Anderton.
The Township of Anderton is not in Dooms-day Book. Inquisitio capta post mortem Vriani de Sancto Petro, 23 Edw. 1. (intèr alia) praedictus Vrianus tenuit Manerium de Anderton in Dominico suo ut de Feodo, de Domino Rege in Capite per Servitium unius Li∣brae Piperis solvendi ad Scaccarium Cestriae, &c. as I find it in W. Vernon's Notes: So that Vrian de Sampier held Anderton in the time of E. 1. but when first granted to the Family of Sampier, or how long it continued in that Family, or how and when it devolved to Sutton of Sutton nigh Maxfield in Cheshire, is yet unknown to me. Certain it is, that Sir Peter Warburton, one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas at Westminster, purchased this Mannor from Richard Sutton, Son of Francis Sutton of Sutton nigh Maxfield Esquire, by Deed, dated the twenty ninth of November, 43 Eliz. 1600. from whom it descen∣ded unto Sir Thomas Stanley of Nether-Alderley Baronet, now Owner thereof, 1669. to wit, Son of Sir Thomas Stanley Knight, by Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter and Heir of the said Sir Peter Warburton.
* 1.1It is now commonly said of this Village by the Neighborhood, as it were prover∣bially, That here is neither Gentleman nor Beggar, Charterer, Cottager, nor Alehouse, but a Common without end: for that the Common is circular, lying round about the Township; and the Demaine hath been set to Derry-men and Tenants, so as no Gentleman of long time hath lived there.