A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



1292 made an unsuccessful attempt to recover from 

 Abbot Gregory a messuage and 30 acres of land of 

 which he said he was disseised by the former Abbot 

 Robert. 1 On the other hand he was successful in 

 resisting a claim by Robert de Thornyhead of Hale. 8 

 Margery, Adam's widow, granted to Adam son of 

 Henry de Garston land in the Rotherrakes, and may be 

 the Margery de Aigburth who had land in Quindal 

 Moor.' 



Roger de Toxteth, the son and heir, may be the 

 Roger the clerk, or Roger de Toxteth, clerk, concerned 

 in many of the local charters of his time. 4 By a fine 

 in 1315 this Roger arranged for the succession to his 

 property ; 5 the remainders after Roger's own children 

 (unnamed) were to Thomas son of Wenthlian 

 daughter of Anyan Voyl, to Floria daughter of 

 Wenthlian, and to John SOB of Richard de Toxteth. 6 

 Roger appears to have died in 1327, and in 1331 

 Thomas son of Roger de Toxteth made a claim against 

 Margaret widow of Richard as to land in Garston, 

 but did not prosecute it. 7 



The succession is not clear at this point. The 

 next in evidence is Adam de Toxteth, a witness 

 to charters in 1 342. He appears to have died early, 8 

 for in 1 344 there was an arrangement made as to the 

 succession to lands of his young son Roger, by Roger 

 de la More on the one part and John (son of William) 

 de la More on the other ; the latter was about to 

 marry Adam's widow Katherine, a daughter of John 

 del Ford. 9 Some years later the duke of Lancaster's 

 escheator took into his hands all the lands in Garston 

 that Adam de Toxteth had possessed, alleging that 

 Adam had made them over to Roger atte More (on 

 trust) after he had committed a certain felony. At 

 the trial in 1352 the jury found such to have been 



the case, and said the duke should have the issues for 

 six years, amounting to 9, which John de Liverpool 

 must pay. 10 Restitution, however, must have been 

 obtained, for in 1360, when Roger the son and heir 

 of Adam came of age, John de la More released to 

 him two-thirds of his lands." 



About 1361 Roger de Toxteth made a settlement 

 of his lands in Garston, Aigburth, Halewood, and 

 Wavertree on his marriage with Agnes daughter of 

 William de Slene. 1 ' The succession again becomes 

 obscure for nearly a century. 13 



In 1484 a marriage was arranged between James 

 son of John Toxteth and Isabel his wife, and 

 Alice daughter of Thomas Norris of Speke. u John, 

 probably a son of James, in 1525 entered into a bond 

 in 20 to perform certain covenants. 16 In 1 544 

 there was a settlement of disputes between John 

 Toxteth of Aigburth and Henry Tarleton of Faza- 

 kerley on the one part and Sir William Norris on 

 the other part. Sir William had enclosed a piece of 

 waste in Aigburth Lane, as common appertaining to 

 the manor of Garston ; and he further claimed the 

 marriage of Ellen Toxteth, younger daughter and one 

 of the coheirs of John, for Richard Norris son and 

 heir apparent of Henry Norris of West Derby. 

 Arbitrators were appointed who decided in favour of 

 Sir William, expressing the wish that he would be 

 ' good master ' to the tenants of John Toxteth and 

 Alice his wife, as before the variance. 16 The elder 

 daughter, not mentioned here, married William 

 Brettargh of the Holt in Little Woolton ; and this 

 family owned a portion of Aigburth until the be- 

 ginning of the eighteenth century. 17 



The mention of the Tarleton family is interesting ; 

 in one way or another they were connected with 



