A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 





Before the Conquest Aughton con- 



M4NORS tained two manors Aughton in the 



south and Litherland in the north. 



Uctred, in 1066, held Jlchetun, and Uctred, perhaps 



the same person, held Liter land ; in each case the 



assessment was a plough-land and the value 32^.* 



After the Conquest LITHERLAND seems to have 

 been included in the royal demesne or held in thegnage 

 at a rent or service of icu. a year.' About the middle 

 of the twelfth century it was granted to Warin de 

 Lancaster, chief forester, by the serjeanty of keeping 

 the lord's falcons.* The thegnage tenant would hold 

 it of him. The mesne lordship did not endure very 

 long, for though King John, while count of Mortain 

 and afterwards as king, confirmed Uplitherland to 

 Warin's descendant, Henry de Lea, in 1207 he ex- 

 changed this manor and Liverpool for that of English 

 Lea in Amounderness.' From this time the thegnage 

 tenant again held directly of the lords of the honour 

 of Lancaster. 



The first of these tenants whose name is known was 

 Richard le Waleys, who also held a third of the manor 

 of Aughton. In 1212 it was found that he was hold- 

 ing a ploughland in Litherland for los. He died in 

 1 22 i r and his son and heir Richard agreed to pay ^.o/. 



four times the annual rent as his relief, and was 

 placed in possession. 5 He had also four oxgangs of 

 land in Whittle and a quarter of Dalton. 6 His 

 father's widow Quenilda was ' of the King's donation, 

 and her land was worth half a mark." In 1235 he 

 was one of the patrons of the rectory of Aughton, 8 

 and was still living ten years later when he was 

 defendant in a suit brought by Henry de Standish." 



After the death of Richard, a Robert le Waleys 

 appears to have been the principal member of the 

 family ; 10 possibly he was a brother and held some 

 part of the manor, acting as guardian to John le 

 Waleys of Litherland, the son and heir of Richard, 

 who lived on till the beginning of the next century, 

 and was after his death said to have been a 'cen- 

 tenarian.' " John held Uplitherland in 1 297, pay- 

 ing the old rent of 101." Before 1303, however, he 

 had been succeeded by his son Richard." 



Richard married Maud, daughter of Robert de 

 Bold of Bold, and was still holding the manor by 

 the old service in 1323-4;" in 1329, however, 

 Maud was a widow. 14 



Richard Walsh succeeded. 16 His name occurs as 

 witness to deeds down to 1361. He left two 

 daughters Maud, who married Roger son of Richard 



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