A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



who died soon after his father without issue, by his 

 wife Agnes.' Thereupon Sutton was claimed and 

 recovered in 1 349 by Clemency, as daughter and 

 heir of Alan le Norreys, son 

 of Alan, the son and heir of 

 Henry and Margery.' 



At this time Clemency was 

 a minor, in the guardianship of 

 John Danyers or Daniell, who 

 married her to his son William.' 

 The manor continued in the 

 line of Daniell of Daresbury 

 until 1 5 1 7,* when John Daniell 

 sold his manors of Sutton, q^^,^ of Dares- 

 Eccleston, and Rainhill, to John bhry. Argent, a pale 

 Bold, most probably the half fuully sabU. 

 brother of Sir Richard Bold.' 



From him they passed to his brother Tucher or 

 Tuger,* who gave them in 1545 to his nephew 

 Richard Bold.' With the rest of the Bold estates 

 they came into the possession of Sir Henry Bold 



Hoghton. Sutton being sold, was in 1869 pur- 

 chased by William Pilkington, from whom the lord- 

 ship of the manor has descended to Mr. William 

 Lee Pilkington, his son.' 



The Hospitallers had land in Sutton called Cross- 

 gate, from which they drew a quit-rent of I 2d'.' 



The charter of William de Daresbury shows that 

 three of the four plough-lands of SUTTON were in 

 the possession of the family taking the local name. 

 They appear at the end of the twelfth century, when 

 William son of Ivo, at the prayer and with the con- 

 sent of Siegrith his wife and his heirs, gave to Hugh 

 le Norreys a plough-land in Eltonhead.'" Siegrith 

 afterwards gave Burtonhead, as half a plough-land, to 

 Gilbert de Haydock," and made benefactions to 

 Warburton." She was succeeded by her son John, 

 who confirmed his mother's gifts to Cockersand ;" 

 and his son Robert, as above stated, was in possession 

 about 1250." Sons of his named John, Richard, and 

 Robert are known," but though the family seems to 

 have retained some holding in Sutton," the manor is 



' Extracts from the Widnes Ct. R. in 

 Dods. MSS. ixxii, fol. iii, 13 ; 'Robert 

 son of Gilbert de Meols, who held of 

 the lord lands and tenements in Sutton by 

 knight's service, died on the Nativity of 

 the B. V. Mary last past [8 Sept. 1348 or 

 1 349]. His lands were in the lord's hands 

 by reason of the minority of Clemency, 

 daughter and heir of Alan le Norreys, 

 next of kin and heir of the said Robert ; 

 they were worth, including the demesne 

 and 155. zd. free rent, 751. z^J. whereof 

 a third had been assigned to Agnes, the 

 widow, as dower.' 



^ Ormerod, Chei. (ed. Hclsby), i, 732. 



' Ibid. Clemency was still a minor in 

 1359; Kuerden MSS. iv, S. 25, 26 (from 

 Widnes Ct. R.) ; the lands were farmed 

 out to Walter Withers for £^ 8j. lo<f. 



* See the pedigree in Ormerod, Ckes. i, 

 734, with the documents cited, 732, 733. 

 The pedigree is borne out and may be 

 supplemented by the deeds preserved in 

 Dodsworth and a collection of Daniell 

 charters in Anct. D. (P.R.O.), iii, v. 



From these it appears that Clemency 

 was living in 1399 ; her husband died in 

 1406 {Land. Inj. p.m., Chet. Soc, i, 88) ; 

 their son William, who married Sibyl 

 Bold, died in l4H-'i> leaving a son John, 

 who in 1422 married Joan Hallum. 

 Dying in 1476, having long outlived his 

 son John the younger, he was succeeded 

 by his grandson Thomas, who married 

 Grace Ogle and died in 1497. See Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R< 92, m. 8 d. for the 

 widow's claim j also Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. ii, n. 76 for a petition by John the 

 son and heir, that he might be excused 

 the relief of loor. on the ground that 

 Grace, the widow, was in possession. 



This John sold Sutton, Eccleston, and 

 Rainhill. The interests of the family 

 were mainly in Cheshire, and there is but 

 little to relate of their lordship of these 

 manors, but John Daniell, probably the 

 last to be connected with this township, 

 sold a parcel of land in Sutton called 

 * Paladin Croft ' and an annual rent of 

 3J. issuing out of a tenement called * Tor- 

 bock House,' to Christopher Woods and 

 others, to the intent that they should pay 

 the king's bailiff of West Derby 2j. of 

 free rent due from Sutton, Eccleston, and 

 Rainhill, and \zi. yearly for 'sakkefee.' 

 And. D. V, A. 1354S. 



5 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 11, m. 

