A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



one mill, 86 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 160 

 acres of wood, and 26 acres of pasture. 1 To Adam 

 he gave the higher part of the township, bordering 

 upon Worsley, Hulton, and Atherton, and adjoining 

 on the south (from west to east) to lands held by 

 Alexander de Haldale, called 'The Spenne,' the lands 

 of Matthew ' of Hurst,' the King's Hedge of the 

 Woodfall, the Fruyndes Sike, the Mosseld Yard, 

 the lands of Richard de Wylkeshalgh, the Brooks, 

 Holynshurst Sike, the lands of Margaret, relict 

 of Walter the Fuller, and of Richard son of 

 Richard son of John de Hulton.* To Henry, the 

 youngest son, he gave lands called the Hurst, whereby 

 later he was described as ' of Tyldesley Hurst.' 



As a result of the infeudations the manor was vested 

 in Hugh de Tyldesley and subsequently descended 

 through the family of Tyldesley of Garrett, who held 

 it by the yearly service of zod. and suit to the three 

 weeks' court of Warrington, whilst the higher part of 

 the township was vested in Adam de Tyldesley, 

 younger brother of Hugh, afterwards descending as a 

 reputed or mesne manor through the Tyldesleys of 

 Wardley, who held it for the loth part of a knight's 

 fee. In a schedule of the free tenants of the barony 

 of Warrington between 1320 and 1330, Hugh de 

 Tyldesley and Adam son of Adam de Tyldesley occur 

 as tenants of this township.* These three brothers 

 were noted transgressors during the period of rapine 

 and violence which preceded the defeat and death of 

 Thomas, earl of Lancaster. In 1321 Hugh de 

 Tyldesley and five of his sons were concerned in a 

 fray at Chaddock Hurst with a number of people 

 belonging to the hundred of Salford, in which four 

 of his kinsmen and friends were slain. 4 Three months 

 later he and his sons, accompanied by certain par- 

 tizans of the Holand faction in the county, burned 

 the house of Margery de Worsley at Worsley and 

 slew some of her servants. 5 A few years later Hugh's 

 sons are found in the king's service in Gascony 

 earning pardon for these misdeeds. 6 In 1341 Adam 

 son of Hugh, slew his elder brother Henry, seized his 

 inheritance, expelled his brother's wife and natural 

 son Hugh, afterwards executing a deed of feoffment 

 of the manor to Roger and Robert de Hulton upon 

 condition that they should re-enfeoff him, as soon as 

 he should obtain pardon for the felony. 7 



This feoffment occasioned much litigation between 

 the Tyldesleys and Hultons, and between certain 

 of the Tyldesleys' free tenants and Thomas del 

 Bothe, whom the Hultons enfeoffed after 1341 for 

 the term of his life. 8 The Hultons maintained that 



the deed of 1341 was a grant in fee and repudiated 

 the conditions verbally made when they were put in 

 seisin of the manor. 9 The dispute was not ter- 

 minated until an appeal heard before the king in 

 1413, in which evidence of the original circum- 

 stances and of subsequent trials and judgements was 

 adduced on either side. 10 In 1 347 Hugh, natural 

 son of Henry de Tyldesley, made an unsuccessful 

 attempt to prove the legitimacy of his birth." Two 

 years before he had been successful in obtaining some 

 part of his father's estates, for having petitioned the 

 earl of Lancaster, his uncle's estates had been seized 

 and a portion granted to him and to his mother 

 Joan. 1 * 



Adam de Tyldesley died before 1350," and Henry 

 his son before 1352." Robert, youngest brother of 

 Adam, succeeded and held the manor for a brief 

 term. At his death without issue before 1353 

 Nicholas son of Adam, and Margery widow of 

 Robert, held the manor. John son of Nicholas pre- 

 deceased his father, at whose death without male 

 issue the manor passed under the limitations of a 

 settlement made by Robert de Tyldesley to Thurstan 

