WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



CHILDWALL. 



a mill at Hale. For that he substituted a claim 

 against John dc Wolfall and Cecily his wife for the 

 moiety of two parts of the manor of Hale as his por- 

 tion of the inheritance of his uncle Henry de Hale, 

 lately deceased. To this they agreed, and Adam ac- 

 cordingly had seisin.' His next suit was against 

 Robert de Roland, Richard son of William de Walton, 

 and others, to recover the third part ot the manor, 

 except one messuage. Robert de Holand said he 

 claimed nothing except as guardian of Richard de 

 Walton, a minor. Richard denied Adam's right, and 

 the latter repeated his story, with the addition that 

 his aunt Cecily in her old age and infirmity had de- 

 sired it to be known that he was her heir, and had 

 allowed him temporary possession * for one day and 

 one night,' in token of the same.' 



The claim was unsuccessful, and the Waltons re- 

 tained this part of the manor. In 1292 Richard de 

 Walton was summoned to show his right to a third 

 part of the manor of Hale, part of the ancient demesne 

 of the crown, but stated that he held in fact only about 

 a sixth of it. On adducing the grant to Richard de 

 Meath, he was met by the statement that the hey of 

 Hale with its hunting and other rights had been re- 

 served by King John ; ^ he could only reply that 

 Richard de Meath had occupied the hey as well as 

 the rest of the manor. In 1293 his portion of the 



manor was taken into the king's hands by default,* 

 but four years later was restored to his son William de 

 Walton.* The disputes between the various lords ot 

 the manor continued,** but in 1 3 2 1 William de 

 Walton sold his rights to Adam de Ireland and 

 Robert his son.' 



The lordship of Robert de Holand ^ descended like 

 his other manors. His son Robert, afterwards 

 Lord Holand, in 1304 procured a charter for a 

 market and fair for Hale and free warren there.^ The 

 market was to be held every Tuesday, and the fair on. 

 the eve, day, and morrow of St. Mary Magdalene, 

 Robert himself seems afterwards to have granted a 

 charter for a borough.*" Hale seems to have been. 

 assigned as part of the dower of his widow Maud, and* 

 soon afterwards she was defendant in a suit by Alan 

 son of Henry le Norreys.^' She died seised of the manor 

 in 1349. It was held of Henry earl of Lancaster by 

 fealty and suit to the wapentake of West Derby, and 

 was worth £() a year clear." The second Lord Holand 

 died in 1373, holding it of the duke of Lancaster by 

 homage and fealty only ; it was then worth £60 zs. 6d}^ 

 His daughter Maud, widow of Sir John Lord Lovel,. 

 died in 1423 seised of the manor of Halewood, held 

 of the king in chief as of his duchy of Lancaster in 

 socage by fealty only ; it was worth ^40 clear." It 

 was forfeited by the Lovels in 1487, and given to the 



1 De Banc. R. 31, m. 25, 99, 125. 

 In 1283 'Adam Austin came ... to 

 replevy to Cecily dc Wolfall her land in 

 Hale which was taken, into the king's 

 hands for her default against Thomas son 

 of Pain dc Frodsham ' ; Cal. of Closcy 

 1279-88, p. 233. 



2 Hale Chart. R. ; Assize R. 1265, 

 m. 5 (/. Richard de Walton later made a 

 claim against Adam Austin; ibid, R. 1 294, 

 m. 1 1 (/. 



* The variations in the documents 

 have been noticed above. 



^ Plac. de quo Warr. 227, 382-3, 

 607, 230 ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 354. 



* Hale deeds. Before the above claim 

 was decided in the king's favour various 

 other suits had been commenced. Adam 

 Austin demanded 12 acres of land and 

 1 71. rent from Richard dc Walton, but 

 was nonsuited. William son of Hawyse 

 had a claim against Adam Austin for 

 land in Hale tried in the court of 

 William de Walton there ; Assize R. 

 408, m. 23 d. 



At the same time Richard de Walton 

 claimed from Robert dc Holand land, 

 meadow, and wood in Hale, as heir of 

 Richard de Meath. Richard de Holand 

 warranted to his brother the defendant, 

 but the case was adjourned ; ibid. m. 

 48. Richard de Walton also made a 

 claim against Adam Austin of Ireland for 

 a messuage, 14 acres of land, and 34^. of 

 rent which should have come to him 

 after the death of John de Wolfall and 

 Cecily his wife, and their issue, Adam 

 having retained them as heir of Richard 

 de Meath ; Assize R. 167, m. 10 d. 



A number of the tenants of Hale ap- 

 pealed against Richard de Walton and 

 Adam de Ireland, lords of the same, on 

 the ground that customs and services were 

 demanded from them other than those 

 their ancestors had been wont to perform. 

