WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



Margaret daughter of Thomas and Joan, and her 

 heirs male ; to Isabel sister of Margaret ; to Cecily 

 sister of Isabel; and to Katherine sister of Cecily ; 

 then to Joan and her heirs for ever.' After Sir 

 Thomas's death his widow Joan, as wife of Roger de 

 Fazakerley, had a grant of one-third of the manor of 

 Huyton, pending the duke of Lancaster's claim to it." 



Joan afterwards married Sir Nicholas de Harring- 

 ton of Farleton, and by fine in August, 1397, she 

 remitted to the above-named 

 Margaret de Lathom and her 

 heirs the moiety of the manor 

 of Huyton.' Margaret is said, 

 to have married' Nicholas de 

 Harrington, a younger son of 

 Sir Nicholas by a former wife ; 

 from them descended the Har- 

 ringtons of Huyton Hey. In 

 1400 Sir Nicholas, the father, 

 made an agreement with Tho- 

 mas de Hornby and Margery 

 his wife concerning the mar- 

 riage of their daughter and 



heir Sibyl with his grandson John son of Nicholas ; 

 for this he would pay them 40 marks of silver, and 

 suitable settlements were to be made for John and 

 Sibyl. It appears that John was then under seven 

 years of age.' 



John, succeeding his father, occurs in 1 442—3 -^ His 

 son and successor is said to have been Nicholas Har- 

 rington,' father of Hamlet (Hamo) Harrington, who 

 died 15 January, 1527-8. He was found to have 



Harrington of Huy- 

 ton. Sable, a fret argent 

 and a label or. 



HUYTON 



held the manor of Huyton, with lands, &c., in 

 Huyton and Knowsley, of Edward earl of Derby by 

 the fifth part of a knight's fee and a rent of i j^d. 

 He had also held the manor of Akefrith in Farle- 

 ton, and other lands. His heir was Percival Har- 

 rington, son of his brother John, then aged twenty- 

 eight years.^ 



The heir very quickly arranged for his marriage. 

 He espoused Anne the only daughter of Henry 

 Norris of Speke, lately deceased ; and assigned for 

 her benefit his manor of Akefrith in Fadeton and the 

 Red Hazels in Huyton.^ 



Percival Harrington enjoyed his manors but a 

 short time, dying 24 January, 1534-5.^^ His son 

 and heir was John Harrington, aged only five years. 

 The boy's marriage was at once arranged by Sir William 

 Norris and others.^' John was succeeded by his son 

 Percival ^^ and he by his son John,^^ who died during 

 the Commonwealth period, being buried at Huyton 

 in 1653. His eldest son Robert having died before him, 

 he was followed by his grandson John, born about 

 1627. John was twice married. By his second wife, 

 Dorothy Tarleton of Aigburth, he had a son and heir 

 Charles. Together they obtained in 17 13 an Act of 

 Parliament ** to enable them to settle their estates and 

 to dispose of some of them for the payment of their 

 debts. Charles, though twice married, died without 

 issue in 1720/* and Huyton Hey went to the descen- 

 dants of his aunt Elizabeth, who had married Richard 

 Molyneux of New Hall, West Derby, and Alt Grange 

 in Ince Blundell.^^ 



After the Tarleton marriage the family seem to have 



their son, and to his son Roger, father of 

 Henry. In another statement one of the 

 two Rogers is omitted, and once the sur- 

 name is given as Wolfall. 



Gilbert de Gorsuch and Richard del 

 Dam had married sisters — Margery and 

 Alice. Two deeds relating to Gilbert and 

 the Birches are in Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 

 270, Nos. 65—6 ; Trans, Hist, Soc. (New 

 Ser.), xii, 285. 



^ Final Cone, ii, 190; Norris D. 

 (B.M.), 986. 



2 Dep, Keeper^s Rep, xl. App. 523. 



3 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 4, m. 6. 

 Wolfall appears to have been the other 

 half of the manor. 



* His widow was named Katherine, 

 6 Norris D. (B.M.), 988. The inven- 

 tory of the goods of Nicholas Harrington, 

 dated 9 Sept. 1429, has been preserved. 

 In his treasury were 9 marks. His plate 

 consisted of a carved cup, two macers, 

 and twelve silver spoons. Only two 

 rooms are mentioned — the chamber and 

 the kitchen. In the former were two 

 beds with a large supply of coverlets, 

 blankets, sheets and other linen. Some 

 of the coverlets appear to have been em- 

 broidered : one for instance, valued at 2j,, 

 was of red and green colour, with flowers 

 of white and yellow ; another, worth 51., 

 was of red and white, with birds worked 

 upon it. The kitchen had due provision 

 of pots, skellets, a frying pan, a brass 

 mortar and dishes. 



