A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



turn, about 1390, was followed by his son Henry.' 

 This last left two daughters his coheirs ; one of 

 them, Ellen, married John de Parr, heir to the 

 Halsall moiety of the manor, and afterwards Richard 

 de Holt ; the other, Lucy, married Henry de Byrom, 

 whose descendants, as already narrated, ultimately 

 acquired the greater part of the manor by purchase.* 



Something has already been said of Robert de Parr, 

 son of Henry, who claimed this moiety as his right,' 

 whose descendants, however, are found to have held 



but a quarter of it. His son Henry* and grandson 

 Robert* have also been mentioned. The last-named 

 had a son Nicholas, who married Agnes daughter of 

 Robert, son of Alan de Parr, of the Halsall family ; • 

 Nicholas died in or before 141 5, but his son Robert 

 lived on until about 1482,' and was succeeded by a 

 son John, who also must have been a very aged man 

 when he died in 15 12 or 1513." The generations 

 now follow rapidly ; Robert the son of John was living 

 in 1520,* but he and his son Robert were both dead 



approvement already made on Henry's 

 Lands by Sankey and Nottbrook, towards 

 Morkels Moss; Ct, of Wards and Liveries, 

 box 134, n. FD5. 



A further agreement was made in 1377 

 between Sir John dc Parr and Henry his 

 son and Robert, son of the above-named 

 Henry dc Parr. Robert was to retain 

 possession of the lands of Alan de Bradley, 

 Marion his wife, and Robert their son. 

 The approvements of the wastes were to 

 be divided thus : half to Robert son of 

 Alan de Parr, and of the other half, three 

 parts to Sir John, and one part to Robert 

 son of Henry ; ibid. n. 4-, m. 2. 



In 1376 John de Parr, senior, was 

 executor of the will of his younger brother, 

 John de Parr, junior; De Banc. R. 461, 

 m- 325. In 1386-7 he appointed 

 Matthew de Sale his attorney for taking 

 seisin from John Perpoint, chaplain ; 

 Kucrden, loc. cit. n. 183. 



In 1337 Richard son of Robert de 

 Parr gave to Richard Parr his uncle and 

 Avice his wife land in Aspcroft which he 

 had received from his brother Henry. In 

 1370 Alan Ascroft and Mabel his wife 

 surrendered their land to John de Parr ; 

 Kuerden, loc. cit. n. 224, 223, 231. 



^ Henry has been mentioned in the 

 agreement of 1377. In 1370 a settle- 

 ment had been made, by the agency of 

 John dc Barrow of Parr, the remainders 

 being to Henry son of John son of Richard 

 de Parr, and Eli.is, Nicholas, and Ralph, 

 Henry's brothers ; ICuerdcn, loc. cit. 

 n. 200, 201. Henry came into possession 

 before 1395-6, two deeds of his of this 

 year being preserved by K.ucrden (loc. cit. 

 n. 194, 225), and in 1421 he made a 

 settlement of his estate; ibid. n. 213. 

 See also Pal. of Lane. Feet of F, bdle. 5, 

 m. 10, concerning 8 messuages in Parr, 

 Warrington, Sutton, and Whiston ; the 

 remainder was to Lucy wife of Henry de 

 Byrom, 



'^ Deeds by Ellen, widow of John de 

 Parr, are given by Kuerden (loc. cit. n. 218, 

 217, 242); by the two latter she made 

 gifts to her sister Lucy, the other coheir, 

 then wife of Henry dc Byrom. 



Ellen and her second husband, Richard 

 de Holt, in 1438 addressed a complaint 

 to the bishop of Bath, as lord chancellor, 

 as to the bad faith of the Byroms. When 

 her father Henry was about eighty 

 years of age he was influenced by Henry 

 de Byrom to divide the manor, giving 

 half to the latter as the share of his wife 

 Lucy, the understanding being that Ellen 

 was to have the other half on her father's 

 death. Such a division was made, and 

 after the father's death, about,i427, Ellen 

 entered into possession. Now, however, 

 the Byroms were putting forth a claim 

 for half of her portion, alleging that the 

 portion they had was an absolute gift, so 

 that Lucy and her heirs had a title to 

 half the rest. See Early Chan. Proc. 

 bdle. 9, ff. 28. 



* His widow Alice in 1337 came to an 

 agreement with Richard son of Henry 



Parr, as to lands here ; Kuerden, loc. cit. 

 «. 196, 197. She was still living in 

 1348 ; see below. She was suing for 

 dower in 1331 ; De Banc, R. 286, 

 m. 17 ; R. 290, m. 60^. ; R. 292, m. 66. 

 Richard, a younger son of Robert, has 

 been mentioned above ; his wife was 

 named Margery ; Assize R. 1435, "^" 34* 



■* With this Henry begins a series of 

 fifty-one charters (originals or copies) 

 preserved among the records of the Ct, 

 of Wards and Liveries, their existence here 

 being no doubt due to the disputes as to 

 the inheritance in the reign of Hen. VIII. 

 The earliest are grants in Aug. 1331, by 

 Richard son of Henry de Parr to Henry 

 son of Robert of various lands and 

 reversions, and a share of the mill ; 

 Ct. of Wards and Liveries, box 13A, 

 n. 4", m. 6. Three years later the same 

 Richard dc Parr released to Henry* all 

 his right in the fourth part of the moiety 

 of the manor of Parr,' with certain small 

 exceptions In the Overfield, Sonyhel, 

 Micklecroft, and a croft by the hall, &c.; 

 ibid. n. FDig. In 1335 there followed 

 the grant of land between the wood of 

 Parr and a field called Gilleridings ; ibid, 

 n. rD47, m. i. In 1348 this Henry de 

 Parr granted his son Robert all his lands 

 In Parr and his part of the mill ; with 

 the reversion of lands held by his mother 

 Alice. The remainders were to the 

 daughters Alice, Agnes, and Joan. Ibid. 



