A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Poynton, 18 but the^e, though among the great families 

 of Cheshire, took little part in Lancashire affairs. 1 ' 

 Sir luhn Warren 18 died in 1386 holding the manor 

 of Woodplumpton of the Duke of Lancaster by a 

 r--nt of 17/. 6</., and was succeeded by his son 

 Nicholas, 19 whose son Lawrence held it in 141 8. 2° 



In later times the tenure was described as by 

 knight's service. 21 Thus John Warren, who died in 

 1474, 22 was said to have held the manor. He had 

 in 1445 granted various messuages and land in 

 Woodplumpton to trustees for Isabel daughter of 

 Robert Legh of Adlington, and other messuages, 

 &c, in 1 47 1 to Eleanor, who married his grandson 

 Sir John Warren. 23 This Sir John was aged thirty-six 

 in 1506, and died in 15 18 holding the manor of 

 Woodplumpton, with fifty messuages, lands, meadow, 

 wood, turbary and moss of the king by the fifth part 



of a knight's fee and the rent of 17/. Sd. Laurence, 

 his son and heir, was thirty-three years of age* 

 The tenure was recorded in the same terms in the 

 inquisition after the death in 1540 of Sibyl widow of 

 Lawrence, when his son Edward, aged thirty-fire, 

 was found to be the heir. 25 



Sir Edward Warren, made a knight during the 

 Scottish expedition of 1544, 2 * died in October 1558 

 holding the manor of Woodplumpton as before, and 

 leaving as heir his son Francis, aged twenty-four. 17 

 Francis had, however, been disinherited by his 

 father, 28 and so his brother John succeeded, and his 

 grandson, another John Warren, mortgaged the manor 

 to Sir Robert Banastre for £4,000, and, failing to 

 pay, forfeited it.- 9 Woodplumpton remained for 

 some time in the hands of the Banastre family, 10 

 but in 1667 was recovered by Edward and John 



18 The hiitory of the family was told 

 in detail by John Watson, rector of 

 Stockport, in his Memoirs of the Ancient 

 Earls t IVarrcn and Surrey (Warrington, 

 1782) ; and there are later pedigrees, &c, 

 in Earwaker, East Ches. i, 343 ; ii, 

 286-9 ; and Onnerod, Ches. (ed. Helsbv ), 

 iii, 795-6, 685-- ; i, 626. The 

 following outline shows the descent of 

 the manor of Woodplumpton. 



Robert de Stockport, d. 1 205 -•. Robert, 

 d. 1248 -i. Robert, d. c. 12-4 — s. 

 Richarl, d. 1292 —da. Joan, d. c. 133 1, who 

 marrie I Nicholas de Eton of Rotley -s. 

 Robert, d. c. T350 -s. Richard -a. Richard 

 -sister Is i'lcI, d. 1369 -cos. John Warren 

 (s. Cecily, d.i. of Joan de Eton), d. 1386 

 -e. Nicholas, d. 1 41 3 -s. Lawrence, d. 

 1444 -s. John, d. 1474 -gdson. John 

 (s. of Lawrence), d. 1518 -s. Lawrence, 

 d. 15^0 -s. Edward, d. 1558 -s. Francis 

 (disinherited) — bro. John, d. 1587 -s. 

 Edward, d. 1609 -s. John, d. 1621 —3. 

 Edward, d. 1687 -9. John, judge of 

 Chester, d. 1706 -s. Edward, d. 17 18 -s. 

 John, d. 1729 -bro. Edward, d. 1737 -s. 

 George d. 1801 -da. Elizabeth Harriott, 

 d. 1S26, wite of Thomas James Viscount 

 Sulkeley (who d. s.p. 1822). 



The heiress bequeathed Woodplumpton, 

 Ac, to the second Lord de Tabley, heir of 

 her family, being descendant of her great- 

 aunt Anna Dorothea sister of Edward 

 Warren, who married Sir Daniel Byrne 

 of Timogue, — s. John, d. 1742 -s. Peter, 

 who assumed Leicester as a surname, 

 d. 1770 — «. John Fleming, cr. Lord de 

 Tab'ey, 1826, and d. 1827 -s. George, 

 who took the surname of fVarren in 

 1832 and d. 1887, having sold the 

 manor of Woo iplumpton. 



The Warren family has occurred pre- 

 viously in the accounts of Blackburn 

 Hundred and Goosnargh. 



17 A claim for common of pasture was 

 in 1274 made by Adam de Acton 

 (Aighton) against Robert de Stockport ; 

 De Banco R. 6, m. 2. In the following 

 year Ellen widow of Robert claimed a 

 third part of the manor of Plumpton as 

 dower against Richard de Stockport ; 

 ibid. 10, m. 71 d. 



Nicholas de Eton held the manor of 

 Woodplumpton in 1^24 by the rent of 

 175. 6d. ; Dods. MSS. exxxi, fol. 39^. 

 John de Davenport the younger (as 

 trustee for Eton) held (four) plough-lands 

 in Woodplumpton in 1 346, rendering 

 iyj. 6d. ; Survey of 1346 (Chet. Soc), 52. 



*- In 1382 the escheator was ordered 

 to g.ve seisin of the manor of Wood- 

 plumpton to Sir John de Warren, son of 

 Cecily sitner of Robert son of Nicholas de 



Eton. A feoffment of the 'manor had 

 been made by John son of Sir John de 

 Davenport to the said Robert de Eton 

 and Isabel his wife, with remainder to 

 John brother of Robert, &c ; Dep. 

