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campaign which Henry Prince of Wales was about 

 to prosecute against Owen Glendower.' He was 

 otherwise employed in the public service, being 

 sheriff of Lancashire in 1406." In November, 1404, 

 he had obtained a grant of free warren in his de- 

 mesne lands in Bold and Prescot.' He died on 

 27 June, 1436, being then constable of Conway 

 Castle.* 



Richard, his son and heir apparent, had been 

 married in 1404 to Ellen, daughter of Sir Gilbert de 

 Halsall;' she was a widow in 1433,° her husband 

 having predeceased his father. Sir Henry was suc- 

 ceeded by his grandson Henry, who was subsequently 

 made a knight and survived until 1464.' The latter 

 Sir Henry's widow was named Grace ; he left two 

 sons, Richard and Tuger, and several daughters.' 



Richard had in 1439 been married to Katherine 



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daughter of Richard Bold of Chester." But little 

 seems known of him except that he took part in 

 the Scottish expedition of 1482, in which he was 

 made a knight by Lord Stanley ; '" he died between 

 1483 and 1487," leaving his manors to his son. 

 Sir Henry Bold, who was made a knight at the battle 

 of Stoke, 1487." He had two sons, Richard, who 

 succeeded to Bold, and Tuger, who purchased Eccleston 

 and other manors in Lancashire and Harleton in 

 Buckinghamshire." 



Richard son of Sir Henry married Margaret 

 daughter of Thomas Boteler of Bewsey." He ac- 

 quired other lands in Bold, but sold some in Flint- 

 shire." He was made a knight between 1500 and 

 1506," was collector of a subsidy in 1503," and died 

 16 November, 1528,'* leaving a widow, Margaret," 

 four sons, and five daughters.'" 



right in certain lands there in 1393 ; he 

 was living in 141 1, but seems to have 

 died soon afterwards, his widow Agnes 

 resigning her claim for dower in 1+23 ; 

 ibid. n. 60, 61, 116, 11 J. 



1 Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 200, n. 65. 

 The engagement was for a year, begin- 

 ning with their appearance at Chester on 

 their way to Conway Castle. They were 

 to bring with them thirty-eight men-at- 

 arms and 200 archers, all suitably equip- 

 ped for war. Sir John was to receive 

 zs. a day and his brother izd. ; the men- 

 at-arms also 12^. each and the archers 

 6d. ; two months' pay to be given at 

 once, and afterwards monthly in ad- 

 vance. The prince was to have a third 

 of the goods captured from the Welsh 

 rebels by the Bolds and their men. There 

 was a Thomas de Bold at Agincourt in 

 the retinue of Robert de Alderton ; prob- 

 ably the same who was in the retinue of 

 Henry V in 1417 ; Nicolas, Agincourt, 

 349, and Norman R. {Defi. Keeper's Rep. 

 xliv), 599, 601. For Thomas de Bold 

 see also Cal. of Fat. 1422-9, and Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 55 — writ of 

 Diem, d. extr. issued I Mar. 1436-7 ; also 

 Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), ii, 481. 



2P.R.O. List of Sheriffs, 73. On 

 21 Sept. 1400, Henry IV granted his 

 knight, John del Bold, whom he had re- 

 tained for life, £zo yearly ; commuted 

 four years later for certain rents and 

 profits in Appleton ; Cal. of Pat. 1399- 

 1401, p. 338. 



' Chart. R. 6 and 7 Hen. IV, n. 10. 

 In 141 1, after ceasing to be sheriff he had 

 charge of the castle of Conway, the king 

 granting his protection ; Add. MS. 3 2 1 08, 

 H. 1527. 



The bishop of Lichfield granted him 

 licence for his oratories at Bold and else- 

 where in Lancashire in July, 1395 ; Lich. 

 Epis. Reg. vi, foL 133. The chapel at 

 Bold is mentioned in 1526 in one of the 

 deeds on the Ogle R. It may be the Jesus 

 Chapel noticed under St. Helens. 



* On 24 June, 1422, the prior and con- 

 vent of Austin Friars at Warrington 

 granted Sir John Bold and Dame Eliza- 

 beth his wife a chantry at the altar 

 of St. Augustine in the body of their 

 church, where mass should be celebrated 

 for them daily, as also for the souls of 

 their ancestors and of the Lady Emma, 

 formerly wife of Sir John ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, fol. 2o8, «. 107. This second wife 

 was living in 1439 (ibid. n. 74), and after- 

 wards married a Gilbert Scarisbrick ; Pal. 

 of Lane, Feet of F. bdle. 6, m. 47 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R- 3, m. 343, 



In 1429 Sir John had some dispute 

 with his son Richard ; Scarisbrick D, n. 



155 {Trans. Hist. Soc. New Ser. xiii). He 

 was constable of Conway Castle from the 

 early years of Henry IV, and was in 

 1436 responsible for the wages of six 

 archers at 4.J. a day. Pat. 14 Hen. VI, 

 pt. ii, m, 19 ; and Cal. of Pat. 1422-9, 

 p, 56. 



His will, made perhaps in 1408, is 

 among the Scarisbrick D. (n. 146) ; also 

 ff^ills (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 203. 



Sir John de Bold's arms are recorded 

 as — Argent, two chevronels gules j on a 

 canton of the last a cross patonce or 5 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), i, 152. 



* Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 201, n. 62. The 

 agreement was made between Sir John 

 de Bold and Henry de Halsall, rector of 

 Halsall, brother of Ellen ; ^^200 was to 

 be paid to Sir John, 



^ Ibid. n. 90 ; she was still livmg in 

 1469 ; Bold D. (Hoghton), n. 14. 



In the north choir window of Farn- 

 worth church there was formerly the 

 figure of a man and wife kneeling, the 

 former having the gryphon of Bold 

 on his breast, with a label of three 

 points, the latter the arms of Bold and 

 Halsall quarterly. Underneath was the 

 inscription : ' Orate pro anima Ricardi 

 Bolde et Elene uxoris sue ; quorum 

 animabus propitietur Deus ' ; Dods. MSS, 

 cliii, fol. 4.6b. 



7 Security for the good behaviour of 

 Henry de Bold was given in 1439 by Sir 

 William de Torbock and others ; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. p. 42. He 

 was a party to his grandson's marriage 

 covenants in Oct. 1464 (Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, n. 98), and served on a North 

 Wales commission in 1466 ; Cal, of Pat. 

 1461-7, p. 529. He died before 1479. 



8 Probably there was an elder brother 

 and heir, Boniface, who died young; for in 

 1433 a dispensation was granted by 

 Eugenius IV for the marriage of Boniface 

 Bold and Margaret Scarisbrick ; Lich. 

 Epis. Reg. ix, 168 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 8, m. 98. 



Tuger had a grant of lands from his 

 father in 1465 ; Dods. MSS. loc. cit. n. 

 100 ; he is mentioned also in 1450 ; 

 ibid. n. 158. The name is spelt in various 

 ways — Tutger, Tutcher, Tucher, Toger. 



9 Ibid. n. 70, 74. Richard is described 

 as ' son and heir ' of Henry Bold. 



i» Metcalfe, Knights, 7. 



11 In June, 1482, before setting out 

 for Scotland, he enfeoffed James Stanley, 

 archdeacon of Chester, and others of all his 

 lands in Lancashire to provide for his son 

 and heir Henry and Henry's son Richard 

 until this last should be 20 years of age ; 

 and in 1487 his widow Katherine received 

 her dower ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, n. 104, 123. 



405 



I'' Metcalfe, op. cit. 16. He had been 

 married in 1464 to Dulcia or Dowse, 

 daughter of Sir John Savage (Dods. MSS. 

 loc. cit. B. 98), but in 1497 the name of 

 his widow was Ellen ; ibid. «. 120, 121. 



^8 He left his estates to his nephew, 

 after making provision for his wife and 

 daughter; ibid. n. 132, 134, 135, 138; 

 also fol. 236. Among the Bold deeds at 

 Hoghton are two {n. 60, 83) by a Robert 

 Bold, knight, baron of Ratouthe, con- 

 cerning his lands in Ireland. 



^* Dods. loc. cit. n. 157 ; the covenant 

 was made about 1483 by Sir Richard Bold 

 the grandfather, and the union was to 

 take place within thirteen years. 



^^ Ibid, n. 122, 126-30. Also n. 131 ; 

 exchange of lands, &c., in Hope and Hope 

 Dale for a rent of i6s. issuing from Bold. 



" In a deed {n. 122) dated Sept. 1499, 

 he is * esquire ' ; in an agreement with 

 King's Coll. Camb. as to the payment to 

 them of a rent of 201., in June, 1506, 

 he is * knight' ; ibid. n. 124. 



^7 R. of Pari, vi, 535^. He was ap- 

 pointed seneschal of West Derby wapen- 

 take in 1505 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xl, 

 App. 544. 



18 Duchy of Lane, Inq, p.m. vi, «. 25. 

 This inquisition gives some particulars of 

 the dealings with the estates during the 

 preceding fifty years, and also recites 

 Sir Richard's will. Ellen, his father's 

 widow, was still living in 1527, the wife 

 of James Clarell, having an annuity of 

 j^2i ; her son John Bold had various 

 lands in Bold and Widnes. Sir Richard 

 provided 300 marks for the marriage por- 

 tions of his daughters, and desired that 

 each of his sons should have an annuity of 

 /'4, and should be ' sent to grammar 

 school,' and afterwards to the university. 

 The executors were to provide * for the 

 furnishing of the stock of Our Lady,' and 

 a priest to sing in a chapel on the north 

 side of the church of Farnworth. His 

 body was to be buried in this church, near 

 his father and mother. He names his 

 sons in order — Richard, Thomas, John, 

 and Francis ; also his brother Tuger ; in 

 default of heirs of the latter the estates 

 were to go to ' the right heirs of the body 

 of Sir Henry Bold, knight,' his great- 

 grandfather. Richard Bold, the son and 

 heir, was aged seventeen and more in 

 1529. 



19 Dods. MSS. loc. cit. n. 134, cSsc. She 

 was still living in 1553. 



^'' From this time until 1664 the various 

 Heralds' Visitations printed by the Chet, 

 Soc, are available ; the pedigrees of the 

 family may be seen in the Visitation of 

 1533. P- 147 ; 1567. PP- iio-ii i 1613, 

 p. 15 ; and 1664, pp, 41-3. 



