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Aigburth until the beginning of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury, but the succession and connexion of the various 

 Tarletons is not quite clear during the period." 



The jury of the leet in 1686 ordered that the lord 

 of the manor of Garston should have free privilege 

 to set hunting gates, &c., according to his worship's 

 pleasure, for hunting or any other recreation, dis- 

 turbers to forfeit 20^.' 



In 1717 the follovifing ' Papists ' registered estates 

 in Garston : — James and William Dwerryhouse of 

 Grassendale, Thomas Fazakerley, and Edvi^ard Hitch- 

 mough.' 



The principal landowners in 1787, as shown by 

 the land-tax return, were Thomas Tarleton and 

 Elizabeth Lightbody. 



St. Wilfrid's * chapel existed at an early 

 CHURCH date ; and appears to have been considered 

 parochial, even if not an independent parish 

 church ; thus ' Henry parson of Garston ' is witness to 

 a charter in the first quarter of the thirteenth century.* 

 Just before Adam de Garston's death the chaplaincy 

 became vacant, and he claimed the patronage as of an 

 independent church, presenting to the bishop of Lich- 

 field for institution a clerk named Reginald de Sileby ; 

 but Herbert Grelley, rector of Childwall, opposed, 



asserting that Garston was only a chapelry, and in his 

 own charge as rector. The bishop, after taking ad- 

 vice, agreed that Herbert, as rector, should hold it as 

 long as he held the rectory, and (as compensation) 

 pay from the goods of the chapel 3 marks a year to 

 Reginald in the Black Friars' Church at Derby." 

 The right of patronage was not decided ; but the 

 question does not seem to have been raised sub- 

 sequently.' Besides Henry the parson other early 

 chaplains are mentioned — Ralph,' Richard,' and 

 Roger, ' chaphiin of Garston and of Hale.' '" Later 

 chaplains, who probably ministered here, were John 

 de Femes," John del Dale," Robert Boton," William 

 Whitfield," Adam the Mason," William de Waver- 

 tree,'« William Fletcher," Thomas de Blackburn,'' 

 Richard Challoner, and John Fletcher.'' 



From remains of the mediaeval building discovered 

 during the demolition of the eighteenth-century 

 chapel in 1888, it appears that it dated from the time 

 of Edward I, and was repaired or practically rebuilt 

 about 1500.™ It seems to have been abandoned for 

 worship in the reign of Edward VI, when it is 

 spoken of as nuj>er capella?^ The building remained 

 in use only as a rent-receiving place, many of the 

 lessees being bound to pay their rents at or in the 



* See Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), ii, 

 677. It is clear from the above that the 

 Tarletons of Fazakerley were the parent 

 stock of the Aigburth family. Richard 

 Tarleton, who died in August, 1555, was 

 the son of Henry Tarleton ; he had no 

 lands in Aigburth. His heir was his son 

 William, aged 21, in 1569; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, n. 31. Henry's 

 lecond wife Margaret and William's 

 mother Edith (who had married William 

 Lathom) were both living. 



In 1576 William Lathom and Edith 

 his wife and William and Edward Tarleton 

 by fine remitted their rights in various 

 lands in Aigburth, Garston, Fazakerley, 

 and other places, to Cuthbert ScholeHeld 

 and William Bower 5 Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 38, m. 3. About ten years 

 later Edward Tarleton occurs in a Fazak- 

 erley case ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), 

 iii, 200. He was considered an ' obsti- 

 nate' recusant in 1593, but * could not be 

 found ' by the sheriff; five years later he 

 was, as a recusant, assessed ^^lo for the 

 queen's service in Ireland 5 Gibson, 

 Lydiate Hall, p. 261, 262 (quoting S.P. 

 Dom. Eliz. n. ccxxxiii, and vol. cclxvi, 

 n. 80). 



Edward Tarleton died 7 July, 1626, 

 holding lands in Aigburth of Sir William 

 Norris of Speke, also in Walton and 

 Fazakerley ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p. m. 

 xxix, 34. 



His successor was his son Edward 

 Tarleton, aged forty-five when the inquest 

 was taken ; he, as a ' convicted recusant,' 

 in 1628 paid double to the subsidy 

 (Norris D.), and died in June, 1653, 

 leaving by his wife Dorothy two sons, 

 Edward, who survived his father but a 

 week, and Richard. On account of their 

 religion their estates had been sequestered ; 

 Cfl/. of Com. for Comp. v, 3203. 



