CI ANT presentes et futuri quod ego Willmus Blundel filius Ricardi Blundel dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea con- firmaui Deo et beate Marie et A bbati de Stanlawe et monachis ibidem Deo seruientib3 totum molendinum meum quod situm est super ripam de Alte, cum omnib3 ptinentijs et euentib3, tam in blado quam in

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piseib3 sine retenemento. Tenendum et habendum de me et heredib3 meis libere et quiete et paeifice in ppetuam et puram elemosynam, p salute anime mee et uxoris mee Agnetis et antecessorum et successorum meorum. Nichil inde mihi reddentes vel heredib3 meis, nisi elemosinas et orationes. Ita quod nullus heredum meorum in posterum, nec stagnum, nec fossatum, nec aliquid opus manuale retro vel ante ipsum molendinum possit facere ad nocumentum ipsius molendini. Liceat etiam predictis Abbati et monachis ipsum molendinum remouere de loco ad locum super ipsam ripam de Alte ad maius commodum, ubicun- que sibi melius viderint expedire, et terram circumquaque ad stagnum faciendum et reparandum cum necesse fuerit libere sibi assumere. Ego autem et heredes mei donationem istam predictis Abbati et mona- chis contra omnes homines et feminas warantizabimus fideliter et defendemus. Hijs testib3, Ada de Molyneus,* Henrico de Walton,-f Willmo psona de Walton, Ricardo de Lathom, Ricardo de Walleys, Ricardo de Mide, Roberto de Molyneus, et multis alijs.

* i. e. Adam de Molyneus, lord of Sephton, the eldest son of Richard de Molyneus, and Edith, daughter of Almeric Pincerna, ante, p. 418. His brother, Robert le Molyneus, held three bovates of land in Thornton, and was the ancestor of the family of Molyneux of Thornton. Adam de Molyneus had two sons, William and Roger. The eldest, Sir William, married Margaret, daughter of Alan de Thornton, and had three sons, Sir Richard, William, and Symon. Sir Richard succeeded as

lord of Sephton, and married Emma, daughter of Dounes. He had three

children, William, Thomas, the ancestor of the Molyneuxes of Hawldey, and a daughter, who married Hugh Banister of Formby. The eldest son, Sir William Molyneux of Sephton, was created a Knight Banneret in Gascony, and died A.D. 1289, and from him descend the present family of Molyneux, Lord Sefton.

t William de Walton owned Hale and Ilalewood, and had two sons. Richard, the eldest, took the name of de Mida, and had a grant of Hale from Henry II. (see p. 372) and also 4 John. He died without issue, leaving his younger brother, Henry de Walton his heir, who had a grant of Walton, fformby, and Hale, 11 Henry III. He had a son, William, who apparently died without issue, and a daughter, who married Alan de Columbers, who received Hale from her father. Their daugh ter Cecily married Sir Robert de Holand, whose daughter Avena married Adam Ireland, lord of Hutte, and carried Hale into that family.

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