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his elder brother Adam de Bury to warrant his title 

 to two plough-lands in Livesey, in which Isabel the 

 relict of Roger de Bury was claiming dower.' The 

 same year he as William de Livesey made an agree- 

 ment with Adam de Billington for a partition of lands 

 adjoining the water of 'Derewent." In 1246 he 

 was one of the jurors of this hundred at a special 

 county court held at Lancaster,' and about the same 

 time, describing himself as William son of Adam de 

 Bury, he gave 7 oxgangs of land here to his son 

 Henry with the part of Whithalgh which belonged 

 to his demesne land." This Henry gave a small 

 parcel of land here to Stanlaw Abbey and William 

 his son afterwards remitted the rent of it." In i 3 1 1 

 Henry de Bury, the mediate lord, held the manor in 

 thegnage of the Earl of Lincoln for 29/. rent and suit 

 at the three weeks court at Clitheroe, and in 1323 

 Henry de Livesey paid a fine for respite of his suit at 

 the same court in respect of the manor." The rela- 

 tionship of Henry to William de Livesey is uncertain. 

 In 1336 he settled the manor upon his son Henry at 

 the latter's marriage to Cecily daughter of Thomas de 

 Sutton." 



John de Livesey, the next in succession, vested the 

 manor in trustees in 1367 and 

 died in or before 1389, when 

 John Duke of Lancaster 

 granted the wardship and 

 marriage of John son and heir 

 of John de Livesey to Richard 

 de Hoghton, kt., and Richard 

 Whalley." John Livesey was 

 returned in 1431 as holding 

 the manor for 29/. rent and 

 again in 1445-6 as holding it 

 by the sixteenth part of a 

 knight's fee.'* From 1455 

 to 1483 Geofirey Livesey was 

 apparently in possession.'^ 

 There is uncertainty as to his relationship to his 

 successor John Livesey, who died before 20 July 



Livesey of Livesey. 

 Argent a lion rampant 

 giiles betiveen three tre- 

 foih vert. 



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1504, when Giles son and heir of John had livery 

 of the manor." Giles married Alice daughter of 

 John Talbot of Salesbury by dispensation issued in 

 1494, they being related in the third and fourth 

 degrees." He died in 1521 holding the manor in 

 chief by the eighth part of a knight's fee and 29/. rent. 

 James his son, then aged nineteen years, had been 

 married during his father's lifetime to Alice daughter 

 of James Rushton of Pouthalgh." In 1544 James 

 Livesey obtained the consent of the freeholders in 

 Livesey to inclose 50 acres of waste adjoining his own 

 lands.'" He died in 1 548, having five years before 

 contracted for the marriage of his son Richard to 

 Ellen daughter of Christopher Lister of Middop, near 

 Gisburn." 



In 1563 Richard Livesey purchased a messuage 

 called 'Orlage ' from Thomas Hoghton of Lea, esq.," 

 and in 1588 contributed to the national fund for de- 

 fence against the Spanish Armada, and died at Samles- 

 bury early in 1591. His eldest son John had been 

 contracted in marriage to Jennet daughter and co-heir 

 of John and Margaret Isherwood of Pleasington in 

 1575, had issue James, John and Mary, who married 

 Thomas Parker of Loveley, and died in his father's 

 lifetime. James Livesey grandson of Richard was 

 therefore heir to the manor at his grandfather's death 

 in 1 59 1, being then aged thirteen years.'^' He married 

 Alice daughter of James Bradshaw of Darcy Lever, 

 entered his pedigree at St. George's visitation in 

 16 1 3 and died without issue in 16 1 9. Under 

 the terms of a settlement made in 1 6 1 8 the manor 

 and estates passed to Ralph younger son of John 

 Livesey of South Hykeham, Lines., then aged 

 eleven years.^* 



Ralph Livesey married Mary daughter of William 

 RadclifFe of Manchester, in accordance with an 

 unusual provision in the settlement which limited the 

 succession of the estates to him conditionally upon 

 his contracting this marriage ; but the issue, a son 

 James, born in 1628, only survived until 1632. 

