A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



tance to Alice, who married Henry son of Henry son 

 of Richard de Glazebrook, whereupon he obtained 

 the surname of Byrom.*® The family improved its 

 position by later marriages, and about 1420 Henry 

 de Byrom married Lucy a daughter and co-heir of 

 Henry son of John de Parr." His grandson Henry 

 married Constance daughter and co-heir of Gilbert 

 Abram, and one of the heirs of the Boydells of Grap- 

 penhall ; by this considerable lands in Cheshire were 

 acquired, together with the advowson of Grappen- 



The family continued to prosper. Henry Byrom, 

 living in 1553,'^ married successively daughters of 

 Ralph Langton and Sir Richard Bold, and his eldest 

 son Thomas ^° married a daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Langton, but dying without issue the manor of Byrom 

 passed to his younger brother John, who about 1559 

 married Margaret widow of Thomas Parr.*^ He 



acquired much of the Parr inheritance, and Parr 

 Hall became the chief seat of the Byroms. 



John Byrom was in 1590 

 among the ' more usual comers 

 to church,' but not a com- 

 municant ; " Mary the wife 

 of his son and heir Henry 

 was at the same time a 

 'recusant and indicted there- 

 of.' '' 



John Byrom died in 1592 

 OT 1593, holding the manor 

 of Byrom and various lands, 

 windmills, &c., in Lowton, 

 Golborne, and Abram, of 

 Thomas Langton, in socage, 



by a rent of 4/. 7^^. ; he also held the manor 

 of Parr, and lands there and in other town- 



Byrom of Byrom. 

 Argent a che'ueron be- 

 tween three hedgehogs 

 sable. 



^* An account of the Byrom families 

 by Canon Raines will be found in the 

 Chatham Society's edition of John By- 

 rom's Correspondence (old ser. xliv) ; and 

 supplementary matter in Lanes, and Ches. 

 Antiq. Notesy ii, 26, gi, 154. 



The descendants of Thurstan de Hol- 

 land are not clearly ascertained. He ap- 

 pears to have had three sons by Juliana 

 daughter of John Gillibrand — Thurstan, 

 Adam, and Simon. He is not usually 

 called their father, but made grants to 

 them; Assize R. 408, m. i6d. In a 

 suit of 1292 Simon is called son of Thur- 

 stan ; ibid. m. 25. In a claim of the 

 same date made by Alan son of Alan de 

 Rixton against Simon son of Thurstan de 

 Holland, Byrom was said to be * neither 

 town, borough, nor hamlet' ; ibid. 



Simon the youngest son succeeded ; 

 in 1303 he claimed land from Henry de 

 Glazebrook, but the jury found that it 

 was really in Newton and not in Lowton 

 or Golborne ; Assize R. 420, m. 2 d. 

 Alice the wife of Henry de Byrom was 

 perhaps Simon's granddaughter by an elder 

 son, for a son Simon is afterwards de- 

 scribed as * son and heir,' Alice's parent- 

 age not being recorded, though she claimed 

 in her own right. Henry's parentage is 

 shown by the Mascy of Rixton Deeds 

 already quoted ; R. 63, W. 14. It ap- 

 pears that Alan de Rixton's grant of lands 

 in Lowton to Henry son of Richard de 

 Glazebrook was absolute, and that the 

 marriage of Henry's son with Isabel de 

 Rixton did not take place, this son Henry, 

 whose wardship was claimed in 1306 by 

 Alan de Rixton, being the Henry de By- 

 rom of 1335. 



Henry de Byrom first occurs in 1325 

 as witness to a local charter 5 Raines 

 MSS. xxxvlii, 397. Three years later, by 

 fine, Thurstan son of Simon de Holland 

 settled lands in Byrom, Newton, Lowton, 

 and Golborne upon Henry de Byrom and 

 Alice his wife ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 70. The remainder 

 was to the right heirs of Henry. 



In 1 344-5 Henry de Byrom and Alice 

 his wife recovered certain lands in Lowton 

 from Robert son of Sir Robert de Lang- 

 ton and others ; Assize R, 1435, m. 34, 

 36 d. 



In the next years Simon son of Simon 

 son and heir of Simon de Holland, who 

 had a grant from Thurstan de Holland, 

 who in turn had received from Robert 

 Banastre, claimed and recovered common 

 of pasture in Lowton against Henry de 

 Byrom and Adam his brother, Alice wife 

 of Henry (claiming in her own right), and 



John, Simon, and William, sons of Henry. 

 The recognitors found that an agreement 

 had been made between Henry and Simon 

 de Holland, the grandfather, as to an in- 

 closure and division of the wood, but this 

 was not carried out ; Assize R. 1435, m, 

 9d. 



