WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WALTON 



two plough- 

 and half the 



Beetham, who died in 1254, held the 

 lands in which he succeeded his father, 

 plough-land belonging to Wal- 

 ton church.' The Stockport 

 family held the other half, and 

 appear to have secured a share 

 of the thegnage plough-lands.* 



The Beetham share descended 

 in that family till the beginning 

 of Henry VII's reign, when it 

 was forfeited after the battle of 

 Bosworth and granted to the 

 earl of Derby.' A successful 

 claim was, however, made by 

 the Middletons,* and Gervase 

 Middleton died in 1548, seised 



of land in Bootle held of the king by fealty and 

 the service of 8/. yearly.' His son and heir, George 

 Middleton, in 1566 sold the manor and lordship of 

 Bootle to John Moore of Bank House for £$70.^ 

 The manor continued to descend in this family until 

 1724-5, when Sir Cleave Moore sold it to James, 

 tenth earl of Derby,' from whom it has descended 

 with the family estate of Knowsley to the present earl. 



The Stockport share was transferred before 1292 

 to Robert de Byron.* In 1357, Robert de Byron, 

 lord of the sixth part of the manor and vill of 



Stockport of Stock- 

 p o R T. A%ure three 

 lozenges or. 



Bootle, granted it to Adam de Ainsargh of Liverpool,' 

 Robert's daughter Maud joining in the transfer by 

 granting her lands in Bootle to Richard son of 

 Adam de Ainsargh." In 1395 it had descended to 

 Alice and Margery, the daughters and heirs of 

 Richard de Ainsargh, of whom the former was the 

 wife of Roger de Ditton." Eventually it appears to 

 have been acquired by the 

 Moores and reunited with the 

 rest of the manor." 



The record of the Bootle 

 court-baron of 1612 has been 

 printed ; the two free tenants 

 recorded were John Burton and 

 Anne Harvey, widow." 



Roger son of Ravenkil gave 

 one plough-land in LINJCRE 

 to the Hospital of Jerusalem in 

 alms." It was attached to the 

 Hospitallers' manor or camera 

 of Wool ton, under whom it 

 was held by a number of 

 diiferent tenants." 



A family bearing the local name long flourished 

 here. Before 1 290 Hugh de Linacre granted half 

 an oxgang of land to Robert de Kirkdale,'* and 

 other members of the family occur in this and 



Middleton of Leigh- 

 ton. Argent, a saltire 

 engrailed sable, in fess 

 point a mullet for differ- 

 ence of the last. 



^ Inq, and Extents, 195 ; * in the vill of 

 Bootle he held two plough-lands in chief 

 of the earl of Ferrers by the service of 

 %5, id,, worth 19J. 4i/. yearly, saving the 

 carl's farm. He also held four oxgangs of 

 the church of St. Mary of Walton by the 

 service of zod,, worth 45. 4J, yearly, 

 saving the said farm. His demesne in the 

 same vill was worth zs, g^t/. yearly 5 and 

 five parts of a water-mill were yearly 

 worth five marks ; the tallage of the 

 rustics was worth loj, yearly.' See also 

 p. 203, where the values are much higher. 



2 In 1275 Ellen, widow of Robert de 

 Stockport, claimed against Roger de Stock- 

 port dower in a messuage, six oxgangs of 

 land, 60 acres of meadow. Sec, in Bootle j 

 De Banc. R. 10, m, yi d. The sixth part 

 of the water-mill, excepted in Sir Ralph de 

 Beetham's inquisition, was held by this 

 family, whose share was afterwards de- 

 scribed as a sixth of the whole vill. 



3 References are given under Formby 

 and Kirkby. 



In 1284-6 Eularia, daughter of Roger 

 de Burton, of Burton in Kendal, claimed a 

 tenement in Bootle from Thomas son of 

 Robert de Beetham ; Assize R. 1265, 

 m. 21 ; R. 1271, m. 11 d. 



Ralph de Beetham held Bootle in thegn- 

 age in 1324 by a service of 6s, id, j Dods. 

 MSS. cxxxi, fol. 34. 



For the Beetham manors in 1479 see 

 Close R. 19 Edw. IV, m. i ; 20 Edw. IV, 

 m. 13. 



In 1 521 Thomas second earl of Derby 

 died seised of this manor, held of the king 

 as duke of Lancaster by the ancient thegn- 

 age rent of is, id, ; Duchy of Lane. Inq, 

 p. m. V. n. 68. 



■* Agnes, daughter of Edward Beetham 

 and niece of Richard Beetham, who for- 

 feited the manors, married Robert Middle- 

 ton, grandfather of Gervase ; Lanes, Inq, 

 f, m, (Chet. Soc), ii, 102. 



* Duchy of Lane. Inq. p. m. ix, h. 1 1. 



« Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 28, 

 m, 272. Besides the manor of Bootle there 

 were 12 messuages, &c,, a water-mill, 

 200 acres of land, &c. See also Moore 

 D. n, 632, 633. 



In 1593 the Moores had a dispute with 

 Sir Richard Molyneux as to the boundaries 

 between Bootle and Litherland ; Ibid, 

 n. 637; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 

 306. 



? See the account of Kirkdale. 



^ In that year William, son and heir of 

 Robert de Stockport, demanded from Ro- 

 bert de Byron the 4 oxgangs, but without 

 success ; Assize R. 408, m. 6j, 



Robert de Byron afterwards gave the 

 whole of his lands in Bootle, with the sixth 

 part of the water-mill, to his daughter 

 Maud, to hold in fee by id. at Christmas 

 and by rendering the service due to Walton 

 church ; Moore D. n, 624. 



In 1334 William Ballard of Linacre 

 complained that he had been deprived of 

 his free common in 160 acres of moor and 

 pasture by the action of Sir Thurstan de 

 Northlegh and Margery his wife, Sir Ralph 

 de Beetham, William Gerard and Maud 

 his wife, William son of William Gerard, 

 and Maud widow of Sir Robert de Byron ; 

 a verdict was returned against Sir Thur- 

 stan and the younger William Gerard ; 

 Coram Reg. R. 297, m. 115 </. 



5 Moore D. n. 627. Green house, Allow- 

 field, and LoUigreves are named. The 

 bounds are thus given : From a stone in 

 the sea called Coppoke stone, along the 

 division between Kirkdale and Bootle to 

 the head of Oldfield, along this to the 

 cross between Bootle and Walton, thence 

 to the western corner of Whitefield, and 

 so to a plot called Funkdenbed [which 

 remained a mere in 1595]; westward 

 from the moor to Mirepool and to the 

 brook between Bootle and Litherland ; 

 along this brook to the Rimrose, and so to 

 a stone in the sea called Brimstone. 



1" Ibid. n. 625. 



1^ An inquest taken in 1395 records that 

 Richard Mun, chaplain, was seised inter 

 alia of 3 messuages and 3 oxgangs of land 

 in Bootle, worth i8j. \ad. yearly; the 

 sixth part of a parcel of land called the 

 Greenhouse, worth 2s. id. ; the sixth part 

 of Alyffield, worth \i.d. ; the sixth part of 

 the water-mill of Bootle, worth 61. id. ; 

 the sixth part of 10 acres of the wood of 



33 



Bootle, worth \zd.^ and of loo acres of 

 pasture there, which premises were held 

 in chief of the rector of Walton in socage 

 by the yearly service of izt/. Richard 

 Mun granted them, with tenements in 

 Liverpool, to Thomas son of Richard de 

 Ainsargh and his heirs, Richard died in 

 1393, and then Alice and Margery came 

 into possession. The heir was said to be 

 Thomas son of Nichola (sister of Richard) 

 by John the Mercer of Liverpool ; Lanes. 

 Rec. Misc. Inq. p. m. «. 9-12. 



^2 Many of the Mercer deeds are among 

 the Moore evidences, so that the family 

 inheritance was no doubt acquired by the 

 Moores. 



18 Trans. Hht. Soc, (New Ser.), iil, 

 167. 



For the curious bequest of Thomas 

 Berry in 1603 see the account of the 

 Walton charities. 



^* Lanes. Inq, and Extents, 22. Linacre is 

 named among the Hospitallers' lands in 

 1292 ; Plac, de quo JVarr, (Rec. Com.), 



375- 



^^ Proceedings relating to Linacre in 



the Hallmote of Much Woolton, between 



1584 and 1604, are in Moore D. n, 



651-3. 



The rental compiled about 1540 gives 

 the following particulars : — Sir William 

 Molyneux, for Townfield, (>d. ; William 

 Moore, for i messuage, dd. ; John Os- 

 baldeston, for i messuage, \s, id, ; Thomas 

 Barton and Anne his wife, for i messuage. 

 Is. ; Thomas Johnson, for 2 messuages, 

 \zd. ; Richard Mercer, for i messuage, 

 \zd. ; and Ralph Longworth, for 1 mes- 

 suage, idd. ; Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84. 

 The total rent, 8j., is at the rate of 11. 

 per oxgang. 



^* Before 1290 Hugh de Linacre gave 

 half an oxgang here to Robert de Kirk- 

 dale to hold by the service of 31/. yearly ; 

 Gilbert and Geoffrey de Linacre were 

 witnesses ; Norris D. (B.M.), n. 9. In 

 1347, John son of Richard, son of Geof- 

 frey de Linacre, was a defendant ; De 

 Banc. R. 281, m. ix. 



In 1330 Stephen de Linacre contributed 

 to the subsidy ; Exeb. Lay Subs. 130/5. 



