WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WARRINGTON 



the other was held by Robert de Glazebrook, to whom 

 William le Boteler released his claim to more than one 

 beadle to do service at his court at Warrington.* 



There are numerous charters regarding the dealings 

 of the Rixton and Mascy families with their portion of 

 the manor,* but no account can be given of the other 

 moiety, except that a branch of the Ashtons held it 

 in the sixteenth century by the service of half a mark.' 

 In 1598 the rights of the lord of Warrington were 

 purchased by Richard Mascy, so that the Ashtons 

 held of him,* but it does not appear what became of 

 the family, or that they claimed any manor. 



Richard Mascy and Hamlet Ashton were the only 

 landowners contributing to the subsidy in Mary's 



reign,* and their successors were the freeholders re- 

 corded in 1 600.® Richard Mascy alone appears as a 

 landowner contributing to the subsidy of 1628.^ 



In 1 71 7 the following as 'Papists' registered 

 estates : Thomas Marsh, John Speakman, and Mary 

 Whiteside of Rixton ; Martha Clare of Glazebrook.** 



As the ferry at HoUinfare— the 

 CHURCH * Holly ferry '—was of ancient date* 

 and the road from Warrington to Man- 

 chester passed through the place, it is probable that a 

 chapel existed there before Hamlet Mascy built one 

 for the chantry he founded in 1497 ; '° the bishop of 

 Lichfield licensed it in the following year." It con- 

 tinued to be used according to the founder's wishes 



Isabel his wife ; De Banco R. 275, 

 m. 17; R. 279, m. z^Sii. In a some- 

 what earlier suit a different pedigree is 

 given — Henry, son of Henry, son of 

 Richard, son of Richard de Glazebrook ; 

 De Banco. R. 251, m. 41 J, Possibly there 

 were two families. It has already been 

 noted that the plaintiff in the latter is 

 better known as Henry de Byrom of 

 Byrom in Lowton, His father, Henry 

 de Glazebrook, had sold all his possessions 

 in the township to Alan de Rixton, with 

 the homage and services of Henry son of 

 Beatrice (Betocson), and of Maud daughter 

 of Grimbald ; Mascy D. R. 13. Henry 

 son of Beatrice, otherwise Henry son of 

 Richard de Glazebrook, son of Simon de 

 Houghton also sold his lands to Alan de 

 Rixton ; and Beatrice, described as 

 daughter of Geoffrey de Glazebrook, in 

 her widowhood similarly released her 

 rights-to Alan ; ibid. R. 14.- 17. William 

 son of Maud de Glazebrook also granted 

 Alan lands by way of exchange ; ibid. R. 

 18. Mai^ery the daughter of Henry, 

 William the son of Maud, and Robert de 

 Moston (for life) were homagers in the 

 Rixton moiety of Glazebrook in 1332; 

 ibid, R. 55. In 1292 Richard son of 

 Geoffrey de Glazebrook was non-suited 

 in a claim against Beatrice widow of 

 Richard son of Simon de Houghton con- 

 cerning the customs and services due from 

 her free tenement in Glazebrook ; Assize 

 R, 408, m. 57 (i 



William son of Geoffrey de Glazebrook, 

 also known as William del HoUins, made 

 various claims for lands, common of pas- 

 ture, &c. against Henry son of Richard 

 de Glazebrook in 1301 and 1302, but did 

 not prosecute them; Assize R. 1321, 

 m. 10 d. ; R. 418, m. 2, 13, About the 

 same time he sold a messuage and land in 

 Glazebrook to William de Holcroft ; 

 Final Cone, i, 193. Two years later 

 William de Glazebrook and William de 

 Holcroft severally released to Alan de 

 Rixton all their lands in Glazebrook ; 

 Mascy D. R. 40-1, Alan granted these 

 to his son William ; ibid. R. 20. 



Henry son of Geoffrey de Glazebrook 

 (probably the Henry de Glazebrook of 

 the Fylde) in 1302 granted to the same 

 Alan all his lands and goods in Glaze- 

 brook ; and Richard, another son of 

 Geoffrey's, released all his claim upon 

 them ; ibid. R. 37, 39. Richard de 

 Glazebrook and Henry his son had in 

 1294 granted certain lands and common 

 rights to Alan de Rixton ; ibid. R. 29, 

 32, 33. In return Alan granted to 

 Richard a lease for thirty years of two 

 oxgangs of land and a moiety of the waste 

 and common in Glazebrook, the oxgangs 

 being one held byAlice, widow of Geoffrey 

 de Glazebrook, as dower, and another for- 

 merly held by Maud de Glazebrook ; ibid. 

 R. 21, The grant of Henry son of 



Richard, recorded above, completed the 

 Rixton family's acquisition of this moiety. 



At the beginning of 1329 John son of 

 Gilbert de Glazebrook claimed a messuage 

 and half an oxgang of land from Henry 

 son of Beatrice ; De Banco R, 276, m. 64. 

 Half an oxgang of land in Glazebrook 

 was the subject of a suit between several 

 coheirs — Ellen, wife of John del Dene ; 

 Denise, wife of John de Barrow ; Agnes, 

 wife of Richard de Glazebrook ; and 

 Alice, daughter of Henry de Glazebrook. 

 The defendants were William, son of 

 John de Ravenshaw and Margaret his 

 wife, and it seems that Margaret, wife of 

 another William de Ravenshaw, was also 

 a coheiress 5 Assize R. 435, m. 6. 



