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possession. Their defence was that she was a bastard, 

 and the matter was referred to the bishop for inquiry. 1 

 From this time the 'junior manor' disappears from 

 view. 2 John de Lydiate had suits later with Otes de 

 Halsall, 3 Robert de Wolfall, 4 and Adam Tyrehare, 

 a chaplain and trustee, 5 concerning various claims as to 

 lands in Lydiate. 



One other family may be noticed at this point. 

 Simon son of Richard de Ince in 1306 claimed from 

 William del Halgh of Lydiate a tenement in the latter 

 place. 6 William del Halgh enfeoffed William Blundell, 

 clerk, of his holding in Lydiate and Maghull, who re- 

 enfeoffed him and his wife Anabel, with remainder to 

 John their son and his wife Agnes. John died, leaving 

 an infant daughter Isabel, who in 1359 claimed it from 

 Henry de Bickerstath of Aughton, senior, his wife 

 Agnes (Isabel's mother,) and others. 7 



John de Lydiate's daughter and heir Katherine 

 married Robert son of John de Blackburn of Garston ; 

 and as a release to his father of lands received from him 

 in Downham and Much Woolton was made by Robert 

 in 1389," the marriage probably took place then. 

 There were at least two children a son born about 

 1400 and a daughter Agnes, eventually the heir of both 

 father and mother. 9 She married Thomas, a younger 

 son of Sir John de Ireland of Hale, who thus became 

 lord of Garston and Lydiate. 



Katherine the heiress seems to have died in I435. 10 

 Her grandson Lawrence Ireland, son of Thomas, 

 would then come into possession of the manor. He 

 was a minor, and his mother had in 1433 married as 

 her second husband David de Standish. He married 

 Katherine, daughter of Henry Blundell of Little 

 Crosby, and by her had a son and heir John, who in 

 March, 1 469, is described as ' lord of Garston,' so that 

 his father Lawrence probably died before that time. 11 



John Ireland of Lydiate, who married Beatrice 

 daughter of William Norris of Speke, died in May, 

 1514, holding the manor of Lydiate of Sir Thomas 

 Butler by the tenth part of a knight's fee ; it was 

 worth 10 marks annually. He also held the manor 

 of Garston and lands in Downham, Allerton, Wool- 

 ton, Halewood, and West Derby, which were the 



Gules, a hunting spear in 

 bend head downwards or, 

 between six Jleurt de Us 



dure engrailed of the second 

 charged luith ten pellets. 



HALSALL 



Blackburn inheritance, the annual value being a little 

 over 14 marks. George, his sen and heir, was forty- 

 seven years of age." 



George Ireland held the manors for some twenty 

 years, 13 being succeeded about 

 1535 by his son Lawrence, who 

 in 1540 made an exchange 

 of lands with Thomas Lydiate 

 of Lydiate. 14 In 1539-40 he 

 had a grant of lands in Garston 

 from Thomas Ireland of the 

 Hutt, and four years later he 

 surrendered all his lands in 

 Garston and the neighbour- 

 hood to Sir William Norris 

 of Speke, receiving the Norris 

 lands in Lydiate and Maghull 

 in part compensation. 15 About 

 the same time he purchased 

 from Thomas Holt of Gristle- 

 hurst that portion of the pos- 

 sessions of Cockersand Abbey which lay in his own 

 neighbourhood in Lydiate, Thornton, Melling, and 

 Cunscough ; and in 1546 he acquired Eggergarth 

 from the Scarisbricks. 16 



He died in March 1566, holding the manor of 

 Cunscough of the queen in chief; the manor of 

 Lydiate of Thomas Butler of Warrington by the 

 twentieth part of a knight's fee, paying a rent of 

 5*. 4/, the clear value being 40 marks ; the manor 

 of Eggergarth of the same Thomas Butler, as the 

 twentieth part of a knight's fee, paying 71., the value 

 being 1 1 ; also lands in Aughton of the earl of Derby. 

 His son and heir was William Ireland, who was forty- 

 six years of age. 1 ' 



William Ireland died about three years after his 

 father. In 1567 he granted the reversion of Cun- 

 scough and Eggergarth to Gilbert Halsall and William 

 Ireland, 18 his youngest son, for ninety-nine years. He 

 had a dispute with his younger brother George of 

 Gray's Inn, who claimed everything under a feoftrnent 

 made by their father. 19 A pedigree was recorded in 

 1567.' The inquisition after his death records only 



