WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



descendant Abraham Crompton died at Skerton in 

 1822, having dispersed most of the Walton estate.' 



The Fazaicerleys' third part 

 descended in that family until 

 the eighteenth century, when 

 it was sold to James, tenth earl 

 of Derby, and has since de- 

 scended with the earldom.' 



In 1328 Richard de North- 

 brook granted his capital mes- 

 suage at Northbrook in Walton 

 to Thomas, son of Richard de 

 Molyneux of Sefton,' and in 

 1382 Hugh de Ince of Wigan 

 released all his claim in the 

 same place to Thomas de 

 Molyneux of Cuerdale.* This 



and other lands granted to younger branches of the 

 Sefton family ' appear to have been purchased by 

 the head of the family, and were acquired in the fif- 

 teenth century by Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton, 

 with other small holdings in Walton.* These were 

 afterwards reputed a manor.' 



NEWSHjIM with its four oxgangs of land, was part 

 of the original grant to Waldeve de Walton, as already 



Chorleyof Chorley. 

 Argent, a chevron gules 

 between three cornjioiven 

 slipped proper. 



WALTON 



stated.® In the inquest taken after the death of John 

 Bolton of Newsham in 1613, it was found that he held 

 a messuage, with 30 acres of land, &c., of the 

 king in socage, and that Robert Bolton his son 

 was his next heir.^ Robert Bolton died 1 8 October, 

 1630, his son and heir John being only sixteen years of 

 age.*** The family appear to have adhered to the Roman 

 church or reverted to it, for in 1717 John Bolton 

 of Newsham within Walton, registered his entailed 

 estate as a * Papist.' " Ten years later it is men- 

 tioned that his daughter had married a Mr. Moly- 

 neux.'^ It was, perhaps, in this way that the estate 

 came into the possession of a family named Moly- 

 neux, one of whom, Thomas Molyneux, held it 

 a century ago and built the present Newsham house. 

 'In 1846, owing to commercial reverses, the estate 

 was offered for sale and purchased by the Corpora- 

 tion of Liverpool for the sum of ^^80,000 ' ; '^ an 

 adjacent estate was also acquired, and eventually 

 both were laid out as public parks, Newsham House 

 being fitted up as a residence for the judges. Queen 

 Victoria resided there during her visit to Liverpool 

 in 1886. 



SPELLOW gave its name to the family who re- 

 sided there in the fourteenth century;" afterwards 



Bootle's lands, zd. ; and by Thomas 

 Meadow of Walton, for Wiswall's land \d. 

 An estimate of the enclosed lands and 

 commons made in 1639 is also given, with 

 the names of the holders. The enclosed 

 lands are ranged under the headings of 

 *Near to Walton,* 555 acres in all; 



' Near to Walton 

 *Townfields,' 138 

 Moor,' 78 acres ; 



Breck,' 162 acres ; 

 acres ; *Warbreck 

 and ' In or near to 



Fazakerley,' 365 acres — i * 3 04 acres in 

 all. Of this Richard Chorley's share was 

 328 acres, Robert Fazakerley's 179 acres, 

 and Roger Breres' 162 acres. The rector 

 of Walton had 60 (for 62) , Lord Moly- 

 neux 112, Richard Crosse 60, and fifteen 

 others smaller quantities. The commons 

 included 50 acres in the Breck, 50 in War- 

 breck Moor, 10 in the Mere Green by 

 Spellow, 4 in the Rakes at Walton town's 

 end, and i in the Laws in Walton ; also 

 100 acres in Warbreck Moor and Faza- 

 kerley ; excluding encroachments. The 

 total thus recorded amounts to 1,519 acres 

 of long measure, or about 3,340 statute 

 measure, as compared with 3,653, the 

 acreage of the two townships. 



^ Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1870), ii, 285. 



2 Enfield, Li'verpool, 113. 



' Croxteth D. Bb. i, i. The reversion 

 of the dower of his mother Emmotta was 

 included, Anilla, widow of William de 

 Walton, released all her claim in the same ; 

 ibid. n. 2. 



■* Ibid. Bb. i, 10. 



^ Simon son of William de Walton in 

 1331 granted to Henry son of Richard de 

 Walton, Margery his wife, and their heirs, 

 land caUed Huddefield ; ibid. Bb. iv, 14. 

 Three years later, Walter de Sherualakes 

 confirmed to Thomas de Penrith two 

 messuages and a field called Huddefield, 

 and other lands, with housebote, heybote, 

 &c., paying id. rent to the chief lord, n, 1 6. 

 Simon de Walton confirmed this, n. 17. 

 In 1342 Thomas de Penrith and Richard 

 del Riding made a grant in Walton to 

 Richard, son of Richard de Molyneux of 

 Sefton, with remainders to John, Robert, 

 Thomas, Peter, and Simon, the brothers 

 of Richard ; and Isabel, widow of Simon 

 de Walton released her claim to dower in 

 the same ; ibid. Bb. i, 3-5. Later in the 

 same year Gilbert de Haydock leased 



lands in the Huddefield to Henry de 

 Stonebridgeley and John the carpenter j 

 ibid. Bb, iv, 21, 22. 



