1233-1236 Richard Fitton was Justiciary of Chester and granted the manor of FUlshaw to the knights of the order of St. John of Jerusalem. [1]
The Sir Richard Fitton who ... obtained possession of the extensive lordship of Fulshaw, was succeeded by his son Sir Richard Fitton, who was Justiciary of Chester in the early part of the reign of Henry III., 1233 to 1236. He granted the manor of Fulshaw to the knights of the order of St. John of Jerusalem ... by which means it became separated from the original lordship, and ever afterwards remained so. In deeds relating to this Sir Richard Fitton we find the first mention ofthe "lordship of Bolyn," a name rendered necessary by the severance of the manor of Fulshaw from the original lordship. In a deed without date, but c. 1237, John Scot, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon (1233 to 1237), grants to Richard Fyton of Bolyn, and his heirs, acquittance for himself and his tenants from puture and from all toll throughout Cheshire, and from finding judgers [judicatores) for the fee of Fulshaw in the Hundred of Macclesfield, which he and his ancestors had been accustomed to do. The Earl commands due observance of this grant from his tenants and their heirs under a penalty of £40. These being witnesses: — William de Cantelupe junior, Robert de Champayn (Campana), Roger Montalt, seneschal of Chester, Warin de Vernon, Hamo de Mascy, William de Venables, William de Malpas, Richard de Kingsley, and Richard de Wibbenbury, then Sheriff of Chester, Peter and Richard, the clerks, and others.
The IPM for Richard Fitton states, [2]
841. Richard Fitun.
Writ (missing). Inq. (undated.)
Hugh Fitun, knight, is his heir.
Chester. Bolyn manor. 2 bovates land and a mill, with the advowson, held of the king in chief by service of coming to the army at Chester with all his household (cum tota familia sua) with horses and arms at the king's expense.
Falinisbrom, held of the king in chief by 3s. rent. (See Rot. Fin.
30 Hen. III. m. 7.)
C. Hen. III. File 43. (14.)
[1] J. P. Earwaker, East Cheshire: Past and Present; or A History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester Vol. 1 (London, Printed for the Author, 1877), 43, [HathiTrust].
[2] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 1, Henry III (London: HMSO, 1904), 290, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].