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supported library. After occupying hired premises 

 in Friar's Green, buildings were erected for it in 

 1855, and enlarged in 1876 by the addition of an 

 art gallery, and again in 1 88 1. The School of Art 

 adjoins ; it was founded in 1853. A technical insti- 

 tute was built in 1902. 



A town hall and bridewell were built under the 

 Act of 1 8 1 3 ; the building was till recently used as a 

 court for the magistrates, &c. The present town hall, 

 formerly Bank Hall, was purchased in 1872 ; it was 

 the seat of the Patten family, and erected in 1750. 

 It is a fine specimen of a large country house of the 

 time, with good plaster wall and ceiling decorations, 

 and a pediment on the front with the Patten arms. 

 The rain-water heads and wrought-iron railings are 

 excellent of their kind. The grounds have been 

 thrown open to the public. Parr Hall, presented to 

 the town by Mr. J. Charlton Parr in 1895, is used 

 for public meetings. 



The markets were held in an open space in the 

 angle formed by Sankey and Horsemarket Streets. 

 There the present market-hall was built in 1856 

 under an Act obtained in 1854 ; a large covered shed 

 adjacent was erected in 1879 to give further accom- 

 modation. Horsemarket and Buttermarket Streets 

 show by their names how they were formerly used. 



WARRINGTON 



Apart from the Boteler family the chief landowners 

 in Warrington were the Haydocks and their successors 

 the Leghs of Lyme. An account of their holding has 

 been printed in William Bcamont, Warrington in 

 1465.' One or more families bore the local name ; * 

 others took a surname from their trades or offices, as 

 the Arrowsmiths ; 3 others again had come into the 

 town from the adjacent town- 

 ships, as Rixton and South- 

 worth, and may have been 

 younger branches of the ma- 

 norial families. 4 Other surveys 

 of the town were made in 

 1587 and 1593, and are now 

 in the possession of Lord Lil- 

 ford ; there is a copy in the 

 museum. 



In more recent times the PATTKN 



chief local family was that of HALL. Loaengy ermine 



Patten, whose residence, as and utlt, a canun gula. 



already stated, is now the town 



hall. 4 The Borrons recorded a pedigree in 1664.* 



The prior of the Hospitallers ' and the abbot ot 

 Whalley " had exemptions from toll. William le 

 Boteler early in the thirteenth century granted to 

 Cockersand Abbey a burgage which the priest had 



1 Chet. Soc. vol. xvii. 



The Warringtons may have been an 

 offshoot of the Bottlers. In 1 246 an agree- 

 ment was made respecting an oxgang of 

 land and a water corn-mill in Warrington, 

 held for life by Henry le Boteler of 

 Richard le Boteler, who held of William 

 le Boteler, chief lord of the fee ; Final 

 Cone, i, 100. 



Richard son of Henry son of Ralph in 

 1278 recovered from William le Boteler 

 and others a free tenement, part of which 

 the defendant claimed as guardian of 

 Simon, son of William, son of Ralph, 

 which Ralph was elder brother of the 

 plaintiff. The other part had been granted 

 by the earl of Ferrers while defendant wa 



20 a. For Henry son of Robert Ruyl see 

 Wbattey Coucher (Chet. Soc.), ii, 418, 

 William son of Payn being a witness to 

 his grant. Agnes daughter of Thomas 

 Payn was among the plaintiffs in a suit of 

 1332, William Payn of Warrington being 

 a defendant ; Assize R. 1411, m. 12. 



Hawise widow of Richard de Hallum, 

 William dc Ripon, and Richard del Ford, 

 demanded certain messuages against Wil- 

 liam, son of William le Boteler in 1356 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 6, m. 5</.; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 337. 

 Four years later Elizabeth daughter of 

 Robert de Medburn complained that Wil- 

 liam dc Hallum, and Margaret his wife, 

 William de Ripon, and Richard de Wools- 



38. His son, another Thomas, the 

 builder of Bank Hall, acquired the lord- 

 ship ofWinmarlcigh; and his son Thomas, 

 high sheriff in 1773, married one of the 

 daughters and co-heirs of Peter Bold of 

 Bold. Their son Peter Patten Bold left 

 four daughters as co-heirs, and the Patten 

 estates went to his brother Thomas Patten 

 Wilson, whose son John Wilson Patten 

 was in 1874 elevated to the peerage as 

 Lord Winmarleigh. He died in 1892, 

 and his son and grandson having died 

 before him, the peerage became extinct, 

 and his daughters inherited the estates ; 

 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, viii, 189. 



Another branch of this family settled 

 at Preston, and acquired the manor of 



