SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



the fortieth (later, the six- 

 teenth) part of a knight's fee 

 and a rent of 6s. %d. It 

 passed by marriage to the 

 Langleys of Agecroft, 29 and 

 then descended with Reddish 

 to the Cokes. 30 The name 

 Tetlow has long been dis- 

 used, but is preserved in Tet- 

 low Lane. 



KERS4L was in 1142 

 given to the priory of Len- 

 ton, 31 and a small cell called 



LBNTON PRIORY. 

 Quarterly or and azure a 

 Calvary cross ofthejirst 

 Jimbriated sable standing 

 on steps of the last. 



St. Leonard's was established there. 313 On the sup- 

 pression of monasteries it was in 1 540 sold by 

 Henry VIII to Baldwin Willoughby, 32 and some 

 eight years afterwards was sold to Ralph Kenyon, 

 apparently acting for himself and for James Chetham 

 and Richard Siddall. 33 



The Kenyon third descended in that family for 

 some time. 34 It included the cell or monastic build- 

 ings. The Siddall third 35 was alienated in 1616 to 

 William Lever of Darcy Lever, 36 and descended to 

 Rawsthorne Lever of Kersal, who died in 1689 

 without issue, 37 having bequeathed it to the Green- 

 halghs of Brandlesholme in Bury. 38 This part was 



Tetlow; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 314. 

 In 1 324 Adam de Tetlow held 10 acres 

 in Broughton, formerly held by Jordan de 

 Crompton, by homage and the service of 

 the sixteenth part of a knight's fee ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxxxi, fol. 3 7 A. It thus appears 

 that in Broughton as well as in Cromp- 

 ton Adam succeeded to the inheritance of 

 others. In 1346 Robert de Tetlow was 

 tenant, paying a rent of 6s. $d. ; Add. 

 MS. 32103, fol. 146^. 



29 See the account of Agecroft in Pen- 

 dlebury. Several Tetlow families are met 

 with in the Manchester and Rochdale 

 district. 



In 1346-55 Richard de Langley and 

 Joan his wife held the fortieth part of a 

 knight's fee in Crompton and Broughton, 

 formerly held by Adam de Tetlow of the 

 Earl of Ferrers ; Feud. Aids, iii, 91. In 

 1358 Richard son of Richard de Tetlow 

 laid claim to it, alleging that Joan wife 

 of Richard de Langley was a bastard. It 

 was, however, decided that Joan was the 

 lawful daughter of Jordan de Tetlow and 

 Alice his wife, which Jordan (brother of 

 Richard de Tetlow, father of the claimant) 

 had held Tetlow. The mother of Jordan 

 was named Anabil ; she survived her son ; 

 Assize R. 438, m. 4 d. 



The Langleys seem to have granted it 

 to the Strangeways family, who held it by 

 knight's service and the rent of 6s. Sd. ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 24, 50. 

 Afterwards it reverted to the Langleys, 

 and is named in their inquisitions, though 

 the tenure is variously described ; e.g. ibid, 

 ii, 145, where the estate is described as 

 eight messuages, 40 acres of land, 4 acres 

 of meadow, and 10 acres of pasture in 

 Tetlow in the vill of Broughton, held 

 of the king as duke by the fortieth part 

 of a knight's fee, and worth 4 marks 

 yearly. In the time of Henry VIII the 

 lands in Tetlow and Cheetham were said 

 to be held in socage by a rent of id., but 

 in 1562 the tenure was again described 

 as the fortieth part of a knight's fee ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, 7 ; xi, 16. 



Margaret wife of Roger Langley in 

 1445-6 held the sixteenth part of a fee in 

 Tetlow, the relief for which was 6s. $d. ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, 2/20. 



80 It is named in fines relating to the 

 share of John Reddish and his wife in 

 1567 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 28, 

 m. 279 ; 29, m. 126. Also in the in- 

 quisition after the death of Sarah Coke, 

 taken in 1630 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxvi, 53. It is included in fines 

 relating to the Cokes' estate in 1667 and 

 1685 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 179, 

 m. 92 ; 217, m. 20. 



81 Lanes. Pipe R. 326. The grant of 

 the ' hermitage of Kersal ' was confirmed 

 by Henry II about thirty years later ; 

 ibid. 327. 



The ' wood (boscus) of Kersal ' was in- 



cluded in the grant of Broughton to lor- 

 werth de Hulton as above described. 



Some notes on the priory are given in 

 Lanes, and Chet. Antiq. Soc. i, 39. 



81a V.C.H. Lanes, ii, 113. 



82 Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. 8 ; the price 

 mentioned is ^155 6s. $d. 



A settlement was in 1543 made by 

 Baldwin Willoughby and Joan his wife of 

 the manor and cell called Kersal, with 

 twenty messuages, a water-mill, 1,000 

 acres of land, &c., and 201. rent ; the 

 remainder was to Ralph Sacheverell and 

 Philippa his wife, and the heirs of 

 Philippa ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 12, m. 103. From a later fine it appears 

 that Philippa was Baldwin's daughter and 

 heir. Another fine was made in 1 548 ; 

 ibid. bdle. 13, m. 166. In the following 

 September Ralph Kenyon purchased the 

 whole ; ibid. bdle. 13, m. 152. 