 226; Anct.D.y, A. 12590. In 1516 

 John Daniell sold, subject to certain 



conditions, to Sir Rauf Denton, chaplain, 

 Henry Smyth, and Thomas Worsley, 

 ' kyrk-revys of the kyrk ' of Farneworth, 

 the homage, royalties, chief rents, and 

 service of Eccleston, Rainhill, and Sutton, 

 and the following chief rents, viz. of John 

 Sale \d, for lands in Sutton, 51. id. of 

 Rauf Eccleston for his manor and tene- 

 ments in Eccleston and the wardship, 

 marriage, homage, and service of Rauf 

 and his heirs, as much as belonged to 

 six plough-lands in Eccleston; l6d. of 

 Richard Bower for his tenement there ; 

 dd. of Nick'ne Colley for his tenement 

 there ; 6d. of the wife of John Byrkenhed 

 for lands there ; 31. of Perys Williamson 

 for his tenement in Sutton ; I 3^/. of Henry 

 Norres, esq, for tenements there ; a chief 

 rent of Perys Wetherby for tenements 

 there ; the homage and service of John 

 Eltonhead for land there ; and his common 

 of pasture with all encroachments upon the 

 same, if any, within Sutton ; Anct. D, 

 V, A, 1260-. 



^ Thus in 1522 Richard Eccleston 

 held his manors of Eccleston and Rain- 

 hill of Tuger Bold ; see the account of 

 Eccleston, 



^ The grant is among the Bold D. at 

 Hoghton Tower ; n. 88. With the 

 manors of Sutton, Eccleston, and Rainhill 

 was granted the wardship of the heirs of 

 John Ogle, Peter Williamson, Henry 

 Holland, George Pembcrton, Thomas 

 Eccleston, John Birkhead, Richard Elton- 

 head, William Woodfall, William Wat- 

 mough, Richard Bower, and Nicholas 

 Colley, tenants by knight's service. The 

 remainders were — to Richard, son of 

 Richard Bold for life ; and to the heirs 

 male of Richard Bold, grandfather of 

 Tuger. The manors are recorded as fol- 

 lows in the inquisition after the death 

 of Sir Thomas Bold in 1612 : 'The 

 manor of Sutton and other the premises 

 in Sutton, Eccleston, and Rainhill are 

 held of the king by the service of a 

 knight's fee'; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 256. 



The Bold family had lands in Sutton 

 long before they acquired the manor ; for 

 Richard Bold, who died in 1528, held 

 lands there of Richard Holland and 

 Richard Lancaster ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. vi, n. 25. 



8 Baines, Land, (ed, 1870), ii, 249 ; 

 and information of Mr. W. L. Pilking- 

 ton. 



» Kuerden, MSS. v, fol. 84. 



1" Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 248* ; printed 

 in Cockenand Charlul. (Chet. Soc), ii, 

 597. One of the witnesses, Gilbert de 

 Walton, died in 1 197. 



11 Dods. MSS. xxxii, fol. 7. John, 

 constable of Chester, was the first of the 

 witnesses, so that the date must lie be- 

 tween 1 21 1 and 1240 ; he is not described 

 as earl of Lincoln, so that the earlier half 

 of this period is probable. The original 

 is at Lyme ; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxxviii, 511. 



'2 Cockersand C/iartul. loc. cit. The land 

 was called Cockshoot Head ; the boun- 

 daries began at the king's road towards 

 the south, where the cross was fixed, as far 

 as the valley, being marked by meres and 

 crosses and the ditches of Simon of Cock- 

 shoot Head; thence the brook was followed 

 as far as the Colt Snape, from which 

 point the bounds were again marked by 

 meres and crosses. The Abbey's land 

 here was held by a family named Sefton ; 

 it is described as in Burtonhead. Sec the 

 rentals ibid,, iv, 1242-5. 



" Ibid, ii, 597. John de Sutton was a 

 plaintiff in 1246 ; Assize R. 404, m. ^d. 



t< In 1 274 Robert son of John de Sutton 

 claimed from Gilbert le Norreys and 

 Maud his wife a messuage and 4 oxgangs 

 of land and from Robert le Norreys two 

 messuages and four oxgangs ; Coram Rcgc 

 R. 121, m. 53, At the same time he 

 charged Alan le Norreys and others with 

 breaking his mill dam at Bokedene — no 

 doubt the Poghden of later documents ; 

 ibid. ra. 54. 



^^ Robert son of John de Sutton granted 

 to his son Richard a portion of his land 

 in Sutton called ' Ferrymorall ' ; Dods, 

 MSS. cxlii, fol. 199^. He had a suit 

 with Gilbert le Norreys and Maud his 

 wife concerning a messuage and four ox- 

 gangs in Sutton in 1275, and was one of 

 the defendants in a claim made by Henry 

 de Eltonhead in 1284; De Banc, R. 9, 

 m. gd.; Assize R. 1265, m. 21^. He 

 died before 1292, when inquiry was made 

 if Robert de Sutton, father of John, had 

 been seised of messuages and lands, in- 

 cluding a twelfth part of the mill ; Assize 

 R. 408, m. 481/. ; 418 (30 Edw. I), m. 

 6a, &c. 



" Robert son of Gilbert de Sutton is 

 named as granting of land some time be- 

 fore 1279; De Banc R, 30, m. H d. 

 Gilbert de Sutton was defendant in a case 

 in 1292 respecting common of pasture ; 

 but he may be Gilbert le Norreys ; Assize 



