WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



Travers, described as of ' Hardshaw.' ' After this 

 Ridgate seems to have passed away to the Bolds and 

 Ogles, together with Whiston.* 



About 1285 Henry de Torbock and Ellen his wife 

 granted their land in Ridgate to Burscough Priory.* 

 From the charters it would appear that Ridgate was 

 partly within Tarbock, but later inquisitions state that 

 the Torbocks' land in Ridgate was held of the lord of 

 Whiston. 4 



At the halmote of the manor held in 15233 record 

 was made of the bounds, and in 1526 Sir Richard 

 Bold, lord of the manor, was reported to have wrong- 

 fully enclosed part of the Copped Holt.* 



HALSNEAD * is first mentioned in 1 246, when 

 William, son of William Assolfi, and William, Adam, 

 and John, his sons, with others, were convicted of 

 having dispossessed Siward de Derwent and Cecily 

 his wife of an acre belonging to the fourth part of 

 Halsnead. 7 



PRESCOT 



Three generations of a family bearing the local 

 name appear next Adam, Ralph, and Thomas. 

 Adam de Halsnead granted his ' whole vill of Hal- 

 snead ' to his son Ralph, and Ralph granted it to 

 Richard son of Alan le Norreys. 8 In 1278 and 1 284 

 Richard le Norreys appeared as plaintiff against 

 Richard Travers and Henry Travers of Whiston, as 

 already stated.' The next step is not clear, but 

 Halsnead passed from Richard's son Alan to Robert le 

 Norreys of Burtonhead, and his son John was in pos- 

 session from 1324 onwards. 10 Dying about 1346 

 John was followed by his son Nicholas, who occurs 

 from time to time down to the end of the reign of 

 Edward III ; " he may be the Nicholas le Norreys of 

 Burtonhead whose son succeeded to that manor, but 

 though the Burtonhead family afterwards acquired 

 part of Halsnead, the Wetherbys were the heirs in 

 1422." The two families of Wetherby " and Pember- 

 ton u remained in possession down to the beginning 