 Ralph married, secondly, Anne daughter of Thomas 



' Curia Reg. R. 97, m. 6 d. Adam 

 father of Adam de Bury had only delivered 

 Livesey to Roger to hold at -will, where- 

 fore Adam the son contended that Roger 

 was never in seisin so that ilis widow 

 could have dower in it. 



William de Livesey first comes into 

 view in I2l4when he attested a grant of 

 land in Read ; Whalley Couch. (Chct. Soc), 

 iv, 1 07 1. 



^ Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 48. 



' Lanci. Assize R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 6 1, 



" Towneley MS. DD, no. 708. 



11 Whalley Coaf,4.(Chet. Soc.),i, 1 1 2-1 3. 

 William de Livesey and Henry his son 

 were both suitors at Lancaster assizes 

 in 1292 ; Assize R. 408, m. 42, 58. 

 John son of Richard de CophuU claimed 

 woodland and moss from Henry son of 

 William de Livesey in 1302 ; De Banco 

 R. 142, m. 69 d. 



1" Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 11 ; Lanes. Ct. R. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 48. 



^ Towneley MS. DD, no. 700-1. 



" Ibid. no. 705, 717. 



'* Kuerden MSS. (Coll. of Arms), v, 

 107 ; Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, 

 bdle. 2, no. 20, p, 10, where is reference 

 to his having been in ward of John Duke 

 of Lancaster. 



I*' Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 59. 

 In Aug. 1469 Robert Shireburne, jun., 

 was instituting legal proceedings at 

 Lancaster against Geoffrey, Hugh and 

 James Livesey, all of Livesey 5 Pal. of 

 Lane. Writs Proton, file 9 Edw. IV {a). 

 In Lent 1483 Peter Worthlngton in- 

 dicted for assault Geoffrey Livesey, 

 John Livesey of Nether Darwen, Oliver 

 Livesey of Blackburn, Robert Livesey 

 of Livesey, James, Edmund, Law- 

 rence, Thomas, Hugh, George, Thomas, 

 Giles and Ralph Livesey of Plea- 

 sington ; Alexander, Richard, Christiana, 

 Roger and Percival Livesey ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 57, m. 12. The assault 

 probably arose out of a dispute as to the 

 death of Adam Livesey, of which Richard 

 son of Peter Worthington of Coppull 

 and others were indicted in Mar. 1482 

 by John Livesey, brother and heir of 

 Adam ; Writs Proton, file 22 Edw. 

 IV [a). 



17 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 544. 



'8 Towneley MS. DD, no. 707. 



'3 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 26 ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1392. 



" The freeholders were Richard Hogh- 

 ton and Alexander Radcliffe, kts., the 

 heirs of Bartholomew Hesketh, George 

 Astley, James Garstang, James White- 

 halgh, William Holden, Christopher 

 Walmsley, Thomas Witton, Christopher 



285 



Ainsworth, Nicholas Lever, George Cow- 

 burne and John Harwood, gents, j Towne- 

 ley MS. DD, no. 728. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq, p.m. ix, 9. 

 Alice his wife had half the messuages of 

 Livesey and Bradhagh and half the tithe 

 corn and small tithes of Livesey, Toclc- 

 holes and Fernhurst for her dower. His 

 son was aged twenty-three. 



22 Described as late the inheritance of 

 the vendor's father Richard Hoghton, kt., 

 and of Richard Whalley, esq., and Gabriel 

 Hesketh, gent. ; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 745. 



"^ John Livesey had been contracted in 

 marriage to Mary daughter of Henry 

 Talbot of Bashall in 1571, but it i» un- 

 certain whether the contract was carried 

 out; ibid. DD, no. 724. By his mar- 

 riage to Jennet Isherwood (ibid. 1722-3) 

 he acquired a considerable estate in 

 Turton, Great Lever, Pleasington, 

 Wheelton and Chaighley ; ibid. 732- 

 53. Her sister Elizabeth married 

 Edward Mawdesley i Add. MS. 32104, 

 no. 683. 



During the minority of James Livesey 

 his estates in Livesey and Tockholes 

 were granted to James Anderton of Clay- 

 ton, gent. ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 731. 



^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 and Ches.), ii, 277-83. John Livesey 

 married Elizabeth daughter of William 



