao, 157 ; W., 129, 130
Brass, old, 173
Breche Hum., 97
Brereton Sir W., 71
Bretargh W., 159
Bridge Nich., 167, z68 ^» ; Ric, Z69
178
Index,
Brianne arms, 3
■ J. de and fam. , 5
Brown Aid., 50
Bruche Gilb. del., 66 ; Hamlet, 93, 114 ; Ric, 61,
80, 86, 90, 96 ; T., 114 ; W. del, 75
Bryn. 17
Buckland, 40
Beeston Castle, 56
Bulkeley £.,94
Bullin F., 51
Burconhead, 155
Burgh, 147
Burghes J. de, 155, 156
Bumehull P. de, 15
Burnley, 50
Burrows Arthur, 134
Burton J., 167
Burwes, 79
Bury T. del, 62
Busli Roger de, 44
Butler £., 116 ; J., 102 ; P., 28 ; fam., 28
Byrom H., 118 ; J., 92 ; Sim., 100, 156 ; Ntc, 83
Caldwell J., 121, 158 ; Ran., 158 ; T., 158
Calvary Cross, 14
Carie H., 173
Carrington fam., 76, 77 ; Sir J., 8z ; T., 83
Castile and Leon, i
Catholics, 13Z
Chaddock J., 163
Chadwick }., 147
Chaigley Manor, 3
Champagne Arms, 3
Chantries, 17, 18, 108, 11 1
Chantry priests, 17
Chapman Rog., 9)
Chatherton J. and G., 92
Chatillon arms, 3
Chauntrell J., 83, 86, 87 ; Rob., 94 ; W., 82
Cheshire fines, 48
Chester, 36, j8, 51, 70, 153
St. Mary, 70 ; St. John Bapt., 70
Cheyny J. , 102
Child wall, 45, 159
Chisnall W., 72, 73
Chiveley H., 124 ; Ric, 140
Chorlton Ric. de, 63
Clare G., 90 ; Hugh, 86 ; J., 90, 104 ; W., 124
Clarke Geo., Z03, 108 ; Hamlet, T47 ; J., 86
Rob., p4
Clayton Ric, 147
Clibum Ch., 51
Clifton Alice, 137, 139; Sir Cuthbert, 129, 137;
Gervase, 128 ; Mrs., 15
Clitheroe, 39
Cockerham, 30
Cockson G., 149
Cogshill, 78, 79, 80, 89, 104
Coldocke J., 167, 170; T., 168
Colonna fam. , 6
Comberbach, 78, 79, 80, 105
r;
97; Rob., 97; T.,96, 97
Congleton, 56
Connon Gar., 173
Constables, 159-164
Cooke J., 167, 169, 170 ; W., X65, x66
Cooper T., 56
CopnuU, H. de, 67
Copple Nic, 103
Corker W., 161
Corn grinding, at the lord's mill, 135
Couper W. le, 79
Cowley Hill, 2^
Cradock Pelerme, 69
Crathome Rev. F., 3^
Crewe, 56
Cristelton, 70
Crosby, 42, 127 ; Little, 160
Michael, 160 -
Crosse J., 165 ; wid., 166
Croxteth, 46
Cuerden Green, 3
Cuitt G., 55
Culcheth, 157
Gilb., 87 ; J., 87, 97 ; T., 147
Cumice Nic, 171
Cunliffe Rob., 132
Dalton, 40, 43, 140, 149, 162
— J., 146
Dases, 37
Danyell Dor., 115, 121 ; Isabel, zz8 ; P., 109, 1x5 ;
T„ Z09
Davenport J., 82, X07 ; Rob. de, 79 ; T., 93, 158
Dawbie Eliz., X69; W., z68
De Baux arms, 4
Dedewood J., 7z
De la Roche arzns, 4
Delawarr fam., 45
Dene Sir E., 79 ; J., 83 ; T. de, 63
Derby Earl, 4
Derwyn J., z6o ; P., z6o
Dethick Sir GUb., 9
Devereux J., 8
Deynall H., 7Z
Dicconson — ., Z45, Z47; £., Z57
Dickenson Hugh, Z3S, Z4X ; W.,^143, »44. i57
Dichfeild Ric, z66
Dieulacre, Ric, Abbot of, 7x
Dokenfeld J., 83
Domesday between Ribble and Mbrsby,
35-48
Domvile Gilb., 93, too ; Jas., X56 ; J., 87
Douay College, 27, X44
Dowdell Ric, X72
Drinkwater — ., X46 ; fam., i2x
Drumgould Jas., X73 ; T., X7X
Dumbarton, 36
Dumville E., X27
DuncalfT., 83, 89
