A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the extent of the lands of Henry, earl of Lancaster, 

 the turbary had increased in value to 6 i y. 4^., 

 while the free tenants continued to pay \d., and the 

 tenants at will paid 4 icu., double the former 

 amount. 1 



The local surname is not common, but in 1 307 

 Henry de Wavertree was vicar of Childwall, and in 

 I 329 Thomas son of Roger de Warrington was accused 

 of the death of Robert de Wavertree. The jury found 

 that the accusation was due to the malice of one 

 William de Schukedale, who thought that Thomas 

 had been insufficiently punished 1 by the hallmote 

 court of West Derby for striking him, and so accused 

 him of this more serious crime. Thomas son of 

 Gregory the shoemaker was the guilty person.* 



The Norrises of Speke had lands here. In 1495 

 Sir William Norris acquired from William Brown of 

 Penketh an additional portion called Long Hey, 

 abutting on the Sandfield towards the west. Robert 

 Lake of Wavertree in 1499 transferred to William 

 Lathom of Parbold and Thomas Harebrown of 

 Wavertree a butt of land, running up to the ' stone 

 divisions ' on the north, in trust for the chaplain at 

 the chantry altar in Childwall church, to pray for the 

 grantor's soul and the souls of his parents and suc- 

 cessors. This seems to have been the Stonyfield, 

 which the churchwardens in 1552 exchanged with 

 Sir William Norris. At the hallmote of West Derby 

 in 1594 John Lake of Bromborough, Alice Holland, 

 widow, and Robert Ellison transferred a close called 

 Widow's Flat to Edward Norris, who was admitted 

 and paid a fine of 5^.* 



John Crosse of Liverpool purchased several parcels 

 of land in Wavertree in 1497 from the above William 

 Brown of Penketh and Gilbert his son ; 5 while in 

 1505 Richard Crosse bought from Sir John Ireland 

 of Hale land in Wavertree, held by William Lake and 

 paying 15^. a year to the king. 6 



In Queen Elizabeth's time the tenants had a dis- 

 pute with the lord of the adjacent manor of Allerton 

 about some 50 acres of waste ' bounded by Calder, 

 Roger, or Way stones, as appears by a plan then made 

 and laid down, now in the chest at Wavertree.' ' 



When Charles I in 1628 sold the manor of West 

 Derby it was contended that the manors of Everton 

 and Wavertree were included, but the tenants in these 

 townships objecting, the matter was settled ten years 

 later by an amended grant of West Derby lordship 

 and manor and the towns of Everton and Wavertree ; 



thereupon the tenants of these townships paid their 

 rent to the purchasers. Next year the latter trans- 

 ferred their rights to Lord Strange, afterwards earl of 

 Derby. 8 The manor was sold in 1717 to Isaac 

 Greene, from whom it has descended to the marquis 

 of Salisbury. 9 In 1817 Gregson states 'the court for 

 Wavertree and West Derby was held under Bamber 

 Gascoyne for the copyhold lands, which are of inherit- 

 ance and fine certain.' 10 



The common lands were enclosed by Act of Par- 

 liament in 1768." 



In 1717 Darcy Chantrell of Noctorum as a ' Papist ' 

 registered an estate of .39 in Wavertree. 18 



The land tax returns of 1785 show the principal 

 landowners to have been Bamber Gascoyne, Thomas 

 Plumbe, and Rev. Thomas Dannett. 



In connexion with the Establishment, Trinity 

 Church was built in 1 790 ; a small burial-ground 

 is attached. 13 A separate parish was formed for 

 it in 1828,'* and the incumbents are styled rectors. 14 

 In 1871 St. Bridget's was erected as a chapel of ease ; 

 it possesses a reredos of Venetian mosaic work. A 

 separate ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1901. 

 St. Mary's, Sandown Park, was built in 1 849, and a 

 district assigned in 1856; the incumbents have the 

 title of rector. 16 St. Thomas's was built in 1896." 



The Wesleyan church in Victoria Park was built 

 in 1872. Trinity Congregational church, Hunter 

 Lane, was founded about 1836, and the building 

 opened in 1839; there is a mission in Wellington 

 Road. 18 



The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of Good 

 Help was opened in 1887," and St. Hugh's, on the 

 Toxteth border, in 1904.* Bishop Eton, on the 

 Woolton Road, has been the novitiate house of the 

 English province of the Redemptorists for nearly 

 forty years; the order acquired the place in 1851. 

 The church, Our Lady of the Annunciation, was 

 designed by Pugin. The Convent of Mercy (St. 

 Anthony's) in Green Lane is served from Bishop Eton. 



THINGWALL 



Tingwell, 1177; Thingwell, 1228; Tingewall, 

 1297. 



This township, with an area of only 175 acres, 

 appears originally to have formed part of the manor 

 of West Derby ; but although in recent times it 