At the same time other claims -were 

 made against the Byroms respecting land 

 called Medewale in Lowton, Adam son 

 of Adam son of Robert de Medewale 

 claimed by grant of William, lord of 

 Lowton, to one Roger de Pennington, 

 father of Robert de Medewale ; and Roger 

 de Flitcroft, as cousin and heir of Roger 

 son of Richard de Wirral, to whom 

 Robert de Lawton had made a grant, 

 claimed another portion of the same land ; 

 ibid. m. 1 6, 17. William son of Adam 

 son and heir of William de Heslceth was 

 another claimant ; ibid. m. 19. 



Simon de Byrom, possibly the younger 

 son of Henry already mentioned, occurs 

 in various ways down to 1400 j Raines, 

 Byrom Pedigrees (Chet. Soc), 5. He was 

 defendant in a suit in 1356; Duchy of 

 Lane. Assize R. ;, m. 17. In a Subsidy 

 Roll of about 1380 he is described as a 

 'franklin'; Lay Subs. Lane. bdle. 130, 

 no.^ 24. 



Simon was perhaps the father of Thur- 

 stan de Byrom, who before 1398 had 

 married Cecily daughter and co-heir of 

 Richard de Lawton. Alice the other 

 daughter married Thurstan son of Richard 

 de Tyldesley ; Harl. MS. ZII2, fol. 151/ 

 187. In 1391-2 Richard de Tyldesley of 

 Lowton had become bound to Simon de 

 Byrom ; Kuerden MSS. vi, fol. 86, no. 

 236. Cecily does not seem to have had 

 any children, but Alice had several daugh- 

 ters, and Agnes daughter of George Hart- 

 leys was her representative in 1547; 

 Harl. MS. 2112, fol. I52i/i88i, 159/ 

 195. Thomas de Byrom is named in 

 1411 (Towneley MS. RR. no. 1533) and 

 was witness to charters in 1414 and 1423; 

 Raines, loc. cit. 6. 



'' See the account of Parr. The mar- 

 riage took place in or before 1422 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 5, m. 10. 



John Byrom, apparently the son of 

 Henry, who received £zo on the mar- 

 riage, espoused Margaret daughter of 

 William de Lever of Great Lever in 

 1437; Add. MS. 32103 ; Lever D. no. 

 126, 127. Margaret is called the widow of 

 John Byrom in 1473 (Kuerden MSS. vi, 

 fol. 84, no. 207), but John seems to have 

 been living in 1476 ; Culcheth D. no. 

 257, 259. 



'^ The marriage probably took place in 



152 



or before 1466, when Henry Byrom, 

 senior, John Byrom, and Thomas Byrom, 

 priest, no doubt as trustees for the younger 

 Henry and his wife, presented to the 

 rectory of Grappenhall j Ormerod, Ckes. 

 (ed. Helsby), i, 600. 



Among the deeds at West Hall, High 

 Legh, Cheshire, is one dated 1486, refer- 

 ring to the appointment of arbitrators to 

 decide the disputes between Henry Byrom 

 of Lowton and Constance his daughter, 

 and Thomas Legh of High Legh. 



In 1487—8 Henry Byrom and Constance 

 his wife and James Holt and Isabel his 

 wife received from the trustees the manor 

 of Handley near Chester, and lands there 

 and in Latchford, Ringey (Hale), Stock- 

 port, and Stoke ; ibid, ii, 723. For an 

 interesting claim to tolls on the passage 

 across the Mersey see Duchy Plead. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 39—41. 

 For other notices see DeJ>. Keeper's 

 Rep. ixxvii, App. III. In 1502 Henry 

 Byrom paid 43. -j^d. annual rent to the 

 lord of Makerfield ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. iii, no. 101. He died before his 

 wife. 



John son and heir of Henry Byrom 

 occurs with his four sisters in a grant by 

 the father dated 1506; Raines, loc cit. 

 7. He was forty years of age in 1512 

 when the inquisition after his mother's 

 death was taken ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. 

 xxxix, App. 45. 



Thomas Byrom, dead in 1526, is sup- 

 posed to have been the son of John and 

 father of Henry Byrom ; Raines, loc cit.; 

 Piccope, IVills (Chet. Soc), i, 20 ; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. ut sup. 



^' In this year he made a settlement of 

 the manor of Byrom, lands in Lowton, 

 &c. ; Pal. of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 14, 

 m. 7. 



™ In a Subsidy Roll of Mary's reign he 

 and Elizabeth Byrom (widow of Henry) 

 were the only landowners contributing in 

 Lowton and Kenyon ; Mascy of Rixton 

 D. By his will, dated 1559, Thomas 

 Byrom gave his soul to St. Mary and 

 all the saints, and his body to be buried 

 in the churchyard at Winwick, ' near to 

 the place where my father lieth buried, 

 whose soul God pardon ' ; he left 51. to 

 the repair of the church: Raines, loc. 

 cit. 8. 



Mary his widow was in 1560 a plaintiff 

 against John Byrom and others ; Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 221. 



"'Ibid. See also the account of Parr. 



'' Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 245 ; quoting 

 S.P. Dom. Eliz. ccxxxv, 4. 



28 Ibid. 247. 



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