A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Montbegon, who occurs several times in the survey of Roger's Lin- 

 colnshire manors as 'Roger the man of Roger the Poitevin ' (f. 352), 

 and was perhaps the predecessor of Robert de Molyneux, lord of Sefton in 

 the time of Henry I.^ 



' William,' holding a hide and a half, was undoubtedly William fitz Nigel, 

 constable of Chester and lord of Halton, whose Cheshire fee under the earl of 

 Chester is enumerated in the survey on fol. 266, and his Lincolnshire fee 

 under the same earl on fol. 349, col. 2. His Domesday fee in Lancashire 

 probably consisted of Roby, Knowsley,' and Little Crosby, ij hide in West 

 Derby hundred, which ' Ughtred ' had held before the conquest, and Sutton, 

 Eccleston, Rainhill, Cronton, Appleton, Widnes, and Astley, 2 hides and 

 4 carucates in Warrington hundred. Subsequently other manors which 

 ' Ughtred ' had held in Maghull, Kirkby, and Little Woolton (4^ carucates) 

 with Dot's manors of Huyton and Tarbock, Ulbert's manor of ' Wibaldeslei ' 

 and two manors in Woolton, and the manor of Cuerdley in Prescot parish, 

 were added to the fee created before 1086 to complete the well-known 

 ' barony of the Constable within the Lyme.' * 



Another manor which ' Ughtred ' had held, viz., half a hide in Kirk- 

 dale, may perhaps be identified with the half hide which ' Warin ' held in 

 1086. Of this Warin we shall have something to say hereafter. The 

 greater part of ' Tetbald's ' fee of i J hide in West Derby hundred was 

 probably included in the fee subsequently held in the hundred by Pain de 

 Vilers, lord of Warrington, viz., Ince Blundell 3 carucates, two-thirds of 

 Thornton 2 carucates, Halsall i carucate, Lydiate and Egergarth i carucate, 

 a moiety of Barton a half-carucate, making 7J carucates. In Warrington 

 hundred ' Tetbald ' had i J carucate. 



It seems most probable that Henry I. enfeoffed Pain de Vilers of the 

 demesne lands of Warrington, with numerous vills in the parishes of War- 

 rington, Prescot, and Leigh, and of the escheated fee of ' Tetbald,' between 

 1 102 and 1 1 18, when the king created the honour of Lancaster by incor- 

 porating various escheated manors in the counties of Notts, Derby, and 

 Lincoln, with the forfeited lands of Roger of Poitou — except in Essex — and 

 adding thereto some manors of royal demesne, all which he bestowed upon 

 his nephew Stephen, count of Mortain, between the years 11 15— 18. 

 ' Adelard's ' holding of i hide and half a carucate in Warrington hundred 

 may perhaps be identified as a fee comprising Whiston and the church of 

 Prescot (to which the half-carucate probably belonged), which afterwards 

 escheated and under Henry I. became the nucleus of the fee held by serjeanty 

 by the family of Gernet, who were hereditary foresters of all the forest lands 

 between Ribble and Mersey and in Lancaster.* ' Ralph,' holding 5 carucates, 

 cannot be identified. Perhaps his fee was afterwards absorbed in the barony 

 of Warrington. Newton hundred long continued in the demesne of Count 

 Stephen. Here ' Roger the Poitevin ' gave the church of Wynequic 

 [Winwick] to the canons of St. Oswold of Nostell with 2 carucates of 

 land,' and before 1 1 2 1 Stephen, count of Mortain, either confirmed this 

 gift or re-granted the church to the priory of Nostell.' Two knights 



1 Fairer, Lants. Pipe Rolls, pp. 427-9 ; Record Soc., Lane, and Ches., vol. 48, pp. ivi. and 12. 



^ Which the thegn of Lathom held under his successors by knight's service. 



s Testa de tievill (Record Com.), p. 403^. * Record Soc, Lane, and Ches., vol. 48, pp. 43-4. 



s Tcita de Nevill (Record Com.), p. 4051^. * Farrer, Lanes. Pipe Rolls, p. 3 10. 



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