original pedigree), yet out of a number of enrollments he does not occur as such, and, making every allowance for the fact that these official documents down to about this period, except on certain occasions, do not invariably give even this title; it is improbable that he was ever Knighted.

At the same time, between 3 Edw. IV. (1463), and 15 Edw. IV. (1475), the date of his death, he may have received that honor, but his inquisition is silent on the subject. "Dominus" has probably been taken in some charters for Sir, instead of Lord.

His heir was Ralph Bostok, Esquire, who married in 35 Hen. VI. (1487), Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas de Dutton, Esq.

Ralph Bostok had one son, William Bostok, who died without issue, and upon his death, the Manor of Bostok, with all its lands, passed, in 1490, to Sir John Savage, in right of his wife, Anne, sister and heir of William Bostok.

BOSTOCK LINE.

1 OSMER, Owner of Shipbrook, Davenham, Bostok, Audlem, Crewe, all in Chester (Cheshire) County, England, as entered in the "Domesday Book," 1080 A. D., as having held these places at the time of the Conquest by William of Normandy.

2 HUGH.
3 RICHARD.

4 ROGER.

5 SIR GILBERT, (Cheshire Visitations, 1580 A. D.) or SIR ADAM, (Ormerod's "History of Cheshire", Ed. 1882).

6 WILLIAM, (or RANDLE, RANNULPH), married Margaret, daughter of Warren Vernon, Baron of Shipbrook.

7 WARREN, (WARINE), married Hawise, (Havissa), Countess of Lincoln, in her own right, widow of Sir Roger de Quenci, and daughter of Hugh Kevelioc, Palatine Earl of Chester. (See Saxon Line, I, No. 62).

8 SIR GILBERT (or HENRY,) married Elinor, daughter of Robert Poole, of Cheshire.

9 SIR WILLIAM, Lord of Bostoc, Knight, (Tem. Henry III. 1216– 1272), married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of James, Lord Audley and Heleigh; (2) Amice, a widow.

He was one of the jurors who tried David, brother of
Llewellyn, Prince of Wales.

10 SIR EDWARD, (or PHILIP), Lord of Bostoc, occurs Hen. III. 44 and 54, (1260 and 1270), married Maria, daughter of Matthew de Vernon.

11 SIR ADAM (VII), Lord Bostok, Knight, occurs as living 3 and 15 Edw. II. (1310 and 1322), and 7 Edw. III. (1334), married Joan, daughter of William de Brereton.

12 SIR WILLIAM (VIII), Knight, of Bostok, occurs as living 29 (1356) 36 (1363) and 45 (1372) Edw. III., married, (1) daughter and sole heiress of William de Multon, Lord Multon, (2) Joan Norreys, widow of Sir Thomas Danyers, Knight, of Tabley.

He was appointed (30 Sept., 1361), Seneschal of Frodsham, and in 1366, Seneschal to the Abbot of Vale Royal. 13 SIR ADAM (IX), occurs 1344, Inq. p. m. 47 Edw. III. (1374), married Margaret, daughter of Sir John de Wettenhale, Lord of Wettenhale and Acton.

14 ADAM (X), Lord of Bostok, born Aug. 15, 1363, died 1415. Aet. 6, 43 Edw. III. (1370); Aet. 21, 8 Rich. II. (1384). Inq.

p. m. 2 Hen. V. (1415). He fought at the battle of Shrewsbury. Married Jonet, daughter of Sir Henry de

Bradshaw, Lord of Bradshaw.

15 SIR RALPH (XI), Knight, Lord of Bostok, Aet. 23, 2 Hen. V. (1415); Inq. p. m. 6 Hen. V. (1419). Married Isabel,

daughter of William de Lawton, of Wigland. He fought under King Henry V. at Agincourt.

16 SIR ADAM (XII), Knight, Lord of Bostok; Aet. 21, 11 Hen. VI. (1433). Inq. p. m. 15 Edw. IV. (1476), born 1412, died 1460. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Venables, and sister of Sir Richard de Venables, also sister of Joan Cotton, and co-heiress of her nephew, Hugh Venables, Baron of Kynderton.

17 WILLIAM, (4th son), married (1), Elizabeth Done; (2) Alice Patrick; (3) Ellen, daughter of Adam Bostok.

18 GEORGE, (by third wife), married Emma, daughter of Sir Edward

Holt.

19 ROBERT, buried at Davenham, Cheshire, Mch. 12, 1583; married Emma, daughter of Humphrey Bromfield.

20 ARTHUR, baptized at Davenham, Cheshire, Mch. 18, 1559; buried at Bunbury, Cheshire, July 4, 1632. Married at Davenham, Cheshire, Jan. 16, 16%. Ellen Dennis.

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buried at Tarporley, Cheshire, Apl. 5, 1642.

She was

21 ARTHUR, baptized at Tarporley, Cheshire, Dec. 22, 1603; married (1) at Tarporley, Cheshire, Jan. 8, 16, Jane Whittel;

(2) Ellen Johnson, a widow.

He emigrated to America about 1641 or 1642.

REFERENCES: Records in the British Museum, Ormerod's "His

tory of Cheshire" (edited by T. Heloby, 1882), "The Visitation of Cheshire", 1580, and Church Registers.