Dunham Massey, 60, 63, 82, 84, X19, X45, X56
Dutton Edmund, 67; Hugh, 67; J., 82; Sir Laur.,
67; P.,67,68, 70, 8x; T., 16s
Eadward, 37, 42
£ ad wine, 36
Eaton Hall, 53
Eccleston, 55 ; hall, 26, 39
K, 126 ; J., \si ; J. G., 29; Ric, X65 ;
T. B., 26; W., 166
Edisbury, 40
Egerton, Earl of Eilesmere, 2, 7 ; fam., 7, 8 ;
Gen., 23
Eglestone T., X72
Elcocke T., X73
Eltonhead Ric, X26
Eraker T., x6o
Erdeswick Samp., X53 — 4
Estehede, x6x
Etchells, X12
Everton, x6o, X65, x66
Fabre, Jord. fil H., X55
Fardells, 17X — 2
Fareclough Laur., X64
Farington W., 45
Fazakerley, x6o
Nic, XS9, x6s ; Rog., \ti
Ferdinand of Castile, x
Index,
179
Femehead, 97, 109, iii, 117, 119, 120, 127, 129, 136 I
Ferrers fam., 38 ; Hen. de, 63 |
Fitzhcrbert Basil, 147 ; fam., 145, 147 ; Jane, 145,
147
Fleetwood, 49
Sir H. , 50
Fleming J., 173
Fletcher J., 24
Flodden, loi
Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields,
I— to, 58
Formby, 160, X71 — 173 ; Ships, viz. : — *' Ellin"
171 ; *' Henry" 172-3; '' Mary John*' 171,
17a; ''Patrick;' 173; " Trinity:' 171, 173
F oxley Rob. de, 67
Frankpledge, 166
Freckleton, 123, 157
Frodsham, 163
Ric, 19
Furness, 139
Fynche Gilb. , X04
Fynn Alice, 167 ; T., 161
Fyton J.,87
Gardiner Jas., 161
Garston, 161
Garvie Jas., 173
Garvine Jas., 171
Garswood, 28, 30
Gartside Hu., 17
Gaskell Laur., 164
Gatcliflf J., 104
Georgeson Ric, 157
Gerard Chantry, 15
C, 162 — 164; Mrs. F. R., 15; Sir J., 14,
26, 27,30; Margt., 90; Miles, 117, 157;
Ric, 157 ; Sir Rob., 27 ; . Sir T., 15, 16, 17,
19, 65, loi ; Sir W., 26, 157
Gcrnet H., 96, 156 ; Rob., 160 ; W., xoo
Gest Margt., 157 ; Ric, 157
Gibson Rev. T. E., 114
Gilbertson J., 173
Glazebrook, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 71, 93, 96, 97, 98,
100, loi, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, III, 112, 117,
118, 119, 120, 122^ 123, 130, 132, 14s, 147, 149
Moss, 145, 150
; H., 70; W. fil. Matilda, 61
Godiva, 43
Goore Ric, 160
Gorsuch E., 164
Goulbom Dor., 166
Grafton, 72
Graux J. B. F., 29
Graves H., 161
Gray Rev. A. E. P., i, 35
Greeme Ether, 171
Greenough (Greenock?), 171, 173
Gresley Alb. , 45
Greves T., 166
Grey, E. of Stamford, 2; fam., 7, 10; J. of
Groby, 6
Grome Laur. del, 67
Grosvenor Sir Rob., 64, 82 ; Sir T., 71, 79
Gunclif, J. de, 80
Gylowe le French, 65, 67, 73
Hadfor Jas., 173 ; Lawr., 173
Hagh Alan de la, 61
Hale, 78, 80, 84, 91, 161
— — — J. de, 65, 73
Halewood, i6x
Hall Jas., 76, 83, 84, 85, 90, 9a ; Ric, 90
Halliwell j . , 147
Halsall, 163
Sir Cuth., 164
Halton Halmote Court, 156
Hamline W., X73
Hampson J., 125
Hanson Rob. de, 155
Harford J., 83
Harkirke, 24
Harold, 42, 47
Harper H., x67-i7o
Harrington Isabella, 90, 91 ; Sir W., 92
Harrison Rev. J., 128 ; T., 170
H[arri]son J., X72
Harrow churchyard, xi
Hartford, 83
Harvie Anna, 169 ; wid. A., 167
Harward Sim., xx6.
