A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



by William le Walsh. 31 He was followed by a 

 Standish family. 3Ia In later times a junior branch 

 of the Norrises of Speke were settled in the town- 

 ship. 3 * Other owners also occur. 33 



George Janion of Blackrod forfeited Park Hall in 

 the time of the Commonwealth. 34 James Barker and 



other ' delinquents ' are named. 343 Some ' papists ' 

 registered estates in 1 7 1 7. 3D 



The Hospitallers had land in Blackrod in izgz/ 6 

 and about I 540 Lord Mounteagle was in possession. 37 



Lawrence Vaux, warden of Manchester in 1559, 

 was a native of Blackrod. 38 



81 It is possible that this was the estate 

 granted by Hugh le Norreys to his sister 

 Emma, referred to in an earlier note. 

 The mill of ' Erelegh ' is mentioned in 

 1283 ; Norris D. (B.M.), no. 1004 ; 

 and Erley occurs as a surname in local 

 charters. Hugh son of Haynon le Walsh 

 has been named in a suit of 1278, cited 

 above. John le Walsh of Arley is named 

 in 1345 ; De Banco R. 344, m. 162. 

 William le Walsh was a plaintiff in 1374 ; 

 Ibid. R. 456, m. 598 d. William le 

 Walsh died on 22 Sept. 1393, holding a 

 messuage, 50 acres of arable land, &c., 

 called Arley, of William de Bradshagh, 

 lord of the manor of Blackrod, by the rent 

 of id. or a pair of gloves ; the clear value 

 was 5 marks. Joan, the daughter and heir, 

 was ten years of age. The estate also in- 

 cluded a messuage and land in Standish ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 49. 



81a In 1362 William le Walsh of Arley 

 granted to Robert son of Edmund de 

 Standish all his lands, &c., in Blackrod 

 and Worthington, together with the dower 

 which Ellen his mother held in the same; 

 Standish D. (reprinted from Local Glean. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), no. 51*. In the i6th 

 and 1 7th centuries the Standishes of Stan- 

 dish had lands in Blackrod, held of the 

 heirs of Sir James Harrington (e.g. Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no 21 ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. [Rec. Soc.], i, 185) ; but there was 

 also a family of Standish of Arley, probably 

 descendants of the above-named Robert. 



About 1442-5 James Standish of Arley 

 was charged with waylaying certain per- 

 sons in order to kill them ; Oliver his 

 brother and others were implicated ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 4, m. 4* ; R. 5, m. 1 6 ; 

 R. 8, m. 2. The same James Standish 

 occurs also in the Standish D., e.g. no. 131, 

 138. In 1459-60 he had licence to erect 

 a mill-dam on the Douglas ; ibid. no. 146, 

 148. His son Peter was a year or two 

 later divorced from Katherine daughter 

 of John Hawarden ; ibid. no. 149. A 

 feoffment of lands in Blackrod, &c., was 

 made by Peter Standish in 1465 ; ibid.no. 

 151. Peter Standish, James, his son and 

 heir, and Constance the wife of James, 

 occur in 1483 ; ibid. no. 169-70. James 

 and Constance occur again in 1513 ; ibid, 

 no. 218, 222 ; he died in or before 1525 ; 

 ibid, no 281. Peter Standish of Arley 

 occurs in 1581; Kuerden MSS. iii, W, 31. 

 An Alexander Rigby of Arley appears in 

 1564 ; Standish D. no. 317-18 ; see also 

 Ducatui Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 116. 



Arley Hall was a century ago owned 

 by J. Chisnall Johnson. At present it is 

 the property of the trustees of the late 

 Colonel Fell and Gidlow Fell his son, 

 having been part of the estate of James 

 Gidlow. 



88 In 1540 Clemency Norris, widow, 

 granted to her son Thomas and Anne his 

 wife her house called Park Hall in 

 Blackrod ; Norris D. (B.M.). Edward 

 Norris, the son of Thomas and Anne, in 

 1572 leased to his brother Henry the 

 Mytingreaves in Blackrod ; ibid. Edward 

 died in or before 1578, and left a son 

 William of Staple Inn, in 1584, and Park 

 Hall was surrendered to Edward Norris of 

 Speke ; ibid. Alice widow of Henry 

 Norris of Blackrod made a feoffment of 



her estate in 1580 ; Add. MS. 32109, fol. 

 123^, 124. William Norris of Blackrod, ' 

 esquire,' is named in 1598 ; and in 1609 

 George Norris of Blackrod, ' yeoman,' pur- 

 chased a tenement lately in the occupa- 

 tion of Dorothy widow of James Rigby ; 

 Norris D. ; see also Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), iii, 35, 98. 



The estate of William Norris of Black- 

 rod was confiscated by the Parliament in 

 1652 ; Peacock, Index of Realists (Index 

 Soc.), 43. He afterwards desired to com- 

 pound, and showed that he held lands in 

 Blackrod and Adlington ; after his death 

 the inheritance would go to Thomas, 

 infant son of George Abbot of Heapey ; 

 Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iv, 230-1. 



88 Isabel wife of Robert de Worsley and 

 widow of John de Worthington in 1376 

 claimed dower in an estate in Blackrod 

 held by William de Worthington ; De 

 Banco R. 462, m. 235. 



Thomas Fleetwood of Norbreck died in 

 1576, holding lands in Blackrod of the 

 queen as of her manor of East Greenwich 

 being the chantry estate and left a son 

 Edward. 



