WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



An early charter by Robert de Lathom granted to 

 Richard son of Richard del Wolfall 5! oxgangs ' of 

 land and half the wood and waste of Huyton with 

 the homage of Adam de Wolfall, William the Pro- 

 phet, Henry de Derby, and others enfeoffed by 

 Richard de Wolfall the elder.' 



In 1292 Richard de Wolfall sued Robert de Lathom 

 for release from the services which Henry de Lacy, as 

 lord of Widnes fee, demanded from the plaintiff; but 

 when the case came for trial Richard was unwilling to 

 make any statement, and therefore there was an ad- 

 journment sine die? He had also complaint to make 

 as to John de Wolfall, whose annual service of iod. 

 and a pair of gloves had not been rendered for three 

 years. 4 A little later, in 1307, John son of Adam de 

 Wolfall occurs granting to Adam de Waverton and 

 Alice his wife all his lands in Huyton. 5 



For a long period, though there are numerous 

 references to the family, the exact descent of the 

 manor is uncertain. 6 



In 1354 Adam son of Henry de Wolfall released to 

 John de Ashton the messuage which had descended 

 to him, and Thomas de Wolfall of Huyton and Joan 

 his wife released their right in the same. 7 One 

 Cecily daughter of Ellen, who had been wife of 

 Nicholas de Huyton, gave to Roger de Shuttleworth 



HUYTON 



her lands in Wolfall in 1 349 ; 8 and shortly afterwards 

 Thomas de Wolfall and Joan his wife, with Richard 

 de Pennington and Cecily his wife (probably the 

 above Cecily), claimed from Adam son of Henry son 

 of Roger de Wolfall certain lands which they alleged 

 had been forfeited because of a felony committed by 

 the grandfather Roger, though they admitted that 

 Roger had continued to hold the lands after the 

 felony. 9 



In 1383 Robert de Wolfall, who was son of 

 Thomas, enfeoffed two chaplains of all his lands in 

 Huyton, and they appeared in the court of Widnes 

 in April, and made fine with the lord of Halton for 

 I zd. 1 " Robert's son and heir was John de Wolfall," 

 who in the early years of Henry IV's reign made 

 settlements of his lands ; the remainders were to 

 Alice and Margaret, daughters of John ; then to his 

 brother Thomas ; to his brothers Nicholas and 

 Thomas, and others." 



In 1511-12 Thomas Wolfall granted lands in 

 Huyton to William Wilbraham, and a little later 

 purchased three crofts from Hamlet Harrington ; his 

 mother Joan in 1 5 I 5-16 released to him her lands in 

 Huyton and Wolfall. 13 The succession is not clear. 14 

 Thomas Wolfall was a freeholder in 1 600 ; 15 his son 

 Thomas married Mary, daughter of Richard Moly- 



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