A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



and scrjeanty to Gilbert, to hold by the yearly service 

 of 2 marks.' Gilbert had two sons, Henry and 

 Richard. To the former in 1199 King John con- 

 firmed the fourteen oxgangs ; ' 

 to the latter, known as Richard 

 dc Meath, he gave in 1200 

 'the whole town of Walton with 

 all its appurtenances,' which 

 used to render 40/. farm, for 

 the increased rent of 60s.' 

 Richard de Meath soon after- 

 wards gave four oxgangs here to 

 Richard son of Robert de Wal- 

 ton to be held by a rent of 

 5^. 6J., which gift was con- 

 firmed in 1204 by the king.* 

 For some reason not known 

 Walton was resumed by the crown, so that the grant 

 to Richard de Meath does not appear in the survey 

 of 121 2, which recites the minor holding of Henry de 

 Walton, who had made grants in alms to the prior)- of 

 Birkenhead and to the hospital of St. John at Chester ; 

 Hugh son of Gilbert held one oxgang for half a 

 pound of pepper.' 



In 121 5, however, Richard de Meath proffered 

 four palfreys for seisin of his land of Walton, Formby, 



Walton of Walton- 

 ON-THE-HiLL. j^zure, 

 three sivans argent. 



and Hale, and the ofFer being accepted the sheriff of 

 Lancaster was directed to take security for the pay- 

 ment.' This was confirmed by Henry III in 1227. 

 The succession to Richard de Aleath's lands is stated 

 more fully under Hale, which passed to his natural 

 children. Walton was given by him to his brother 

 Henry, whom he made his heir.' Henry de Walton, 

 who thus became lord of the whole manor, died in 

 1241, when his widow Juliana received dower in his 

 lands from his son William ; " she failed in .i claim 

 against Richard son of Henry in 1246,° but partly 

 succeeded in another against William de Walton for 

 an oxgang and 20 acres of land and 8a'. rent in 

 Walton.'" 



William gave lands in the Breck to Burscough 

 Priory," and was still living in 1 261." Some of his 

 grants have been preserved, including one for the 

 maintenance of a chaplain in Walton church.'^ He 

 died before 1266, for Robert de Ferrers, earl of 

 Derby, gave the wardship of the heir, Richard, son of 

 William, son of William de Walton, to Nicholas de la 

 Hose, who assigned it to Robert de Holand.'* The 

 latter was afterwards charged with having permitted 

 waste." Richard died early, between 1295 and 

 1298, leaving as heir a son William, a minor." 

 Subsequently Thomas, earl of Lancaster, granted 



' Lanes. Pipe R. 1 06. Gilbert in 1 194 

 rendered 40J, as a tine to have the king's 

 good wilt after having participated in the 

 rebellion of Count John ; ibid. 78. He 

 appears to have had lands in Warwick- 

 shire also J Pipe R. 1 Ric. I (ed. Hunter), 



* Gilbert died in 1 196, in which year 

 his son Henry owed 401. for livery of the 

 serjeanty of Derbyshire and appurtenant 

 lands ; Lanes, Pipe R. 94. 



K.ing John's charter of 1199 has been 

 given in a previous note. For it Henry 

 had proffered a palfrey or £^ ; ibid. 

 106. 



In I 206 the king took a fine of 5 marks 

 from Henry de Walton for a reconfirma- 

 tion of his serjeanty, which had been seized 

 into the king's hands in consequence of 

 an inquiry ordered concerning serjeanties 

 of the honour alienated from the honour 

 of Lane ; Close (Rcc, Com.), 55. See also 

 Lanes. Pipe R, 106. 



" CAari. R, 74 ; the increase of the 

 rent had only just been made ; Lanes. 

 Pipe R. 113. 



* Chart, R, 141 ; the king received a 

 palfrey or 5 marks for the confirmation ; 

 Lanes, Pipe R, 1 80. 



* Lancs,lnq, and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Chcs.), 23, 26 ; see also 116. The 

 three acres given to Birkenhead were prob- 

 ably in Newsham, where at the disso- 

 lution the priory had a fee-farm rent of 

 151.; ibid. p. 26, quoting Minis. Accts. 

 28 Hen. VIII. On the accession of 

 Henry III the serjeanty was seized 

 into the king's hands, but restored a year 

 later; Close (Rec. Com.), 333. 



•■ Lana. P:pe R, 252, 25-. The 

 woods and the tallage of villeins were re- 

 served to the king, and Richard was not 

 to levy any distress upon that land nor upon 

 the villeins ; Fine R. 17 John, m. -. 



' His charter is printed in Final Cone. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 138. It 

 was confirmed by Hen. Ill in 1227 to 

 Henry de Walton, who gave the king a 

 palfrey for it ; Orig. R. 1 1 Hen. III. 