 In the time of William the Conqueror, 

 they alleged, the manor being in his hands, 

 they rendered yearly for an oxgang of land 

 zs. jd.^ suit at the court of the manor, and 

 amercements and reliefs as ordained by 



twelve tenants of the manor ; but now 

 they were required to pay 23^/. a year 

 beyond the former services, Richard 

 asserted that his grandfather William 

 was in seisin of the services and customs 

 he himself demanded, no change having 

 been made ; and the tenants were de- 

 feated ; Assize R. 408, m. 21 d. ; m. 28. 



* Dc Banc. R. 151, m, 206 ; 154, 

 m. 86 ; 159, m. 70. 



7 Hale D. 



^ Margery, widow of Robert de King- 

 hale, claimed her third part of 6J acres in 

 Hale as dower ; De Banc. R. 20, m. 26 d. 

 &c. Alan Ic Norreys also claimed 14 

 acres there of which he asserted his 

 father Alan had been disseised by Thurs- 

 tan, Robert's father ; he further claimed 

 common of pasture and reasonable estover 

 in the wood ; ibid. R. 27, m. 38, 72 d. ; 

 30, m. 4, 2 i/. 



Robert made several grants of land. 

 To Richard de Tranmole (Tranmerc) he 

 gave a plot lying by the side of his house 

 for id. rent j and to Roger the Carpenter 

 two acres in Halewood on both sides of 

 his house at iid. rent; Hale D. To 

 Richard son of Robert de Laghock he 

 granted a part of his waste in Hale called 

 Thornyhead, between Richard de Lagh- 

 ock's land on one side and the * street ' on 

 the other ; Norris D. (Rydal Hall), F. 6, 

 Thomas de Shevington, the * forester,' 

 received 5 acres in the wood of Hale 

 with the timber thereon, in exchange for 

 5 acres near the pool, with right of way 

 for his beasts and carts to the pool on the 

 boundary of Tarbock, at all times when 

 he should be able to cross owing to the 

 ebbing of Robert's mill-pool ; Norris D. 

 (B.M.),i8o, i8i. ToHenrysonofWiUiam 

 de Garston and Sabina his wife were 

 granted 9J acres in Hale wood with right 

 of way, housebote, haybote, and other 

 easements in the common wood when the 

 oaks on the land granted should fail ; 

 ibid. 182. There was a dispute as to the 

 succession to the Garston grant in 

 1 3 24-5 ; Assize R. 426, m. 1 6. 



9 Chart. R. 32 Edw. I, m. 2, n. 28 ; 

 m. 3, n. 48. 



10 On the forfeiture of Robert de Holand 

 in 1322 his manors were taken into the 

 king's hands and the accounts have been 

 preserved. In Hale the various rents In 

 1323-4 amounted to ^^73 51. ii(/., and 

 sales of corn, &c., to ^^60 31. -^d., the 

 expenses being ^5 js. yi^d., so that 

 ^^128 II. 6^d. was paid to the Exchequer,. 

 In the following year the net revenue was- 

 £yy \ys. o^d. and in the third year it 

 was ^73 45. 2\d, In the first of the 

 years named the assized rents of the free- 

 tenants amounted to £g ys. %^d. — this 

 included 6oj. from Walton — as well as 

 6d. for three pairs of spurs sold j tenants- 

 at will holding 79 messuages and 5 cot- 

 tages with nearly 570 acres of land paidi 

 £■^6 15J. 4f(/., and ,^15 31, was derive* 

 from 101 acres of demesne land at farm ;, 

 other sums were derived from lands im- 

 proved from the waste, from meadow andJ 

 herbage of the park of Linall, &c., gar- 

 dens and orchards, mills, weir and hall- 

 mote court (131. yd.). The principal 

 sales were of wheat (12 quarters), barley 

 (24 quarters), beans and peas (30 quarters}, 

 and oats (175 quarters), amounting to 

 over j^50. Some additional sales, as of 

 straw, &c., reached another ;^io, half 

 being derived from the flesh and hides ot" 

 twelve oxen and a cow which died of the- 

 plaguc. Twenty cartloads of hay had not; 

 been sold. The payments included sums; 

 for the repair of the mills — the pool of 

 the water-mill had been burst by a flood! 

 — and wages ; among the latter the wages . 

 of the park-keeper, who was also coUector- 

 of the rents, at the rate of i^d. a day-. 

 The stock consisted of four plough horses, 

 and a colt, thirteen oxen and a heifer,, 

 and eleven swans and two * stoyells ' ; 

 two wagons, a cart, three ploughs, four 

 harrows (two being double and of iron),, 

 pots, tubs, dishes, lances, forks and other 

 miscellaneous goods, including an iron 

 chain for the drawbridge, a net for the 

 fish, and six nets for taking bucks. 



^1 De Banc. R. 280, m. 90, &c. 



^3 Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. i, «. 58.. 



18 Ibid. 47 Edw. Ill, pt. i, n. 19. 



^■^ Lana. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, i,„ 



