A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



John Moore had a good position in the county, and 

 being at Lathom in 155+ did his best to convince 

 George Marsh of error by lending him Fr. A. de 

 Castro's book on heresies.' He died in October, 1575,' 

 and was succeeded b}' his son William Moore, then 

 thirty-seven years of age, who died in 1602.' 



John Moore, his son and heir, aged thirty-eight in 

 1604, left several daughters as co-heirs,' but Bank 

 Hall, with the manors of Kirkdale and Bootle, by 

 William Moore's settlement, went to the younger son 

 Edward.' This latter, almost the only Protestant 

 among the gentry of the district, distinguished himself 

 by his zeal against recusants,^ who were inclined to 

 consider his sudden death in 1632 as a divine 

 judgement.' His son. Colonel John Moore, played a 

 prominent part in the Civil War and signed Charles I's 

 death warrant. His personal character does not seem 

 to have been of the consistently moral type associated 

 with the designation of Puritan." He died of the 

 plague in Ireland in 1650. 



Edward Moore, his son and successor, was em- 

 barrassed by his father's debts.' His conduct after 

 the death of Cromwell seems to have been purely 

 selfish, and at the Restoration the influence of his 

 wife and her family, zealous Royalists, saved him from 

 the consequences of his father's actions.'" In 1675 ^^ 

 was made a baronet." He had many quarrels with 

 the corporation of Liverpool, and in his Renta/ gave 

 free expression to his opinion of the people of the 

 town." He died in 1678," and was succeeded by 

 his only surviving son Cleave, fifteen years of age. 

 He is known chiefly for his scheme for supplying 

 Liverpool with water from the springs at Bootle." 

 His debts, however, finally overwhelmed him, and the 

 whole of the family estates in the Liverpool district 

 were sold, the manor of Kirkdale and all or most of 

 the lands there being purchased in 1724-5 by the earl 

 of Derby." Like Bootle, it has since descended, with 

 Knowsley, to the present earl, who is lord of the manor. 

 The old hall was demolished about 1 760.'* 



^ Foxe, ^ctt and Monuments (ed. Cattlcy), 

 vii, 43-4. A papal dispensation for the 

 marriage of John Moore and Anne 

 Hawardcn was granted 27 Sept. 153- ; 

 Hiit. MSS, Com. Rep. x, App. iv, 60. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, n. 6. 

 The annual value of K.irkdale was said to 

 be ^13 6j. %J. 



' Lanes. Inq. p. v.. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 12-14. The date of his death 

 was wrongly given, viz. 1601 for 1602. 

 No material change appears in the manors, 

 &c., enumerated. 



In 1 590 he was among the ' more usual 

 comers to church, but not communicants ' 5 

 Gibson, Lydijie Hail, 245, quoting S. P. 

 Dom. Eliz. ccxjtxv, n. 4. 



At a court of the manor of Kirkdale 

 held in 1582, before William Moore as 

 lord of the manor, the following orders 

 were placed on record by the jurors : 

 i. Every tenant of the manor should put 

 his hedges and ditches in proper state ; 

 ii. Every tenant putting his beasts or cattle 

 to pasture in the townfield after 20 March 

 should pay for each horse, ox, or cow, ^tA, 

 and for eight sheep Jrf., to the use of the 

 burleymen. iii. Any man taking * lesow- 

 ing,' or tethering any beast or cattle in 

 other men's grass, must pay to the lord 

 6J. each time ; and any not ringing his 

 swine when warned by the burleymen 

 must pay 4./. ; for not making his fronts 

 sufficient, zJ. j for making of every gate, 

 4J.; for cutting wood of another man's, zJ.; 

 for growing grass, zj. iv. No man should 

 feed any manner of cattle or beast in any 

 of the ways within the townfield until the 

 field be put abroad, under penalty of 6ii. 

 each time. Two assessors of the lord 

 called * henlayers ' and two burleymen 

 (' bcrlimen ') were appointed ; Moore D. 

 «. 610. 



In 1599, as appears by the inquisition, 

 William Moore enfeoffed Richard Bold and 

 others of his manors of Kirkdale and 

 Bootle and other lands to the use of him- 

 self during life, and then to his younger 

 sons, Edward and Richard, by his second 

 wife. The reason for passing over the 

 eldest son is perhaps disclosed in the later 

 endorsement of an acquittance given in 

 1586 by John Moore to his father; 'an 

 acquittance under John Moore's hand, 

 which was the unthrift who sold /lo per 

 annum of copyhold land before his father, 

 William Moore, esquire, died ' ; Hist, 

 MS.>. Com. Rtp. X, App. iv, 61. 



* John Moore is said to have died in 

 the Counter Prison in April, 1604, seven 



months before the inquisition already 

 cited, according to which it might be sup- 

 posed he was still living. There seems to 

 have been some difficulty in obtaining 

 possession, livery having been sued on 

 behalf of John Moore, and the fine in 

 May, 160;, being found to be ^25 1 71. yj.; 

 then * the heir being now dead,' the 

 direction ran : * Let Edward Moore sue 

 livery in the name of John Moore, and 

 take the oath and covenant as the heir 

 ought to do, because the land is conveyed 

 from the heir to Edward Moore ' 5 Moore 

 D. n. 623. 



' On 14 Sept. 1602, Richard Moore, of 

 Bank House, released to his brother 

 Edward all interest in the manors of Bootle 

 and Kirkdale ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. l.s.c. 



