SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



1613" and 1 664, 52 and Davenport, 1 66.J.. 53 Richard 

 Pennington and Nicholas Hewett were ordered to 

 attend the last visitation. 53 * 



Other land-holders are recorded in the inquisitions ** 

 and court leet records ; 55 many Manchester people 

 also held land in Salford, 56 as did several of the sur- 



tlie surname Booth ; dying unmarried in 

 1788, he was succeeded by his elder bro- 

 ther, who also assumed the surname of 

 Booth and became ancestor of the pre- 

 sent Gore-Booth family i Booker, op. 

 cit. 26. 



Robert Booth of Salford in 1726, as 

 heir-at-law and devisee of his brother Hum- 

 phrey Booth, which Humphrey was eldest 

 son and heir of Robert Booth, made a 

 lease of a dye-house, &c. ; Mr. Earwaker's 

 notes. 



51 Visit. 35. Some account of this 

 family, with inquisitions, will be found 

 under Kersal in Broughton. The follow- 

 ing fines refer to them : George Byrom 

 in 1 547 acquired eight burgages, &c., from 

 Gabriel Gibbons and Katherine his wife ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle 13, m. 300. 

 Adam Byrom in 1552 purchased three 

 messuages, &c., from John (? Richard) 

 Gibbonson ; ibid. bdle. 14, m. 1 1 5. George 

 Byrom in 1557 purchased some land from 

 Ralph Radcliffe ; ibid. bdle. 17, m. 65. 

 Shortly afterwards Henry Byrom acquired 

 three messuages, &c., from George Byrom 

 and Margaret his wife ; ibid. bdle. 17, m. 

 1 06. In the following year Adam Byrom 

 purchased ten messuages, Sec., from Joan 

 Brereton, widow, and Geoffrey her son ; 

 George Byrom purchased messuages in 

 Salford, Manchester, Barton, and Hulme, 

 from Ralph Brown and Jane his wife, 

 Adam Holland and Ellen his wife ; and 

 Henry Byrom acquired land from Ralph 

 Radcliffe ; ibid. bdle. 19, m. 58, 80, 89. 

 Aiam Byrom, in 1559 purchased a mes- 

 suage, &c., from Richard Gibbonson, 

 Lawrence Ward, and Isabel his wife ; ibid, 

 bdle. 21, m. 102. Two years later he ob- 

 tained another messuage from Thurstan 

 Tyldesley ; ibid. bdle. 23, m. 173. Later 

 fines refer to the estate of Lawrence By- 

 rom and Mary his wife ; ibid. bdle. 49, 

 m. 107 ; 50, m. 198 ; 53, m. 268 ; 56, 

 m. III. 



From a subsequent note it will be seen 

 that Adam Byrom's house was known as 

 Salford Hall. It stood in Serjeant Street, 

 now Chapel Street, between the old bridge 

 and the chapel, but on the river side. The 

 , mill was probably near it. Note by Mr. 

 H. T. Crofton. 



Deeds in the possession of W. Farrer 

 show that James son and heir of Robert 

 Walker (afterwards called 'of Withing- 

 ton ') in 1536 leased his burgage in Sal- 

 ford to Ralph Brown, and sold it in I 545 ; 

 in 1554 the purchaser sold to George By- 

 rom, and the fine of 1557 confirmed the 

 transfer. 



The Worsley family long held lands in 

 Salford. In 1343 Henry de Worsley 

 leased to Robert the Miller ij roods upon 

 Sandy well, a rood in the Whitacre, i 

 acres on Ollerschagh and on Kolleschot, 

 and 3 roods in the Middlefield between 

 lands of John de Prestwich and Richard de 

 Pilkington, chaplain, deceased, at a rent 

 of 6s. ; Earl of Ellesmere's D. no. 118. 

 Joan Brereton, widow, of Worsley, was 

 found in 1511 to have held six burgages, 

 23 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow in 

 Salford of the king as of his duchy by the 

 service of i$d. ; Lanes. Tenures (Towne- 

 ley) MS., fol. 28*. 



sa Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 68. 



53 Ibid. 96. Edward Davenport, bache- 

 lor of physic, a grandson of Sir William 

 Davenport of Bramhall, was ' of Salford,' 



in right of his second wife Mary, a daughter 

 of Humphrey Booth. 



Ma Ibid. v. 



M William son of Walter de Salford gave 

 a messuage in Salford (held of the king by 

 a rent of i zd.) to his sister Agnes. She 

 married one Roger Dikeson of Manchester, 

 and had a daughter Emma, wife of Robert 

 Bibby, whose son John Bibby claimed in 

 1393-4. Roger Dikeson, however, gave 

 the messuage to Stephen the Cook and 

 Joan his wife and Emma their daughter 

 (died s.p.) ; Joan as widow transferred it 

 to William de Radcliffe, the occupier 

 under him being Ellis del Helde, in or 

 before 1359. Ellis was outlawed for tres- 

 pass, but his bastard son Henry obtained 

 possession and held it in 1393-4 ; Towne- 

 ley MS. DD. no. 1452. 



Possibly it was this messuage which was 

 in 1338 the property of William son of 

 Thomas de Salford, and in 1455 as 'Sal- 

 ford hall' that of Edmund Radcliffe and 

 Elizabeth his wife, it being then settled 

 on their daughters Cecily and Ellen for 

 life, with remainder to their son Ralph ; 

 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxiv, 13, 22. 

 In 1 540 Andrew Barton of Smithills and 

 Agnes his wife sold Salford Hall to Adam 

 Byrom ; ibid. 35. Robert Barton of 

 Smithills died in 1580, holding messuages, 

 &c., in Salford ; the tenure is not stated ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, 24. 



