A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the inheritance was ultimately divided between his 

 daughters Ellen, who married Joseph Yates of Peel 

 in Little Hulton, 1 and Elizabeth, who married 

 Edward Aspinwall.* The manor was purchased by 

 Thomas Unsworth of Liverpool, and descended to 

 his grandson William Gillibrand Unsworth, after whose 

 death it was sold to Hugh 

 McElroy. The present owner 

 of the manor-house, by pur- 

 chase from H. McElroy's exe- 

 cutors, in September, 1880, is 

 Mr. Thomas Curry Mather of 

 Lydiate, but no manorial rights 

 belong to it.* 



Gilbert de Maghull, above 

 mentioned, had a daughter and 

 heir Joan, who married Ralph 

 Molyneux. 4 Ralph left sons 

 Richard, who married Isabel, 

 Thomas, and Geoffrey. 5 Richard 

 had two sons, Robert and Ed- 

 mund. The elder married 

 Margery daughter of Robert 



Gore, about 1498,* and they had two daughters, 

 Elizabeth and Anne, who were co-heirs of Ken- 

 netshead and other property. Elizabeth married 



(i) Melling and (ii) Humphrey Ley, 7 and Anne 



married Henry son and heir of Thomas Pye of 

 Lydiate. 8 Elizabeth and Humphrey Ley and their 

 son Edmund sold their land in Maghull to Richard 

 Maghull in 1570.' Nevertheless at the inquisition 

 after the death of Edmund Ley (made in 1589) it 

 was found that he died on 17 January, 1587-8, seised 

 of a house and lands there, held of Richard Hulme ; 

 and that his son Richard was his heir. 10 



It has been convenient to narrate the history of 

 the Maghull family first, as it bore the local name. 



MATHM or LYDIATK. 

 Barry of ,i x a*ur, and 



mm, 'on a chief of 'the 

 second an escallop between 



The superior lordship of the Halsalls was replaced some 

 time between 1370 and 1380 by that of the Hulmes, 

 it is supposed by marriage. The first of this family 

 to appear in connexion with Maghull is Richard de 

 Hulme, who contributed to the poll tax of 1381." 

 David de Hulme, who was probably his son, died 

 6 December, 1418, seised of the manor of Maghull, 11 

 and holding it of the king as of his duchy of 

 Lancaster, viz. of the honour of Halton, by knight's 

 service and a rent of I $d. per annum. It was worth 

 clear 10 marks. 13 His son and heir, Lawrence, was 

 nine years of age, attaining to his majority before 

 March, 1432, when his lands were delivered to him. 

 It was proved that he was baptized in Maghull 

 chapel ; Henry Blundell of Crosby, aged forty-three 

 and over, was in the church on the same day, being a 

 ' love day ' or settlement between Sir Thomas Gerard 

 and Sir John Bold." 



Lawrence Hulme in 1442 gave certain lands to 

 his son Richard on his marriage with Joyce daughter 

 of Robert Molyneux. 15 He lived on until 1483," 

 in July of which year he settled various lands in 

 Maghull (held by his son and heir Richard and others), 

 Scarisbrick, and Ainsdale on Ellen daughter of Henry 

 Becconsall, who was to marry his grandson Edmund." 

 This Edmund died on Christmas Eve, 1525, holding 

 the manor of Maghull and messuages, land, &c., in 

 Maghull, of the duchy of Lancaster by the twelfth 

 part of a knight's fee. He also held lands in 

 Lydiate, Halsall, Barton, and Aspemoll in Scaris- 

 brick, and the manor of Ainsdale with lands there. 

 His son and heir Richard was aged thirty-five and 

 more in 1529."* Richard Hulme died on 21 Novem- 

 ber, 1539 ; 19 Edmund Hulme, the son and heir, wai 

 nearly thirteen years of age. 



Edmund Hulme after coming of age complained 

 that his mother Anne, who had married for her 



