WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



HALSALL 



possession. Their defence was that she was a bastard, 

 and the matter was referred to the bishop for inquiry.' 

 From this time the 'junior manor' disappears from 

 view.' John de Lydiate had suits later with Otes de 

 Halsall," Robert de Wolfall/ and Adam Tyrehare, 

 a chaplain and trustee/ concerning various claims as to 

 lands in Lydiate. 



One other family may be noticed at this point. 

 Simon son of Richard de Ince in 1306 claimed from 

 William del Halgh of Lydiate a tenement in the latter 

 place.' William del Halgh enfeoffed William Blundell, 

 clerk, of his holding in Lydiate and MaghuU, who re- 

 enfeoffed him and his wife Anabel, with remainder to 

 John their son and his wife Agnes. John died, leaving 

 an infant daughter Isabel, who in 1359 claimed it from 

 Henry de Bickerstath of Aughton, senior, his wife 

 Agnes (Isabel's mother,) and others.' 



John de Lydiate's daughter and heir Katherine 

 married Robert son of John de Blackburn of Garston ; 

 and as a release to his father of lands received from him 

 in Downham and Much Woolton was made by Robert 

 in 1389,* the marriage probably took place then. 

 There were at least two children — a son born about 

 1400 and a daughter Agnes, eventually the heir of both 

 father and mother.' She married Thomas, a younger 

 son of Sir John de Ireland of Hale, who thus became 

 lord of Garston and Lydiate. 



Katherine the heiress seems to have died in 1435.'° 

 Her grandson Lawrence Ireland, son of Thomas, 

 would then come into possession of the manor. He 

 was a minor, and his mother had in 1433 married as 

 her second husband David de Standish. He married 

 Katherine, daughter of Henry Blundell of Little 

 Crosby, and by her had a son and heir John, who in 

 March, 1469, is described as ' lord of Garston,' so that 

 his father Lawrence probably died before that time." 



John Ireland of Lydiate, who married Beatrice 

 daughter of William Norris of Speke, died in May, 

 I 5 14, holding the manor of Lydiate of Sir Thomas 

 Butler by the tenth part of a knight's fee ; it was 

 worth 10 marks annually. He also held the manor 

 of Garston and lands in Downham, Allerton, Wool- 

 ton, Halewood, and West Derby, which were the 



Ireland of Lydiate. 

 Gules, a hunting ipear in 

 bend head donvnivardi or, 

 betnveen six fieurs de lis 

 argent, all -within a bor- 

 dure engrailed of the second 

 charged -with ten pellets. 



Blackburn inheritance, the annual value being a little 

 over 14 marks. George, his son and heir, was forty- 

 seven years of age." 



George Ireland held the manors for some twenty 

 years,'^ being succeeded about 

 1535 by his son Lawrence, who 

 in 1540 made an exchange 

 of lands with Thomas Lydiate 

 of Lydiate." In 1539-40 he 

 had a grant of lands in Garston 

 from Thomas Ireland of the 

 Hutt, and four years later he 

 surrendered all his lands in 

 Garston and the neighbour- 

 hood to Sir William Norris 

 of Speke, receiving the Norris 

 lands in Lydiate and Maghull 

 in part compensation.'^ About 

 the same time he purchased 

 from Thomas Holt of Gristle- 

 hurst that portion of the pos- 

 sessions of Cockersand Abbey which lay in his own 

 neighbourhood— in Lydiate, Thornton, Melling, and 

 Cunscough ; and in 1 546 he acquired Eggergarth 

 from the Scarisbricks.'^ 



He died in March 1566, holding the manor of 

 Cunscough of the queen in chief; the manor of 

 Lydiate of Thomas Butler of Warrington by the 

 twentieth part of a knight's fee, paying a rent of 

 5^. \\d., the clear value being 40 marks ; the manor 

 of Eggergarth of the same Thomas Butler, as the 

 twentieth part of a knight's fee, paying 7/., the value 

 being £,\\; also lands in Aughton of the earl of Derby. 

 His son and heir was William Ireland, who was forty- 

 six years of age." 