' See the story of Sir William Norris m 

 the account of Speke. Yet Edward Moore 

 married the daughter of John Hockenhull, 

 of Prenton, a convicted recusant who died 

 in prison after many years' confinement. 

 Edward Moore was sheriff of the county 

 in 1617 ; P.R.O. List, 73. He was re- 

 turned to Parliament as one of the burgesses 

 for Liverpool in 1625 ; Pink and Beavan, 

 op. cit. 186. 



7 CjT'j//(-r'j Note-hook, 211. The certi- 

 ficate taken by Randle Holme in 1638 is 

 printed in Lanes. Fun. Certs. (Chet. Soc), 

 56. 



8 Many details of his career will be 

 found in Civil IVar Tracts (Chet. Soc). 

 He sat in the Long Parliament for Liver- 

 pool ; Pink and Beavan, op. cit. 188. 

 There is an account of his papers in the 

 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. already cited, x, 

 App. iv, 63-99. Adam Martindale de- 

 scribed his household as a 'hell upon 

 esnh' ; Autoiiog. (Chet. Soc), 36. His 

 will is among the Liverpool Corp. muni- 

 ments. 



' He was serving in Ireland as Captain 

 Edward Moore, but procured leave of 

 absence to visit England 'to look after his 

 occasions ' ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. x, 

 App. iv, 99, where may also be seen 

 several of his requests for arrears of his 

 father's pay, and for 'some delinquent's 

 estate ' to repair the losses incurred in the 

 Parliament's service. 



1° Ibid. no. The Moore manors were 

 granted to the earl of Meath and Thomas 

 Gascoigne in 1662; Pat. 14 Chas. II, 

 pt. xii, n. 9. Edward Moore's wife, like 

 her family, adhered to the Roman Church 

 and in her last letter to her husband 

 desired him to give her church stuff ' to 

 the church so that her soul might be 



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prayed for'; she wished that her ion 

 Cleave should not 'go beyond sea'; 

 Hist. MSS. Com, Rep. ut sup. 121; see the 

 pleading on 123. 



An attempt was made to induce the 

 father to have the two surviving children 

 brought up in the mother's religion ; 

 T. E. Gibson in Liverpool Cath. Ann, 

 1887, p. 108. Fenwick Street in Liverpool 

 commemorates her. 



'' Burke, Extinct Baronetcies, 



^^ For an account of his life and character 

 see Mr. Fergusson Irvine's Liverpool in 

 the Reign of Chas, II, xvii-xxix, in which 

 volume the Rental is printed in full ; it 

 had been partially edited for the Chet. Soc. 

 in 1846 by Thomas Heywood. 



" The will of Edward Moore, made in 

 1672, left the income of his estates to his 

 wife Dorothy for life ; after her death the 

 entailed estates to Fenwick Moore, with 

 remainder to Cleave Moore, his other son ; 

 and then to Robert, son of Robert Moore, 

 of Liverpool, his uncle ; and in default of 

 heirs male to his daughter Margaret. 

 He also made provision for his brother 

 Thomas, for servants, and others ; to the 

 poor of Liverpool he left j^io, and of 

 Bootle and West Derby ,^20. For his son 

 Cleave Moore he made provision by a gift 

 of Finch House in West Derby for his 

 life ; Knowsley D. 471/165. 



" A private Act was obtained in 1709 

 (8 Anne, c. 25), but the scheme was never 

 carried through. 'Sir Cleave Moore's 

 waterworks ' are mentioned in N. Blun- 

 dell's Diary, e.g. y6. 



'* In 1690 Sir Clcave's Lanes, estate 

 had been mortgaged for ,f 12,650 ; Hist. 

 MSS. Com, Rep, x, App, iv, 137 ; see also 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 453, m. 12. 



In August, 1724, was a recovery of the 

 manors of Kirkdale and Bootle, Sir Cleave 

 Moore and John Wallis being called to 

 vouch ; ibid. R. 521, m. 4^. 



Lord Derby bought Bank Hall in 

 January, 1724-5. The purchase included 

 the manors of Kirkdale, Bootle, and 

 Linacre, and all Sir Cleave Moore's estates 

 in Kirkby, West Derby, Fazakerley, 

 Litheriand, Little Crosby, Ellel, Horsam, 

 Walton, and Liverpool ; Knowsley Muni- 

 ments. There are references to Lord 

 Derby at Bank Hall in N. Blundell's 

 Diary, 219, 222. 



" The following is Enfield's description 

 of it : 'It was a curious model of the 

 ancient architecture such as prevailed 500 

 [hc] years ago, and doubtless in those days 

 was esteemed a very grand structure. The 



