WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WALTON 



The first on record of the Moore family is Randle 

 de la Moore, who as reeve of Liverpool appeared at 

 the sessions of the justices in eyre at Lancaster in 

 1 246.' His name frequently occurs in documents of 

 the time of Henry III and Edward L* His eldest 

 son, John de la Moore, sen., also attested many charters 

 of the time of the first Edwards ; 

 he was one of the three attor- 

 neys found by the borough of 

 Liverpool in a plea of quo war- 

 ranto at ;T Lancaster in 1292,' 

 and he and his brother Richard 

 were returned to the Parliament 

 at Carlisle in January, 1307, 

 as burgesses for Liverpool.'' 



John de la Moore, junior, 

 son of the last named John, 

 occurs as holding land in Liver- 

 pool in 1323,' and as a wit- 

 ness to Liverpool charters down 



to 1337, about which time probably he was succeeded 

 by Roger his son and heir, who held eight burgages 

 in Liverpool in 1346.* He died about three years 

 later, leaving a son William, a minor,' who died 

 before 1374 without issue, when his tenements passed 

 to his kinsman Thomas,* grandson of William, appa- 

 rently a younger brother of John de la Moore, jun. 

 William was the father of John de la Moore, who 



Moore of Bank 

 Hall. Argent^ three 

 greyhounds courant sable 

 collared or. 



was mayor of Liverpool in 135 3, and had considerable 

 property there.' Dying about 1361 John was suc- 

 ceeded by his son, the above-named Thomas, who 

 had received a grant of lands in Kirkdale from his 

 father in 1360.'" Thomas was frequently mayor of 

 Liverpool between 1383 and 1407." 



It was his son William who, as already stated, pur- 

 chased the manor of Kirkdale in 1408. He died 

 I August, 1409, a week after the birth of his only 

 child, John Moore." In 1431 it was found that 

 John Moore, gentleman, held the manor of Kirkdale 

 by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee." 

 He appears to have died without issue." 



Robert de la Moore, son of Thomas and uncle of 

 John, then became the leading member of the family. 

 In 1389 he had a grant of lands in Kirkdale from his 

 father," and was put in seisin in 1408."° In 141 7 he 

 witnessed a Kirkdale charter in which Bank House is 

 named." Seventeen years later he was himself the 

 possessor of land at Bank House, which was probably the 

 site of Bank Hall, the future mansion of the family." 

 Robert had a son of the same name, who had a son 

 William, with whom more plentiful documentary 

 evidence begins again." 



William Moore died on 30 July, 1541, seised of 

 the manors of Kirkdale, Bootle, and Ecdeshill, and of 

 various other lands, burgages, and properties. His 

 heir was his son John, then thirty-seven years of age.^" 



^ Assize R. 404, m. 16. Accounts of 

 the Moore D. are given in Trans. Hisu Soc, 

 (New Ser.), ii, 149, and Hist. MSS. Com. 

 Rep. X, App. iv ; the corporation of Liver- 

 pool purchased a large number, which may 

 be seen in the museum. 



2 e.g. Final Cone, i, I 57-60. 



» Plac. de quo TVarr. (Rec. Com.), 381. 

 See Towneley MS. GG, n. 2484, 2730, 

 2517. 



■* Pink and Beavan, Pari. Rep. of Lanes. 

 179. John and Richard de la Moore 

 attested many charters together ; in 1320 

 they are described as ' then bailiffs ' (of 

 Liverpool) ; Moore D. n. 334 (74). 



* Rentals and Surv. 379, m, 11 ; he 

 held 4^ acres in Liverpool for zs, 34/., 

 probably belonging to 2J burgages. He 

 also contributed to the subsidy of 1332 ; 

 Exch. Lay Subs. 2. 



* Add. MS. 32103, fol. 140 A; for 

 these he paid %s. 



In 1342 it was certified that he pos- 

 sessed zys, worth of movable goods within 

 the borough, chargeable to the ninth ; 

 Robert de la Moore, perhaps a brother, 

 had a similar amount ; Exch. Lay Subs. 

 130/15. 



He is called son of John de la Moore in 

 Moore D. n. 108. ' Ibid. n. 194. 



8 He is called cousin and heir of 

 William, son of Roger de la Moore ; 

 ibid. n. 231 5 and son of John de la Moore, 

 n. 237, 238. 



9 The father may be the William de la 

 Moore who with Alice his wife had an 

 indulgence from Burton Lazars in 1340 ; 

 Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 53. 



John de la Moore had the toll, stallage 

 of markets and fairs of Liverpool, ferry or 

 passage boat, one horse-mill and two 

 water-mills at farm for ^^20 yearly, and 

 also held 5f burgages in Liverpool for 

 5j. \^d. ; Add. MS. 32103, fol. 140. 



