WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



HAWARDIN or 

 WOOLSTON. Argent^ 

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John Hawarden and Elizabeth his wife were 

 freeholders in Poulton and Woolston. 1 His son 

 Thomas Hawarden * had a son Thomas, who died 

 before 1513, in which year 

 Joan his wife gave 20 marks 

 for the marriage of her son 

 John, which Sir Thomas Boteler 

 claimed in respect of lands held 

 of him in Warrington. 3 In 

 1523 John Hawarden was 

 amerced for not appearing at 

 a court held at Warrington to 

 do his suit for the same lands. 4 

 He died in 1556-7 seised of 

 this manor and of lands in 

 Halewood. 5 Adam his son, 

 aged thirty years in 15567, 

 entered his pedigree at the visi- 

 tation of William Flower in 1 567." The manor was 

 settled upon him by his father John Hawarden by fine 

 in 1548.' He died 6 February, 1596-7," his only 

 son having predeceased him. Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Adam, had married Alexander, son and heir of 

 Edward Standish of Standish, 

 in I575, 9 and in 1581 Adam t t 



Hawarden and Alexander Stand- 

 ish had conveyed the manor 

 and family estates by fine to 

 trustees, 10 as Alexander Standish 

 and Elizabeth his wife likewise 

 did in 1609." The manor 

 subsequently descended with 

 Standish until March, 1870, 

 when the hall was sold to the 

 present owner, Mr. John Ben- 

 nett, by the Standish trustees, 

 with the consent of the late 

 Charles Henry Lionel Widdrington Standish. The 

 'manorial rights, if any,' were reserved by the 

 vendors." 



In 1278 Robert son of Alan le Norreys of Halsnead 



STANDISH OF STAND- 

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WARRINGTON 



and Agnes his wife claimed estovers in Robert de 

 Woolston's wood in Woolston, which they had been 

 used to enjoy." John son of the same Robert in 

 1323 and again in 1332 sought to recover a messuage 

 and two oxgangs of land here from Richard son of 

 Hugh de Woolston." 



The family of Southworth of Samlesbury held an 

 estate here from an early period. In 1432 Thomas 

 Southworth died seised of lands held of John Hawarden 

 and Elizabeth his wife. 15 Richard Southworth died 

 in 1472, and Christopher his son in 1487, seised of 

 the same, held of Thomas Hawarden by the yearly 

 rent of \d. In 1502 Ralph Anderton claimed the 

 premises. 16 The subsequent descent is unknown. 



Ralph Culcheth died in 1564 seised of a small 

 estate here, which he held of Adam Hawarden in 

 socage by a yearly free rent of 3/. 17 William his 

 bastard son and heir alienated it in 1567 to Thomas 

 Walmesley of Showley, 18 who died seised of the same 

 in I584. 19 It descended in 1612 to Thomas, son 

 and heir of Robert Walmesley of Coldcotes,' and 

 probably passed with the other estates of this family. 



MARTINSCROFT' 1 was, as the name suggests, a 

 several enclosure within the manor of Woolston. 

 Gilbert de Martinscroft held land here in the time 

 of Edward I,* 2 and Richard his son was one of the 

 largest contributors here to the subsidy of 1326." 

 By his wife Agnes, daughter of John de Shaw, he 

 had issue two daughters, Godith and Margery, who 

 with their husbands were claiming a messuage and 

 lands here in 1346 against Robert, son and heir of 

 the said Richard de Martinscroft, and Richard's 

 widow, Margery de Edgeworth." 



Richard Houghton, Ellen Hawarden, Adam 

 Hawarden, and Richard Bruch, as landowners in 

 Woolston, contributed to a subsidy in Mary's reign." 

 The only freeholder recorded in 1 600 was Alexander 

 Standish.' 6 Sir Peter Legh and Ralph Standish were 

 the landowners paying to the subsidy in 1628, in 

 Poulton and Woolston." Richard Booth was in 

 1653 allowed to contract for two-thirds of his estate 



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