In 1420 a messuage, &c., in Salford 

 was granted to Thomas son of William 

 Massey of Salford and Beatrice his wife, 

 with reversion to William the father and 

 Joan his wife ; Had. MS. 2077, fol. zi6g. 

 Adam Massey died in 1559, leaving a 

 sister and heir Isabel about sixteen years 

 of age, who paid relief ; Ct. R. Another 

 Adam Massey held four burgages, &c., of 

 the king in socage by a rent of 1 7*. id. ; he 

 died in 1604, leaving as heir his grandson 

 John Olive, son of Joan daughter of Adam ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 29. John Olive (printed Clive) 

 died in 1620, holding the same estate and 

 leaving a widow Margaret and an infant 

 son Roger ; ibid, ii, 243. Roger died 

 without issue in December 1640, his uncle 

 Rayner Olive being the heir, and fifty years 

 of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, 

 60. A settlement of 1599 made by Adam 

 Massey, 'late of Oldfield," is recited in 

 the inquisition. 



The Pilkington family was of old stand- 

 ing in Manchester and Salford. Some in- 

 cidental references to it have been made 

 in preceding notes. In 1533-4 Adam son 

 of Nicholas Pilkington of Manchester 

 complained that Thomas Langford of 

 Didsbury, Elizabeth his wife, and Mar- 

 garet widow of Richard Hunt the younger, 

 had taken possession of fourteen messuages 

 and 60 acres of land in the towns and 

 fields of Salford and Manchester. From 

 his statement it appeared that one Nicho- 

 las Pilkington had settled the property on 

 his son Richard, with remainder to another 

 son Thomas, and that Richard's son Ed- 

 mund having died without male issue, 

 Adam succeeded as son of Nicholas son of 

 Thomas, son of Nicholas ; Duchy Plead. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 28. It was 

 probably a later Adam Pilkington of Salford 

 who occurs frequently in the Manch. 

 Ct. Leet Rec. ; he, with Margaret his 

 wife, made a settlement of five messuages, 

 &c., in Salford and Manchester in 1574 ; 



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Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 36, m. 212. 

 Adam died in 1596, leaving a son and heir 

 Adam, of full age, and younger son* 

 William, Thomas, and Edward ; in Man- 

 chester he had held half a burgage in Shude- 

 hill and a burgage, &c. in Millgate ; Ct. 

 Leet Rec. ii, 114-15 ; an abstract of hi* 

 will is given in the note. The younger 

 Adam died in 1605, holding ten messuages 

 or burgages, with 10 acres of land, &c., 

 the Pinfold, land called Oatfield and 

 Checkers (improved from the waste), and 

 ' the Island ' by the Irwell, in Salford, also 

 a burgage and garden in Manchester. The 

 Salford lands were held of the king the 

 burgages, &c., in socage by ijs. rent, the 

 Oatfield and Checkers by the hundredth 

 part of a knight's fee, and the Island by 

 knight's service and 6s. %d. rent. Adam, 

 the son and heir, was eight years of age ; 

 ibid, ii, 214 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc.), i, 64. In 1638 Adam Pilkington 

 of Salford the elder, and Adam his son 

 joined in selling messuages and tanpits 

 near the Millgate in Manchester, to Law- 

 rence Owen ; Mancb. Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 

 281. 



The Pendletons were another old family. 

 In 1536 Adam (son of William) Pendle- 

 ton, Ellen his wife, and Hamon Bibbjr 

 were holders of three messuages, &c., in 

 Salford ; Raines, Byrom Fed. (Chet. Soc.), 

 19 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 1 1, m. 

 47. ' Robert Pendleton sold parcels of land 

 in Salford in 1566 and 1571 ; ibid, bdles. 

 28,m.239; 33, m. 167. He, with Isabel 

 his wife and George his son, concurred in 

 the sale of an acre of pasture to Edmund 

 Goldsmith in 1 5 74 ; ibid. bdle. 3 6, m. 1 8 8. 

 A Robert Pendleton died at Salford in 

 1641 holding three burgages of the king 

 in socage and free burgage as of the manor 

 of Salford ; also 4 acres in Pendleton. His 

 heir was his daughter Margaret, wife of 

 William Rodley, and twenty-three years 

 of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, 

 52. Other Pendleton and Rodley orRad- 

 ley families are noticed under Manchester. 

 In Salford Robert Rodley in 1595 pur- 

 chased a messuage from John Rodley and 

 Emma his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 57, m. 14. 



K These records show the succession to 

 burgages and lands ; for instance, that of 

 Sept. 1599, names Radcliffe, Strangeways, 

 Cook, Byrom, and Partington. The juries 

 also show the names of the principal in- 

 habitants ; the list for 1559 is as fol- 

 lows : Sir William Radcliffe, Richard 

 Hunt, and Adam Pilkington, gentlemen, 

 Gilbert Bibby, Adam Byrom, George 

 Proudlove, Robert Pendleton, Thoma* 

 Bolton, James Siddall, Thomas Ainsworth, 

 Ralph Partington, Thomas Sorocold, 

 Peter Seddon, and Thomas Hunt. 



56 For instance, the Gees, Hunts, Bibbys, 

 and many others. 



In 1295 Henry son of William son of 

 Simon de Manchester claimed a messuage 

 in Salford against Agnes widow of Adam 

 the Fidler ; De Banco R. 109, m. 38. 

 About 1560 the Bibbys were concerned 

 in the Chequers, Salford, and land called 

 Bowbrook Head ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), ii, 231, 238, 2565 see also iii, 

 213, 235. William Dowson in 1596 

 purchased a messuage from Edward Bibby 

 and Elizabeth widow of Gilbert Bibby ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 59, m. 

 74- 



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