W Moore D. ». 181. 



" In 1408 Margery, widow of Thomas 

 de la Moore, released her claim to dower 

 to William, the son and heir of Thomas, 

 and to Robert his brother ; Norris D. 

 (B.M.), H. 109. 



^2 Lanes, Inq, p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 93 ; 

 a month before his death he had made a 

 feoffment of his lands in Kirkdale, Ecdes- 

 hill, Liverpool, Walton, West Derby, and 

 Turton. The lands in Eccleshill and 

 Turton are said to have been the portion 

 of his mother Cecily, daughter and heir 

 of Nicholas de Turton, of Eccleshill ; 

 Visit, of 1567 (Chet. Soc), 92. 



^3 Feud. Aids, iii, 94. He was living 

 in 1445, when Robert, son of Ralph Wis- 

 wall of Kirkdale, released to John, son 

 and heir of William de la Moore, late of 

 Liverpool, all right in the lands which his 

 father had by the feoffment of John's 

 father; Moore D. n. 575. 



^•* On 12 Feb. 1467-8, John Crosse, of 

 Liverpool, and Geoffrey Whalley, vicar of 

 Childwall, re-granted to John Moore, of 

 Liverpool, and Beatrice, his wife, all the 

 lands, &c, which they had had in Eccles- 

 hill by the grant of the said John Moore ; 

 with remainder to their issue 5 in default 

 to Robert, son of Robert Moore, of Bank 

 Houses, and his heirs male ; and in default 

 to Edmund and William, brothers of 

 Robert, and then to William Norris ; 

 Moore D. n. 772. 



Among the Norris D. (B.M.) are 

 several of the year 1459, by which John 

 Moore, son and heir of William Moore, 

 made arrangements with Robert Moore, 

 senior, son of Thomas, as to an annuity of 

 40 marks and the succession to certain 

 lands in Kirkdale, Liverpool, and Faza- 

 kerley. Beatrice, the wife of John, was 

 joined with him ; she is said to have been 

 a daughter of William Norris, of Speke, 

 which explains the Norris remainders and 

 the presence of these deeds among the 

 Norris muniments ; n. 40-8. 



15 Moore D. n. 556. " Ibid. n. 566. 



1? Ibid. n. 570. By this, John del Bank, 

 of Bank House, senior, gave to Richard 

 Wilkinson, of Kirkdale, and Joan, the 

 grantor's daughter, certain land in the 

 Bank House, between lands of Thomas 

 del Moore and John del Acres, and 

 stretching from the common pasture on 

 one side to the road leading from Liver- 



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pool to Bootle on the other. The Bank 

 Houses are mentioned in 1371 in a grant 

 by Richard del Bank, of Liverpool, to his 

 elder brother of the same name ; with 

 remainder to the grantor's son John \ 

 ibid, K. 551. See also n. 554, 655. 



Robert del Moore was witness to another 

 grant to Richard Wilkinson in 1432 ; 

 ibid. n. $y^. 



IS Ibid, n, 574 ; ' all the messuages, 

 lands, and tenements, with appurtenances 

 in the Bank House.' 



In 1465 Thomas Molyneux, of Sefton, 

 was the purchaser from Henry Robinson of 

 messuages and lands in the Bank Houses ; 

 ibid. «. 579. 



^3 Robert Moore was the first witness to 

 a Kirkdale deed in 1457 ; ibid. n. 578. 

 Robert Moore and William Moore attested 

 one of 1492; ibid. n. 580. For Robert, son 

 and heir of Robert Moore, of Bank House, 

 and cousin and heir of John Moore, in 

 1467, see Towneley MS. GG, n. 2793. 



An indenture by Robert Moore, undated, 

 bears witness that he had enfeoffed John 

 Hawarden, of Chester, and others of all 

 his lands 5 they were to hold them until 

 his son William arrived at the age of 

 twenty-four years, duly providing for his 

 maintenance and for the marriage of 

 Robert's daughter j Moore D. h. 805. 



In a rental of William Moore's Chester 

 property, made about 1540, Is mention of 

 *a stone place which was some time Roger 

 Derby, my grandsire's — which was my 

 mother's father — in Bridge Street, near 

 St. Bride's.' Rentals of William, son of 

 Robert Moore, exist among the Moore D. 

 A pedigree was recorded in 1567 j yisit. 

 (diet. Soc), 92. 



20 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, «. 12. 

 The manor of Kirkdale and the lands 

 there were said to be held of the king as 

 of his duchy of Lancaster by the twenty- 

 fourth part of a knight's fee ; there were 

 8 messuages, 200 acres of land, etc., 

 8j. lod. free rent, and a free fishery. His 

 will, dated 30 Oct, 1536, and proved 

 3 Sept. 1 541, is printed at length in 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), iv, 180. 



