WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



PRESCOT 



and John,' and the former leaving a daughter and 

 heir Margaret, Burtonhead passed to her issue by her 

 husband, Hugh son of Richard de Pemberton.' 

 William their son succeeded,' 

 and was followed by John 

 Pemberton, who died about 

 1 50 1;' the latter's son James 

 was followed by George Pem- 

 berton,' and he by his son 

 James.* His heir was another 

 James, his son, who with his 

 son James appears to have mort- 

 gaged and then sold the manor,' 

 which shortly afterwards was 

 held by Henry Eccleston of 

 Eccleston.' In this family and 

 its successors it descended ' like 

 Eccleston until 1803, when it 

 was sold to Michael Hughes 



Hughes of Sherd- 

 LEY, GuUsy tivo lions 

 passant in pale and in 

 chief a rose argent ; in 

 dexter chief a mullet for 

 difference^ 



In 1370 it was held by Thomas, son of Robert de 

 Lathom, of William Daniell, by knight's service." It 

 descended to the earls of Derby with the other 

 Lathom manors, but is not 

 mentioned in the Derby in- 

 quisitions." The same or a 

 later Hugh le Norreys in the 

 thirteenth century granted four 

 oxgangs of land, or half the 

 vill of Eltonhead, to William 

 le Norreys,'" who appears to 

 have settled there, becoming 

 ancestor of the family who took 

 their name from the place and 

 held this mesne manor down 

 to the end of the seventeenth 

 century. The sons of William 

 were probably the ' Alan and 

 Robert, sons of William le 



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Eltonhead of 

 Eltonhead. Quarterly 

 per fesse indented sable 

 and argent^ in the first 

 quarter three plates fesse- 

 ivays. 



of Sherdley, ancestor of Captain Hughes, the present Norreys ' who attested the charter of William Samson 



owner." Large portions of the lands pertaining to it 

 have been sold to manufacturing companies and others. 



The Norrises of Speke also had land here." It 

 was at Sutton that John le Norreys of Speke im- 

 prisoned Margery de Bulling until she resigned her 

 land.'* 



The grant of ELTONHEAD, as one plough-land, to 

 Hugh le Norreys " has been mentioned above. The 

 lordship of Eltonhead is next found after nearly two 

 centuries, in the possession of the Lathoms of Lathom. 



1270.' 



concerning Eccleston and Rainhill about 

 William le Norreys was still living in 1 246." 



For a time Eltonhead seems to have been held in 

 division between the descendants or representatives of 

 his sons. Of the two brothers, Robert lived the 

 longer, dying about 1 3 10;'' Alan was represented by 

 Henry, probably his son, as early as 1302. Robert 

 was succeeded by his son Alan,™ and the latter's son 

 Richard, dying in his fither's life time," was succeeded 

 by his son Henry before 1353.'* 



1 At the beginning of 1376 Thomas 

 son of Robert le Norreys of Burtonhead, 

 who had married Emma daughter of John 

 de Eltonhead, was enfeoffed of his faUier's 

 lands, with the homage and service of the 

 following : Godith widow of William de 

 Holland of Sutton, John son of William 

 de Holland, Henry de Tyldesley of Ditton 

 and Alice his wife, John de Eltonhead, 

 Matthew son of Henry de Tyldesley, John 

 son of John de Parr, Nicholas de Bold, 

 Richard de Standish and Cecily his wife, 

 and fifteen more. The remainders were 

 to John brother of Thomas, and to Robert 

 son of Alan de Parr ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, 

 fol. 24.3 i. 



^ In 14.03 Henry de Atherton, who 

 had married Emma widow of Thomas le 

 Norreys, and John de Eltonhead bound 

 themselves in j^ 1 00 to make no alienation 

 or incumbrance to the disinheriting of 

 Hugh son of Richard de Pemberton and 

 Margaret his wife ; ibid, fol, 244. The 

 Pembertons succeeded to part of the 

 Norris property in Halsnead. The will 

 of Hugh de Pemberton was proved on 

 15 Jan. 1434.-5, one of the executors being 

 his son Richard ; Bold.D. (Warr.), G. 16. 



' William son of Hugh de Pemberton 

 made a settlement of his lands in Burton- 

 head in 1437-8 ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 

 244. Ten years later he appointed 

 Robert Merrick his attorney to deliver 

 seisin of all his lands in Sutton, Leigh, 

 Wigan, and elsewhere to Richard Pem- 

 berton ; ibid. 



^ Duchy Pleadings ( Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 14. 