It was probably the younger Edward 

 Tarleton's daughters whose marriages are 

 known ; but Winifred, who married 

 Nicholas Fazakerley, may have been the 

 daughter of the elder Edward ; Dugdale, 

 yUit. (Chet. Soc), p. 108. Dorothy 

 inherited Aigburth and by her marriage 

 with John Harrington of Huyton brought 

 it to this family, their sons Charles and 



John succeeding to it ; Engl. Cath. Non- 

 jurors, p. 130. The latter by his will 

 (Piccope MSS. Chet. Lib. iii, 238, from 

 Roll of 2 Geo. II at Preston) left the 

 Aigburth estate to his brother-in-law 

 William Molyneux of Mossborough, who 

 in 1 73 1 sold it to George Warrington of 

 Chester ; ibid, iii, 244. (from an unnum- 

 bered roll at Preston). See also Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 307, m. 52 ; 

 between William and George Warrington. 



Aigburth passed in succession to John 

 Hardman of AUerton in 1753 ; to John 

 Tarleton, a Liverpool merchant, in 1772; 

 and then in 1808 to Thomas Dixon. A 

 seat or pew in Childwall church was 

 appropriated to Aigburth Hall. See the 

 above-quoted essay in Trans. Hist. Soc. xx, 

 181-9. 



» Norris Papers (Chet. Soc), p. 16. 



3 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. Non- 

 jurors, p. 122, 150, 121, 155. Richard 

 Hitchmough, the priest-informer who 

 betrayed many of his former friends and 

 patrons for gain, was a brother of this 

 Edward and described as *of Garston.' 

 Entering the English College at Rome in 

 1699 he gave his parents' names as 

 Thomas and Mary, and his age as twenty- 

 four. The government gave him the 

 vicarage of Whenby irr Yorkshire, but he 

 did not long enjoy it, dying in or before 

 1724. See Payne, Rec. of Engl. Catholics, 

 p. 121-7; Foley, Rec. S. J. vi, 450, 



V, 349- 



* About 1260 Adam lord of Garston 

 and Adam de Aigburth, the forester of 

 Toxteth, granted to God and blessed 

 Wilfrid and the chapel of Garston and to 

 Roger son of William land in Quindal 

 Moor, to be held in alms for ever as 

 chapel property, on condition that Roger 

 and his heirs should keep an oil lamp 

 burning before St. Wilfrid's altar at all 

 masses celebrated by the parish priest 

 daily and at all the hours on festivals, and 

 a wax light before the great cross, to be 

 lighted on all festivals and Fridays when 

 mass should be celebrated there ; id. 3 

 day to be paid to the chapel fabric for 

 default. About the time Wymark 

 daughter of Alice, ' the widow of Garston,' 

 granted to her uncle Adam son of 



127 



William land in the Cleyforlond, for 

 which he was to pay annually a halfpenny 

 to Garston chapel on St. Wilfrid's Day. 

 Norris D. (B.M.), 667, 706. 



In 1 274 John de Garston (son of Robert 

 called the Mouner, deceased) and Alice 

 his wife, daughter of Hugh de Aigburth, 

 released to God and St. Wilfrid and to 

 Herbert Grelley as rector all their claim 

 in that oxgang which Richard son of 

 Multon had given to Garston chapel ; 

 ibid. 743. 



* ff bailey Coucher, ii, 570. The chapel 

 is occasionally called ecclesia in thirteenth 

 and fourteenth century charters. 



1= Norris D. (B.M.), 742, 734. Regi- 

 nald de Sileby accepted the bishop's 

 ruling and renounced any claim he might 

 have upon the chapelry, under pain of 

 excommunication (bells ringing and can- 

 dles lighted) should he not pay the ten 

 marks he had promised to the mother 

 church of Lichfield. 



■f In 1293 the king claimed to present 

 to Garston on account of the minority of 

 the heir of Robert Grelley, and Adam de 

 Garston allowed him to present for that 

 time ; De Banc. R. 100, n. 2. 



8 Norris D. (B. M.), 662. 



^ Ibid. 741 : William, a clerk, was his 

 son. Richard was living in 1263 ; Assize 

 R. 1196, m. 5. 



" Norris D. (B. M.),743 (1274). Prob- 

 ably the 'Roger de Meles, chaplain of 

 Garston' of «. 749. 



" Norris D. (B.M.), 85 ; about 1329. 



1^ Ibid. 22 ; about 1360. 



^' Ibid. 582 ; about 1370. 



"Ibid. 857 ; 1385. 



15 Norris D. (Rydal Hall), F. 87 ; 

 'chaplain of Garston chapel,' 1395. 



" Norris D. (B. M.), 883-4 ; 1407. 



17 Ibid. 885 ; 141 1. 



18 Ibid. 903-7 ; 1450. 

 " Ibid. 930-1 ; 1484. 



™ Essay by the late E. W. Cox in Trans. 

 Hist. Soc. (New Set.), iv, 121-35, where 

 drawings of the remains are given and an 

 attempt is made to reconstruct the old 

 building. 



21 Lanes. Chantries (Chet. Soc), ii, 268, 

 276. For the ornaments in 1552 see 

 Ch. Goods (Chet. Soc), 91. 



