A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



who died soon after his father without issue, by his 

 wife Agnes. 1 Thereupon Sutton was claimed and 

 recovered in 1 349 by Clemency, as daughter and 

 heir of Alan le Norreys, son 

 of Alan, the son and heir of . 

 Henry and Margery.' 



At this time Clemency was 

 a minor, in the guardianship of 

 John Danyers or Daniell, who 

 married her to his son William. 3 

 The manor continued in the 

 line of Daniell of Daresbury 

 until 1517,* when John Daniell 

 sold his manors of Sutton, 

 Eccleston, and Rainhill, to John BUI 

 Bold, most probably the half Juuliy able? 

 brother of Sir Richard Bold. 5 

 From him they passed to his brother Tucher or 

 Tuger, 6 who gave them in 1545 to his nephew 

 Richard Bold. 7 With the rest of the Bold estates 

 they came into the possession of Sir Henry Bold 



1 Extracts from the Widnes Ct. R. in 

 Dods. MSS. xxxii, fol. 12*, 13 ; 'Robert 

 son of Gilbert de Meols, who held of 

 the lord lands and tenements in Sutton by 

 knight's service, died on the Nativity of 

 the B. V. Mary last past [8 Sept. 1 348 or 

 1 349]. His lands were in the lord's hands 

 by reason of the minority of Clemency, 

 daughter and heir of Alan le Norreys, 

 next of kin and heir of the said Robert ; 

 they were worth, including the demesne 

 and 151. id. free rent, 751. i\d. whereof 

 a third had been assigned to Agnes, the 

 widow, as dower.' 



a Ormerod, Chts. (ed. Helsby), i, 732. 



' Ibid. Clemency was still a minor in 

 i 359 ; Kuerden MSS. iv, S. 25, 26 (from 

 Widnes Ct. R.) ; the lands were farmed 

 out to Walter Withers for 4 8j. lod. 



4 See the pedigree in Ormerod, Chet. i, 

 734, with the documents cited, 732, 733. 



Hoghton. Sutton being sold, was in 1869 pur- 

 chased by William Pilkington, from whom the lord- 

 ship of the manor has descended to Mr. William 

 Lee Pilkington, his son. 8 



The Hospitallers had land in Sutton called Cross- 

 gate, from which they drew a quit-rent of \zd? 



The charter of William de Daresbury shows that 

 three of the four plough-lands of SUTTON were in 

 the possession of the family taking the local name. 

 They appear at the end of the twelfth century, when 

 William son of Ivo, at the prayer and with the con- 

 sent of Siegrith his wife and his heirs, gave to Hugh 

 le Norreys a plough-land in Eltonhead. 10 Siegrith 

 afterwards gave Burtonhead, as half a plough-land, to 

 Gilbert de Haydock, 11 and made benefactions to 

 Warburton." She was succeeded by her son John, 

 who confirmed his mother's gifts to Cockersand ; 13 

 and his son Robert, as above stated, was in possession 

 about 1250." Sons of his named John, Richard, and 

 Robert are known, 15 but though the family seems to 

 have retained some holding in Sutton, 16 the manor is 



10 Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 248* ; printed 

 in Cockersand Chart*!. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 

 597. One of the witnesses, Gilbert de 

 Walton, died in 1197. 



11 Dods. MSS. xxxii, fol. 7. John, 

 constable of Chester, was the first of the 

 witnesses, so that the date must lie be- 

 tween 121 1 and 1 240; he is not described 

 as earl of Lincoln, so that the earlier half 

 of this period is probable. The original 

 is at Lyme ; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 



13 Cockersand Chartul. loc, cit. The land 

 was called Cockshoot Head ; the boun- 

 daries began at the king's road towards 



conditions, to Sir Rauf Denton, chaplain, 

 Henry Smyth, and Thomas Worsley, 

 ' kyrk-revys of the kyrk ' of Farneworth, 

 the homage, royalties, chief rents, and 

 service of Eccleston, Rainhill, and Sutton, 

 and the following chief rents, viz. of John 



Rauf Eccleston for his manor and tene- 

 ments in Eccleston and the wardship, 

 marriage, homage, and service of Rauf 

 and his heirs, as much as belonged to 

 six plough-lands in Eccleston; i6d. of 

 Richard Bower for his tenement there ; 

 6d. of Nick'ne Colley for his tenement 

 there ; 6d. of the wife of John Byrkenhed 



Norres, esq. for tenements there ; a chief 

 rent of Perys Wetherby for tenements 

 there ; the homage and service of John 

 Eltonhead for land there : and his common 



as the valley, being marked by meres and 

 crosses and the ditches of Simon of Cock- 

 shoot Head; thence the brook was followed 

 as far as the Colt Snape, from which 

 point the bounds were again marked by 



supplemented by the deeds preserved in 

 Dodsworth and a collection of Daniell 

 charters in Anct. D. (P.R.O.), iii, v. 



From these it appears that Clemency 

 was living in 1399 ; her husband died in 

 1406 (Lanes. Inq. p.m., Chet. Soc., i, 88) ; 



same, if any, within Sutton ; Anct. D. 

 v, A. 12607. 



'Thus in 1522 Richard Eccleston 

 held his manors of Eccleston and Rain- 

 hill of Tuger Bold ; see the account of 

 Eccleston. 



here was held by a family named' Sef ton ; 

 it is described as in Burtonhead. See the 

 rentals ibid., iv, 1242-5. 



18 Ibid, ii, 597. John de Sutton was a 

 plaintiff in 1246 ; Assize R. 404, m. $d. 

 74 Robert son of John de Sutto 



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