Nicholas del Sand of Crosby in 1348 

 gave to Alexander, son of Adam the Shep- 

 herd of Orrell, land in the Rice, extending 

 from the high road in the east to the 

 greens on the west ; this in the follow- 

 ing year Alexander sold to Thomas de 

 Molyneux of the Edge ; ibid. Bb. i, 



6,7. 



fi Ibid. Bb. i, 11-18, dated from 1429 

 to 1450 5 the lands had belonged to the 

 Bootle, Bullock, and Walhill families and 

 others. 



John son of William de Bootle ac- 

 quired land here in 1363, and in 1406 

 Joan widow of William de Bootle granted 

 to John her son lands in the Rice 5 in 

 1443, Hugh son of John de Bootle of the 

 Rice released all his claim in his father's 

 lands to Sir Richard de Molyneux ; ibid. 

 Bb. iv, 25, 31 ; i, 15, 



The Bullock estate went back to the end 

 of the thirteenth century, when Henry, son 

 of Stephen Bullock, had a grant from the 

 lord ; ibid, iv, 2, In 1304 Robert son of 

 Henry Bullock had a grant in the waste, 

 lately approved, from William, son of 

 Richard de Walton ; the boundaries men- 

 tion the old field of Elias Bullock by the 

 Outlane of the Overenesse and Quenilda's 

 croft 5 the service was to be izd. a year ; 

 ibid. «. 3. A few months later, Roger de 

 Harbergh (? Harbreck) granted a parcel of 

 his land to Robert Bullock ; n. 4. William, 

 son of Robert Bullock in 1321 granted to 

 his father the lands received from William 

 de Walton ; «. 8. Three years later, .the 

 same grantor gave lands to his brother 

 Richard and Margery his wife ; n. 10, 11. 

 Richard son of Robert Bullock also occurs 

 in 1334 ; n. 15. John Bullock, who had 

 children named Richard, Thomas, and 

 Margaret, appears in 1393-4; and it was 

 probably the last named Richard Bullock 

 whose lands were sold in 143 1 to Sir 

 Richard de Molyneux ; ibid. K.. 5 ; B. i, 

 II. 



William de Walhill had lands in 1391, 

 and Margery del Edge, his widow, sold 

 her lands in the Rice, by Small Breck 

 Moor, to William, son of John Rose, in 

 1439 } and in 1450 William Rose sold to 



27 



Sir Richard de Molyneux j ibid. B. iv, 29, 

 34 i i, 17, 18. 



The lands of Robert del Edge occur in 

 1306, and of Alan del Edge in 1328; 

 ibid, iv, 5, 12. 



7 Lanes, Inq, p.m, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, 389 ; the jury could not state 

 the tenure. 



^ See note above. The ancient spelling 

 was Newsum, 1212 ; in the sixteenth and 

 seventeenth centuries the initial was often 

 dropped and the word became Ewzam, 

 Ewsome, &c. 



9 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 245. The land was held 

 * of the manor of East Greenwich,' so that 

 it may have been in part the former hold- 

 ing of Birkenhead Priory. The priory's 

 land was sold by the crown in 1557-8 ; 

 Pat. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, pt. xii. 



Robert Bolton of Newsham was buried 

 at Walton, 18 Dec. 1593. 



Catherine, daughter of Richard Moly- 

 neux of New Hall, was wife of John Bol- 

 ton of West Derby, and Jane, daughter of 

 Ralph Mercer of West Derby married 

 Robert Bolton of Newsham ; Dugdale, 

 Visit. (Chet. Soc), 203, 197. 



10 Towneley MS. C. 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 56. This John Bolton of Newsham is 

 mentioned in the Charley Sur-v. of 1639, 

 p. 53, as holding 40 acres in Walton. 



^^ Engl. Cath. Non-jurors^ p. 125 ; the 

 value was ^^70 55. 



^^ N. Blundell's Diary, p. 229. 



^8 Picton, Li'uerpooly ii, 430, 



^■^ Before i 300, Richard, lord of Walton, 

 enfeoffed Richard son of Robert of 4 ox- 

 gangs of land called Spellow field, lying 

 between Kunsacre and the ditch of Coles- 

 grave on the east and north, and the 

 boundaries of Kirkdale and Bootle, with 

 acquittance of pannage of his own and his 

 tenants' swine in the underwoods of 

 Walton and of the multure of his house 

 in the mill of Walton ; Kuerden, ii, fol. 

 243. The grantee is probably the Richard 

 de Spellow who attested several local 

 deeds, one being dated 1284 ; Moore D. 

 n. 513, &c. William de Spellow, his son, 

 followed him, 1306; ibid. n. 511, &c. ; 

 Final Cone, i, 208 ; Assize R. 1321, m. 8 d. 

 A John de Spellow occurs in 1361 ; 

 Croxteth D. Bb. iv, 24. 



