WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



heir to the manor was John de Haydock, who was 

 in possession by 1358." 



He married Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas de 

 Dmton, 85 and died 12 December 1387, holding the 

 moiety of the manor of Haydock and lands there of 

 Sir John de Holland of Thorpe Watervill in socage 

 by a rent of ijs. ; holding also various lands in 

 Newton, Golborne, and Bold. His son and heir 

 Gilbert was thirty years of age.** Of Sir Gilbert's 

 children the heir was his daughter Joan, who carried 

 this and other manors to the family of her first 

 husband, Peter de Legh of Lyme in Cheshire. 27 

 She afterwards married Sir Richard de Molyneux of 

 Sefton, and her tomb is in Sefton Church." The 

 manor has since remained a part of the Legh inheri- 



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tance,* 9 Lord Newton being the present lord as well 

 as chief landowner. 80 



Numerous other branches of the Haydock family sl 

 and minor holders existed in the I3th and I4th cen- 

 turies. 31 No resident freeholders are named in the 

 lists of 1556, 1600, and 1628. 



The Ven. Edmund Arrowsmith, S.J., executed for 

 his priesthood at Lancaster in 1628, was born in 

 Haydock. 13 Katherine Arrowsmith, a leaseholder 

 under Sir Peter Legh, had two-thirds of her tene- 

 ment sequestered by the Commonwealth authorities 

 for her recusancy ; Thurstan her son, ' a Protestant and 

 conformable,' claimed it in 1652, and it was allowed 

 him on his taking the oath of abjuration. 34 Thurstan 

 Callan and Mary his mother, widow of William 



M He had a grant from Sir Robert de 

 Langton in that year ; Raines, loc. cit. 

 157. He had earlier, in 1350, purchased 

 lands in Newton from William ton of 

 John son of John the Piper, Emma, 

 widow of the younger John, assenting ; 

 ibid. 155. Piperfield in Newton was the 

 subject of a grant by him in 1373 ; ibid. 

 146. 



24 John son of Gilbert de Haydock 

 and Joan his wife occur in 1353 ; Assize 

 R. 435, m. 32 ; she was the widow of 

 Richard le Boteler, with whom she had a 

 third of the Boteler lands ; these she took 

 to her second husband, whose heirs re- 

 tained them, an act which led to disputes 

 between the families not settled till the 

 i6th century 5 see Raines, loc. cit. 73, 

 79,80. 



In 1368 a number of family arrange- 

 ments were made. William de Wigan, 

 chaplain, regranted to John de Haydock 

 and Joan his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas 

 de Dutton, various lands in Newton, with 

 remainders to the children of John and 

 Joan, and then to Sir Lawrence de Dut- 

 ton, and Anabel and Eleanor, sisters of 

 John de Haydock ; Raines, loc. cit. 165. 

 A grant by John son of Sir Robert de 

 Langton names the children of John and 

 Joan thus : Gilbert, Matthew, and Ni- 

 cholas, Ellen, Emma, Agnes, and Philippa; 

 ibid. 167. Four years later Talpeshaw in 

 Newton was granted with remainders 

 (after the children) to Sir Lawrence de 

 Dutton (brother of Joan), Sir Geoffrey de 

 Worsley, and Sir John Mascy of Tatton 

 and his wife Alice daughter of Geoffrey 

 de Worsley ; ibid. 238. The reason for 

 the Worsley remainder is that Geoffrey, 

 the father of Sir Geoffrey and Alice, had 

 married Anabel daughter of Gilbert de 

 Haydock ; ibid. 421. 



In 1352 John and Richard sons of 

 Gilbert de Haydock were acquitted of the 

 murder of Adam son of William del 

 Moore ; Assize R. 434, m. 2. Provision 

 for Richard was made in 1348; Final 

 Ccnc. ii, 127. Richard died before July 

 1361, when his lands reverted to his 

 brother John ; Raines, loc. cit. 53. 



84 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 31. 

 John de Haydock had been summoned to 

 the Scrope-Grosvenor trial in 1386, being 

 then sixty-four years of age ; Roll (ed. 

 Nicolas), 290. 



V In Sept. 1394, Gilbert son and heir 

 of John de Haydock enfeoffed Richard 

 de Carleton, rector of Warrington, and 

 others of his manors of Haydock and 

 Bradley, and various lands in Haydock, 

 Newton, Golborne, and Bold ; Raines, 

 loc. cit. 57. A year later Henry de Hay- 

 dock released to the trustees all his claim 

 in the manors ; ibid. 59 ; and shortly 



afterwards Sir John de Holland of Thorpe 

 Watervill leased to Sir Gilbert de Hay- 

 dock the park in Haydock ; ibid. 



In 1420 Sir Gilbert de Haydock, Sir 

 Peter de Legh and Joan his wife received 

 from the trustee, Reginald del Downes, 

 mayor of Macclesficld, who had married 

 Sir Gilbert's daughter Alice, a release of 

 his interest in their manors in Lancashire; 

 ibid. 63. The marriage covenant is given 

 on p. 525 ; Gilbert de Haydock, kt., and 

 Sibyl his wife, and Peter de Legh, esq., 

 were parties ; the date is illegible, but 

 that it was in or before 1414 is shown 

 by another deed; ibid. 393. The son 

 and heir, Peter de Legh, was born in 

 June 1415. 



