People: Layton, John

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Remarks

John Layton was the nephew of  Robert Brassey, Provost of King’s College and vicar of Prescot. The earl of Derby, who leased the Prescot Hall estate from the college,  granted a lease of this property to John Layton in 1558, perhaps at the instigation of Dr Brassey. The Prescot Hall estate adjoined the Whiston lands of the Ogle family, previous occupiers of Prescot Hall as stewards of the lords of the manor.

John Layton died in January 1569.

Sources:

British History Online ‘Townships: Prescot’, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 353-354.  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp353-354 

F. A. Bailey, ‘Early Coalmining in Prescot, Lancashire’, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 99 (1947), pp. 1-20.

Causes

EDC 5/1566/11 – possibly rightful owner of the farm of the tithes in dispute