William Ireland died about three years after his 

 father. In 1567 he granted the reversion of Cun- 

 scough and Eggergarth to Gilbert Halsall and William 

 Ireland," his youngest son, for ninety-nine years. He 

 had a dispute with his younger brother George of 

 Gray's Inn, who claimed everything under a feoffment 

 made by their father." A pedigree was recorded in 

 1567.™ The inquisition after his death records only 



^ Assize R. 435, m. 33 d. 



^ The surname Lydiate remained com- 

 mon in the township ; Lydiate Hall, 26. 



Boniface IX in 1394 granted a dispen- 

 sation for the marriage of Robert son of 

 Richard Lydiate and Joan daughter of 

 Henry Simson of Halsall, Robert having 

 had illicit Intercourse with Agnes Blundell, 

 who was related to Joan in the fourth de- 

 gree ; Lichfield Epis. Reg. vl, fol. I oo4. 



A pardon was granted to Thomas 

 Lydiate in 1403-4 ; a feoffment by John 

 Lydiate of Lydiate was enrolled In 1441-2 

 and his son Thomas was re-enfeoffed in 

 1480; Add. MS. 32108, n. 1512, 1466, 

 1465. 



' Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 4 (1355), 

 m. 24 d, 



* Assize R. 43.8, m. 14, and Duchy of 

 Lane. Assize R. 7, m. 2 (1358-9). The 

 descent is given thus — Robert son of 

 William Diotson (or Dicceson) de Wol- 

 fall. 



5 De Banc. R. 457 (1375), m. 186^. 

 Adam Tyrehare was executor of the will 

 of John de Wolfall of Lydiate In 1361 ; 

 Assize R. 441, m. 3. 



* De Banc. R. 158, m. 2691/; 161, m. 

 426. 



1 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 7, m. i. 

 The claim failed, apparently because her 



mother was still living and in lawful 

 possession. 



8 Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 25. Katherine 

 de Lydiate married, as her second husband, 

 Nicholas, son of Robert de Parr ; and in 

 141 5 it was reported that she was of un- 

 sound memory and mind, and In this con- 

 dition had alienated to Ralph de Parr all 

 her hereditary lands In Lydiate, worth ^^8 

 per annum J Lanes. Inq. p. m. (Chet. Soc), 

 i, 102. 



3 See the account of Garston. 



^0 Writ of Diem cl. extr. Issued 14 Dec. 

 1435 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 

 38. 



^1 By a deed of 145 1 Lawrence con- 

 firmed a grant of land by Robert de 

 Wolfall alias Lydiate to Henry de Scaris- 

 brlck and John de Aughton ; Gibson, 

 op. cit. 28. 



^2 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. Iv, n. 16. 



^ He did homage to the lord of War- 

 rington on 18 March, 1514-5 i a year 

 later he paid his relief of los. ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 32. 



^^ Gibson, op. cit. 29. 



" Norris D. (B.M.). 



1^ Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 29-31. He 

 had the reputation of attending to the 

 commonweal and making peace among 

 his neighbours. He was considered about 



203 



80 when he died. See Duchy of Lane. 

 Pleadings, Eliz. Ixxxiv, S. z%. He placed 

 a stained window in Sefton church. 



^7 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, n. 33. 

 The inquisition recites arrangements for 

 younger sons — an annuity of 5 marks for 

 George and the like for Lawrence, both 

 of them living at Wigan in 1 566 j and a 

 general feoffment, the remainders being 

 in succession to George Ireland his 

 younger son for life, and then to Lawrence, 

 eldest son of William Ireland (eldest son 

 and heir of Lawrence Ireland, senior) and 

 his heirs male, to John Ireland and to 

 Thomas Ireland, younger sons of William. 

 William was to have for life the manor- 

 house of Lydiate, the mill, &c., and the 

 demesne of Eggergarth, paying ^^lo a 

 year to George. 



^^ Afterwards of Nostell Priory, Yorks. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Pleadings, Eliz, 

 Ixxii, 17. 



20 Visit, of 1567 (Chet. Soc), 122. In 

 disputes after his death it was stated that 

 the second wife (Eleanor, daughter of 

 Roger Molyneux of Hawkley) brought no 

 dower, and that he had made no pro- 

 vision for the children of his first mar- 

 riage, but a liberal one for William, who 

 was the son of Eleanor ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Pleadings, Eliz. xcii, I, i. 



