A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



It does not appear that there was ever 

 M4NOR a separate manor of CHORLTON, which 

 was held as part of Withington, 1 but it 

 may have been held in moieties by Trafford and 

 Barlow. 1 * A family bearing the local name is men- 

 tioned from time to time, 3 but nothing is known as 

 to its position. The principal family, apart from 

 the lords of Withington and the Barlows, was that 

 of Trafford, but there is nothing to show how the 

 Trafford lands were acquired, apart from the grants 

 quoted in the account of Withington. 4 The lands 

 appear to have been sold about 1590 to Gregory 

 Lovel and others, 5 from whose heirs probably they 

 passed to the Mosleys, 6 and later to the Egertons of 

 Tatton. 



HARDY does not occur separately. 



The manor of BARLOW was long held by a family 

 who adopted that surname. 7 The earliest known 

 member was a Thomas de Barlow to whom about 

 I zoo Sibyl daughter of Uctred and Margaret granted 



all her lands in Barlow. 8 A later Thomas in 1253 

 complained that Robert de Reddish and a number of 

 his neighbours had interfered with his stream at 

 Barlow and taken his fish ; it was stated in defence 

 that the fish were caught in Matthew de Haversage's 

 free fishery and Thomas was fined, but excused 

 because he was poor. 9 Alexander son of Albin de 

 Sale gave to Thomas de Barlow all his land and right 

 in the vill of Barlow. 10 Thomas was succeeded by 

 several Rogers. 11 In 1336 Roger de Barlow the 

 elder made a settlement of his manor of Barlow, 

 together with five messuages, 50 acres of land, &c., 

 in Chorlton, and a moiety of the manor in Chorlton. 1 * 

 John son of Roger de Barlow was in possession n 

 1 389, and a year or two later a settlement of his lar. .Is 

 in Barlow, Chorlton, Hardy, and Withington, was 

 made, with remainders to his son John, Joan las 

 wife, daughter of Richard de Holland, and th( ir 

 issue. 13 The younger John was succeeded by his s n 

 Nicholas and his grandson Alexander ; u the last- 



a Mamecestre (Chet. Soc.), ii, 373, 377. 

 The township is usually distinguishable 

 from Chorlton-upon-Medlock by the 

 spelling of its name Chollerton instead 

 of Chorleton. 



81 In 1 562 the two principal landowners, 

 Sir Edmund Trafford and Alexander Bar- 

 low, claimed to hold the 'manor of 

 Chorlton in Withington,' and made com- 

 plaint of an encroachment upon the 

 waste ; Pal. Note Bk. iv, 210. 



8 Richard and Robert de Cholreton 

 were jurors in 1242 ; Lanes. Inq. and Ex- 

 tents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 153. 

 Richard de Cholreton, clerk, appears in 

 1314.; Final Cone. ( Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 15. Richard Enotson of Chol- 

 lerton was defendant in 1 347 ; De Banco 

 R. 350, m. 20 1. Robert 'Chorleton' of 

 ' Chollerton ' and Joan his wife were 

 defendants in 1448 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 II, m. 10. 



4 See above in the account of Withing- 

 ton. Henry de Traffbrd and his men of 

 Chorlton were freed from suit to the mill 

 at Didsbury about 1260 ; De Trafford D. 

 no. 133. Henry Trafford in 1422 was 

 found to have held part of eight messuages, 

 100 acres of land, and 20 acres of meadow 

 in Chorlton of Ralph de Longford in 

 socage ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1505. 

 In later inquisitions the whole of the 

 Trafford holding in Withington, including 

 Yeldhouse, Rusholme, Fallowneld, Moss 

 Side, and Chorlton, was regarded as a 

 single tenement ; e.g. Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xi, ii. 



5 In 1 5 94 Gregory Lovel claimed rights 

 in Chorlto Moor by conveyance from Sir 

 Edmund Trafford ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), iii, 306. See also Booker, Didsbury, 

 248, 6. 



6 A capital messuage called Turf Moss, 

 with lands in Stretford and Chorlton, 

 appears in the inquisitions after the death 

 of Rowland Mosley in 1617 ; they were 

 held partly of the heirs of Hamond Mascy, 

 and partly of the king as of his duchy ; 

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

 Ches.), ii, 66, 69. It does not appear 

 from whom they were purchased ; they 

 may have been acquired directly from the 

 Trafford*. 



7 Abstracts of their charters, made in 

 1653, are in Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 172/208, 

 &c. ; some are printed in Hooker's Dids- 

 bury, 251, 252, and all in Pal. Note Bk. iv, 

 206-9. 



8 Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 172/208. The 



grantor may have been the daughter of 

 the Hutred de Withington mentioned in 

 the Cockersand charters quoted above. 



A Roger son of Roger de Barlow 

 attested a Withington deed in the early 

 part of the reign of Henry III ; Booker, 

 op. cit. 319. 