= George Pemberton of Halsnead in 

 1 55 1 granted his younger son John a 

 messuage in Burtonhead for life ; Dods. loc. 

 cit., fol. 244*. See PaL of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 15, n. 84, for a settlement of the 

 manor of Burtonhead and lands in Sutton, 

 Bedford, and Whiston. 



* James Pemberton in 1558 made a 

 settlement of hia manors of Halsnead and 



Burtonhead; ibid. bdle. 19, m. 13, For 

 his paternity see Duchy of Lane. Plead- 

 ings, Phil, and Mary, xxxiv, P. 4, and the 

 account of Whiston. 



7 William Sergeant appears as deforci- 

 ant of the manor in 1555, but how his 

 interest arose is not stated ; he seems to 

 have sold his interest to Edward Halsall 

 in 1562 ; the latter purchasing further 

 from John Parr and Margaret his wife 

 and Thurstan Barton and Anne his wife 

 in 1567 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet, of F. bdles. 

 15, m. 27; 24, m. 211; 29, m, 141. 

 Anne seems to have been the widow of 

 William Sergeant ; ibid. bdle. 24, m. 260. 

 Part at least of Edward Halsall's pur- 

 chases was devoted to the endowment of the 

 school at Halsall; Ducatus Lane, iii, 398. 

 For the sales of their lands in Sutton by 

 James Pemberton the elder and Katherine 

 his wife, James Pemberton, son and heir, 

 and Margaret his wife, see Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 58, m. 15, 148, 211. 

 This was in July, 1597. 



8 Burtonhead was included with Eccles- 

 ton in a settlement by Edward Eccleston 

 and Henry his son and heir in 1618 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet, of F. bdle. 94, n. 29. 

 See Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. {4 Chas. I), 

 xxvi, n. 2 1 ; the manor of Burtonhead was 

 held of Richard Bold, by knight's service. 



9 PaL of Lane. Feet, of F. bdle. 132, 

 i». 37 (1637), Thomas Eccleston and Jane 

 his wife being deforciants. After this it 

 is not named as a separate manor ; ibid, 

 bdles. 218, m. 35 and 237, m. 31. An 

 indenture of 1749 enrolled at Preston 

 recites the settlement made by Thomas 

 Eccleston concerning the manor of Eccles- 

 ton and Burtonhead in 1725 ; Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), iii, 356, from the 23rd R. of 

 Geo. II at Preston. 



i» Ex inform. Mr. H. R. Hughes of 

 Kinmel. 



"■ John Norris, chaplain, brother and heir 

 of Gilbert son of Henry Norris of Sutton, 

 made a grant of lands in Sutton called 



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Pymfields, Northall, and Wingates ; the 

 lands were to descend to John Eltonhead; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 243. By another 

 deed lands of this John Norris were trans- 

 ferred to Ellen widow of Gilbert, with 

 remainder to the heirs of Gilbert and 

 John ; and in default to * William son of 

 the aforesaid Sir Henry Norris of Speke,' 

 who had not been mentioned before ; 

 Towneley MS. GG. «. 2129. See also 

 ibid. «. 2136, 2137. In the Norris rental 

 of 1464 Robert Barnes's rent in Sutton 

 was 27s. 4^/. ; the water-mill brought in 

 6s, %d. ; Ellen wife of Gilbert Norris held 

 In jointure the Pymfields, the rent of 

 which was 261. %d. ; Norris D, (B.M.). 



^^ See the account of Huyton, 



^3 One Hugh le Norreys was of Haigh 

 and Blackrod, and another of Formby. 



^"^ Duchy of Lane. Inq, p.m. ii, n. 7. 

 How it came to him is unknown. It is 

 not mentioned in the inquest taken after 

 his father's death in 1324-5 ; Whalley 

 Coucher (Chet. Soc), Ii, 552. 



^° Lanes, Inq. p,m, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 279, 



16 Dods. MSS. cxlii. fol. 248^. Hugh le 

 Norreys was a benefactor to Cockersand, 

 granting six acres near Harestone in free 

 alms ; William son of Uvieth released 

 his interest in the land to the canons so 

 that Alan son of Hugh might be en- 

 feoffed ; Cockersand Chartul. (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 600. The land was in 1268 held by 

 Peter de Burnhull in conjunction with 

 Scholes in Eccleston j ibid. 



1' Dods. loc. cit. fol. 241. 



18 Assize R. 404, m. 4 d. 



1^ Robert de Eltonhead was a witness to 

 charters from about 1270 to 1305 ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxlii, fol. 241, &c. 



20 See the suits quoted later. 



21 In 1 3 17-18 Cecily, widow of Richard 

 de Eltonhead, sued his father Alan, son of 

 Robert de Eltonhead, for her dower ; De 

 Banc R. 220, m. 332 1/. 



22 See later note. 



