A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Robert's death describes the estate as ten messuages, 

 loo acres of land, with meadow, &c. in Aughton, 

 Ormskirk, and Eggergarth. In 1566 he had arranged 

 the succession as to his heirs male by any other woman 

 than Ellen Toxteth, then his wife ; ' in default, to his 

 brother Thomas and his heirs male. The Brookfield 

 was held of the queen, as of the late monastery of 

 Cockersand, by a rent of i zd. ; other lands in Augh- 

 ton were held of Henry Starkie and Edward Scaris- 

 brick.' Thomas Walsh made sales or settlements of 

 part of his estate in 1578 and 1584 ;' and the lands 

 in Aughton were in 1595 held of the queen, John 

 Starkie, and Bartholomew Hesketh. Thomas's heir 

 was his sister Anne Prescott, aged fifty years and 

 more.' By the settlement, however, Thomas Walsh 

 succeeded his father. He died in June, 16 14, his 

 heir being his son Robert, then twenty-eight years 

 of age.' 



The Walshes appear to have been conformists, but 

 Thomas, the son of this Robert, took part against the 

 Parliament, and in 1653 an exact survey of his lands 

 was made by the commissioners appointed for the sale 

 of estates forfeited for treason.* The father survived 

 till the Restoration,' and Thomas Walsh died in 

 1694.' Mr. Edward Wignall of Lathom is said to 

 be the present owner of the Walsh Hall estate. 



The Stanleys of BickerstafFe had a house in Augh- 

 ton called the LITTLE HALL? 



The Bickerstath family of the adjacent township 

 very early secured lands in this. Thus Madoc son 

 of Bleddyn de Aughton granted to Simon de Bicker- 

 stath and his heirs by Margery, daughter of Richard 

 de Westhead, various lands with the usual liberties, to 



be held by a rent of (sd}" This Simon had a son 

 Simon to whom he gave three acres purchased from 

 Einion de Aughton, and to whom Madoc de Augh- 

 ton released the rent of 1 3d', and three peppercorns 

 due." In 1282 Simon the father settled upon his son 

 an estate, later known as MOOR HALL, of i messuage 

 and 120 acres in Aughton, subject only to an annuity 

 of 30/. payable to the father during his life." 



Simon the son appears to have died without male 

 issue, and the estate came to Richard de Ince by the 

 latter's wife Dionysia." She was probably the mother 

 of Henry de Ince, the father 

 of John de Ince, through whose 

 heirs the estate came to Roger 

 Aughton and Thomas Bradshagh 

 in the fifteenth century. 



After the death of John de 

 Ince, in August, 1428, it was 

 found that he had held the 

 manor of Moor Hall, of Thomas 

 de Beetham, and lands called 

 Stotfoldshagh in BickerstafFe, and 

 some others. The next heir 

 was Roger de Aughton, as son 

 of Nicholas de Aughton, son 

 of Agnes de Ince." Some twenty years later a 

 division of the lands took place between Thomas 

 Bradshagh (as heir of his uncle Thomas Brad- 

 shagh), and John Aughton (son of Roger) ; the 

 former was to have Moor Hall and its demesne lands 

 together with the mill, and John Aughton the rest. 

 This was confirmed in 1457-8, and in the next year 

 Thomas Bradshagh gave a formal release." 



Ince of Inci. Ar- 

 gent, three torteaux be- 

 tween fwo bertdlets iablt. 



* She had an illegitimate son Roger ; 

 Kucrdcn MSS. ii, fol. 263, n. 107. 



■^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, n. 

 II. 



* Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 40, m. 

 203 5 bdle. 4.6, m. 120. The uses in the 

 second case were — to Thomas and Eleanor 

 for lii'c, then to bastard sons, named 

 Thomas and John. 



* Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, n. 23. 

 This inquisition contains a partial de- 

 scription of the mansion house ; * the 

 upper end* contained hall, parlour, three 

 rooms, and a buttery ; with which went 

 three bays of the barn, the old shippon, 

 the swine-houses, and the kiln ; a garden, 

 hcmpyard, orchard, and stackyard. 



* Lanci. In(j. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 129. By his will Thomas 

 Walsh desired to be buried in Aughton 

 church, as near as possible to his father. 

 He mentions his wife Mary, and makes his 

 brother-in-law, ' Mr. Edward Moorcroft, 

 one of his majesty's servants,* the over- 

 seer. Among the farm stock. Sec, were a 

 peacock and a peahen, worth I2(/. ; Will 

 at Chester, dated 5 and proved 23 June, 

 1 6 14. 



