WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



Aigburth until the beginning of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury, but the succession and connexion of the various 

 Tarletons is not quite clear during the period. 1 



The jury of the leet in 1686 ordered that the lord 

 of the manor of Garston should have free privilege 

 to set hunting gates, &c., according to his worship's 

 pleasure, for hunting or any other recreation, dis- 

 turbers to forfeit zo/. 2 



In 1717 the following ' Papists ' registered estates 

 in Garston : James and William Dwerryhouse of 

 Grassendale, Thomas Fazakerley, and Edward Hitch- 

 mough. 3 



The principal landowners in 1787, as shown by 

 the land-tax return, were Thomas Tarleton and 

 Elizabeth Lightbody. 



St. Wilfrid's 4 chapel existed at an early 

 CHURCH date ; and appears to have been considered 

 parochial, even if not an independent parish 

 church ; thus ' Henry parson of Garston ' is witness to 

 a charter in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. 5 

 Just before Adam de Garston's death the chaplaincy 

 became vacant, and he claimed the patronage as of an 

 independent church, presenting to the bishop of Lich- 

 field for institution a clerk named Reginald de Sileby ; 

 but Herbert Grelley, rector of Childwall, opposed, 



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asserting that Garston was only a chapelry, and in his 

 own charge as rector. The bishop, after taking ad- 

 vice, agreed that Herbert, as rector, should hold it as 

 long as he held the rectory, and (as compensation) 

 pay from the goods of the chapel 3 marks a year to 

 Reginald in the Black Friars' Church at Derby. 6 

 The right of patronage was not decided ; but the 

 question does not seem to have been raised sub- 

 sequently. 7 Besides Henry the parson other early 

 chaplains are mentioned Ralph, 8 Richard, 9 and 

 Roger, ' chaplain of Garston and of Hale.' 10 Later 

 chaplains, who probably ministered here, were John 

 de Femes," John del Dale," Robert Boton," William 

 Whitfield, 14 Adam the Mason, 15 William de Waver- 

 tree, 16 William Fletcher, 17 Thomas de Blackburn, 18 

 Richard Challoner, and John Fletcher. 19 



From remains of the mediaeval building discovered 

 during the demolition of the eighteenth-century 

 chapel in 1888, it appears that it dated from the time 

 of Edward I, and was repaired or practically rebuilt 

 about 1500.* It seems to have been abandoned for 

 worship in the reign of Edward VI, when it is 

 spoken of as nuper cafella' 1 The building remained 

 in use only as a rent-receiving place, many of the 

 lessees being bound to pay their rents at or in the 



