WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



as Haysarm, 1 Parr,' and Forshaw, 3 but no con- 

 nected history of these families can be given. 



The descent of HAYSARM, now owned by Lord 

 Derby, is to some extent cleared by pleadings of 

 1539-40. Alan Haysarm, seised of the hall and 

 estate, granted it to his son John, with remainder 

 to Alan's sister Alice, wife of Thomas More. As 

 John died childless the hall and lands were claimed 

 by John Marsh, son and heir of Henry, son and 

 heir of Janet, wife of John Marsh and daughter and 

 heir of Alice. The plaintiff further alleged that the 

 said Alice was formerly in the custody of one Margaret 

 Haysarm, who in conjunction with her husband 

 Jenkin Parr caused her to marry Thomas More, 



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Parr's servant, and that by More's consent a Robert 

 Parr obtained possession. Edward Parr, the actual 

 holder, in defence stated that the said Robert, his 

 grandfather (died 1492), was in lawful possession, and 

 w.is followed by a son and heir William (died c. 1536), 

 to whom Edward (born 1489) had succeeded as son 

 and heir. 4 



The number of the free tenants in 1246 is indi- 

 cated by the complaint by Richard Whitehaud and 

 Alice his wife, and Henry de Lascelles and Agnes his 

 wife, against Alan de Windle, Hugh the Serjeant, and 

 twenty others, including Cecily de Rainford, as to 

 10 acres, of which the plaintiffs alleged they had 

 disseised them, and which hereupon were restored to 



