A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Langley, and William Barlow. 169 A pedigree of 

 'Ridge of Manchester' was recorded in i66$. m 



The local surname was in use in the I3th and 

 1 4-th centuries, but no connected history can be given 

 of the family or families using it. 171 



The parish church has been described already and 

 its history related. No other church for the Estab- 

 lished worship was erected in the township till the 

 beginning of the 1 8th century. In 1708 an Act was 



obtained for building a new church ; in this was 

 erected on a portion of Acres Field, and the Act pro- 

 vided for the continuance of the fair on part of the 

 ground, while allowing the remainder of the land to 

 be built upon. The rector's income was to be de- 

 rived from pew-rents, and though baptisms, marriages, 

 and burials were allowed, the fees and the registration 

 pertained to the old church. 173 The Bishop of Chester 

 was to appoint the incumbent ; the patronage is now 



lord of the manor ; he left two young 

 daughters as co-heirs; ibid, i, 1 1 2. He 

 had purchased the lands of Henry Ains- 

 worth and John (son of Ralph) Sorocold 

 in 1602 ; Ct. Lett Rec. ii, 177, 84, 239. 

 Alice Edge, one of the daughters, in 1620 

 sold a moiety of a messuage ' at the end 

 of Salford bridge' to Edward Chetham ; 

 ibid, iii, 29. 



Robert Hulton, 'whittawer,' died in 

 1621 holding a messuage, &c., in Man- 

 chester of Edward Mosley by a rent of 

 t)d. ; the heir was his grandson, George, 

 son of George Hulton, twelve years of 

 age ; Land. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), ii, 244, 

 where the settlement made by Robert 

 Hulton's will is given ; Ct. Lett Rec. iii, 

 48. 



William Newsome died in 1621, hold- 

 ing a messuage of Edward Mosley ; Wil- 

 liam, his son and heir, was thirty years 

 of age; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. 

 Lib.), 914; Ct. Lett Rec. iii, 52. The 

 younger William's executors in 1652 sold 

 lands to Mrs. Elizabeth Lomax ; ibid. 

 iv, 74. 



Jasper Fox died in 1623 holding bur- 

 gages, &c., in Marketstead and Deans- 

 gate of the king ; his son and heir 

 Richard was seven years old ; Towneley 

 MS. C, 8, 13, p. 427. Jasper was the son 

 of Richard Fox, who died in 1622 (and 

 who was the son of another Richard Fox, 

 who died in 1587 ; Ct. Lett Rec. ii, 12), 

 holding lands in Deansgate and (Old) 

 Millgate purchased from Shallcross and 

 Byrom ; ibid, iii, 51, where his will is 

 given. The family appear to have taken 

 an active part in the town's affairs. 

 Richard, the son of Jasper, came of age 

 in 1637 ; ibid, iii, 251. He died in or 

 before 1655, leaving two sons, Richard 

 and James ; ibid, iv, 240 ; his will is 

 printed in the note. 



Stephen Rodley or Radley, who had an 

 estate in Nottingham, held burgages, &c., 

 in Manchester at his death in 1630, as 

 follows : One in Marketstead, bought of 

 Francis Pendleton ; others in Hanging 

 Ditch, Rawlinson's Croft, Withy Grove, 

 and Shudehill Lane ; also four messuages 

 in Blackley ; William, his son and heir, 

 was twelve years old ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 

 13, p. 1002. The surname frequently 

 occurs in the Ct. Leet Rec. from 1552 on- 

 wards, and in 1604 it was reported that 

 one Robert Rodley had died, and that his 

 grandson Robert was his heir and of full 

 age ; ibid, ii, 198. Stephen Rodley is 

 first named in 1613, when he was ap- 

 pointed a constable ; ibid, ii, 281. Wil- 

 liam his son came of age in 1639 ; ibid, 

 iii, 285, and see the note. Robert Rodley 

 was of Collyhurst in 1619; Hist, of Neiv- 

 ton Chaptlry (Chet. Soc.), ii, 76 ; Manch. 

 Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 18 ; also in 1623 ; 

 Newton, ii, 278. 



Henry Johnson of Manchester, mercer, 

 held burgages and shops near the Smithy 

 Door, &c., of Edward Mosley by izd. 

 rent, and died in 1637, leaving a son and 

 heir Thomas, sixteen years of age ; Duchy 



of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, 24. Thomas 

 probably died before coming of age, as 

 another son, John, entered into possession 

 in 1653 ; Ct. Leet Rec. iv, 104, where 

 there is an abstract of the father's will. 



William Buckley died in 1638, holding 

 a messuage ; his son William was only a 

 year old ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13, p. 59 ; 

 Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 287, where is given a 

 summary of the will of William Buckley, 

 draper. 



William Butler, yeoman, held nine 

 messuages, &c., of the king ; his own 

 house was in St. Mary Gate. He died in 

 1639, leaving four daughters as co-heirs 

 Margaret wife of Roger Finch the 

 younger of Chorley ; Mary, Anne, and 

 Elizabeth of whom the last was nine 

 years of age, and the others over twenty- 

 one ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13, p. 66 ; Ct. 

 Leet Rec. iii, 329, where Mary is called 

 wife of Richard Hunt ; abstracts of the 

 wills of William Butler, innkeeper, and 

 of his widow Ellen are given in the note. 

