WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



Woolton and receiver of his money.^ Later there 

 occurs a complaint concerning a rescue of the 

 prior's cattle, taken for customs and services due. 

 Gilbert le Grelle had with force and arms prevented 

 their being taken to the pound and had rescued 

 them.* 



After the suppression of the English branch of the 

 Hospitallers by Henry VIII the lordship of the 

 manor remained in the crown for many years,^ but 

 was in 1609 granted by James I to George Salter and 

 John Williams of London in part payment of money 

 lent by London merchants/ It was soon transferred 

 to the earl of Derby, and, descending in the same 

 manner as Childwall, is now held by the marquis of 

 Salisbury.* 



The neighbouring families — Ireland of Hale, 

 Norris of Speke, and others — appear in extant 

 charters as holders of land in Woolton, as well as a 

 number of smaller families, including one or more 

 using the local surname. In 1301 Roger son of 

 Alan of Much Woolton sued Richard son of Hugh 

 le Fizorm in a plea of mort d*ancestor ; ® and 

 William son of Adam son of Richard of Much 



CHILDWALL 



Woolton appeared against William le Smale and his 

 wife Alice in 1308-9/ 



In Edward IPs reign Nicholas son of Henry de 

 Smerley had granted land in the New Branderth 

 abutting on the Portway on the east and Carkenton 

 on the west, to Henry de Garston, who transferred it 

 to his son Adam ;® and shortly afterwards Nicholas 

 son of Henry le Rede of Smerley and Ellis his son, 

 Henry de Garston, Alice daughter of Robert son of 

 William the Reeve, Adam son of Robert del Brooks, 

 and others were accused of having disseised Juliana, 

 widow of William son of William the Reeve, of her 

 tenement in Woolton — two messuages and an oxgang 

 of land.° William the Reeve seems to have had 

 three sons — William, John, and Robert.^" The 

 Brooks family was concerned in a large number of 

 charters ; the two principal members of it at the end 

 of the thirteenth century were Robert and Alan.^^ 



William de Laghok '^ occurs down to about the end 

 of Edward IPs reign ; he was succeeded by his son 

 Roger, living in 1345, and he in turn by William 

 his son, with whom the direct line ends, the property 

 in Woolton going to his relatives in Speke.^* 



to Thomas de Woolton an oxgang which 

 the brethren had received from Henry de 

 Walton, who had held it of them for a rent 

 of 2J. a year ; Norris D. (B.M.), 285-90. 

 On these charters see the essay (with fac- 

 similes) by Mr. Robert Gladstone, jun. in 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xviii, 173. 



1 De Banc. R. 269, m, 51^. 



'* Ibid. 363, m. \ijd.\ 364, m. I0(/. 

 (24-5 Edw. III). 



® It was restored to the Hospitallers 

 in 155S, but again confiscated on the 

 accession of Elizabeth. 



* Pat. 7 Jas. I, pt. xvi. 



6 See R. Gladstone, op, cit. *The 

 Lord of the manor of Childwall* [and 

 Much Woolton], wrote Perry in 1771, 

 • is entitled to certain small dues for- 

 merly paid to the Knights Hos- 

 pitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, who 

 had a house at Great Woolton upon the 

 heath, where has lately been discovered 

 the foundation of its round tower. These 

 acknowledgements, paid at the rate of \d. 

 or zd. each person, amount to about £^zo 

 per annum' ; Enfield, Liverpool, 115. 



* Assize R. 419, m. 4-^. 



7 Assize R. 423, m. 5 d. It would 

 appear that Alice was plaintiff's cousin, 

 for there is extant a charter of Adam son 

 of Richard de Woolton to John son of 

 John son of Fulk and Alice his daughter by 

 Adam's sister Agnes, granting ^oxgang in 

 the vill of Woolton; Norris D. (B.M.) 292. 



Alice widow of William le Smale 

 granted to Robert son of Elias, land in 

 the Pilot field in Much Woolton, stretch- 

 ing from the Ache butts to the Long Shot, 

 for the rent of a red rose ; to John son of 

 Robert del Brooks land in the Pughol 

 field and elsewhere, including a selion 

 in Harecroft abutting on Carketon ; 

 Norris D. (Rydal Hall), F, 46, 52. To 

 William son of Adam son of Beatrice of 

 Hale, she gave all her part of Carketon ; 

 and her husband had formerly with her 

 consent granted land in the Cross field 

 and in Carketon to William the Wood- 

 ward ; Norris D. (B.M.), 306-7. Among 

 the Norris deeds are a large number re- 

 lating to Woolton ; those quoted here 

 are intended to illustrate the place names. 



Pughol has a great number of spellings : 

 Pycyl, Puckel, Pyghill, Pyhol. *Pulloc 

 field' and Pilot field seem to be per- 

 versions of the same. See Engl. Dial, Diet. 

 Carkington is below Doe Park. 



Fulk, ancestor of Alice, was probably 

 the Fulk named in Prior Hugh's grant, 

 previously cited. Richard Fouke was in 

 1329 plaintiff concerning various tene- 

 ments in this township, but did not appear 

 at the day of trial ; Assize R. 247, m. 3 d. 