 son of Hugh, ancestor of Tyldesley of Garrett. In 

 1390 John son of Thurstan recovered the manor in a 

 trial at Lancaster " against Roger de Hulton, son of 

 Roger the feoffee of Adam de Tyldesley in 1341, 

 who had forcibly intruded into the same, 16 and John 

 Tyldesley, his son and heir, subsequently defeated an 

 appeal brought in the king's court in 1413 by Roger 

 Hulton, son of Roger the defendant in the trial of 

 1390, who sought to obtain a reversal of the judge- 

 ment obtained in that trial. 17 The dispute appears 

 to have reached a final stage in 1424, when John 

 Tyldesley and Roger Hulton of Hulton entered into 

 recognizances of 100 each to abide the award of 

 Geoffrey Shakerley and Henry Byrom respecting all 

 differences between them. 18 In 1468 John Tyl- 

 desley, senior, esquire, presumably son of the last- 

 named, conveyed by fine to a feoffee the manor of 

 Tyldesley and three messuages, 200 acres of land, 

 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 24 acres of 

 wood, and 20 acres of heath in Tyldesley, doubtless 

 for the purpose of making a settlement of his 

 estates. 19 The later descent of the manor follows that 

 of the estate of Garrett. 



Returning to the reputed manor which Adam son 

 of Adam de Tyldesley held by descent from his father 

 circa 1320-30, the said Adam the son in 1335 

 enfeoffed Robert de Chisenhale, parson of Chidding- 

 fold, county Surrey, of his estates to hold in trust for 



1 Lanes. Feet of F. (Rec. Soc., xix), 

 197. 



a Clowes D. Box 2, No. i. 



8 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, n. 13. 



4 Coram Rege R. 254, Rex, m. 50. 



5 Ibid. m. 60. In 1318 Hugh de Tyl- 

 desley had made a recognizance of a debt 

 of ^10 due to Margaret relict of Henry de 

 Worsley. Cal. Close R. 1318-23, p. 109. 



6 Cal. Close R. 1323-7, p. 415. For a 

 serious fray at Liverpool on St. Valen- 

 tine's Day, 1345, during the sessions and 

 in the presence of the justices in eyre, at 

 which several lives were lost, the follow- 

 ing members of this family were pardoned 

 upon condition of going in the king's ser- 

 vice to Gascony for one year at their own 

 charges, or paying a fine of 201. in lieu 

 thereof, viz. : Thurstan son of Robert, 

 Hugh .on of Henry, Thurstan son of 



Richard, Roger son of Richard, Henry 

 son of Henry, Henry son of Adam, Hugh 

 his brother, and John son of Hugh. Also 

 of Tyldesley Hurst the following : John 

 son of Henry, Hugh and Adam his bro- 

 thers, and Richard son of Henry. Cal. 

 Close R. 1346-9, PP. 4.8-5 > Cal. Pat. R. 

 >343~5 PP- 53- 2 > ibid - '345-8, pp. 122, 

 244, 476. 



'Assize R. 43;, m. ZgAj 1435, m. 

 j6</. The deed was dated on Friday next 

 after the Epiphany, 1341, and conveyed 

 the manor of Tyldesley, the mill with the 

 suit pertaining to it, and the free services 

 of Hugh Gregory, Robert de Leyland, 

 Henry de Byrom, Gilbert de Swenelegh 

 m Tyldeslegh, and Robert de Wilkes- 

 halgh in Tyldeslegh and Goukelache in 

 Astley, and the reversion of lands held by 

 Robert de Tyldeslegh, the grantor's bro- 



440 



ther, for term of his life. Coram Rege 

 R. 609, m. 29. 



8 Coram Rege R. 609, m. 29 ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. 3 (2), m. 6. 



Assize R. 435, m. 2 9 J. 



10 Coram Rege R. 609, m. 29. 



11 Lichfield Epis. Reg. iii, in. 



la Assize R. 1435, m. 36 d. The pre- 

 mises included 6 messuages, 2 mills and 

 310 acres of land, meadow, pasture and) 

 wood. Hugh seems to have died without 

 issue about 1350. 



i Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, (2), 



'"'ibid. R. 2(1), m. id. 

 15 Def. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. i, 360. 

 Coram Rege R. 609, m. 29. 

 V Ibid. No judgement is recorded. 

 18 Def. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 25. 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 3 3, m. 7 . 



