SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



1 3 ft. wide inside, with deep ingle nook, has been 

 inserted at the west end, taking up more than half the 

 width of the apartment and entirely destroying the 

 screen and encroaching on the passage way at the 

 back. This seems to have been done before the in- 

 troduction of the floor, as the upper part of the fire- 

 place is carried up to the roof in an elaborate brick- 

 work composition, with embattled cornices, herring- 

 bone panels, and other ornamentation. The upper 

 part of this chimney can still be seen from the bed- 

 rooms, but is now covered with whitewash. In the 

 upper part of the bay window, now a bedroom, on 

 the east wall, some of the oak panelling of the hall 

 still remains, together with a plaster frieze on which is 

 a shield of arms bearing Holland impaling Langley. 44 

 The introduction of the great fireplace and ingle nook 

 into the hall necessitated the partial destruction of the 

 gallery over the passage, and the whole of the original 

 arrangement of the hall at this end suffered a good 

 deal of change. The fireplaces in the destroyed west 

 wing are said to have been of ornamental brickwork 

 corresponding in style with that in the great hall. 

 They were later tharf the original arrangement of the 

 kitchen passage, and may have been inserted as late as 

 the beginning of the I7th century, at the time the 

 plaster ornament in the upper part of the bay was 

 put up. 



The east end and south side of the house have been 

 entirely rebuilt in brick, and when the west wing was 

 pulled down that end was similarly refaced. The 

 upper part at the east end is approached by a brick 

 and stone staircase on the outside, but this end of the 

 house has no points of interest in it. 



In the detached east wing, which is 5 5 ft. long, are 

 three principals, the tie-beams of which are moulded 

 and ornamented with traceried panels and shields. 

 They are unequally spaced, one being at the south 

 end next the house, and the other two near together 

 at the north. The principals are built from the 

 ground, and have originally had floor beams, the build- 

 ing apparently having always been of two stories, but 

 the lower beam is only retained in the principal at the 

 south end, which on the first floor forms a fully- 

 constructed partition with door on the east side. The 

 other two floor beams have been cut away. The wall 



posts and the underside of the lower beam are elabor- 

 ately moulded, and the beam has a bracket on each 

 side carved with a lion's head and foliage. The two 

 tie-beams at the north end are panelled on both sides, 

 but those at the south on the north side only, being 

 quite plain towards the house. Originally the work 

 has been very rich, but the present disposition of the 

 framing and its incomplete character makes it impos- 

 sible to state what purpose the wing, which on the 

 outside is entirely refaced with brick, served. Its 

 north gable is of timber patched with brick, with 

 quatrefoil panels but without wing boards. 



The other moiety of Matthew de Reddish's estate 

 in Denton was probably Haughton, but may have 

 been the two oxgangs of land which in 1320 were 

 held by the lord of Manchester, 45 Robert de Ashton 

 holding of him at a rent of 13*. 4^. 46 John de 

 Hulton of Farn worth held the same in I473. 47 In 

 1282 Robert Grelley was found to have held two- 

 thirds of an oxgang in Denton ; this land, which is 

 not mentioned again, may have been part of these two 

 oxgangs. 43 



Two other oxgangs of land were in 1320 held of 

 the lord of Manchester by John de Hyde and Adam 

 de Hulton, who rendered zd. 

 at Christmastide as well as 

 puture. 49 It is not clear whe- 

 ther the former tenant was of 

 Norbury or of Denton. 