His will of the same date follows. He 

 wished his body to be buried in the church 

 of Huyton, on the north side, in the 

 chapel of St. Mary, to which he gave a 

 missal. Six candles were to be burnt 

 .round his bier at his burial, and to each 

 of the six poor men holding them was to 

 be presented a gown with a hood ; id, 

 was to be given to each poor person. pre- 

 sent. Thomas Wolfall, the chaplain, was 



to have ^10 to celebrate for his soul for 

 two years. His widow Katherine and 

 Thomas Stanley were made executors \ 

 Norris D. (B.M.), 999. The will was 

 proved at Huyton before the dean of 

 Warrington, on 2 Oct. following. 



The Winwick chantry on the south side 

 was also St. Mary's. In later times the 

 Harrington pew was on the north side 

 of the church ; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiv, 

 117. 



6 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 5, m. i6h. 

 John Harrington of Huyton, esquire, 

 occurs in 1460 j Lanes, Inq. p.m. (Chet. 

 Soc), ii, 6j. 



7 Katherine, widow of Nicholas Har- 

 rington, in 1500 claimed dower in the 

 manor of Huyton, and in lands there and 

 in Knowsley, Hornby, and Farleton ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 90, m. 5. 



s Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, «. 57. 

 His win directed that he should be 

 buried in the tomb within his chapel in 

 Huyton church ; his (natural) son James, 

 his * cousin and heir' Percival, his brother 

 Richard, and their father Nicholas are 

 mentioned, as also their step-mother (* our 

 mother - in - law ') Katherine. Twenty 

 marks were to be distributed, and thirty 

 masses said and sung for a trental 

 should 80 many priests be present at his 

 burial. Three cows were to be given to 

 our Lady's stock of Huyton, and a glass 

 window was to be put in the north side 

 of the church. A large number of per- 

 sonal bequests were made ; Piccope, Wills 

 (Chet. Soc), i, 29. 



9 Norris D. (B.M.J, 16 Apr. 1528. 



1" It was found that he had held the 

 manors of Huyton and Huyton Hey 

 under Knowsley, by knight's service and 

 a rent of ijd. In Whiston he held land 

 of Richard Bold; in Knowsley 'Parker- 

 field * of the earl of Derby ; Duchy of 

 Lane Inq. p.m. viii, n. 41. His will is 



171 



given in the inquisition, which also re- 

 cites the settlement made by him. 



^^ Various lands were secured for the 

 benefit of Alice daughter of Thomas Tor- 

 bock, or any other of his daughters whom 

 John Harrington, or other son and heir of 

 Percival, might marry. Annuities were 

 also assigned to Hamlet and Percival, 

 the younger sons — to the former 4 marks 

 and to the latter 40J. ; Norris D. (B.M.), 

 10 Feb 1534-5. 



12 Percival Harrington was a freeholder 

 in i6oo;Mn(:.(Rec Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 238. 



^3 He paid ^10 as composition for 

 knighthood in 1631 ; ibid. 213. 



" Private Acts of 12 Anne. 



15 N. Blundell's Diary, 138, 161. 



1^ Charles and Mary Harrington his wife, 

 of Huyton Hey, registered their estates in 

 1717 ; the brother John is mentioned. 

 Another Mary Harrington, of Whiston, 

 also had a leasehold estate in Huyton ; 

 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. Non-jurors, 

 115,119. 



The following references to enrolled 

 deeds at Preston are taken from Piccope 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), ill, 174, &c. : — 



Geo. I, R. 3. — 18 Apr. 1 7175 Mary Har- 

 rington wife of Charles H.of Huyton (John 

 his father dead j Dorothy H. his mother). 

 1723 ; John Harrington of Aigburth 

 (Charles H. his late brother ; Dorothy 

 H. his late mother). 



Ibid. R. 10. — 5 and 6 May, 1715 ; 

 Charles Harrington of Huyton to marry 

 Mary daughter of Sir Rowland Stanley of 

 Hooton (John H. brother of Charles ; 

 Anne his sister). 



Geo, IT, R. 2.— Will of John Harring- 

 ton of Aigburth ; the manor of Huyton, &c, 

 to my cousin Richard Molyneux of the 

 Grange ; Aigburth to my brother-in-law 

 William Molyneux ; my cousin Robert 

 Fazakerley. 



