SALFORD HUNDRED 



of Hopwood, and derived from them the distinguish- 

 ing name of Hopwood Clayden. 1343 The district was 

 sometimes considered as partly in Newton. 135 The name 

 is perhaps preserved in Gleden Street, Holt Town. 



Grants by Albert Grelley to Robert de Brace- 

 bridge 1I6 and by Robert Grelley to Ace the clerk are 

 on record. 137 



The origin of the name Gaythorn is obscure. The 

 place seems to have been owned formerly by the 

 Chethams. 138 



COLLTHURST was part of the waste. 139 The 



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townsmen had various rights of pasturage there, 140 and 

 when the Mosleys acquired the lordship took care to 

 assert them, Rowland Mosley, the son of Sir Nicholas, 

 compounding the disputes by a payment of 10 a 

 year to the poor of Manchester, 141 payment being 

 made till a century ago. 14 * Francis Mosley, a younger 

 son of Anthony of Ancoats, was settled on an estate 

 at Collyhurst, 143 which descended on his death in 

 1662 to his granddaughter Anne, daughter of his son 

 Nicholas, who died in i6$<). lt4 Both Nicholas and 

 his father had had their estates sequestered for their 



and Margaret, nine ; ibid, xv, no. 28. A 

 few further details are given in the Ct. 

 Leet Rec. ii, 59, 246, 290 ; from these it 

 appears that Margaret Clayden married 

 Thomas Holcroft and her share was in 

 1609 sold to Lawrence Langley. 



The whole or a large part of Clayden 

 was about 1640 in the possession of the 

 Mosleys of Ancoats ; Great Clayden and 

 Shipponley had been bought of Mr. Char- 

 nock ; Kilnebank, Green Lee, Copley, 

 Blew Field, and Coal Pit Field were other 

 field names; Axon,Mosly Mem. 34, 39, 

 &c. It was held by a rent of 31. 6d. with 

 is. 6d. more for the portion formerly 

 Charnock's ; ibid. 35. Combined these 

 rents amount to 5*., the ancient rent paid 

 by the Clayden family. 



iS4a Thomas de Hopwood in 1320 held 

 the place of a kiln (corellus) in Clayden at 

 \d. rent; Mamecestre, ii, 279. In 1331 

 John son of Henry de Hulton granted to 

 Adam son of Thomas de Hopwood all his 

 lands in the hamlet of Ancoats, held by 

 demise of Adam son of Robert de Rad- 

 clifFe ; they had belonged to Robert de 

 Gotherswick and Hugh his brother ; De 

 Banco R. 290, m. I d. 



Thomas Beck in 1546 made a settle- 

 ment of messuages in Manchester, Mons- 

 halgh, Salford, and Newton, in favour of 

 his son Robert ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 12, m. 219, 265. Robert purchased 

 the Hopwoods' estate in Manchester, 

 Clayden, and Newton in 1549 ; ibid. bdle. 

 13, m. 29. He died about the end of 

 1556, leaving a son and heir Thomas, 

 who came of age in 1574; Ct. Leet Rec. 

 i, 32, 1 68 ; Piccope, W"ills t i, 184. 

 ( Thomas Beck of Hopwood Clayden was 

 in 1588 succeeded by his son Randle ; 

 and the latter in 1599 by his brother 

 Robert, then fifteen years of age. The 

 estate included burgages in Manchester 

 (Broadlache, Marketstead Lane, and 

 Deansgate) and in Salford ; see the in- 

 quisitions in Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xiv, 19; Jtvii, 8 ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. 

 ii, 147, 217. In the Chetham Library 

 are deeds by Robert Beck of Hopwood 

 Clayden dated 1626 and 1636 ; the latter 

 is a grant to Thomas Beck, his son and 

 heir apparent. 



A pedigree was recorded in 1 664 (Dug- 

 dale, Vhit. 29) stating that Robert Beck 

 and Thomas his son, both ' of Hopwood 

 Clayden,' died in 1 644 ; the latter was 

 succeeded by his son Thomas, aged thirty- 

 four in 1664, who had a son John, aged 

 twelve, and other children. Thomas 

 Beck died in 1678, and his son and heir 

 at once sold or mortgaged Hopwood Clay- 

 den and other lands to Thomas Min- 

 shull ; Ct. Leet Rec. vi, 65, and deeds 

 quoted in the note. William Beck, a 

 brother of John, sold lands in 1684 ; ibid, 

 vi, 214. 



The Becks' land in Hopwood Clayden 

 was held by Nicholas Mosley of Ancoats 

 in 1665 ; Axon, Motley Mem. $3. 



The Hopwood family retained an es- 

 tate in Manchester ; see Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 206, 

 207. 



185 John son of Richard de Legh, of 

 West Hall in High Legh, as heir of John 

 son of Robert Massey of Sale, in 1426 

 granted to Elizabeth daughter and heir 

 of Richard (son of Robert) de Moston, 

 all his lands in the vill of Newton, 

 viz. that place called Clayden ; West 

 Hall D. 