 8 Norris D. (Rydal Hall), F. 55, 61 ; 

 Norris D. (B.M.), 305. 



^ Assize R. 425, m. 1 -^m.. zd. 



10 For some grants by them see Norris 

 D. (Rydal Hall), fol. 48 ; Norris (B.M.), 

 297, 312. 



1^ Alan son of Alan del Brooks granted 

 to his brother Henry half an oxgang of 

 land in Woolton which had descended to 

 him from his father, reserving a house and 

 part of his windmill, all held of Sir Peter 

 de Dutton, of Warburton ; Norris D. 

 (Rydal Hall), F. 47, 54 ; Norris D. 

 (B.M.), 300. Prior Garner, in 11 87, 

 granted two oxgangs in Woolton to Adam 

 de Dutton, great-grandfather of Sir Peter; 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xviii, 1 84. 



John son of Robert del Brooks had a 

 grant from Hugh son of Roger de Wool- 

 ton, of land in the Nether Branderth ; and 

 in 1334 his son William had from the 

 same Hugh land below Carketon, stretch- 

 ing as far as the Pughel, and in the Hare 

 Butts. John del Brooks acquired from 

 John son of Fulk de Woolton land in the 

 New Branderth, lying partly by the Out 

 Lane, and from Robert Brown land in the 

 Middlegate field abutting on : Carketon 

 and on the Poughel, and in the Long 

 Farthings stretching from the Broadgate 

 to the Puahel field. In 13 17 he had a 

 grant from John son of Richard, of Much 

 Woolton, of land near the Sviynne gates 

 abutting towards the Crossfield and in 

 Pughel ; from Robert son of John, son of 

 Alan, of land in the Blake Branderth, 

 abutting towards the Pilote field, and 

 towards the Portway, and in Aclaw field 

 Branderth, abutting towards Aclaw field 

 and towards the Portway ; and from Alice 

 daughter of Adam son of William, a plot 

 in the New Branderth, abutting towards 

 the Pughel and towards the Portway. 

 Norris D. (B.M.), 304, 309, 314, 317; 

 Norris D. (Rydal Hall), F. 50, 56, 72 ; 

 Hornby chapel deeds. Aclaw field is 

 probably represented by Acre field. 



An earlier grant is that from William 

 son of John of Much Woolton, to Richard, 

 son of William del Brooks, of a portion 

 of land extending * from the great street 



"5 



to the corner of the hedge,' and abutting 

 on the Out Lane ditch ; also land in 

 Akelou field on the higher side of the 

 street ; * and let it be known that Richard 

 son of William and his heirs are bound 

 by agreement to make the enclosure from 

 the Balschae to Akelouysfeldiseynde for 

 the said William [grantor] in perpetuity* ; 

 Norris D. (B.M.), 291, 311 ; Norris D. 

 (Rydal Hall), F. 41. 



One member of the Brooks family 

 seems to have taken Punchard as a sur- 

 name, for Hugh Punchard del Brooks 

 makes a grant to Johnson of Adam of 

 Much Woolton, in 1 3 1 9 ; while John 

 Punchard occurs in 1328 and 1330, and 

 Henry Punchard in 1366; Norris D. 

 (B.M.), 324, 332, 359, 373. 



^2 Law-oak, a name possibly derived 

 from the celebrated oak in Allerton, where 

 the sheriffs tourn may have been held. 



^8 Robert Brown, in 13 16, granted to 

 Roger son of William de Laghok a 

 messuage in Much Woolton ; land under 

 the Cliff, abutting towards Allerton and 

 towards the windmill ; and his part of 

 Carkington greves, as much as belongs to 

 the quarter of an oxgang ; and in the next 

 year he made a further grant of land in 

 the Crossfield, abutting atone end towards 

 the windmill ; Norris D. (Rydal Hall), 

 F.57,58. 



In 1384 William de Laghok of Speke 

 had a rent-charge of zs. z^d. granted him 

 by Roger de Walton, payable from lands 

 in Woolton; and in 1435 William de 

 Laghok and William the Webster settled 

 upon William son of Roger de Coldcotes, 

 and Katherine daughter of John de Faza- 

 kerley, and their heirs, a messuage and 

 three roods of land which had been 

 acquired from Roger de Bold by the said 

 Roger de Coldcotes ; Norris D, (Rydal 

 Hall), F. 96 ; Norris D. (B.M.), 388. 



This John de Fazakerley was the agent 

 in the same year in a settlement of the 

 lands of Ellen and Isabel, daughters and 

 heirs of Thomas de Woolton ; Norris D. 

 (Rydal Hall), F. 95, 97. In 1483 Thomas, 

 son and heir of Roger Fazakerley, of 

 Derby, granted to John, brother of Thomas 

 Norris, of Speke, 19 acres of his land in 

 the vill and fields of Much Woolton, in 

 Glest field, under Carkington (by Hare- 

 croft), in the Crossfield, Sandfield, Middle- 

 field, Heath, Branderth, and Accleyfield j 

 ibid. F. 100. 