Haughton H., 167, x68, i6f, 170; Jas., 167, x68,
X70 ; W., 168, 170
Hawardyne Ad., 157 ; Alice, 122 ; J., 80, 82 ; T.,
92, 99, xoo, 156 ; W., 82, 122
Hastings Sir E., 8
Hatton J., 97
Heath Agnes, 155 ; T., 155
Hemp, X73
Henry VIIL's Will, 18
Herbert Lord, 132
Hert Elias, 156
Hesketh H., 86 ; Rob., 77 ; T., 77, X65
Heye Hum., x66 ; J., x66
Higginson Ric, x66
Hill H., 128 : T., 164 ; W. & E., 20, 25
Hitchmough J., 16 x ; T., X65
HobbysT., 157
Hogh C. and T., 72
Hohenstaufen, i, 2
Holcroft J., 74, 80, 83, 86, 87, 90, 92, 98 ; Sir T.,
X08, X57
Holden Rob. de, 68
Holgrave J., i6x
Holland, 40
HoUinfare chapel, 90, 94, 95, 97, 103
HoUinsgreen, 105, xo6 ; chapel, X05, ip8, X09, xix ;
ferry, 149
Hqlme Edw., 8; Hugh, 164; Ran., X53, 154;
Rog., 70
Honford Sir J., 83
Hops, 172
Horner T., 124
Horton, 68 ; arms, 154 ; manor, 80, 83
Marg., 15X ; W. de, 69, 70, 74
Houlden Eliz., x66
Hoylake, 4X
Hubberstay T., X65
Huddeson Elys, 62
Hudson G., 173
Hughes— ., J. P., 34
Hulme W.,80
Wallfield, s6
Huncoat, 40, 42
Hurdis P., 163
Hurst Sir J., 92 ; W., 162
Huyton, 159, 160
Hyde fam., 99 ; J., 77, 8a ; T., 93, 99 ; W., 99
Hypocaust, 54, 56
Ince Blundell, 1x3, 143, x6o
Ingatts of ships, X72 — 4
Ingham O. de, 63
Ireland Gilb., xxa, X32, 133, 134; T., xi8, 121; Sir
T., X62
Isabel of York, i
Jacobites, 141
Jacquetta, 2 seq., 58
Jackson Rowland, 172 ; W., 156
Jenkynson Laur., x6i ; T., 160
180
Index.
Jerusalem arms, 3
Johnson G., 171 ; Hugh, 145 ; Jas , 100, 167, 168,
169, 170, 171 ; T., 160, 168 ; W., 156
Joneson Rob., 166 ; Rowl., 166
Juness Jas., 143
Kclsale, 63
Key J., 165
Keylway Rob., 133
Kirkby, 42, x6o
Kirkdaie, 43, i6x
Kighley H. de, 75
Kingsley J. de, 71
Kiikham Cross, 123
— Rob., 87
Kirkland, 103
Knighthood, 100
Knolles Hugh, go
Knottesford, 68, 70
Knowsley, 42, 16 z
Komnenos, z ; arms, 3 ; fam., 5
Lacheford fishery, 68
Lake Hug', 160
Lancashire families, 2
Lancaster, 43 ; honor, 19 ; hundreds, 39
H., Duke of, 63 ; J., Duke of, 64
Langley Rob., 98
Langshawe Sir Laur., Z03
Langton Abr., Z30, Z3X ; fani., 74 ; Laur., 100,
X56 ; Ra., zoo; T., xxz
Lansdale Brian, x68, 169
Lathom, 43, 46 ; House, 22
£dm., 76, 92, 97; E., 165; Geo., 76 ;
Jane, 133
Lay ton, 102
Leasowe Castle, 43
Leasowing, 168
Ledsham, 70
Lee Peers, Z34 ; Will, del, Z55
Leeds, 37
Leigh Gilb., 60; J., 79, Z28 ; Sir P., 67, 68, 1x9,
Z20 ; P., 83 ; Rob., 83 ; T., 82, 93, 100, zs6
Leighton, 72
Lervet H., 9Z
Lever, Z64
Leycester J., 68, 75, 77, 82, 83, 92 ; Robt., 77, 87 ;
T., zoo, Z56