9 Curia Regis R. 151, m. 29 d., 45 d. ; 

 152, m. 5 d. ; 155, m. 6. The other 

 defendants were Adam de Eccles, Matthew 

 de Birches, Thomas son of Richard de 

 Hyde, Thomas son of Geoffrey and Jordan 

 his brother. 



The plaintiff seems to be the Thomas 

 son of Robert de Barlow who, according 

 to a Lichfield document drawn up in 

 1397, was sole lord of Barlow, and had 

 sons Roger and Thomas, of whom the 

 former had a son Roger ; Harl. MS. 2112, 

 fol. 173/209. 



10 Ibid. fol. 172/208 ; a pair of white 

 gloves was to be the rent. Richard son 

 of Henry de Solirton also granted land to 

 Thomas de Barlow ; ibid. Amice daugh- 

 ter of Roger de Barlow and widow of 

 Hamond de Barlow released to Thomas 

 all her right in the vill of Barlow ; she 

 also gave to Roger son of Thomas that 

 half oxgang of land in Barlow which her 

 father had given her in free marriage ; 

 ibid. 



11 To Roger son of Thomas de Barlow 

 was granted an oxgang of land in Ains- 

 worth by William son of Robert de Ains- 

 worth, and a release was subsequently 

 given by Maud sister of the grantor ; ibid. 

 foL 172/208. As Geoffrey de Chetham 

 was a witness, these charters cannot be 

 dated much after 1270, if they are so late. 



In 1292 Roger de Barlow, a minor, 

 complained of various trespasses in With- 

 ington by Henry son of Henry de Trafford, 

 Simon de Chorlton, and others j Assize 

 R. 408, m. 4 d. It was perhaps to this 

 Roger, called the elder, that Alexander 

 the chaplain of Didsbury (as trustee) 

 granted lands and water-mill in Barlow, 

 Chorlton, and Hardy in the vill of With- 

 ington, with remainder to Thomas son of 

 Roger de Barlow and Margery his wife ; 

 ibid. fol. 172^/208^. In 1320-1 an 

 agreement was made at Withington be- 

 tween Sir Nicholas de Longford, as lord, 

 of the one part, and Henry de Trafford 

 and Roger de Barlow of the other ; ibid. 



In 1334 Roger de Barlow alleged that 

 Robert de Barlow had disseised him of 

 five messuages and 30 acres in Withing- 

 ton, and the defence (which failed) was 



298 



that Roger had given them to his son 

 Thomas, who died without issue male, 

 with remainders to Robert (defendant) 

 and John brothers of Thomas ; Coram 

 Rege R. 297, m. 115. 



12 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 99 ; the manors and lands were 

 to remain to Roger's son Roger and 

 Agnes his wife, and then successively to 

 Roger, Henry, and Thurstan, sons of 

 Roger the younger and Agnes. The 

 ' moiety of the manor of Chorlton ' was 

 probably the same as the manor of Barlow. 

 The deed of feoffment in Harl. MS. 21 12, 

 fol. 172 d./zoS d., bears a seal with an 

 eagle displayed ; there was a further re- 

 mainder to Thomas son of Roger the 

 elder. Margaret daughter of Thomas son 

 of Roger de Barlow in 1343 released to 

 her uncle Roger all her claim in the 

 manor of Barlow, Chorlton, and Hardy ; 

 ibid. fol. 173/209. 



18 Ibid. The earlier deed referred to 

 was a licence by Robert de Tatton of 

 Kenworthy to John de Barlow to make a 

 mill attachment and weir on the Northen- 

 den side of the Mersey. 



The Bishop of Lichfield in 1 393 licensed 

 the oratory within John de Barlow's manor- 

 house ; Lich. Epis. Reg. Scrope, vi, 130^. 



John son of Roger de Barlow in 1 396-7 

 made a settlement of his manor of Barlow 

 and lands in Barlow, Chorlton, and Hardy 

 in Withington; Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 

 i73d./2O9d. In 1401 Hugh de Barlow 

 granted to William his son all his lands in 

 Haughton and Withington, with remain- 

 der to John son of Roger de Barlow ; and 

 in 1408 the same Hugh gave all his lands 

 in Withington to John de Barlow the 

 elder ; ibid. 



John, lord of Barlow, in 1401 leased 

 his water-mill of Barlow to John the 

 miller of Urmston at a rent of 4 a year ; 

 ibid. fol. 174/210. 



14 A number of deeds of these three 

 generations will be found in the MS. re- 

 ferred to. In 1458 John son of John 

 Barlow the elder gave to feoffees the lands 

 he had had from his father in Haughton ; 

 ibid. By a deed of about the same time 

 Nicholas son of John Barlow agreed with 

 Richard Ashton of Mersey Bank concern- 

 ing the wardship and marriage of Alexan- 

 der the son and heir apparent of Nicholas ; 

 Elizabeth daughter of Richard was the 

 wi fe chosen ; ibid. George and Richard 

 Barlow are named in 1.460 and 1461 ; 

 ibid. Alexander son and heir of Nicholas 



