WEST DERBY HUNDRED ORMSKIRK 



holding under them. 1 In 1357 Thomas de Sutton was rendered to the king by his bailiff, giving full 



and Godith his wife purchased from Hugh the Cloth- details of tenants and services. 18 The subsidy rolls also 



seller and Quenilda his wife, and Richard the Stringer supply lists of the inhabitants. 13 

 and Margery his wife, a messuage here ; * and other The ma: 



similar acquisitions are recorded.* The borough 



seems to have become extinct before the sixteenth 

 century. 



The Crosse family had lands in Ormskirk at an 

 early date, 4 and among other holders may be men- 

 tioned Croft, 5 Standish, 6 Gerard/ Scarisbrick, 8 and 

 Parr. 9 A rental of i 5 24, compiled for the prior of 

 Burscough, gives a list of the tenants in Ormskirk,' 

 and there is a list of tenants at will dated 1522." 

 After the suppression of the priory an annual account 



the windmill called Greetby Mill, another windmill 

 and a water-mill, the new vicarage, and some other 

 tenements were in July, 1603, granted by James I to 

 William, earl of Derby, for 480;" and from that 

 time the manor descended with the earldom. 



The town was governed by the court-leet, which 

 held its meetings in the old town hall in Church 

 Street. 15 A local board of health was established in 

 l85o, 16 and its authority displaced that of the court- 

 leet, which was dissolved in i876. 17 The market 



