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himself for life, with successive remainders to his sons, 

 Nicholas and Ralph, in tail male. 1 In 1353 Nicholas 

 son of Adam, having no surviving male issue, settled 

 the reversion of these estates upon his kinsman 

 Thurstan son of Richard de Tyldesley, 2 of Wardley, 

 who soon after 1331 and at a tender age had been 

 married to Margaret daughter and heir of Jordan de 

 Worsley, of Wardley, in the adjoining township of 

 Worsley, by which marriage the estate of Wardley 

 and other lands passed into the possession of this 

 branch of the Tyldesley family. 3 Thurstan Tyldesley 

 died circa 1375 seised of the Hurst, which had 

 descended to him from his grandfather, Henry de 

 Tyldesley of Hurst ; the Park, which had been given 

 to the same Henry in 1347 by Robert son of Adam 

 de Hulton ; 4 and the Spen. 5 In 1410 Thomas 

 Tyldesley, Serjeant at law to Henry IV and son and 

 heir of Thurstan, died possessed of these tenements, 

 together with the reputed manor called Nicholas's 

 manor, and having no issue was succeeded by his 

 brother Hugh, then aged forty. 6 Hugh died in 

 1 434, 7 Thurstan being his son and heir.* 1 Thomas 

 Tyldesley, 9 believed to be son of John 10 and grandson 

 of Thurstan, died in 1495 seised of the reputed 

 manor of Tyldesley, 11 and was father of Thurstan, 

 who held the manor of Sir Thomas Butler, knt., 

 in 1506," receiver-general of the Isle of Man in 

 1532, and M.P. for county Lancaster 1 5 47-5 2. 13 

 He died 4 July, 1554." 



His grandson Thurstan in 1563 mortgaged his 

 estates in Tyldesley, Astley, Worsley and elsewhere to 

 Edward Jackman and others for ^l,2OO. ls On his 

 failure to make repayment within the specified term 

 of twelve months, the mortgagees foreclosed and in 

 I 566 joined with Thurstan in a sale of the manors of 

 Tyldesley and Astley to Robert Worsley of Mossley 

 and Christopher Anderton of Lostock. 16 In 1572 a 

 partition of the estates was made between Worsley 

 and Anderton under which the latter took this manor 

 and 17 messuages, 280 acres of arable land, a water- 

 mill, 19;. \o\J. of chief rents, and a moiety of 

 40 acres of moor or moss as his share. 17 In 1633 

 Christopher Anderton of Lostock, grandson of the 

 last, sold the manor and other lands to Francis 



LEIGH 



Sherington of London, merchant, and of Booths 

 Hall in Worsley, esq., 18 whose estates here and 

 in Worsley were sequestrated in 1645 by order 

 of Parliament, 19 his wife Awdrey receiving an 

 allowance of one-fifth of the profits. 80 In 1677 

 Sherington entailed the manor on his eldest son, 

 Bennet, with successive remainders to his younger 

 sons, Gilbert and Francis. In 1690 the last-named, 

 who had succeeded his father in 1684, sold the manor 

 and lands here to Alexander Radcliffe of Leigh, esq., 

 John Parr and Peter Parr, his brother, of Westleigh, 

 gents., Radcliffe taking one half and the Parrs the 

 other half of the manor and lands, 81 which with the 

 coal mines they continued to hold in common until a 

 partition was made in 1711. In 1721 Helena 

 Radcliffe, mother and devisee of Alexander Radcliffe, 

 grandson of the above Alexander, for the considera- 

 tion of 2,500 n conveyed one moiety of the manor 

 to Samuel Clowes of Manchester, merchant, who 

 purchased a fourth part in 1723 from the trustees 

 and executors of John Parr the elder in con- 

 sideration of i,300, 83 and an eighth part of the 

 manor and other lands in 1727 from the devisees of 

 John Parr the younger, son of the above Peter Parr," 

 in consideration of 685. Lastly, in 1752, his son 

 Samuel purchased the remaining eighth part from 

 Peter Green of Westleigh, gent., son and heir of 

 Edward Green, by his wife Anne, sister and coheir 

 of the said John Parr the younger, in consideration 

 of 800." By this transaction the second Samuel 

 Clowes became possessed of the whole manor. A 

 settlement made by Samuel (III) his son in 1 774, upon 

 the marriage of his son Samuel (IV) to Martha 

 daughter of John Tipping of Manchester, merchant, 

 describes his estates here as including ' the manor.' 

 In 1 8 10 Samuel Clowes, then of Sprotboro' Hall, 

 co. York, son of Samuel IV, sold the manor with 

 lands here and in Worsley to Robert Haldane Brad- 

 shaw, of Worsley Hall, for the sum of 4.7,000* 



Mr. Bradshaw was the first superintendent of the 

 Bridgewater estates, and as such a trustee of the will of 

 the late duke of Bridgewater from the duke's death in 

 1803 until he resigned his office in 1834. He 

 acquired a large number of properties adjacent to the 