The Bishop of Lichfield granted Gil- 

 bert de Haydock licence for his oratories 

 at Haydock and Bradley in Dec. 1387; 

 Lich. Epis. Reg. Scrope, v, fol. 123^. 



Sir Gilbert de Haydock had from Ric. II 

 a protection from serving as escheator, &c., 

 and this was confirmed by Hen. IV in 

 1403; Pal. of Lane. Ch. Misc. 1-9,01. 15. 

 He is last named in 1425 ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 12. 



28 See the account of Sefton. She 

 died in Jan. 1439-40. 



39 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 

 63 ; viii, no. 10 ; xxviii, no. 32 ; xxix, 

 no. 1 6. Accounts of the Legh family 

 are in Earwaker, East Ches. ii, 293-306, 

 and Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), iii, 

 673-8. 



10 In 1787 Peter Legh contributed 42 

 out of the ^43 levied as land tax. 



81 Some of these have been noticed in 

 the account of the parent family, to 

 which most of the minor properties 

 appear to have returned by purchase or 

 inheritance. 



William son of Hugh son of Hugh de 

 Haydock granted to Matthew son of Gil- 

 bert de Haydock land by Matthew's 

 orchard in Oldfield, to be held of his 

 chief lord, Sir Robert de Holland ; Raines, 

 loc. cit. 229. Henry son of William de 

 Haydock granted land in Oldfield (or 

 Heldfield), abutting on Taylor's Marsh, 

 to his chief lord, Matthew de Haydock ; 

 ibid. 227. William son of Richard son 

 of Hugh de Haydock gave to the same 

 Matthew four selions in Aldenather, 

 Crooked Beancroft, and Hengrave ; ibid. 

 235. The seal shows a lion rampant 

 reguardant. 



w Hawise daughter of Henry de Har- 

 grave in 1335 made a grant to Gilbert 

 son of Matthew de Haydock ; ibid. 41. 

 Richard son of Stephen del Edge con- 

 firmed this charter ; ibid. 43. The same 

 or another Hawise was in 1327 the wife 

 of Thomas son of Agnes del Shaw ; ibid. 

 37. Robert son of Laysig sold for IOCM. 



'39 



to Gilbert de Haydock a messuage and 

 land formerly held by Gilbert's uncle 

 William ; ibid. 221. 



83 For a full biography see Foley, 

 Records S.J. ii, 24-74 ; Challoner, Miss. 

 Priests, ii, no. 160 ; Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of 

 Engl. Cath. i, 62. 



Thurstan Arrowsmith, the grandfather, 

 died in Salford gaol in 1583 as a recusant; 

 Foley, op. cit. iii, 80 1. Robert, the 

 father, who married Margery daughter of 

 Nicholas Gerard, was also imprisoned on 

 suspicion of harbouring a priest ; he and 

 his brother Peter afterwards served in the 

 Low Countries discharging their muskets 

 in the air for fear of hurting any Catho- 

 lics and then joined the Spaniards. 

 Peter died abroad, and Robert, after visit- 

 ing his brother Edmund, a professor at 

 Douay, returned to England, where he died. 

 His widow Margery was fined for recusancy 

 in 1599. The Edmund Arrowsmith just 

 named entered the English College, Rome, 

 in 1583, aged 19 ; Foley, op. cit. vi, 



155- 



Bryan Arrowsmith was born in 1585 

 and educated at a local school. In 1605 

 he went to Douay ; taking his uncle's 

 name Edmund at his confirmation, he 

 was afterwards known by it. He was 

 ordained priest and sent to England in 

 1613, labouring in Lancashire. Arrested 

 in 1622 (it is supposed) he was brought 

 before Bishop Bridgeman, but after a 

 short imprisonment released. In 1624 

 he entered the Society of Jesus. Four 

 years afterwards he was arrested in con- 

 sequence of a denunciation by one Holden. 

 He was tried at Lancaster by Sir Henry 

 Yelverton, and condemned and executed on 

 28 Aug. ; by a special consideration he 

 was allowed to hang till he was dead, be- 

 fore the rest of the sentence was carried 

 out. His hand is preserved at St. Os- 

 wald's, Ashton in Makerfield, and many 

 miracles are attributed to it. The first 

 stage in the process of canonization was 

 passed in 1887. 



84 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, iv, 

 3004 ; or more fully in the Royalist Comp. 

 Papert (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 86-90. The lease was made to peti- 

 tioner's grandmother, Katherine Arrow- 

 smith, who died about 1640, and descended 

 to her son Robert and his wife Katherine, 

 the recusant ; the husband died about 

 1646, and his widow had retained pos- 

 session of the third portion. The ' aver- 

 age ' consisted of two days' ploughing, two 

 days' loading of corn, four days' reaping, 

 and four days' haymaking, or a payment 

 of zs. 9</. The house and land are 

 described ; among the fields were the 

 Rounds, Kirkfield, Oak Hey, Cayley 

 Green, Ridding, and Hempyard. 



