. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED LIVERPOOL in the next year Ackers petitioned the Chancellor of the Duchy for ;' The dispute was settled by the lessee granting a sub-lease'^* to the burgess body, whereby they undertook to collect all the customs, tolls, and ferry-dues, and pay half of the total proceeds and ^lo. The royal rents of j£lo and the mills (separately leased at ^os.)'" were excluded from this sub-lease ; and as the sub-lease must have yielded to the lessor at least ;£20, his income from the town must have amou
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED LIVERPOOL in the next year Ackers petitioned the Chancellor of the Duchy for ;' The dispute was settled by the lessee granting a sub-lease'^* to the burgess body, whereby they undertook to collect all the customs, tolls, and ferry-dues, and pay half of the total proceeds and ^lo. The royal rents of j£lo and the mills (separately leased at ^os.)'" were excluded from this sub-lease ; and as the sub-lease must have yielded to the lessor at least ;£20, his income from the town must have amounted to over £^2, yielding him a handsome profit after he had paid his j^l 4 6s. Sti. to the Crown. Incidentally these figures show that the town was regaining much of its prosperity, and approximating to the conditions of 1394, when the rent was ^^38 ; though it should be remembered that the value of money had in the meantime materially declined. Of the effects of the first stages of the Reformation there is little to record. The only monastic property connected with the borough was the house and barn in Water Street and the ferry- right over the Mersey, which belonged to the Priors of Bir- kenhead, and passed with the manor of Birkenhead to Ralph Worsley. But the later con- fiscation of the chantries affect- ed Liverpool deeply. There. Worsley. Argent a che'UErcn sable bel'ween three falcons of the last beaked legged and belled were now four chantries in the chapel of St. Nicholas ; their lands in 1546 had been worth X21 11/. -id;⢠paying in chief rents to the king i os. â ^d.'^^ The lands of two of these chantriesâthose of the High Altar and of St. Johnâwere sold, though the priests attached to them seem to have remained resi- dent in the town.^'" Among the purchasers'" were many of the burgesses of Liverpool, who were thus to «ome extent committed to support of the Reformation. The lands of the chantries of St. Nicholas and St. Katherine remained i
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