A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



one, Thomas, became rector of Warrington. 1 He 

 died 20 June, 1436, holding the manors of Rixton 

 and Glazebrook of the Boteler 

 trustees by knight's service and 

 the rent of 2O/. ; his son and 

 heir, William, was thirty-one 

 years of age.* Little is known 

 of William de Mascy, but 

 by his marriage with Parnell, 

 daughter and heir of Richard 

 de Warburton of Surges in 

 Cogshall, he increased his Che- 

 shire lands. 1 Hamlet, his son 

 and heir, was in 1438 married 

 to Joan daughter of Sir Robert 

 Booth, 4 and succeeded his father 

 in 1448;* three years later 

 the bishop of Lichfield granted him a licence for 

 an oratory at Rixton. 6 In 1453 Hamlet made a 

 settlement of his estates. 7 He died in April, 1462, 

 leaving a widow and eight children. 8 



Of these the eldest son, Hamlet, succeeded to 



MASCY OF R.XTON. 



Quarterly gules and argent, 

 on the second quarter a 

 mullet sable. 



Rixton. He acquired lands in Warrington and Glaze- 

 brook, 9 and among other acts endowed a chantry in 

 the chapel of Hollinfare in the latter township. 10 He 

 married Alice, daughter of Sir John le Boteler," and 

 left two daughters, who had some of the Cheshire 

 lands as their inheritance." Rixton and the moiety 

 of Glazebrook passed to Hamlet's younger brother 

 John, who in 1 500 was contracted in marriage to 

 Anne, daughter of Sir John Booth. 13 John Mascy 

 made some addition to the estates." He twice com- 

 pounded for refusing knighthood, 15 and was killed at 

 Flodden 9 September, 1513, where also fell his 

 father-in-law. William, his son and heir, then 

 aged nine years, became the ward of Sir Thomas 

 Boteler. 16 



William Mascy was married in 1518-19 to Anne, 

 daughter of Richard Aston of Aston near Frodsham, 17 

 and died in May, I538. ls In the previous month he 

 had made various settlements. 19 His son and heir 

 Richard was then thirteen years of age, but had 

 been married some years before to Anne, daughter of 

 Thurstan Tyldesley. 10 He repurchased the confiscated 





