SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



son of Robert of an oxgang of Hamon de Mascy's 

 demesne in Ashley, previously held by Uctred, it 

 being a fourth part of the whole vill. 17 Henry, 

 surnamed 'de Stratford,' agreed in 1205 to pay 40^. 

 as relief for the half plough-land he held in Trafford. 28 

 In 1212, as above shown, he held TrafFord of the 

 king and a fourth of Stretford of Hamon de Mascy. 

 He died in 1221, when his son and heir Richard 

 paid 2OJ. for relief of the land held of the king.* 9 



Apart from his acquisition of Stretford little is 

 known of Richard de TrafFord, 30 whose son Henry 

 in 1278 agreed to a partition of the family estates, 

 taking as his share eight oxgangs of land, &c., in 

 Stretford, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Withing- 

 ton." Six years later Henry obtained a charter of 

 free warren for his manors of TrafFord and Stretford." 

 He was succeeded by his son Henry before 1292, 



in which year the younger Henry had a dispute with 

 his brother Richard. 33 Henry de TrafFord in 1302 

 contributed to the aid as holding part of a knight's 

 fee in Harwood near Bolton,* 4 and five years after- 

 wards he made a settlement of the manor of Clifton. 35 

 In the Parliament of 1312 he was a knight of the 

 shire." In 1324 Henry de TrafFord had the king's 

 leave to settle his manors of TrafFord and Stretford 

 upon Henry son of John son of Henry and his 

 heirs ; " and in the following year accordingly this 

 was done. 38 In 1334 Sir Henry de TrafFord acquired 

 John Grelley's lands in Chorlton-upon-Medlock. 39 



Soon after this probably he was succeeded by his 

 grandson Henry, also a knight, 40 who died between 

 1 373 41 and 1376, leaving a son Henry under age. 4 * 

 The younger Henry died in 1395, holding the manor 

 of TrafFord and vill of Stretford, together with two- 



*7 De TrafFord D. no. 14.2. 



88 Lanes. Pipe R. 203, 215. The relief 

 paid was comparatively high. 



Henry ton of Robert on of Ralph 

 dc TrafFord received lands in Chorlton- 

 upon-Medlock and in Withington ; De 

 TrafFord D. no. 122, 310. He had a dis- 

 pute with Hamon de Mascy regarding 

 Adam son of William de Stretford, and 

 Hamon agreed that Adam was a free 

 man ; Crofton, op. cit. iii, 235. Henry 

 de Stretford or de TrafFord was perhaps a 

 younger son of Robert de TrafFord. Wil- 

 liam son of Robert has already been named 

 and a Richard de TrafFord was witness to 

 a charter which must be dated between 

 1 200 and 1204 ; Hulton Fed. 3. 



There is frequent confusion between 

 Stretford, Stratford, StafFord, and Traf- 

 ford. 



19 Fine R. Excerpts (Rec. Com.), i, 75. 

 Avice widow of Henry de ' Stretford ' was 

 of the king's gift in 1222-6. She paid 

 zod. yearly the amount is a third of the 

 5*. due from TrafFord and her land was 

 worth 3*. clear ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 129. 



80 About 1250 he attested a charter 

 respecting Audenshaw ; Lanes. Pipe R. 

 333. In 1255-6 he gave the king 

 i mark for a writ ; Orig. 40 Hen. Ill, 

 m. 8. He obtained a grant of lands in 

 Withington ; De TrafFord D. no. 129. 



To Richard son of Robert de Stretford 

 he granted an eighth part of the vill of 

 Stretford, that part namely, which Robert 

 the father had held, at a rent of 6s. The 

 second best pig was to be rendered for 

 pannage, and corn was to be ground at 

 TrafFord Mill to the twentieth measure ; 

 Crofton, op. cit. iii, 237. 



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

 Ches.), i, 154. This portion had been 

 the dower of Christiana then wife of 

 William de Hacking, but was 'of the 

 inheritance' of Henry de TrafFord. It 

 is presumed that Christiana was the widow 

 of Richard de TrafFord. The other lands, 

 Ac., went to the Chadderton family. 



M Chart. R. 12 Edw. I (no. 77), m. 4, 

 no. 24. From Richard son of Jordan de 

 Stretford a surrender of his claim to lands 

 held of Henry de TrafFord was obtained 

 by the latter ; Crofton, op. cit. iii, 238. 

 Avice widow of Nicholas de Stretford and 

 daughter of Jordan de Stretford in 1292 

 released her claim on the same to Henry 

 son of Henry de TrafFord ; ibid, iii, 241. 



88 The dispute concerned lands, &c., 

 in Clifton, Crompton, and Edgeworth ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 3 d.; Final Cone, i, 170. 

 Lora widow of Henry de TrafFord had 



called Henry son of Henry to warrant 

 her. Lora appears as plaintiff in 1305 ; 

 Assize R. 1306, m. 20 d. 



In 1292 Henry had also to defend his 

 title to the manor of Stretford against 

 Hamon de Mascy, Loreta, his father's 

 widow, then holding a third part and 

 himself the remainder. The plaintifF was 

 non-suited ; Assize R. 408, m. 36. Henry 

 also defeated a claim to a tenement in 

 Stretford put forward by two sisters 

 Alice wife of Thomas son of Richard (or 

 Roger) de Manchester, and Avice wife of 

 Henry de Openshaw ; ibid. m. 32, 36d. 

