The Town of Manchester. A79 
Lincoln, and Nottingham, () and, in con- 
junction with Roger Busli, (another General 
under the same banner,) with the hundred of 
Blackburnshire, (c) in this county, and who 
fixed his residence in that neighbourhood: 
for, on a division of their joint possessions 
afterwards, Greslet had part of Leyland (d) 
hundred, formerly granted to Busli,) in ex- 
change for lands in Blackburnshire, consist- 
ing of the several manors of Gogard, (e) 
Adlington, Duxbury, Brindle, Worthington, 
and Coppull; and a Knight’s fee in Dalton, 
Wrightington, and Parbold. He also occurs 
as a witness to a charter of Earl Roger Pic- 
tavensis, made to our Lady of Lancaster, in 
the reign of William IT. 
This Albert is erroneously termed by Dr. 
Kuerden, the first Baron of Manchester, (/) 
(b) Thoroton’s History of the Co. of Nottingham, under Corarave. 
(c) Int. Ripa. ev Mersua. 
In Buackesorn. Hunn. 
Tot. #8 cu. Hund. reddeb. Regi de firma XXXII lib. et II solid. Hane 
tra. tota, ded. Roverius Pictavensis Rogerio de Busli et Albto Gresle, 
et ibisunt tot hoes qui nt XI car. et dimid. quos ipsi ccessor, ee qetos 
usq. ad iij annos et ido n. appeiat. m. 
Lis. Domesp. For Lance, 
(d) Kuerden’s MSS. in the Chetham College Library, and Kenion’s 
MSS, of the Barons of Lancashire, in the possession of Holland Wat- 
son, Esq. of Congleton. 
(e) I cannot precisely ascertain this place in Leyland Hundred. s 
(f) Kuerden’s MS, loco citat, 
