A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Gilbert de Scarisbrick ' was succeeded, probably 

 before 1238, by his son Walter, who, like his father, 

 was a benefactor to Cockersand, granting an acre of 

 his demesne ; ' he also added 

 to the endowments of Burscough 

 by grants in Harleton, Gorsuch, 

 and Scarisbrick.' According to 

 the register of Burscough Priory 

 Walter was twice married,* and 

 by a certain Edusa he had a son 

 Richard, sometimes called ' son 

 of Edusa,' and sometimes ' son 

 of Walter.'* 



Henry de Scarisbrick suc- 

 ceeded his father Walter about 

 1 260, and held the manor some 

 ten years. He and Roger de 

 Hurleton made an agreement 

 with the prior of Burscough as to the bounds between 

 their lands.* He also was a benefactor to Cockersand 

 Abbey.^ 



Gilbert, son and heir of Henry, probably a child, 

 succeeded. He made a grant to the prior of Bur- 

 scough, and came to a further agreement with him as 

 to bounds.' He also acquired lands called Quassum 

 (or Whassum) in Scarisbrick.' In 1 3 i 2 Gilbert was 

 returned by the sheriff as holding fort)' librates of land 

 of others than the king, and not being a knight." 



Scarisbrick of 

 Scarisbrick. Gules, 

 three mullets in bend be- 

 fween ttvo bendlets en- 

 grailed argent. 



He was still living in 1336, when Robert son of 

 Richvd del Cross of Scarisbrick quitclaimed all right 

 to a plot in Harleton and Scarisbrick ' on the east side 

 of his field near Quassum ' ; on it Gilbert had erected 

 a windmill." 



He was succeeded about 1330 by his son Gilbert, 

 who before 1 320-1 had married Joan daughter of Sir 

 John de Kirkby." Gilbert the father and Gilbert the 

 son agreed not to alienate the manor of Scarisbrick 

 or any part of the inheritance of Henry son of the 

 younger Gilbert." Gilbert Scarisbrick died in Sep- 

 tember 1359," *"'^ w^^ succeeded by his son Henry, 

 who married Eleanor a daughter and coheir of Wil- 

 liam de Cowdray.'* In 1 361 he entailed his estates 

 on his heirs male, with remainder to his brother 

 Gilbert ; the entail included his manors of Scarisbrick 

 and Harleton, with the homage and services of the 

 free and other tenants, with all the natives, their 

 chattels and sequel.'* In 1386 he went to Ireland in 

 the king's service, under Sir John de Stanley." 

 About ten years later he made agreements as to 

 bounds with the prior of Burscough, new disputes 

 having arisen.'' His last recorded act was the leasing 

 of lands called Withinsnape to William the Stringer." 



His son. Sir Henry de Scarisbrick, succeeded before 

 1405,*° when with his mother Joan he was a party to 

 the agreement for the marriage of his daughter Ellen 

 to Robert de Halsall." By his wife Isabel he had 



^ In the time of Richard I, Henry de 

 Halsall granted to Gilbert de Scarisbrick 

 lands called Trussbiwra, Thornihevet, and 

 Shirewalacres lying within bounds ascend- 

 ing from Souekar to the end of Souekar 

 Brook, thence to Rodilache, between 

 Wulfawe and Shyrewalacres, from thence 

 returning westward to Snapeshevet and to 

 Snapesbrok, where the boundary began ; 

 with common of pasture of the vill of 

 Halsall. The witnesses were all early 

 landowners In the hundred, viz. Richard 

 son of Roger (Wood Plumpton), Robert 

 son of Henry (Lathom), Richard de 

 MolyneuK, Alan son of Outi ( ? Pember- 

 ton), Richard son of Henry (Tarbock), 

 Gilbert son of Walthef (Walton on the 

 Hill), Stephen, clerk of Walton, William 

 son of Swain (Carleton), and Richard 

 BlundcU (Ince) ; D. in poss. of Scaris- 

 brick Trustees. 



^ Cockersand Chartul. ii, 552. 



' By one charter he gave the lands 

 held of him by William son of Simon 

 Horebert of Renacres, Richard son of 

 Robert de Renacres, and Richard son of 

 Roger del Hull. By another he gave a 

 portion of Hawkshead, bounded by ditches 

 touching the ' Quytcgore," and so to 

 Muscar Sykc. Burscough Reg. fol. 15* 

 -17. To his daughter Godith he gave 

 his man Henry son of Uctred, with his 

 sequel and chattels ; Scarisbrick D. (in 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. New Ser. xii), n. 18. 



^ Fol. I-, ijb. His wives were named 

 Quenilda and Marger)- ; the latter had a 

 son (apparently by a former husband) 

 named Thomas ; Scarisbrick D. n. 26. 



^ Edusa is called 'de Hurleton' ; be- 

 sides the son Richard, who had a son 

 William (Scarisbrick D. n. 24, 25,40, 33), 

 she had a son Simon, called ' del Shaw,' 

 probably from the Shaw between Harleton 

 and Scarisbrick ; Simon's daughter was 

 Quenilda (ibid. n. 15, 24, 25, 36, 53). A 

 fuller account is given later. 