Leyland, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46 ; manor, 45 ; Chr., X65
Lightfoot Chr., z6z
Litherland, 42, x6o
Little Crosby, z6o
Liverpool, 41, z6i ; chantries, z64-z66 ; port X633,
17Z ; ships, viz. : — " Christopher^' 171 ;
'^^ Elizabeth" 172; ** Cenr^e" 172, Z73 ;
" Afarie," Z73 ; " Pnenix, 1, - " Trinity,"
172, 173
Liversage W., Z09
Louth .^., Z72
Low Eliz., 29 ; Dr. A., 29 ; fam., 29
Lowe House, 26
Lunt J., z6o ; Mat., 160
Lurting T., Z65
Lusignan arms, 3
Luxemburg arms, 3
Lydiate, 43, 46 ; chapel, x6
Lymm, 87, 92, 93
Lynaker, 62
Lynalis Alex., 64, 65. 66
Lytham, Z37
Macclesfield, 40, 97
Maghull, 42, Z63
Maiden Castle, 56
Main waring Ran., 7Z, 77, 79
Makerfield, 40, 6a
Malotesone W., 6x
Mallone Chr., Z72, X73
Manchester, 38, 40, 45, 97
Miinnock Rev. F., Z47
Marchland, 37
Marriage dispensation, 78
Martinescroft Ric. de, 62
Marton, 43
W., Z63
Maryport, 52
Mascvs, The, of Rixton, 59-z58
Mascy arms, 64, 68, 74, 75, 76, 80, Z02, 105, 122,
124, Z38, Z50, Z54 ; book-plate, X52 ; chapel,
IZ5, 122 Z48, Z49 ; crest, Z5Z ; green, Z3X ;
pedigree, 69
Alice, 98, X33, Z36, Z4X ; Alison, 89 ;
Anne, loz, 104, zo6, ZZ3, zz4, X23, Z25, Z26, 128,
Z29, Z40; Dorothy, 109, xz3, zz4, XX9, 123,
Z27, X28, Z29, 136 ; Douce, 77, 106 ; £dw., 80,
81 ; Elena, 68, 72, 74, 8z, zc2, Z27, X28, Z29 :
Eliz., 77, 125, X26, i;,6, X38, Z40 ; Francis,
Z46-Z58 ; Geoff., 83, 92, Z07 ; Geo., 76,
78, 8z, 83, 85, 87, 90, 92, Z02, Z27, Z30, 136 ;
Gilb., zoo ; Hamlet, 89-Z57 ; Hamon, 60-X56 ;
Hugh, 80, 8z ; Hum., 97 ; Isabel, 72 ; James,
zoi, Z02, 104, Z05, ZZ3, XX4, Z19; Jane, Z07,
ZZ3, 1Z4 ; Janet, 89 ; John, 99-102 ; John le,
64, 69, 70, 72, 75, 8z, 8s, 86, 88, 93, 94, 98,
102, Z05, Z06, zoo, ZX3, XX4, ZZ9 ; John, Z28,
15I1 154. 156 ; Johanna, 70, 72, 73, 82, 84, 85,
87, 88, zsi ; Kath., 72, 73 ; Margt., 68, 70, 72,
74» 77f 87, 104, Z06, IZ3, Z38, Z44, 1.57 ; Mary,
ZZ3, Z25, X26, 13Z, Z38, Z48 ; Matilda, 68, 69,
72, 77, 89; Peter, 68, 69, 70, 7Z, 72, 73, zsz,
X56 ; Petronilla, 80, 95 ; Prisca, X2S, Z26 ;
Richard, 63-73, 108-ZX4, ZZ7-X29, Z29-X38,
140-Z45 ; Robt. de, 60, 6z, 62, 63, 73 ; Sarah,
72; Thos., 69, 70, 75, 76, 83, 84, Z04, 105,
zzz, ZZ2, 1Z9, Z24, Z25, X27, X30, 136, 139;
Thurstan, iix, X13, xx7, 130, X34 ; Tildesley,
III, X12 ; William, 78-82, X03-108, 1X4-XZ7;
Will., 66, 73, 74, 76, 79, 83, 85, 86, 88, 95,
98, ZOI, Z03, ixo, TX7, XX9, X2I, X25, X30, 154,
156, ZS7
Masker Elena, 170 ; J., 167
Mathew Jas., 171
Matthew G., 97
Maurice H., 162
Mawdisley T., 163