186 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 56 ; it 

 was a grant of two oxgangs of the demesne 

 at a rent of 41. yearly. (Sir) Geoffrey de 

 Bracebridge's name frequently occurs as a 

 witness to 13th-century charters. It is 

 probable that Elayn field and Dogfield, 

 held by Robert Grelley in 1320 by the 

 same rent, constituted that estate ; Mamc- 

 cestre, ii, 279 ; see Ct. of Wards and 

 Liveries, box 1 3 A/FD 36. Robert Grelley 

 also held Gatecoterfield by a rent of zs. ; 

 ibid. All three as ' Eleynfield, Dogfield, 

 and Gatcotefield in the vill of Manchester ' 

 were granted by John Grelley (the son of 

 Robert) to Sir Henry de Trafford in 1359; 

 De Trafford D. no. 15. The grant was 

 confirmed ten years later ; ibid. no. 18,19. 

 As already stated they became part of the 

 Garrett estate. 



In 1564 Thomas Nowell, who married 

 Alice daughter of George Trafford of 

 Garrett and co-heir of her brother Ralph, 

 held ' Dugfildes and Claredenfeld,' owing 

 41. rent, and for Gatecotefilde 21., and 

 Gilbert Gerard (by purchase from the 

 Traffords), Yelandfildes, owing 21. ; Ct. 

 Leet Rec. i, 44, 86, and notes ; see also i, 

 109, where Gerard's land is called Gladen 

 fields alias Claredenfieldes, and mention 

 is made of Gatte couts fields and Dodge 

 meadows. 



U 7 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 59 ; this 

 was * a land,' for which 3*. rent was pay- 

 able. No such rent appears in the survey 

 of 1320, so that the land had escheated 

 to the lord, or had been divided among 

 several heirs. The following rents may 

 be mentioned : John de Beswick for 

 Borid-riding, i8</. ; Henry Boterinde for 

 Ben-riding, i8</. ; Henry Boterinde and 

 Robert Rudde for Ashley, i %d. ; Mame- 

 cestre, ii, 277-9. 



188 Mr. H. T. Crofton says : This is 

 not, so far as I know, an ascertained 

 ancient district, like Garrett. I believe 

 it took its name from a former owner or 

 occupier. On Green's map, 1787, works 

 of some sort occupy the spot, bridging 

 over the River Tib, which is formed into 

 a dam above for water power, and ' Messrs. 

 Cheetham ' were named as the owners, 

 but I cannot name the occupier, as Gay- 

 thorn is not mentioned in Raffald's Dir. 

 1772. Part of the same works were on 

 the banks of the adjacent Medlock, and 

 lines drawn on Green's map are apparently 

 tenters for bleachworks. No whitster is 

 named for Gaythorn or Knott Mill (which 



241 



is close by) in the whitster list, and 

 'Robert Kitchen (will proved 1776) fus- 

 tian dyer, Knott mill,' is the only likely 

 one I can find in the Dir. The map 

 calls it 'Gaythorn,' and 'Gaythorn St.' 

 led to it from Alport Lane (Deans- 

 gate), while ' Gaythorn Row ' was at the 

 Alport Lane end of Gaythorn Street, 

 as if the whole intervening area was 

 once known as ' Gaythorn.' The family 

 usually spelt their name Gathorne (see 

 Manch. Ct. Leet Rec.). Feasington Wood 

 skirted the Medlock somewhere about 

 Gaythorn, ' between Knott mill and Gar- 

 rett.' 



Shootersbrook, as the name of a dwell- 

 ing or estate, occurs in 1564; Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 280. 



189 In 1322 the 80 acres of land in 

 Collyhurst were valued at z6s. %d. a year, 

 but had been leased to Sir Roger de Pil- 

 kington and his son for life at 4 rent j 

 Mamecestre, ii, 363. A moiety of Colly- 

 hurst was in 1361 given to William (son 

 of Thurstan) de Holland and Otes his son ; 

 Dods. in Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 

 136. 



140 The Manchester jury in 1554 

 ordered that the townsmen's swine should 

 be sent to ' a common called Collyhurst ' 

 in charge of a swineherd ; Ct. Leet Rec. i, 

 15, 144. Persons who did not dwell in 

 the town were in 1561 ordered to take 

 their cattle from Collyhurst unless they 

 could prove a right of pasturage ; ibid, i, 

 63. Encroachments were noticed ; ibid. 

 i, 26, 117. 



141 A protest against encroachments 

 was made in 1602 ; it was stated that the 

 burgesses had free common of pasture 

 there ' without stint or number ; ' ibid, ii, 

 179. 



The final settlement was made in 161 6, 

 confirmed by a decree of the Duchy Court 

 on 12 Feb. 1616-17. This states that 

 Sir Nicholas Mosley had inclosed part of 

 the waste, and that some 50 acres re- 

 mained, which Rowland his son wished 

 to inclose. In return for the consent 

 of the burgesses and others he agreed 

 to allow them to erect cottages and 

 cabins for the shelter of infected persons 

 in times of plague ; also the annual rent 

 of 10 for the use of the poor ; ibid, 

 ii, 328-32. There are frequent no- 

 tices of the 'Collyhurst money' in the 

 Records. 



143 It was included in the borough reeve's 

 charities in 1792, and apparently in 1825; 

 Baines, Lanes. Dir. ii, 145-6. 



148 Anthony Mosley had purchased land 

 in or near Collyhurst in 1577 ; Ct. Leet 

 Rec. i, 182. His son Francis in 1610 

 bought a messuage and lands ' near adjoin- 

 ing unto Collyhurst ' from his elder brother 

 Oswald ; ibid, ii, 257. Part of Collyhurst 

 was held on lease ; E. Axon, Mosley Mem. 



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144 Mosley, Fam. Mem. 23 ; Piccope 

 MS. Pedigrees (Chet. Lib.), i, 182. 



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