' See the account of Martin. 



' He gave an acre in the townfields, 

 viz. in the Hoarystones Hill, for the wel- 

 fare of the souls of his father and mother • 



Cockersand Chartul. ii, 553. By another 

 charter he gave to Simon son of Adam de 

 Scarisbrick the fourth part of his lands 

 in Scarisbrick, Gorsuch, and Renacres ; 

 Scarisbrick D. n. 24. 



^ See the account of Martin ; also 

 Scarisbrick D. n. 44, In 1303 he quit- 

 claimed to the prior all his right in 

 4 acres between Longshaw Head and 

 Hawks Head ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, 

 App. 199. 



^ Scarisbrick D. n. 39. The places 

 named are Quassum, Gorstihill, and 

 'Heuippe field.' In 1303 John de Edge- 

 acre gave to Gilbert all the lands the 

 grantee had in Quassum by the gift of 

 John de Quassum; ibid. n. 45. Gilbert 

 probably married the heiress of Eggergarth 

 in Lydiate, as this small manor was long 

 held by his descendants. 



" Misc. R. Chan. Knights' Services, 

 bdle. 8, n. 4, roll 9. He seems to have 

 proved that he did not hold so much, for 

 he was not made a knight, and in 1324 

 his lands were said to be worth only ,^15 

 a year ; Palgrave, Pari. Writs, i, 639. 



" Scarisbrick D. n. 64. In 1308 Gil- 

 bert de Scarisbrick and others were accused 

 by the carl of Warwick of entering his 

 lands at Middleton and Newbiggin in 

 Westmorland and making prey of his 

 cattle, selling, killing, and otherwise dis- 

 posing of them ; Cal. Pat. 1307-13, 

 p. 169. 



12 Scarisbrick D. m. 35 ; the grant made 

 on the occasion included a messuage, 17 

 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, and 20 

 acres of pasture in Harleton, and rents 

 amounting to about 84J. 



" Scarisbrick D. n. 66. Richard de 

 Scarisbrick, a son of the elder Gilbert, and 

 William de Cowdray appear to have been 

 the trustees for Henry ; the deed was prob- 

 ably made on the occasion of the Scaris- 

 brick-Cowdray marriage. 



" Scarisbrick D. n. 83. His will was 

 made on 23 Sept. and proved (at Orms- 

 kirk) on Tuesday, i Oct. 1359. He 

 desired to be buried ' in the old chapel on 

 the northern side of the church of Bur- 



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scough, near his mother and his wife * ; 

 his best beast was to be given * before his 

 body ' as a mortuary. He mentions his 

 son Henry and his daughters ; also his 

 brother Richard. He describe? himself as 

 ' the elder,' having a younger son Gilbert, 

 on whom the manor was entailed in 

 1361 J Scarisbrick D. n. 92. The younger 

 Gilbert acquired lands in the township ; 

 ibid. «. 93, 96. For a dispensation for 

 the marriage of Richard de Scarisbrick 

 and Maud de Birchecar in 1364, see 

 Cal. of 'Papal Letters, iv, 42. 



^^ She died before 1350, leaving an only 

 daughter Isabel, who died in childhood j 

 but Henry enjoyed, in the right of this 

 marriage, a share of the manor of North 

 Meols during his life ; Towneley's MS. 

 CC. n. 2100. His annuity was 5J marks. 

 He surrendered lands in North Meols to 

 his wife's sister in 1377-8 ; Kuerden 

 MSS. vi, 83, «. 299. 



1^ Scarisbrick D. n. 91. The names of 

 the tenants are given in full; they include 

 Gilbert de Gorsuch, Adam de Teulond, 

 Richard son of Walter del Shaw, William 

 Blethin, Henry Tebaut, also the Milner, 

 the Mercer (Lydiate), the Stringer, the 

 Fisher, the Salter, and the Bagger. 



The occasion was probably his second 

 marriage, with Joan , . ., who sur- 

 vived him and was still living in 1433 ; 

 Ibid. n. 157. Licence was granted to 

 Joan in 1420-1 to have masses and other 

 divine services in her oratories, to be said 

 in a low voice by a suitable chaplain j 

 ibid. n. 152. 



17 Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 189. 



^^ Scarisbrick D. «. 129, 133, Henry 

 the son was joined with Henry de Scaris- 

 brick the father in the second arbitration. 



^^ Ibid. «. 138 5 dated Nov. 1399. He 

 may have been living in June, 1402, 

 when his son in attesting a deed describes 

 himself as * the younger' ; ibid. «. 149. 



2** Letters written about this time by 

 him, as lieutenant of Sir John de Bold 

 at Conway, are printed in Sir H. Ellis's 

 Original Letters, 2nd series, i, 30, 37. 



2^ Scarisbrick D. n. 141. 