The Hydes of Hyde and 

 Norbury, who were lords of 

 Haughton by Denton, held 

 lands in the latter township, 

 for Robert de Hyde gave to 

 Alexander his son and his heirs 

 all his lands of Denton, and in 

 confirmation and augmentation 

 of this John de Hyde about 

 1270 granted all the lands in 



Denton which he held, also land in Romiley in 

 Cheshire, to his brother Alexander, son of Sir Robert de 

 Hyde. 50 The oxgang of land held in 1320, however, 

 if it were the tenement of the Hydes of Denton im- 

 mediately, seems to have been acquired in another way 

 from Ellis de Botham. 51 By a settlement of 1 3 3 1 the 



HYDE of Hyde and 

 Norbury. Azure a cheve- 

 ron between three lozenges 



44 Holland : I and 4. Azure semee of 

 fleur de lys a lion rampant argent, z. A 

 cross engrailed. 3. Argent on a bend sable 

 three lozenges of the field. Over all a bend. 

 Langley of Agecroft : i and 4. Argent a 

 cockatrice sable. 2 and 3. A mermaid 

 with comb and mirror. The shield is 

 identified with Richard Holland who died 

 in 1618, having married Margaret daugh- 

 ter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Langley 

 of Agecroft. The initials R. H. were 

 formerly on one of the lights of an upper 

 window. See Booker, op. cit. 23-6. 



45 Mamecestre, ii, 291 ; the waste of 

 Denton contained 200 acres (by the 

 greater hundred), the lord of Manchester 

 participating in virtue of two oxgangs 

 purchased by Robert Grelley from John 

 the Lord, who had held them of the lord 

 of Withington. The other participators 

 were Alexander de Shoresworth, Alexander 

 de Denton, John de Hyde, Hugh son of 

 Richard de Moston, and Ellis de Botham. 

 Twenty-five acres one-eighth might 

 be approved in respect of the two ox- 

 gangs. 



46 Ibid, ii, 364 ; the tenant held for life. 



47 Ibid, iii, 48 3 ; the rent was 1 35. ^d. 

 and the tenure described as socage. John 

 Hulton died in 1487 holding ten mes- 

 suages, 200 acres of land, 40 acres of 

 meadow, and 200 acres of pasture in 

 Denton of Sir Ralph Longford by services 

 unknown ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 

 26. 



48 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 245. The two 

 parts of an oxgang rendered 41. zd. yearly, 

 or nearly the same as 1 31. $d. for two 

 oxgangs. Robert Grelley was the pur- 

 chaser of the latter, according to the 

 extent of 1320; the other one and a 

 third may have been in the lord's hands in 

 1282. 



49 Matnecestre, ii, 290. 



50 Hyde of Denton Charters in Harl. 

 MS. 2112, fol. 159, 153. Robert son of 

 John de Hyde was in 1292 non-suited in 

 a claim against Thomas Grelley for com- 

 mon of pasture in Withington ; Assize R. 

 408, m. 29. 



51 Stephen de Bredbury about 1270 

 granted to John the Clerk of Stockport 

 an oxgang of land in Denton, which 



315 



Stephen's brother Robert occupied, at a 

 rentofi<; Harl. MS. 2 1 1 2, fol. 153. The 

 charter is among Lord Ribblesdale's deeds. 

 Geoffrey de Manchester, perhaps heir of 

 John, granted to Robert de Brinnington 

 the oxgang which Robert de Bredbury 

 held ; and Simon called the Serjeant 

 granted his land in Denton to the same 

 Robert de Brinnington ; ibid. fol. 1 54. 

 Robert de Brinnington in 1282 acquired 

 half an oxgang of land in Denton from 

 Benedict de Dewysnape and Hawise his 

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

 Ches.), i, 139. 



Robert had a son Adam, who as 

 ' Adam son of Robert de Brinnington in 

 Denton under Donishaw,' granted to 

 Alexander son of Robert de Shoresworth, 

 with remainder to William de Shores- 

 worth, land in Denton ' all my part of 

 the old burnt land ' between bounds thus 

 described : From the head of Crossfield 

 lache along the old ditch by ' Stobslade ' 

 to the boundary of ' Oldewyneschawe ' 

 (Audenshaw) ; up Dede lache to the new 

 ditch next the moss, and so back to the 

 start ; and lands in Wildemare lode, 