Mayn waring J., 82
Mayor of Liverpool, X65
Melling, 46, 66, 163
Jas., 166 ; Ric, X65
Mercer J., 161 ; Rog., 160 ; W., 167, 169
Mere Robt., 71, 80
Mersey, river, 120, 130, 149
Merton Rob., x6o
Meynell fam., 138, 141, 144, 148, Z49 ; G., 140,
X4X, X43 ; Mary, 141, 144
Midiileton Anne, 154; Ric, zz7
MinshuU W., 93
Mint, the, Z45
Molyneux E., xox ; Sir Ric, Z19, 120, 163 ; Rob.,
163; W., X59
Montgomery Rog. de, 44
Monypenny fam., 32
More arms, 138, X52
Cecilia, 97; E., 96, 136, Z38, 162-Z67 ; J.,
X2I, 135, X36, X38 ; Margt., X27, X3S, X38, 140,
141, X48 ; Pat., X7X ; Ric, 70, 71, q6, 97, 156 ;
Rob., 165 ; W., I2Z, Z59
Morehouses, z6o
Index,
181
Mort Adam, 163
Mortuary, 85
Moss J., 166; Rob., 166
Mossock H., 165
Moston Ric. de, 155 ; Rob. de, 61
Muche Marg., 167, 168, 169
Mulyngton T., 86
Nedham Hu. de, 71
Nevill fam., 42 ; Ra., 92
Newburgh, ft', 9
Ncwhouse J., 160
Newton, ^9, 40 ; hundred, 46, 47
J., 161
Nicholasson W., 161
Norman Ric, 83, 85
Norris £., Z17 ; H., 159
W., 162-164; SirW.,
Northerden, 90
; Jm 172, 173 ;
109
T., 116;
O^le J., 157
Oliver Dr., 22
Orange fam., 6
Oredebury W., 66, 67
Orm, 45
Orme Rob., 155
Ormschurch, 162
Ormyshaw, 164
Orreil, 40 ; C, 26
Orsini arms, 4 ; fam., 6
Oulton fam., 74 ; J. de, 69
Outgatts of ships, 171, 172
OverTabley, 109
Page H., 67 ; Nic, 91
Parkinson T., 24
Parker Nic, 92
Pasmyth J., 160
Patten fam., 149 ; T., 150
Peck Mill, 57
Peeres J., 132, 133, 137
Pemberton, 12
Pendleton, 40
133, 137
; Ra., I
69
Penketh, 106; Ra., 92
Penington, 95, 104
Pennington arms, 154 ; Ric , 134, 135
Penswick Bp. and fam., 27
Penwortham, 40, 42, 43, 45
Peter the Cruel, 1
Petre Bp., 28
Piers J., 125, 140
Pigott G. , 132
Pippard Col., 33
Pirye J. de, 63
Plantagenets, i
Plantagenet Geoff., 5
Plate glass, 29
Plowden Fra., 129, 130; Mary, 125, 129, 137, 139,
148
Plunket Alex., 173; Gar., 173
Port J., 161
Portico, 22^ 26
Poulton Nic. de, 71
Poynter Sim., 123
Precepts to Constables, 161 — 4
Prescot, 26
H., 162
Preston, 50, 132, 145
PuUeSir J.,67, 68, 156
Pulton, 95, 104, 105, 109, 118, 119, 120, X23, 127,
129, 136
Pynyngton, 88
Radcliffe Sir Alex., lox ; Alured, 83 ; Chas., 12% ;
Joh., 62 ; Sir Ra., 74 ; Ric, 62, 72, 98 ; W.,
62, 104, T27
Ratcliff, 40, 42
Ranulf £. of Chester, 38
Ravenhead, 29
Rawcliff, 75
Raynford T., 91
RecusantSj 122, 132
Redych Ric. le, 62
Rent hens, 135
Rice Rog., 160
Richardson Jas., 160 ; T., 165
Riding P. , 160
Rimer Ric, 171
Riugstones camps, 51
Risley H., 93 ; Margt., 87 ; Ric, 99
Rivers Earl, 2
