

WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



Seez in 1094.' During the twelfth century an 

 assized rent of 4 from this vill was accounted for 

 in the corpus comitatus or total sum rendered yearly 

 as farm of the honour, but in 1201 it was increased 

 to 4 l6s.' the increment perhaps representing the 

 sheriff-scot or fee for the sheriff as farmer of the 

 demesne manors. 3 The manorial history of Everton 

 is the same as that of West Derby. 4 In 1315 Sir 

 Robert de Holand entered into the manor by the 

 favour of Thomas of Lancaster and held it until the 

 earl's attainder in 1 322." Thirty years later it was 

 given to John Barret in fee, but he appears to have 

 died without issue, and this grant also failed. 6 



Being granted by the crown in 16*29 as an a ppen- 

 dage of the manor of West Derby,' the tenants of 

 Everton refused suit and service at the patentees' 

 court, asserting that their manor was distinct and 

 separate from that of West Derby. After legal dis- 

 putes the patentees thought it best to obtain new 

 letters patent in 1639, in which the vill of Everton 

 and the rents and services of the tenants were named. 

 The manors of West Derby, Everton, and Wavertree 

 were then sold to James, Lord Strange, and in 1717 

 were purchased by Isaac Greene of Liverpool, whose 

 descendant, 8 the marquis of Salisbury, is the present 

 lord of the manor. Some land is still held as copy- 

 hold of the manor of West Derby. 



The Everton tenants had successfully asserted the 

 rights of their vill in 1620. In this year the copy- 

 holders of West Derby and Wavertree, having obtained 

 a commission confirming to them their copyhold 

 estates and for granting the wastes and commons by 

 copy of court roll, surveyed and proposed an allotment 

 not only of the wastes of West Derby and Wavertree, 

 but also of Everton, to be allotted among the copy- 

 holders of the three vills. The people of Everton, 

 however, insisted that theirs was a distinct vill, 9 with 

 known bounds; that the benefit of the wastes had 

 from time beyond memory been taken and enjoyed by 

 the inhabitants ; that the tenants of Kirkdale paid 

 Everton 6s. Set. a year for liberty of common in part 



WALTON 



of the wastes, and that the inhabitants of Wavertree 

 and West Derby had no rights in them. 10 



In 1642 it was found that the people of Everton 

 paid $ us. $\J. for their enclosed lands and 1 3/. 4</. 

 for their commons Hongfield (Anfield), Whitefield 

 and Netherfield ; this last payment was known as 

 Breck silver, the commons lying on the Breck or slope 

 of the hill. 11 An agreement was made in 1667 

 between the tenants and the earl of Derby, as lord ot 

 the manor, for enclosing a third of the commons, 

 which then extended to 1 80 acres large measurement ; 

 they were afterwards leased to the tenants." Then in 

 1716 Lady Ashburnham granted to the copyholders a 

 lease for a thousand years of 1 1 5 acres of the 1 20 acres 

 unenclosed, for 115 paid and a rent of 5 15*. a 

 year. 13 



Everton was incorporated in the borough ot 

 Liverpool in 1835. It formed a single ward until 

 1895, when it was divided into four Everton, 

 Netherfield, St. Domingo, and Brockfield wards, each 

 with its aldermen and three councillors. 



The first place of worship erected in the township in 

 connexion with the Church of England was St. George's, 

 on the summit of the hill. It was planned in 1812 

 somewhat as a commercial speculation, the land being 

 given by James Atherton, and the money raised in 

 shares of 100 each, any profits to be divided among 

 the proprietors. It was opened in 1814." The 

 incumbents, now called vicars, were the chaplains of 

 the proprietors until 1879, when, the conditions 

 having totally changed and any ' profit ' ceased with 

 the migration of the wealthier inhabitants many years 

 before, the proprietors made the church over to the 

 district. 15 The next, St. Augustine's, Shaw Street, was 

 built in 1830, shares being subscribed and Thomas 

 Shaw giving the land. 16 Christ Church, Great Homer 

 Street, was built in 1848 by the family as a memorial 

 of Charles Horsfall, mayor in 1832-3. St. Peter's, 

 Sackville Street, followed in 1 849. St. Chrysostom's 

 in 1853 replaced a chapel of ease in Mill Road, 

 which had been built in i837- 17 The preceding 



earl of Derby, had a grant of free warren 

 here ; Chart. R. 36 Hen. III. m. 24. 



Upon the death of Edmund, earl of 

 Lancaster, in 1296 it was found that the 

 men of Everton held 24 oxgangs, for which 

 they rendered 4 161. a year, and 34$ 

 acres and a rood and a half of improve- 

 ment from the wastes for 171. c\d. ; 

 Inj. and Extents, 286. 



also the field names, will be found on 

 400-3. It appears that each copy- 

 holder doubled his holding ; thus Henry 

 Halsall, who held 2;J acres of old land, 

 received 26 acres of new. The other 



George 3 Hey, William Williamson) 



Samuel Plumpton, John Johnson, William 



Rice, and John Rose. The Heyes' house 



21 



from a pamphlet issued in 1896, which 

 also contained portraits of the different 

 incumbents. The district was formally 

 assigned in 1881 ; Land. Gaa. 26 June. 

 The churchyard was closed in 1854. 



1 A district was assigned in 1873; 

 Lond. Gax. 27 June. 



17 A district was assigned in iS SS j 

 Lond. Gaz. 6 April. 



