WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



A fourth part of the Halsall moiety appears to have 

 been early formed into a separate estate or mesne 

 manor, but the evidence regarding it is defective. An 

 Adam de Parr had a share of 



the lordship in 1313,' but t 



somewhat earlier a Simon de 

 Parr held or claimed two ox- 

 gangs of land in the manor.* 

 He was followed by a son Alan 

 and a grandson Richard ; the 

 latter, who died about 1350, 

 left a young son also named 

 Richard, whose wardship was 

 claimed by Katherine de La- 

 thom. 3 



Argent, a chevron be- 

 fween three hedgehop 



The next in possession was, 

 perhaps, the William de Parr !aUe - 

 who held an eighth part of the 



vill about 1370.' He appears to be the Sir 

 William who in right of his wife became lord 

 of Kendal. 5 From him descended Sir Thomas 

 Parr of Kendal, who died in November, 1517, 

 seised of various lands in Parr and Sutton, and a 

 toft in Wigan, one parcel being held of Thomas, 

 earl of Derby, by knight's service and the yearly 

 rent of \*>d., being thus identified with the quarter 

 of a moiety held by the above-named William 



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in 1370; another part was held of the Prior of 

 St. John of Jerusalem by the rent of izd. ; and 

 a third, of Bryan Parr, by the rent of ijd? One of 

 his daughters, Katherine, was the last consort of 

 H enry VIII. His son and heir, William, aged five at 

 his father's death, became marquis of Northampton, 

 and after a chequered career died without acknow- 

 ledged issue in 1570, his various manors falling to the 

 crown. 7 



II. The Parr moiety was in 1291 held by Henry 

 de Parr. 8 One Henry, son of Lawrence de Parr, in 

 1246 recovered from Roger son of Hugh half an 

 oxgang of land there. 9 Henry's widow, Alice, in 

 I 301 hrought a suit against the lords of Parr, Henry 

 son of Henry, and Alan. 10 



This Henry son of Henry de Parr, who may have 

 succeeded much earlier than 1301, lived till 1332." 

 He seems, however, practically to have resigned the 

 manor to his sons Robert and Richard. The former 

 was of some prominence in the district, but his 

 descendants had only a quarter of this moiety, held 

 of Richard and his descendants, who were lords of 

 the moiety." In 1326-7 Richard de Parr married 

 Ellen daughter of Adam de Tyldesley, by whom he 

 had five sons." 



Richard was succeeded in or before 1351 by his 

 son John, sometimes described as a knight, 14 who in 



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