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family of Travers of Ridgate and Hardshaw, which 

 continued down to the beginning of the seventeenth 

 century. In 1284 Roger Travers made complaint 

 that Benedict Gernet, Alan de Halsall, and others had 

 disseised him of the manor of Whiston, except one 

 messuage, and it was decreed that he should recover. 1 



Roger was still living in 1314,* but his son Robert 

 was in possession in 1324.' He received from William 

 de Dacre a confirmation of the manor of Whiston,' 

 and grants of his as late as 1348 are extant. 5 



John son of Robert Travers had in 1353 a dispute 

 with the rector of Prescot as to a messuage and acre 

 of land which the latter claimed as belonging to his 

 church; 6 and there were further disputes in 1369 

 and 1370.' Early in 1390 he made a general 

 feoffment of his manor of Whiston and lands, 8 which 

 his feoffees in April, 1394, regranted to John Travers 

 of Whiston and Margaret his wife, with remainder to 

 Richard, son of Thomas Travers and the heirs between 

 him and Cecily his wife, daughter of Thomas de 

 Strangeways. 9 Richard was probably the grandson 

 of John Travers, and very young at the time ; it is 

 not known whether the marriage then arranged ever 

 took place, but in 1408 Richard was contracted to 



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marry Katherine, daughter of Sir John de Bold. 10 

 He was still living in 1444." 



John Travers, son of Richard, appears to have 

 succeeded. By his wife Alice he had a son Thomas, 

 who in 1480 sold the manor of Whiston to Richard 

 Bold of Bold," whose descendants held it throughout 

 the sixteenth century." About 

 1600 it was acquired by the 

 Ogle family, who had long be- 

 fore commenced to purchase 

 parts of the Travers lands." 



The Ogles appear in Lan- 

 cashire in the middle of the 

 fifteenth century as stewards 

 of the manor of Prescot. John 

 Ogle, the earliest known, is 

 said to have been a son of Sir 

 Robert, first Lord Ogle, who 

 died in 1469." Early in 1472 

 John Ogle of Prescot purchased 



lands in Rainhill from John, son and heir of Hugh 

 Woodfall. 16 Margaret, widow of John Ogle, and 

 Roger their son purchased lands from John Tra- 

 vers, 17 and the family continued to prosper, becoming 



14 The manor appears to have been sold 

 by Sir Thomas Bold to John Ogle about 

 1608, though it is not mentioned in the 

 list of his possessions in 1613; Lanes, and 

 Cbes. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 32 ; Lanes. ln<j. p.m. (same soc.), i, 254. 

 Henry Ogle was lord of Whiston in 

 1619; ibid, ii, 140. 



* John Ogle and [Catherine his wife in 

 1457 purchased lands in Upton and in 

 Widnes from Robert de Ditton, with 

 reversion of those in the tenure of Cecily 

 widow of William de Ditton; Duchy of 

 Lane. Ct. R. bdle. 5, n. 69. The descent 

 from Lord Ogle is supported by the fact 

 that two deeds of his family appear among 

 the Ogle of Whiston deeds in Harl. MS. 

 2042, fol. 79. " Ibid. 



V Ibid.; a deed of confirmation, dated 

 i 506, by which Thomas son and heir of 

 John Travers confirmed the sales of cer- 

 tain messuages, lands, and services in 

 Whiston made by his father and himself 

 to Margaret relict of John Ogle, and to 

 Roger son and heir of the latter. This is 

 the last mention of the main line of 

 Travers of Whiston. The deed just quoted 

 is followed (loc. cit,) by another, dated 

 1515, by which John Ogle of Prescot, 

 probably the son of Roger, enfeoffed Sir 

 William Leyland, Humphrey Ogle, M.A., 

 and William Ogle, chaplain, of all his 

 lands in England. This Humphrey Ogle, 

 perhaps an uncle, was afterwards a pre- 

 bendary of Hereford and benefactor of 

 Brasenose College, Oxford, founding two 

 scholarships, with preference to candi- 

 dates from Prescot. William Ogle was 

 a brother of John; he was rector of 

 Credenhill in 1536 ; L. and P. Hen. FIJI, 

 x, 532. The will of John Ogle was 

 proved in 1525 ; he desired to be buried 

 in Prescot church, bequeathed his gold 

 seal to his son and heir John, mentioned 

 his daughters Alice, Margaret, Anne, and 

 Maud, his brother William, and his kins- 

 man Sir William Leyland ; Wills (Chet. 

 Soc. New Ser.), i, 224. 



The inquisition taken in 1563 shows 

 that John Ogle had held lands in Whiston 

 of Richard Bold by the rent of a rose, in 

 Sutton of William Holland, and in 

 Huyton and Roby of John Harrington, 

 Nicholas Tyldesley, and the earl of Derby ; 

 Edward Ogle, twenty-one years of age, 



