A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of the manors of Whiston and Hals 

 the purchaser being John Ogle. 



John': 

 married 



Whitby of Chester, 3 and had by her a numerous off- 

 spring. He died about 1649,* but does not seem to 



Richard Travers, as already stated, gave his younger 

 son Henry his land in RIDG4TE 10 in Whiston, 



and heir Henry, born about 1586,' which had been granted to him by the hospital of 

 1610 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert St. John outside the Northgate of Chester at a rent 

 of izd. n Henry Travers had sons John and Henry, 1 * 

 nd the latter apparently a son and successor named 



have taken any part in the Civil War. Two of his John, 13 contemporary with the John Travers son of 



sons, however, took arms on the king's side. Cuthber 

 the eldest, received a commission from the earl of 

 Derby, but soon retired, and in 1646 took the 



Robert, who was lord of Whiston. The descent 

 cannot be traced with certainty. 14 



At the end of the fifteenth century appears another 



National Covenant in London and compounded for John, followed by Henry " and Robert early in the 

 his estates by a fine of jl2O. 4 Henry his brother, next. 16 About 1560 the last-named was succeeded by 

 holding a similar commission, took p 

 defence of Lathom House. 6 



the 



Cuthbert died 



his son John, who died in October, 1583, holding 

 the manor of Ridgate of the queen, as of the late 

 670, the heir being his son dissolved hospital of St. John at Chester, by a rent of 



Edward, 7 whose daughter and eventual heir Elizabeth I id., and lands in Whiston, Hardshaw, and Rainford." 



carried the manor to her husband Jonathan Case, of 

 the Red Hazels in Huyton. 8 About the beginning 

 of last century the manor was held by Richard Willis 

 of Halsnead, to whose heirs it has descended ; but 



His heir was his son John, 18 twenty-three years of 

 age, who soon afterwards became implicated in the 

 Babington plot, for which he was executed as a traitor 

 in 1586, his property being forfeited. 19 William 



the hall was then in the possession of John Ashton Travers, believed to be a brother, : 



Case, a Liverpool merchant, great-grandson of the 

 above-named Jonathan. 9 



ered Ridga 



and most of the lands held by the father ; dying 

 1591 he was succeeded by a younger brother, Henry 



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