WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



0.0 



Beetham, who died in 1254, held the two plough- 



lands in which he succeeded his father, and half the 



plough-land belonging to Wal- 



ton church. 1 The Stockport 



family held the other half, and 



appear to have secured a share 



of the thegnage plough-lands. 8 



The Beetham share descended 

 in that family till the beginning 

 of Henry VII's reign, when it 

 was forfeited after the battle of 

 Bosworth and granted to the 

 earl of Derby. 3 A successful 

 claim was, however, made by 

 the Middletons, 4 and Gervase 

 Middleton died in 1548, seised 

 of land in Bootle held of the king by fealty and 

 the service of 8/. yearly. 5 His son and heir, George 

 Middleton, in 1566 sold the manor and lordship of 

 Bootle to John Moore of Bank House for 5 70." 

 The manor continued to descend in this family until 

 1724-5, when Sir Cleave Moore sold it to James, 

 tenth earl of Derby, 7 from whom it has descended 

 with the family estate of Knowsley to the present earl. 



The Stockport share was transferred before 1292 

 to Robert de Byron. 8 In 1357, Robert de Byron, 

 lord of the sixth part of the manor and vill of 



unges or. 



WALTON 



Bootle, granted it to Adam de Ainsargh of Liverpool,' 

 Robert's daughter Maud joining in the transfer by 

 granting her lands in Bootle to Richard son of 

 Adam de Ainsargh. 10 In 1395 it had descended to 

 Alice and Margery, the daughters and heirs of 

 Richard de Ainsargh, of whom the former was the 

 wife of Roger de Ditton. 11 Eventually it appears to 

 have been acquired by the 

 Moores and reunited with the 

 rest of the manor. 11 



The record of the Bootle 

 court-baron of 1612 has been 

 printed ; the two free tenants 

 recorded were John Burton and 

 Anne Harvey, widow. 13 



Roger son of Ravenkil gave 

 one plough-land in LIN4CRE 



to the Hospital of Jerusalem in MIDDLE-TON or LEIGH- 



alms." It was attached to the TON ' ., fW ."*** 



-- ... . mgrautd sable, in feis 



Hospitallers manor or camera pfi nt a mullet for diger- 

 of Woolton, under whom it ence of the last. 

 was held by a number of 

 different tenants. 15 



A family bearing the local name long flourished 

 here. Before 1290 Hugh de Linacre granted half 

 an oxgang of land to Robert de Kirkdale, 16 and 

 other members of the family occur in this and 



1 Inq. and Extents, 195 ; 'in the vill of 

 Bootle he held two plough-lands in chief 

 of the earl of Ferrers by the service of 

 $s. 8</., worth 191. 4</. yearly, saving the 

 earl's farm. He also held four oxgangs of 

 the church of St. Mary of Walton by the 

 service of zod., worth 41. 4^. yearly, 

 saving the said farm. His demesne in the 

 same vill was worth 21. oj</. yearly ; and 



worth five marks ; the tallage of the 



In 1593 the Moores had a dispute with 

 Sir Richard Molyneux as to the boundaries 

 between Bootle and Litherland ; Ibid. 

 n. 6375 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 

 306. 



7 See the account of Kirkdale. 



8 In that year William, son and heir of 

 Robert de Stockport, demanded from Ro- 

 bert de Byron the 4 oxgangs, but without 

 success ; Assize R. 408, m. 67. 



Robert de Byron afterwards gave the 



Bootle, worth izd., and of 100 acres of 

 pasture there, which premises were held 

 in chief of the rector of Walton in socage 

 by the yearly service of izd. Richard 

 Mun granted them, with tenements in 

 Liverpool, to Thomas son of Richard de 

 Ainsargh and his heirs. Richard died in 

 1393, and then Alice and Margery came 

 into possession. The heir was said to be 

 Thomas son of Nichola (sister of Richard) 

 by John the Mercer of Liverpool ; Lanes. 