' The date is fixed by the pleadings in 

 the suit against Richard son of Henry, in 

 which it is stated that she had sued for 



her dower before Robert de Lexington ; 

 i.e. at the Assizes in Nov. 1241. The 

 dower agreed upon was four oxgangs in 

 Newsham — two in demesne and two in 

 service — three in Wavertree in demesne 

 and 40 acres of waste in Walton in a fit- 

 ting place ; saving to her the dower she 

 previously had. 



' Assize R. 404, m. 5. This was a 

 claim for dower in the twelve oxgangs in 

 Wavertree, and was defeated by Richard's 

 appeal to the record of the previous 

 settlement. 



^" Ibid. m. 8 i/. ; she recovered the ox- 

 gang of land and five acres. The 40 acres 

 agreed upon were afterwards confirmed to 

 her for life, viz. 20 acres between Walton 

 Meadow and Derby Brook, and 20 acres 

 between Wood mill and Kirkby ; Final 

 Cone, i, 101. In 1244 Juliana had 

 demanded from William de Walton her 

 younger son Robert, whom he had taken 

 from her custody, and three oxgangs which 

 she had purchased for his maintenance ; 

 Cur. Reg. R. 132, m. 4, 



" Burscough Reg. fol. 46 ; a plat 28 

 perches long by 8 wide in the townfields, 

 with pasture for 100 sheep with the 

 lambs of two years old, and two oxen, 

 with housebote and heybote in the under- 

 wood of Walton for enclosing the land 

 with hedges and making their buildings. 

 The gift was for the souls of himself and 

 his wife Agnes. 



'* At Michaelmas in that year he with- 

 drew a plea against Henry de Hale ; Cur. 

 Reg. R. 132, m. 4 ; R. 171, m. 32 d, 



" He enfeoffed William son of Alan de 

 Lente of two oxgangs in Walton, which 

 Alan had held, with pasture for his swine 

 as well at Fazakerley as in the under- 

 woods of Walton, for his homage and 

 service of 31. ; he also granted 4 acres 

 to Henry son of Stephen Bullock : Crox- 

 teth D. BB, iv, i, 2. 



To John the chaplain of Walton he 

 gave land below the hedge of Gildhouses, 

 withm bounds beginning at Small Cross 

 and gomg down below Gildhouses in a 

 straight line to Wolgarford, saving mills, 

 mmes, hawks, and honey outside these 

 bounds i John was to hold it by a pay- 



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ment of \id. towards the maintenance of 

 a chaplain to celebrate divine service in 

 the chapel of St. Paulinus of Walton, for 

 the health of the soul of Henry III etc. : 

 Kuerden MSS. iii, W 10, n. 13. Another 

 of his grants was to Henry, son of 

 Richard son of William the smith of 

 West Derby ; one of the witnesses was 

 Master William de Walton (i.e. the 

 rector) ; ibid. n. 2. 



The Gildhouses, reckoned as seven 

 oxgangs, had to provide a horseman and 

 two grooms for the bailiwick of the 

 wapentake ; Assize R. 430, m. zid, 



" Plae. de quo IVarr, (Rec. Com.) 

 p. 387. At this time, 1292, Richard de 

 Walton had been summoned to show by 

 what warrant he claimed to be the king's 

 bailiff of the wapentakes of West Derby 

 and Makerfield and the boroughs of 

 Liverpool and Wigan. He replied by 

 proffering the charters of William, Count 

 of Boulogne to Walter (Waldeve) and of 

 King John to Henry son of Gilbert, and 

 these were considered sufficient ; ibid. 

 382. 



" Assize R. 408, m. 69 ; a chamber 

 worth 40J, had been thrown down, as 

 well as a grange worth 40J. ; and land 

 had been marled and marl sold to the 

 heir's loss. 



As Richard, lord of Walton, he granted 

 to Patrick Taylor land within the dyke, 

 one of the boundaries being the ' Huth- 

 lone ' leading to Derby wood ; Crosse D. 

 (Trans, Hist. Soc,), n, 4. 



The homage and service of Richard de 

 Walton and his heirs 'lately recovered 

 from Robert de Holand,' were in 1295 

 granted to Edmund, Earl of Lane. ; Chart. 

 R. 88, (23 Edw. I), m. i, n, 5, see Cal. 

 Pat, 1292-1301, p. 148. 



1^ Lanes. Inq, and Extents, p. 288 ; 

 'William, son and heir of Richard de 

 Walton, who is under age and in 

 ward to the king, ought to be bailiff 

 of fee of the Crown and master 

 Serjeant of the whole wapentake of West 

 Derby. He ought also to have one horse 

 bailiff, either himself or another, and two 

 under bailiffs on foot to execute the said 

 office.' 



