A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Thus by the year 1564 three parts of the manor 

 had come into the possession of Henry Halsall, from 

 whom the estate descended to Sir Cuthbert Halsall ; 

 he in 1631 sold it to Robert Blundell, 1 in whose 

 descendants it has descended, in the same manner as 

 Ince Blundell, to Mr. Charles Weld-Blundell, the 

 present lord of this share. 



The remaining portion, traditionally seven oxgangs 

 out of the thirty-two, was the share of the Formby 

 family. It appears that Master Roger de Derby held 

 seven oxgangs in Formby, five of Henry de Walton, 



and two of William de Lee, the latter in turn prob- 

 ably holding of the same Henry. To Hugh de 

 Corona, son of Master Roger, Henry de Nottingham 

 granted these seven oxgangs, with the principal 

 messuage and all his men, as well free as others, at a 

 rent of 1 5/. id. a year and a pair of white gloves.' 

 This Hugh de Corona is no doubt the Hugh 

 de Formby s whose son Adam de Formby held seven 

 oxgangs here in 1327.* From that time only frag- 

 mentary notices are obtainable of the family, 5 except 

 in the sixteenth century, 6 until the eighteenth century 