^ Mascy D. W. 13 j the release is 

 similar to that granted at the same time 

 to Alan de Rixton. 



Robert de Glazebrook in 1258-9 gave 

 half a mark for a brief ; Orig. 43 Hen. Ill, 

 m. 3. Robert son of Robert de Glaze- 

 brook made a grant of certain lands in 

 the township to Alan de Rixton ; but 

 Robert was to be ' hopper free ' at the 

 mill ; Mascy D. R. 19. He granted the 

 Hollins to William de Holcroft; ibid. W. 6. 



In 1294 Robert de Glazebrook released 

 all claim to certain tenements, perhaps 

 those which Alan de Rixton had just 

 acquired from the descendants of Geoffrey 

 de Glazebrook; ibid. R. 30. In. 1307 

 William le Boteler, lord of Warrington, 

 Robert de Glazebrook, Henry son of 

 Beatrice, and William son of Maud de 

 Glazebrook united in giving a warranty 

 of tenements which William le Boteler 

 had granted to Alan de Rixton and Alan 

 his son ; ibid. R. 44. Henry son of 

 Henry de Glazebrook in 1320 claimed a 

 messuage and two oxgangs against Robert 

 de Glazebrook, and an oxgang against 

 Henry de Woodhouses and Agnes his 

 wife ; De Banc. R. 236, m. 43. Other 

 suits following this have been mentioned 

 above. 



2 Some of these have been quoted in 

 the previous note. The Mascys continued 

 to increase their holding in the township. 



8 They are supposed to have been a 

 branch of the Ashtons of Penketh. 



A Humphrey Ashton attested a Mascy 

 purchase in Rixton and Glazebrook in 

 1479 ; he may have been of the latter 

 township ; Mascy D. R. 129. 



In 1507 Hamlet Ashton of Glazebrook 

 did homage to the lord of Warrington and 

 paid 6s, as his relief ; Misc, (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 20. In 15^3 he 

 appeared at the lord's court ; Lords of 

 Warr. ii, 432, 



Hamlet Ashton of Gray's Inn, son and 

 heir of Hamlet Ashton of Glazebrook, 

 deceased, complained in 1576 that though 

 his father died seised of certain lands in 

 Glazebrook which should have descended 

 to him, John Mascy of HoUins Green, 



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by colour of some deeds of which he had 

 obtained possession, had during plaintiff's 

 minority taken marl to the quantity of 

 6,000 loads ; he further declared himself 

 to be lawfully seised of a third part of the 

 manor and moss of Glazebrook, he and 

 his ancestors having enjoyed the waste in 

 common with Richard Mascy, lord of the 

 other two-thirds, on which the latter had 

 made encroachments ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Pleadings, Eliz, lix, A. 13, xcv. A. 46, as 

 quoted in Tram. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), 

 iii, 106, 107. Hamlet Ashton died in 

 Oct, 1590, seised of a tenement in 

 Glazebrook held of the lord of Warrington 

 by knight's service and the rent of 

 6j. %d, J his son and heir was John, then 

 seven years of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. XV, n. 35. By his second wife, 

 Christiana, a daughter and coheir of John 

 Ashton of Penketh, he had a son Thomas 

 who succeeded to Penketh, as shown in the 

 account of that township. 



■* As already stated, the services and 

 rent of 6j. %d. due from John Ashton of 

 Glazebrook were in 1598 included in the 

 sale by Thomas Ireland to Richard Mascy 

 of Rixton ; Mascy D. R. 173 B. John 

 Ashton died in Aug. 1623, seised of a 

 fourth part of the manor of Glazebrook, 

 held of the lord of Warrington by knight's 

 service — the sale to Mascy being ap- 

 parently ignored — and left a son and heir 

 Hamlet, aged two years ; Lanes. Ittq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 453. 



Hamlet Ashton was buried at Warring- 

 ton 10 Sept. 1663, and his widow Alice in 

 the following year. A son John had died 

 1654. s Mascy D. 



* Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 2.38, 240. 7 Norris D. (B.M.) 



s Engl. Catb. Non-jurors, 116, 123, 150, 

 Martha Clare was lessee of the ferry ; 

 her son Thomas, who also registered, 

 was described as ' of Clifton, Notts, gent." 



Charles Speakman of Rixton had con- 

 tributed to the subsidy in Mary's reign. 

 William Speakman was a tenant in the 

 time of James I ; Mascy D. W. 107^. 



' ' Le Fery del Holyns ' in Rixton is 

 named in a murder case in 1352 ; Assize 

 R. 453, m. I. 



" Mascy D. R. 151 ; Hamlet Mascy's 

 feoffees were to stand seised of tenements 

 in Glazebrook and Rixton of the clear 

 annual value of ^5, from the issues pro- 

 viding an honest priest and chaplain to say 

 mass and do divine service in the chapel of 

 HoUinfare Green late by the donor edified, 

 and buying necessaries and ornaments. 



There is an account of the chapel by 

 Mrs. A. C. Tempest in Trans. Hist. Soc. 

 (New Ser.), v, 77-97. 



11 Mascy D. R. 1 5 1 B. In 1 527 William 

 Mascy and John Ashley granted a lease 

 of the messuage in Glazebrook held by 

 George Clark and Lettice his wife, paying 

 the rent of 1 3s. 4^. to Lawrence LangshaWj 