 Thomas Harrison died in 1628 hold- 

 ing two messuages in Manchester, and 

 others in Wyresdale and Ellel ; Edward, 

 his son and heir, was forty years of age ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxx, 72. They 

 are not mentioned in the Ct. Leet Rec. 



Henry Keeley died in 1640, holding 

 messuages, &c., in Hanging Bridge and 

 Smithy Door ; Thomas, his son and heir, 

 was thirty-five years old ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxx, 21. The father seems to 

 have settled in the town about 1610 ; he 

 and his son are frequently mentioned in 

 the Ct. Leet Rec. ; see ii, 259 ; iii, 329 

 (will). Thomas was succeeded by his 

 sister Mary and her (second) husband 

 Nicholas Hawet in 1648 ; ibid, iv, 13. 

 In 1659 the estate was in the hands of 

 the trustees of her first husband, John 

 Griffin ; ibid, iv, 251. Mr. Crofton says : 

 The name Keeley was sometimes spelt 

 Caley, and Caley banks or bongs were 

 on the east side of Oxford Street, where 

 it slopes down to the Medlock from the 

 canal. Members of the family owned 

 land in Salford (Portmote Rec., indexed as 

 Kelley).' 



William Cooke, who died in 1641, 

 held burgages, &c., in Deansgate, and 

 left several daughters as co-heirs, of whom 

 Mary, the eldest, wife of Leonard Egerton, 

 was nineteen years of age. The others 

 were Martha, Hannah, Jane, and Ruth ; 

 Ellen Mosley and Esther Halstead were 

 dead ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, 5. 

 William Cooke is frequently named in the 

 Ct. Leet Rec.; the son-in-law was Leonard 

 Egerton of the Shaw in Flixton ; Dug- 

 dale, Visit. 1 02. 



The above represent only a few of the 

 burgesses and landholders in the town, the 

 inquisitions quoted having survived by 

 chance ; but by the aid of the Ct. Leet 

 Rec., wills, &c., it is probable that a 

 fairly complete account might be com- 

 piled of the householders of Manchester 

 in the period between 1550 and 1650. 

 In several cases the inquisitions not only 



246 



describe the situations of the various pro- 

 perties, but record also the names of the 

 occupiers. 



169 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 248, 250. 



l i Dugdale, Visit. 242 ; see Ct. Leet 

 Rec. iv, 74. Ridgefield is said to derive 

 its name from its former owners. The 

 following were also summoned by the 

 herald : Beswick, John Houlden, Fran- 

 cis Worthington, James Lancashire, and 

 Thomas Illingworth ; Visit, v. 



1 ' 1 A number of references will be 

 found in preceding notes. 



Robert de Billsbrough and Leuca his 

 wife in 1256 acquired tenements in Man- 

 chester from Simon son of Luke de Man- 

 chester and others ; Final Cone, i, 1 28. 



Ralph son of Robert de Manchester 

 in 1284 successfully claimed a messuage 

 and 2^ acres against Robert de Braybon 

 and Ellen his wife ; Assize R. 1265, m. 4. 



In 1292 William son of Margery de 

 Manchester was plaintiff and Nicholas 

 son of Robert son of Simon de Man- 

 chester, defendant, in a suit respecting a 

 tenement in the town ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 46. 



In 1333 Margery widow of Adam son 

 of Robert de Manchester claimed dower 

 against Henry son of Robert son of 

 Simon ; De Banco R. 295, m. 102 d. 



In 1338 Henry son of Robert son of 

 Robert de Manchester claimed messuages 

 and lands in the town against Henry son 

 of John son of Sir Henry de Traffbrd, 

 Adam son of Richard de Manchester, 

 Henry Boterind and Richard his son ; 

 De Banco R. 314, m. 225. 



Hugh de Manchester, a Dominican, 

 was in 1294 sent as ambassador to France 

 by Edward I ; he wrote a work De Fana- 

 ticorum Deliriis. It is doubted whether 

 he belonged to Manchester or to Man- 

 cetter in Warwickshire, but in the Patent 

 Rolls his surname is given as Mamcestre 

 or Maunnecestre ; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, 

 pp. 85, 131. See an essay by Mr. W. E. A. 

 Axon in Lanes, and Cbes. Antiq. Soc. ii, 

 108-14. 



^2 The Act (7 Anne, cap. 6) is printed 

 in the Rev. Charles Wareing Bardsley's 

 Mem. -of St. Ann's Ch. (1877), 141-8. 

 This work contains a full account of the 

 origin of the church, as well as of its in- 

 cumbents and their work down to the end 

 of the 1 8th century ; the hymn books 

 used in Manchester churches are noticed, 

 and the rise of Sunday schools is told. 

 Among the most noteworthy of the rectors 

 were Archdeacon Ward, 1745 to 1785, 

 who has already occurred among the vicars 

 of Childwall, and James Bardsley. 



W The Marriage Act of 1754 stopped 

 the celebration of marriages at St. Ann's. 

 Dr. Deacon, the Nonjurors" bishop, wa* 

 buried in the churchyard. The last burial 

 there was in 1854. The gravestones are 

 now concealed, the churchyard being a 

 public garden, but the inscriptions are in 

 the Owen MSS. (Free Library), xiii, 201; 

 xxix, 3. 