* Robert son of Henry was in possession 

 in 1370, as appears by the inquisition of 

 Thomas de Lathom, cited above. In 

 1375 he made a grant to his son Nicholas 

 ofiands in the Holyend and the Middle- 

 field, apparently on the occasion of the mar- 

 riage of Nicholas with Agnes daughter of 

 Robert son of Alan de Parr. The first 

 remainder was to grantor's heirs by Cecily 

 daughter of John Whitehead of Lathom. 

 John de Rainford, Richard de Parr of 

 Shaw, and William de Holland of Cay- 

 leigh were among the witnesses ; ibid. 

 m. 2. The agreement of 1377 between 

 the several lords of the manor, in which 

 Robert's claim to a quarter of this moiety 

 was recognized, has been given above. 



" Little seems to be known of Nicholas 

 beyond his first marriage with Agnes dc 

 Parr (or Halsall) above recorded, and his 

 second union with Katherine daughter of 

 John Benctson, the heiress of Lydiatc. 

 The latter, being out of her mind, in 

 1408 at Prcscot granted all her patrimony 

 to Ralph dc Parr, probably a son of 

 Nicholas by his former wife ; Lanes. Inq, 

 p,m. (Chet. Soc), i, 102. Katherine 

 lived till 1437 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep, xicxiii, 

 App. 22, 38. Thurstan son of Ralph dc 

 Parr is mentioned in several later docu- 

 ments, about 1485 ; and Ralph his son 

 also occurs. John dc Parr received from 

 the fcofi^cc in 1429-30 lands which had 

 belonged to Nicholas dc Parr ; Kuerden 

 MSS.vi, foL 84, n. 185. 



^ Robert son of Nicholas dc Parr made 

 a feoffment in 1427 to Richard Haydock, 

 rector of Sefton, of his capital messuage, 



380 



with his lands, rents, and services, &c., 

 and all his part of the milli ; also mes- 

 suages in Ormskirk and Lathom ; Ct. of 

 Wards and Liveries, box 1 3A. n. rox^. 

 Another feoffment was made in 1438 ; 

 ibid. R. 47, m. 5, and n. fdj i . In the next 

 year he mortgaged certain of his lands to 

 Henry Byrom and John Byrom hta son ; 

 the names given arc White Carr in Pye- 

 field. Riding, Dewbriddics, SckynhuUacre, 

 and Mosshousc ; ibid. n. F047, m. i. In 

 1462 there was an arbitration between 

 him and the above-named Thurstan Parr, 

 followed by a sale in 1463 ; ibid. n. 47, 

 m. 3, ;. The arbitration records among 

 other points that Robert had given Thur- 

 stan stone for a kiln ; Robert was to 

 be during his life * free to dry hit proper 

 corns and malt ' in Thurstan's kiln, as 

 compensation for the latter's delay in re- 

 turning an equal amount of stone. Robert 

 granted Elizabeth his wife land in Parr 

 (Plat Lache and White Carr) and Lathom 

 for her life in 1472, and made a general 

 feoffment in 1479 ; ibid. «. 47, m. 5 and 

 2 ; n. FD22. 



^ John Parr, *8on and heir of Robert 

 Parr,' first occurs in 1466, when he was 

 already the father of three sons — John, 

 Robert, and Reynold — on whom he settled 

 all his goods and chattels, movable and 

 immovable, alive or dead; ibid. n. fd6. 

 John, at that time his *8on and heir,' ii 

 not mentioned later ; and in 1482 the 

 father, as heir of Robert Parr, * lately de- 

 ceased,' described Robert as his *Bon and 

 heir,' and released to him his patrimony in 

 Ormskirk, including an acre by the mill 

 of Grectby ; ibid. n. 47, m. 5, In the 

 following year he leased Ashen Carr to 

 Thurstan Parr, and gave his part of the 

 water-mill of Parr to his son Robert ; 

 ibid, n, 47, n. fd2 ; n. 47, m. 3, From 

 this time there arc a number of documents 

 bearing upon disputes between the father 

 and son, and two, already quoted, upon 

 those between them and the lord of the 

 manor. In March, 1512, he leased the 

 Heighfield, Todc Hill, &c,, to Ralph Moly- 

 neux, priest, and Bryan Molyneux ; in 

 October, 1 5 1 3, his widow Constance made 

 an agreement with his son Robert as to an 

 arbitration about her dower ; ibid. n. FD9, 

 FD41, FD29, rD35. The arbitration is 

 n. PD33. 



* An agreement between John Parr and 

 Robert his son and heir in 1484 mentions 

 the latter's wife ; and in 1485 and 1488 

 there were fresh grants by the father to 

 his son ; Ibid. n. 47, m. 3 ; 44, 1,4; n. FD49. 

 In 1493 Robert Parr made a feoffment of 

 his land in the Sekencld and Riding ; and 

 a further one in i 507 ; ibid, n, 47, m. 4. 

 n. FD40, FD7, FD39 ; in these deeds Robert's 

 father ts described as John Parr of Broad- 

 oak, and Robert's wife is named ai Joan. 

 Early in 1 5 1 1 another agreement was 

 made with the father ; ibid. n. roj. 

 Another deed mentions Robert Parr in 

 15x3, and his son Robert is dcicribed as 

 *heir apparent of Robert Parr, senior,' 10 

 1520; ibid. n. FD2I, FD26. 