 Keeper s Rep. xxxn, App. 354. 



19 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 25, 

 34,47. In 1382 Sir John de Warren 

 had granted this manor to John de 

 Davenport and others ; after his death a 

 dispute ensued between the Duke of 

 Lancaster and these trustees as to the 

 custody of the manor, lasting from 1387 

 to 1 392 ; Dep. Keeper s Rep. xl, App. 525. 



20 Margaret the widow of Sir John de 

 Warren (Waryng) afterwards married 

 John Mainwaring, but had the manor 

 of Woodplumpton for her life, with 

 remainders to Nicholas and Margaret, Sir 

 John's children. Parcel of the manor 

 was in 1396 given to Nicholas de 

 Warren on his marriage with Agnes, who 

 had a son Lawrence. To him a parcel 

 of the manor was granted in 141 5. 

 Margaret his grandmother died in 1418 

 holding the manor of the king as of his 

 duchy by a rent of ijs. dd.\ its clear 

 value was £6 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. 

 Soc), i, 1 3 1-3; Dep. Keeper* / Rep. 

 xxxiii, App. 16 ; Final Cone, iii, 76. For 

 the Worsley claim appearing in this fine 

 see Watson, op. cit. ii, 237. 



Agnes Warren in 142 1 received 

 £9 id. as farmer of Woodplumpton ; 

 Add. MS. 32105, GG 2652. 



u Sir Lawrence Warren of Stockport 

 was in 143 1 said to hold the manor of 

 Woodplumpton by the service of one 

 knight's fee ; Feudal Aids> iii, 95. In 

 1445-6, however, his knight's fee included 

 not only the four plough-lands in Wood- 

 plumpton but the lands in Bryning, &c, 

 which had anciently been held by knight's 

 service ; Duchy of Lane. Knights* Fees, 

 bdle. 2, no. 20. 



22 Chea. Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. IV, no. 6. 

 The Lancashire inquisition quoted below 

 gives 1480 as the date of death. 



23 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 86. 

 One John Warren was made a knight 



at Ripon in 1487 ; Metcalfe, Bk. of 

 Knights, 18. 



24 Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. iv, no. 89. 

 In a recovery of the manor in 1525 

 Lawrence Warren was the defendant 5 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 141, m. 3. 



25 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, 

 no. 15. Sibyl Warren had had the 

 manor granted to her for life. Edward 

 Warren, the son, had granted certain 

 messuages and lands to Francis, his son 

 and heir, and Mary his wife, daughter of 

 Sir Edward Fitton. 



286 



K Mrtcalfc, op. cit. 77. 



87 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. jti, no. 66. 

 By a fine of 1557, therein quoted, the 

 manor of Woodplumpton, a fourth part 

 of the manor of Formby, with messuages, 

 water-mill, &c, in those townships and 

 in Liverpool and Didsbury, were by Sir 

 Edward and his son Francis settled on 

 the younger son John Warren and his 

 heirs, with remainders to other sons, 

 Lawrenoe and Peter. The fine is Psl. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 17, m. 90. 



88 Watson, op. cit. ii, 131. The reason 

 is not given. Francis died without issue 

 in 1576. 



John Warren and Margaret his wife 

 made a settlement of the manor of 

 Woodplumpton in 1582; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 44, m. 172. Edward 

 Warren and Anne his (second) wife had 

 four messuages, Ac, there in 1591; 

 ibid. bdle. 53, m. 91. Again in 1598 a 

 settlement of the manor and various 

 lands was made by Edward Warren and 

 Susanna his wife ; ibid. bdle. 60, m. 38. 

 Another settlement was made in 1613 

 by John Warren, Anne his wife and 

 Margaret widow of John Warren ; ibid, 

 bdle. 81, no. 68. 



Edward Warren was M.P. for Liver- 

 pool in 1589; Pink and Beaven, Perl. 

 Repre. of Lanes. 184, 



From entries in the Woodplumpton 

 registers it appears that the Warrens 

 resided there about 1604-6. 



m Cat. S. P. Dm. 1637, p. 545- 

 Edward Warren, son of the mortgager, 

 stated that his father had been im- 

 prisoned for debt and there died, leaving 

 petitioner in ward to the king. He had 

 sought to regain the manor, but Sir 

 Robert Banastre, who at first appeared 

 willing, alleged that he had so settled 

 it at the marriage of his son that he had 

 no power. 



K A feoffment of the manor was made 

 in 1634 by Sir Robert, Lawrence and 

 Henry Banastre ; PaL of Lane Feet of 

 F. bdle. 122, no. 6. 



Sir Robert Banastre of Passenham, 

 Northants, was made a knight in 1605 ; 

 Metcalfe, op. cit. 155. He died in 1649. 

 His daughter and heir Dorothy married 

 William second Lord Maynard (d. 1698), 

 and bore him two sons and a daughter. 

 The eldest son, Banastre, born in 1642, 

 succeeded his grandfather and his mother 

 at Woodplumpton in 1649, and in 1651-4 

 made claims for the discharge from 

 sequestration of tenements in Wood- 

 plumpton which had been held by re- 

 cusants ; Cal. Com. fir Cimf. iv, i"5*- 

 In 1662 in a fine conceroinj the manor 