* His lands were sold under the Act of 

 1652 ; Index of Royalists, 44 ; Col, Com. 

 for Comp. iv, 3134. The account em- 

 braces not only what he held, but what 

 would come to him after his father's 

 death. What he held included the ' lower 

 part ' of the mansion house, containing 

 six rooms, with farm buildings adjacent, 

 his father living in the remainder, which 

 had also six rooms ; also the washing- 

 pit, croft and other fields near the house, 

 bounded by the Common Lane, High 

 Lane, and Mrs. Ireland's lands on east, 

 north, and west. The Hills, Dolly Lane, 

 and the Willow Snapp are some of the 



local names mentioned. S.P. Dom. Inter. 

 G. 581:, fol. 513. 



7 The inventory after his death was 

 taken on 18 Dec. 1668, on which day 

 his widow Anne asked that administra- 

 tion should be granted to the youngest 

 son, John Walsh ; Inventory at Chester, 

 total ^34. 



® By his will, made in 1692, he desired 

 that his body should be buried in the an- 

 cestral burial place in Aughton church ; 

 certain houses were to descend to his son 

 Robert and issue, with remainders to his 

 daughter Mary, then wife of Robert Faza- 

 kerley of Spellow House, and her issue, and 

 to his grandson Thomas Farrer, son of his 

 daughter Elizabeth. He mentions also 

 his daughters Katherine Walsh, Margaret 

 K-ing, Susan Carter, Anne Johnson, and 

 Jane Walsh; Will at Chester. The inven- 

 tory shows farm stocks, &c. worth ^\-j%. 



The will of his widow, who died in 

 1708, makes bequests to her daughter 

 Mary, her son-in-law Robert Fazakerley, 

 and their son Robert and others ; and 

 leaves the residue to the children of her 

 son Robert Walsh, towards their prefer- 

 ment. The inventory gives a list of 

 household stuff at 'Hall Walsh,* and 

 shows a total of ^170 ; Will at Chester 

 (made 27 Sept. 1705 ; proved 20 May, 

 1710) ; inventory, 17 July, 1708. 



' See the account of Bickerstaffe. 



" Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 268, A. 8. 

 Three of the lords of the place — John le 

 Waleys, Madoc son of Madoc de Augh- 

 ton, and Guy son of Madoc son of 

 Bleddyn — made a further grant of land 

 touching on Bickerstaffe. Later, Einion 

 son of Madoc released 21. yd. rent due 

 from certain lands given by his father ; 

 in addition he granted land between the 

 bank of Crawshaw and the lands which 



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Simon already held from Einion and that 

 which Adam de Birches held, viz. be- 

 ginning at the ditch on the east, follow- 

 ing the mid-stream of the water of Craw- 

 shaw to the ditch on the south, and so 

 to that on the west ; thence to that on 

 the east, and back to the starting point ; 

 ibid. fol. 269^, n. 75. 



It Ibid. fol. 268, n. 6, i. The younger 

 Simon was of sufficient position to marry 

 Dionysia, daughter of John le Waleys of 

 Litherland, receiving from her father a 

 fresh grant of land in Longley, with 

 liberty (among other things) to grind hii 

 corn at the granter's mill at Winckley 

 without multure, rendering a peppercorn 

 yearly ; ibid. foL 269, n. 66. Einion de 

 Aughton added a further grant upon 

 Longfield, the boundaries touching the 

 Alt ; ibid. foL 269^, n. 76. 



" Final Cone, i, 159. 



" Gilbert le Walsh in 1328 gave land 

 to Dionysia, formerly wife of Richard de 

 Ince ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 268, n. B. 4. 



" Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 23. 

 See also K-uerden, ii, fol, 269, n. 58. 

 Thomas Bradshagh of Uplitherland peti- 

 tioned the archbishop of York as chan- 

 cellor — probably 1426 to 1432 — to do 

 him justice against Roger de Aughton, 

 who while petitioner had been over the 

 seas in company of the duke of Bedford, 

 laid claim to certain lands of which John 

 de Ince had enfeoffed the petitioner, his 

 brother Richard Bradshagh, and others, 

 for the performance of his will, as fol- 

 lows : ' Isabel his wife, sister of Thomas 

 Bradshagh, to have part of the lands, with 

 the reversion to "Thomas.' John and 

 Isabel were both dead. Early Chan. Proc 

 bdle. 7, n. 284. 



" Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 269, n. 113 ; 

 fol. 271, n. 59, 13. 



