A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Chester, and Richard Smith, chaplain ; but misunder- Strange, in Scotland, during the expedition of 1497." 



standings followed. 1 The son Henry died within 

 year after his father, on 21 July, 1421, his sisters 



William died 5 May, 1505, seised of the manor of 

 Tarbock, held of the earl of Derby (as of the manor of 



being his heirs, but by the entail, William, their Knowsley) by knight's service and worth 40 clear, 

 uncle, claimed the manors, being then twenty-two 

 years of age. 8 



The claims of the two daughters were at once in 

 question, Sir John Stanley, the feudal superior, and 

 Laurence Standish as kinsman, claiming from Arch- 

 deacon Halsall what the latter apparently would 

 not give. The matter was referred to arbitration. 3 

 On 2 May, 1423 (or 1424), letters of protection 



and of a messuage and six acres in Ridgate. Hi 

 son and heir was Thomas, aged eight years. 12 



In 1520 Thomas Torbock came to an agreement 

 with Hamlet Harrington as to a corpse-way from 

 Tarbock to Huyton church through the demesne 

 lands of Huyton Hey ; the owner of the latter agreed 

 to allow the use of this way during the winter season, 

 the ordinary road to be used during the summer. 15 



and attorney were granted to William Torbock of He died on 20 September, 1554, holding the manor 



Lancashire, going to France in the retinue of of Tarbock, with thirty-two messuages, a windmill, 



Christopher Preston, and similar protection on 8 May, two water-mills, a fulling mill, and lands, wood, heath, 



1430, to Sir William de Torbock, in the retinue of and moor in the township, and rents from George 



John duke of Norfolk. 



Sir William de Torbock was 



but died before 1447, when Dame Cecily was a 

 widow. In 1459-60, his son and heir Richard and 



Ireland, Richard Easthead, and Thomas Knolle, also 

 till living in 1441,* the premises in Ridgate by Prescot ; his son and heir 



William Torbock, aged twenty-eight and more. 1 ' 

 William Torbock survived his father only three or 



his wife Elizabeth received from the feoffees a mes- four years. 15 His daughters Frances and Margaret 



suage and land, called the Longriding, which had 

 descended according to the charter of Sir Henry 

 Torbock, Richard's grandfather. 6 Some other char- 

 ters concerning him have survived, showing that he 

 was alive in July, 1472.' 



He was succeeded by his son Henry, knighted by 

 Lord Stanley in July, 1482, on the taking of Berwick 



from the Sc 



were aged thirty months and two months at the 

 inquest 16 the latter was not yet born when his will 

 was made and his brother Edward succeeded him in 

 the manor of Tarbock." In January, 1577, he 

 made a settlement of his manor and lands, first for his 

 own use, then for that of his sons Edward and 

 Thomas, and other family arrangements have been 



He died on I May, 1489, and was preserved. He and his son Edward 



1591 



also 



succeeded by his brother William, then about twenty- came to a final agreement with William Orrell of 

 five years of age. 9 In the following January Dame Turton, as to Tarbock, Turton and Walton Lees. 18 

 Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Done of Utkinton, agreed The family appear to have become overwhelmed by 

 with him as to his marriage with her daughter debt, and in May, 1611, the manor was sold to 

 Margery by her former husband, John Stanley of Thomas Sutton of London, founder of the Charter- 

 Weaver. 10 He was made a knight by George, Lord house School. 19 



