

A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



William his son followed ; a number of his grants 

 have been preserved, 1 and his name occurs as a wit- 

 ness down to 1275 ;' some traditional verses say that 

 he was made a banneret in Gascony and died in 

 1289.' He certainly died before 1292, when his 

 son Richard was in possession of Sefton, and 

 concerned in various suits. 4 Richard died about 

 1 3 20, having shortly before made a number of grants 

 to his younger children by Emma, who was perhaps 

 a second wife. 5 



William, the eldest son, succeeded. 6 In 1327 he 



was one of those charged to engage men in this 

 hundred to serve in the Scottish war. 7 He died 

 before 29 June, 1336, when the manor of Sefton was 

 released to his son Richard, 8 who held it for nearly 

 thirty years, dying on 6 April, 1363,' his son William 

 having predeceased him in I358. 10 The new lord of 

 Sefton was William's son William, aged about eighteen 

 years at his grandfather's death. 11 His tenure, how- 

 ever, was but short, for he died in 1372 after distin- 

 guishing himself in the wars in France and Spain." 

 There was again a minority, this time a long one, the 



