the Town of Manchester. 481 
Down to this Robert, there certainly was 
no connection whatever between the GREL-. 
LEY family and the Manor of MANCHESTER, 
excepting a gift “in eleemosyna,” to the 
Church from his demesne Jands; though Sir 
William Dugdale, in the Baronagium, Vol. 
I. p. 608, expressly says “that he was the 
first that possessed the Manor, where he had 
his principal seat.” He was living in the 
thirty-fifth year of Henry I. 
ALBERT, First Lord of Manchester, Kuer- 
den’s third Baron, son and heir of Robert, mar- 
ried Agnes, one of the daughtérs of William 
Fitz Nigel, Baron of Halton and Widnes, and 
Constable of Chester, and one of the sisters 
and co-heirs of William Fitz Nigel the young- 
er, also Baron of Halton and Widnes, and 
Constable of Chester; by which marriage the 
Barony of Manchester was inherited by his 
descendants: for, by the book of Domesday> 
sonable dower.—(Rot. Pip. 28 Hen, II. Line.) | Wido de Creoun, in 
the first year of Richard I. ought £7. 6s. 8d, for the very same.—(Roé. 
Pip. I. Rich. 1. Line.) Gilbert Basset, and Alan and Thomas, his 
brothers, in the second year of Richard I. gave account of five hun- 
dred and fifty marks, for the custody of the son of Albert Gresle, with 
his heir and land.—(Rot. Pip. 2 Rich. I. Line.) Albert Gresle had 
one son and three danghters, and their uncle Gilbert Basset, with his 
father, Thomas Basset, had the keeping of them about the thirty-third 
year of Henry II.—(Rot. de Dom. Puer, et Puell. in nat. Dom, 
Reg. in Seac.—rot. | Linc, et. rot. 5 Norf.) 
Tuoroton’s Norts, I, 167. 
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