Roger Shepherd, who died in 1601, also 

 held lands in Blackrod as of the manor of 

 East Greenwich ; he left a son Thurstan, 

 fourteen years of age ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 71-3, 

 where his will was printed. The Shepherd 

 family occur a century earlier ; Duchy 

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



51-3. 



Arthur Holme (Hulme) in 1603 held a 

 messuage and lands in socage of the manor 

 of East Greenwich ; his heir was his 

 nephew George, son of James Holme ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. i, 71. Hugh Whittle, 

 clerk, in 1622 held lands by a similar 

 tenure ; ibid, iii, 305. 



William Fleetwood of Eyton, in Bedford, 

 had in 1574 made a settlement of his 

 estate in Blackrod ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 36, m. 51. Afterwards he appears 

 to have sold it to Peter Nelson of Heskin, 

 coal and coal mines being included ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea. R. 272, m. 5 d. A further 

 settlement was made in 1591 by Hugh 

 Nelson, Dorothy his wife, John Nelson, 

 James Robinson and Alice his wife ; Hugh 

 and John were the sons of Peter Nelson, 

 and had an elder brother William ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 53, m. 52. 



Thomas Molyneux of Speke had an 

 estate in Blackrod by grant of the Norrises; 

 see Norris D. and Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 22, m. 35. 



Edward Holden held a messuage and 

 lands of the king in socage by a rent of 

 5j</. ; he died in 1620, leaving a son 

 Henry, of full age ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 236. Henry 

 died 10 Sept. 1636, leaving a son William, 

 eleven years of age, to succeed him ; 

 Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), fol. 



5i7- 



John Crompton, who died in 1629, also 

 held lands of the king ; Elisha his son and 

 heir was nineteen years of age ; ibid. 241. 



George Hulme, George Shorrock, and 

 Longworth, were freeholders in 1600; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 249, 

 250. 



302 



84 Royalist Comp. Papers iv, 29. It is 

 called 'the manor or seigniory of Park 

 Hall in Blackrod.' His estate was con- 

 fiscated under the third Act of 1652 ; 

 Peacock, Index of Royalists, 43. The 

 estate of Henry Ashton of Blackrod was 

 ordered to be sold under the same Act ; 

 ibid. 42. 



George Janion was born about 1 609, 

 being the son of Dr. ' Jennion ' and Ellen 

 his wife, daughter and co-heir of George 

 Rogerley of Park Hall, who recorded a 

 pedigree in 1613 ; Vhlt. (Chet. Soc.), 13. 

 The Norris deeds show that George 

 Rogerley in 1608 purchased an estate in 

 Blackrod which had just been sold by Sir 

 William Norris to Cuthbert Clifton. 



John Genyon, gentleman, was a recu- 

 sant in 1678 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, 

 App. iv, 109. Ralph Vauce was the pur- 

 chaser in 1654. From the Visitation of 

 1 664 it appears that the above-named Ellen 

 afterwards married Lawrence Worthing- 

 ton, but had no issue by him ; Dugdale, 

 Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 342. 



84 * James Barker of Blackrod, yeoman, 

 compounded for his estate of 3 acres by a 

 fine of ,10 ; his delinquency was that he 

 had gone into the king's quarters and 

 stayed there, but he took the Negative 

 Oath in 1646 and also the National Cove- 

 nant ; Royalist Comp. Papers, i, 133. 



By a lease of 1596 Edward Norris of 

 Speke granted to James Barker of Black- 

 rod, John his son, and Jane the wife of 

 John, the tenement which James Barker 

 already held ; the services included one day 

 ploughing with a team, one day harrowing, 

 one day leading of compost with a team, 

 and six days gleaning in harvest time ; 

 Norris D. (B.M.). John Barker became 

 the owner in 1609 ; ibid. Richard Barker 

 at the same time purchased his holding ; 

 ibid. 



George Mort of Blackrod, who had also 

 taken the oaths, was allowed to compound 

 for a fine of 46 ; Royalist Comp. Papers^ 

 iv, 195 ; Dugdale, Visit. 211. 



Adam Mort of Tyldesley and Thomas 

 his son in 1609 purchased from Sir 

 William Norris a tenement lately held by 

 George Hulme, deceased, and Katharine 

 Hulme ; Norris D. (B.M.). 



85 They were Elizabeth widow of Wil- 

 liam Brown ; Ellen widow of John Shep- 

 herd ; and James Makinson ; Estcourt 

 and Payne, Cath. Nonjurors, 106, 152-3. 



Thomas Gillibrand of Chorley was in 

 1734 found to have an estate in Blackrod; 

 Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, fol. 252 

 (from Roll 5 of Geo. II, at Preston). 



86 Plac.de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 375. 

 8 ' Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84 ; the rent 



was \7.d. 



88 See the account of Manchester 

 Church. There are many references to 

 the family in the Norris D. (B.M.) ; the 

 name is spelt in a great variety of ways, 

 e.g. Vaus, Vauce, Wawse, &c. In 1605 

 Sir William Norris sold to Edward Vause 

 of Blackrod the tenement lately held by 

 Alexander, the father of Edward, with the 

 usual moss-room, quarries, and delphs of 

 coal and stone, &c. ; the Red Moss is 

 mentioned. Four years later Sir William 

 sold to John Vose son of Ralph the tene- 

 ment in Blackrod he then held. 