Rixton, 60—147 ; chapel, 85, 105 ; court rolls,
150 ; hall, 113, no, 124, 130, 132, 133, 147,
149, 150 ; little, hall, 147, 149, 150 ; manor,
63, 66, 1 10 ; oratory, 82
Alan de, 60, 61, 62, 65, 155 ; Gilb. de, 65 ;
Hen. de, 64, 66 ; Isabella de, 64 ; John de,
65 ; Kath., 60, 63, 94; Matt., 66 ; Nich., 66,
155 ; Ra., 96 ; Ric de, 61 ; Rob., 60, 61, 87 ;
Tho., 122 ; W. de, 65, 66
Robinson E., 165 ; Ric, 160; W., 96
Roby, 42, 160
Robynetson H,, 160
Rochdale, 40
Roger of Poitou, 38, 44, 45- 47
Roman Discoveries in Lancashire and
Cheshire, 49 — 57
Rose Edm., 165 ; Ric , 165 ; T., 160
Rossall Point, 49
Rosthorne, 68, 71
Rothwell T. , 123
Rouley Ra. de, 79, 156
Royalists, 128
Royle J. , 166
Runcorn, 38^
Rycrofie Felix de, 67
Ryder Ric, 96
Ryding G., 163
Rylands J. Paul, 148, 150
Rymington Ric, 93
RymmerT., 164
Salford, 39, 40, 42, 46
Salvin E. J. and W., 25
Samian ware, 52
Savage J., 82
Scarisbrick, 43, 164
E., 164 ; I., 83
Scrope Sim., 149
'* Scrope and Grosvenor," 63^
Secome J., 163 ; Ra., 165 ; wid., 166
Sefton, 159, 103
church, 70
Rog., 160
104
Selby Eliz. and fam., 146
Shakerley, 163
Sharpies J., 123, 157
Shaw J., 97, 164 ; Petronilla,
Shell — ., 28
Sheiphton Gilb., 164
Shepherd Ric le, 67
Sherburne Ric, 75
Simonswood, 46
Singerland, 168
Singleton J., 1x3 ; T. and A., 102
Skelmersdale, 43
Skins, X74
182
Index,
Smith D., 27 ; J., ro6 ; P. le, 155 ; Ric. le, 67 ;
W. le, 67
SmithdowD, 40, 41, 48
Smolte J., 67 ; O., 91
Smyth Ric. le, 74
Snede Matt., 99
Sodon H., 174
Sonkey Rob. de, 6a; Rog. dc, 155; T., 66; W., 155
Southport, 30
Southworth, 157
Spakeman C., 108 ; W., 134
Speke, 43, 161
Spencer W., 66, 70, 73, 79
Stamford E^l of, 7
Standish, 130
Edm. , t25
Stanley, £dw., 163-164; fam., a, 9, xo; G., 173;
H., 117 : Sir J. de, 81 ; Sir W., 83
Starky Geoff., 79; Nic, 145,146; T., zoi, 104;
W., no
St. Helens, 34, 29
St. Nicholas, Liverpool, 35, ^^
St. Thomas' Well, 16, 30
Stockport, 56
Stopforth Anne, 163 ; J., x 16
Stone Rev. M., 38
Stonyhurst College, 38
Strange Milo, 167 — 169
Strathclyde, 36
Stretton, xoi, ixo ; chapel, xox, X05
Strickland — ., 38
Strong Hugh le, 66
StukeTey Dr., 56
Subsidy, xox ; X5X4, X59-X6X ; 1634, x6x-x64
Sutton, 65
Alice, 97 ; J., 97 ; T., 83
Swetenham Ra., 75, 82
Symons wid., 16(6
Talbot M. E., 37
Tallon J., 17X
Tarlton J., x68 ; T., X65 ; W., x6o, Hs
Tasburg H., 143
Tatlock J., 168 ; Ric, 163 ; T., x6o
Tatton, 60, 6 X
W., 93, 94, 1X3
Tempest Mrs. A. C, 59; C. R., xs© ; J. F., 59,
xsi ; papers, X4S---6 ; Stephen, 59 ; S. W.