83 As soon as Kenyon had purchased 

 Kersal he transferred one-third to James 

 Chetham of Crumpsall and another third 

 to Richard Siddall of Withington ; inden- 

 ture of i o Sept. 1548, among the Chet- 

 ham Papers. Each paid Kenyon ,132. 

 From this deed it appears that parts of 

 the land had been sold to Richard Rad- 

 cliffe of Langley and Robert Ravald of 

 Kersal. 



84 The king in November 1548 

 granted to Sir John Byron the custody 

 of a third part of the third part of the 

 manor of Kersal, 6 acres in Manchester, 

 and 141. 4</. rent in Ashton, the estate of 

 Ralph Kenyon deceased, whose son and 

 heir George was a minor ; George's 

 wardship and marriage were included ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xxiii, 60 d. 

 A settlement of messuages and lands in 

 Kersal with a third part of the mill, and 

 41. 9</. rent in Oaken shaw, was made by 

 George Kenyon in 1581; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 53, m. 151. George 

 Kenyon and Robert Ravald were in 1582 

 charged by Ralph Byrom and Adam Pilk- 

 ington with depriving the queen's tenants 

 of Salford of their common pasture in 

 Kersal Wood, stated to be loo acres ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 270, m. 12, I2d. 



George Kenyon died in 1613 holding 

 a third part of the manor or cell of Ker- 

 sal, a third of the mill and wood, and 

 various messuages and lands ; George his 

 son and heir was thirty years of age ; 

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

 Ches.), i, 234. A settlement had been 

 made in 1590 by the father in favour of 

 George the son and Ellen his wife, 

 daughter of Richard Whitworth, with 

 remainders to Ralph younger son of 

 George ; to Hugh brother of George the 

 elder, and his son Ralph ; Earwaker 

 MSS. The Smethurst fields and Brad- 

 shaw meadow are named. 



In 1623 George Kenyon sold the 

 middle Michael meadow and a lane from 



219 



Madgewell to the Moorgate to William 

 Lever of Kersal; ibid. In 1624 he 

 made a settlement on the marriage of 

 George his son and heir apparent with 

 Katharine daughter of John Trevett of 

 Middlewich, mercer ; ibid. Of these 

 Georges the elder died between 1659 and 

 1664 ; the younger in the latter year 

 made a conveyance of his capital mes- 

 suage and lands, &c., in Kersal and Auden- 

 shaw to Leonard Egerton of Shaw and 

 John Ashton of Shepley ; Thomas Ken- 

 yon, his son, joined in the conveyance ; 

 ibid. Thomas Kenyon of Kersal had in 

 1692 a lease of a cottage there for the 

 lives of himself, Jane his wife, and Anne 

 his daughter, Edward Byrom being the 

 grantor ; ibid. The lease was surrendered 

 in 1709. 



84 Richard Siddall died in 1558, leaving 

 a son and heir Edward, who purchased 

 Slade Hall in Rusholme, where a fuller 

 account of the family will be found ; 

 Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. i, 42. Edward 

 Siddall died in 1588 holding a third part 

 of Kersal Manor and wood, with various 

 lands and houses there, his son George 

 being the heir ; it was held of the queen 

 by the twelfth part of a knight's fee ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, 32. 



86 Booker, Birch Chapel (Chet. Soc.), 

 132 ; the details given show that the mill 

 was then occupied by Richard Holland. 

 George Siddall had in 1613 sold part of 

 his land to George Kenyon ; ibid. From 

 one of the Clowes deeds it appears that 

 in 1618 James Chetham and George 

 Kenyon leased their part of Kersal mill 

 to Richard Holland of Denton ; a new 

 mill was to be built. William Lever of 

 Darcy Lever in 1616-17 granted a close 

 lately owned by George Siddall to James 

 Chetham. 



7 The family recorded a pedigree in 

 1664; Dugdale, Visit. 185, 186. Another 

 pedigree in the Piccope MS. Pedigrees 

 (Chet. Lib.), i, 351, states that William 

 Lever, who married a daughter of George 

 Kenyon of Kersal, died in 1646, and was 

 succeeded by a son William, who died in 

 1 66 1, leaving as his heir his son Raws- 

 thorne Lever. Rawsthorne married Alice, 

 daughter of Edward Chetham of Smedley, 

 but died without issue 18 Oct. 1689 ; by 

 his will he gave all his messuages, lands, 

 &c. in Kersal to trustees, until Henry 

 son of Thomas Greenhalgh of Brandles- 

 holme should pay 300, on which Henry 

 was to have the estate. The money was 

 paid in Dec. 1689 ; Piccope's notes and 

 Manch. Free Lib. D. no. 52. 



88 In 1697 James Chetham of Turton, 

 Henry Greenhalgh of Brandlesholme, and 

 Edward Byrom of Manchester 'seised 

 as tenants in common ' of the land called 

 Kersal Wood 'and now or late called 

 Kersal Moor,' about 100 acres in extent, 

 made an agreement preparatory to a 