 As grandson of Richard de TrafFord he 

 claimed the manor of Chadderton ; ibid, 

 m. 40 d, 47 d. 



84 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 312. 



85 Final Cone, i, 210 ; the remainders 

 were to his sons Henry (a minor), 

 Richard, Robert, Ralph, and Thomas. 

 These would be the younger sons. The 

 manor of Clifton does not appear again 

 among the TrafFord estates. 



86 Pink and Beaven, Part. Rep. of Lanes. 



IS- 



"7 Inq. a.q.d. 17 Edw. II, no. 92. The 

 jurors found that the manors named were 

 held of the king by the service of 51. 

 yearly, and suit at the county court from 

 three weeks to three weeks, and were 

 worth 20 marks clear. Henry de TrafFord 

 also held twelve messuages, 260 acres of 

 land, and 30 acres of meadow in Withing- 

 ton of Nicholas de Longford by the service 

 of id. yearly, and worth 6os. clear; the 

 land and meadow were of no value, be- 

 cause in waste among the heath ; another 

 40 acres were held by a rent of izd. 



In 1324 Henry de TrafFord held half a 

 plough-land in TrafFord by the service of 

 51. yearly ; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 38. 



88 Final Cone, ii, 60. Henry de Traf- 

 ford and Margaret his wife were plaintifFs ; 

 the remainders, after Henry the grandson, 

 were to the elder Henry's sons Richard, 

 Robert, Thomas, Nicholas, GeofFrey, and 

 Henry. See also the remainders in a fine 

 respecting lands in Withington in 1323 ; 

 ibid, ii, 54. These younger sons appear 

 to be the Traffords of Prestwich of 1350 ; 

 ibid, ii, 128. There are a number of 

 deeds relating to them among the De 

 TrafFord muniments ; in some the father 

 is called Sir Henry, e.g. in one of 1343 

 by which John son of John the Marshal 

 gave his lands in Manchester to GeofFrey 

 son of Sir Henry de TrafFord ; no. 9. 



A number of TrafFords were killed at 

 Liverpool in 1345 together with Adam 

 de Lever, viz. GeofFrey son of Sir Henry 

 de TrafFord ; Richard de TrafFord, son of 



331 



Sir John the elder, and John and Robert 

 his brothers ; also Richard brother of 

 Henry de TrafFord ; Coram Reg. R. 348, , 

 m. 22. 



89 De TrafFord D. no, 124. 



40 In 1353 Sir Henry de TrafFord came 

 into court and proffered letters patent 

 dated 12 June 1343, by which the king 

 ordered that he should not be put on 

 assizes, juries, &c. all his life ; Assize R. 

 435, m. 17. The same protection, which 

 had been granted at the request of the 

 famous soldier Walter de Mauney, had in 

 1346 excused him from the obligation of 

 receiving knighthood ; Q.R. Mem. R. 122, 

 m. 142 d. He had therefore served in the 

 French wars. 



Henry de TrafFord and John de Ashton 

 in 1343 pleaded guilty to retaining people 

 with them who went against the king's 

 peace ; Assize R. 430, m. 29. They and 

 others had in 1341 assembled at Leigh 

 and prevented John de Tyldesley, &c. from 

 entering the church until they agreed to a 

 dies amoris with a view to settlement of 

 disputes ; ibid. m. 17. In 1346 Henry 

 de TrafFord was found to hold the manor 

 of TrafFord in socage by a rent of 51., pay- 

 ing double as relief, and performing suit of 

 county and wapentake ; Add. MS. 32103, 

 fol. 146. Stretford is not separately 

 named. 



In 1359 and again in 1369 Sir Henry 

 de TrafFord purchased lands in Manches- 

 ter from John Grelley ; De TrafFord D. 

 no. 15, 1 8, 19. In the former year he 

 made a feofFment of lands in Crompton, 

 Ancoats, Beswick, and Chorlton to Tho- 

 mas de TrafFord and William Saunpete, 

 chaplain, until his return from the king's 

 service beyond the sea. The remainders 

 were to John de TrafFord, Henry son of 

 Robert de TrafFord, and John son of 

 Thomas de TrafFord ; Court of Wards and 

 Liveries, box I3A/FDI2. 



Licence for his oratory at TrafFord was 

 in 1368 granted to Sir Henry ; Lich. 

 Epis. Reg. Stretton, v, fol. 20. 



41 In Dec. 1373 Sir Henry released to 

 John son of Nicholas de TrafFord his right 

 to lands in Ancoats ; De TrafFord D. 

 no. 84. 



42 At Easter 1376 Henry de Torbock 

 claimed the custody of lands in Turton 

 until the coming of age of Henry son and 

 heir of Sir Henry de TrafFord ; De Banco 

 R. 462, m. 89 ; 463, m. 67. Henry de 

 TrafFord had a licence for an oratory at 

 TrafFord for two years from 1387 ; Lich. 

 Epis. Reg. vi, fol. 123. He came of age 

 in or before 1389 ; De TrafFord D. no. 