X48, X49
Tenants, free, 167 ; at will, X67
Terrell Gar., X73; T., 173
Thelwall, vj, 38, 78, 80, 90, X05, X09, xai
— ; J- » »24
Thickness fam., 3X, 33
Thomason Ed., xs7
Thomber Rev. W., 50
Thornton, 73, 160
Tildesley, 163
Tobacco, 17X
Tokill Rob., 161
Torbok, x6i
Ad. de, 67 ; Sir Edw., 163 ; H. dc, 155 ;
T. de, 66, 67
Toxteth, 4x, 133
Trafford Sir Cecil, 130 ; Sir J., 93
Tremouille Charlotte, 4
Trotter E., X41
Troutbeck Xi 8^ ; W., 70, 73, 75, 79, 80, 83, 156
Tomb, 153
Twemlowe. 68
Twist Castle, 5X
Tyldesley Anne, X3i; Edw., izo, 115; Thurs., xox,
X04, X08, 1x4
Uhtred, 43
Upchurch pottery, 52
Upholland, 33
Upton H. de, 155
Urmeston Jm 83, 84
Vale Royal, X57
Valentine M., 133
Varco Eliz., 25
Veale Edm., xo3, X30
Venables Rog. de, 7X ; W. de, 74, 75, 81
Vespasian, 52, 53
Veysy Dr. J., 97
Vyrnwy, 57
Wainwright J., x6o ; Nic, x6x ; Rob., x6x
Walker J., X71 ; Canon J., 37 ; Launcelot, x66
Wallasey, 43
Walton, 45, 159, x6o, 170
Walton-le-Dale, 40, 42
Warburton Geoff., 8x ; Petronilla, dd ; Sir P., 149 ;
Ric, 67, X54, X56
Warde J., 126
Warren Sir E., X65
Warrington, 39, 40, 42, 45, 60, 95, 96, X04, 105,
XX2, X13, XX9, 120, X22, X23, X27, 129, X36, 148 ;
bridge, 68 ; church, 85, XX5, X53 ; museum,
6^' ; tolls, 67
Washington W., 167-X70
Wavertree, 160
Weaffers W., X2
Webster Ric, 67
Weeton, X23
Weldon Rev. T., 33
Werburton arms, 65
; Sir G., 82 ; Geoff., 65 ; Hugh, 65 ;
Sir J., 98; P., 83, 92 ; Petronilla, 78, 121 ;
Ric, 74, 78, 79, 95, X03 ; T. de, 65 ; W. de, 65
Werkesley (Worsley) Rob., 98, 99
West T., 26
Westby, X28
West Derby, 39, 40, 43, x59-x6x ; hundred, 159,
X6X-165
Westhead Ric le, 7X
Westwood W., 130
Whalley, 40, 45
Whitacre J., x6x
White Friars, Chester, 5X
Whitley, 78, 79, 80, X05
Wigan, 8, 9, 40, 45, 93, xio
Wilkinson — ., 50 ; J., 75
Williams E., X73
Williamson E., X73 ; J., 167, 168, X69, X70; Rob.,
X67, x68, 170, X72, X73 ; wid., x66
Wilme T., 1x8, xs?
Wilson Marmaduke, 174 ; Ric, x6o
Windhull fam., 15
Windle Hall, 30
Wyndhull manor, 15 ; manor house, X5
WiNDLESHAW ChANTRY AND CeMETRRY, XX — 34
Zr;. — \ graves, xx, X3, 14
Winnmgton fam., 69, 7X, 73, 74, 79
Winstanley, 40, 164
— : J-i 164
Winwick, 15, 45 ; rectory, X28
Wirrall, 40
Wiswall J., jun., x6x ; J., sen., x6x
Witham Dr. T., X49
Withinshaw Moss, X5
Wode or Bosco fam., X54
Wodewart Ra., x6x
Woley Rob. de, 67
Wolston Ric, 6x
Wood Edm., X64
Woodchurch, JO
Woodccwk turn. . a, j, i,31, 3J
WoDdwitd Rio., loj ; Thure., 165
WmHo" *46 ; Ciltle. 43, 16' ; Much,
Woirall Ri., 171 ; Rok, iji
WoisLey Ric. 167-160
Worth J., Sj
Worthineton P., 03 ; Ra.. 130, 131
Wright J., 90
Wrightip£ton, 141, 147
WychiJ. del, 65,67,73
WirdvilfEli7.,6iSfrKic.. ^
Wylmc Hugh, 71
Wylmulove. gi
Yarn, m, 17*
Y^Hamm't. 108 : J., 134 1
T., 108; W., 157
York Edin. Duke of, i
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