A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



1322 the lord of Manchester had 120 acres of wood 

 or moor there. 110 



DUMPLINGTON, which formerly included the 

 modern hamlet of Crofts Bank, was with Cockney in 

 Bromyhurst in 1225 demised by Sir Robert Grelley 

 to Cecily daughter of lorwerth de Hulton m for six 

 years. Four years afterwards Siegrith de Dump- 

 lington released to Robert Grelley her right in 40 

 acres in Dumplington. 11 * John son of Thomas de 

 Booth held the place in I4OI. 113 The lords of 

 Manchester had a wood in Lostock. 114 



WHITTLESWICK was from an early date 

 regarded as a manor, 116 being held by the Pendlebury 



family. 117 From Roger de Pendlebury it passed to his 

 son Ellis, 118 and then to a younger son William, who 

 enfeoffed Adam de Prestwich. 119 Henry, the son of 

 Adam, had a daughter Katherine, who married John 

 son of Robert de Bold. Their son Geoffrey forfeited 

 his lands for treason, having taken part in the Hot- 

 spur rebellion of 1403 ; 12 but Whittleswick was 

 afterwards restored, and Agnes daughter of Nicholas 

 son of Geoffrey de Bold had livery in 1442-3. She 

 married Hugh, a son of Sir Geoffrey Massey, 1 " and 

 the manor continued in their family for nearly two 

 centuries, 1 ** descending to Dorothy daughter of 

 Thomas Massey and wife of Thomas Liversage of 



m. 4 d. Avina, widow of John the son 

 of Wasce, claimed 6 acres in Barton 

 against Alexander son of Alexander the 

 Mcy in 1292, but it was shown that 

 Agnes, widow of Alexander the father, 

 was in possession of a portion ; Assize 

 R. 408, m. 3d.; see also m. 32, 54. 

 Nine years later, Alexander the Mey 

 proceeded against Gilbert de Bromyhurst 

 and others concerning a tenement in Bar- 

 ton ; ibid. 1 321, m. 9 ; 41 8, m. 1 2 d. 



Some of the Mey charters have been 

 preserved. Alexander the son gave a 

 quitclaim respecting Westwood in 1281 ; 

 Whalley Couch, iii, 914. Alexander the 

 Mey of Bromyhurst granted to Robert 

 son of Matthew de Birches lands in 

 Saltey meadows and White-ridding ; the 

 seal had a fleur-de-lis with the legend 

 s' ALZXANDR : D' : BROMIHVRST ; De Traf- 

 ford D. no. 212. Alexander the Mey 

 (Meych) gave his son Hugh a moiety of 

 the whole sixth part of the vills of Bromy- 

 hurst and Dumplington, a rent of 6d. 

 being due to the chief lords ; De Trafford 

 D. no. 224. 



110 Mamecestre, ii, 370. 



111 De Trafford D. no. 109 ; the 

 grant was made ' in the year in which 

 Richard the king's brother was made Earl 

 of Cornwall.' Cecily paid 6 marks and 

 was to pay an annual rent of 41. 6J. 

 Twenty-four acres in Dumplington and 

 4 acres in Kokenay were among the lands 

 held in 1253 by Jordan de Hulton, in 

 which Amery widow of Robert de Hulton 

 claimed dower; Final Cone, i, 151. Gil- 

 bert de Barton son of William de Notion 

 granted the land of Cockney, between 

 Waspool and Cockney Pool, to Peter de 

 Dumplington his servant ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 154. 



lla Final Cone, i, 56. 



118 De Traffbrd D. no. 247 ; by this 

 Ralph de Walkden released his right in 

 Dumplington and in Heaton Norris to 

 John de Booth, having already enfeoffed 

 John of his lands there. 



An account of Dumplington, with plan 

 and many details, is given in Lanes, and 

 Ches. Antiq. Soc. xxiv, 21. 



114 Gilbert de Barton granted Sir 

 Thomas Grelley all his wood in Lostock ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 163*. In 1322 

 the wood of Lostock was valued with that 

 in Cuerdley ; the lord of Manchester had 

 also 20 acres of pasture in Lostock, in 

 which all the tenants of the lord of Bar- 

 ton had common of pasture except during 

 six weeks in the time of pannage, and the 

 lord and tenants of Urmston had a similar 

 right, zs. a year rent being paid ; Lanes. 

 Inq. and Extents, ii, 57. 



116 Quicleswic, Quyclisweke, xiii cent.; 

 Whikleswyk, 1287; Quycleswyk, 1389; 

 Whiclesweeke, 1632. 



116 There is an article on the descent of 



the manor in the Ancestor, no. 4, pp. 205- 

 24. It was a dependency of Barton, and its 

 tenants contributed to the sake fee and 

 other charges on that manor ; Mame- 

 cestre, ii, 289. It was included in the 

 transfer of the manor of Barton to the 

 Grelleys ; De Trafford D. no. 204. 

 There is little further trace of the Barton 

 connexion. 



U 7 Adam de Pendlebury received from 

 John de Hulme the sixth part (?) of an 

 oxgang in Whittleswick, the rent being a 

 pair of spurs. To this charter Ellis de 

 Pendlebury (perhaps his father) and Adam 

 and Robert de Yealand were witnesses ; 

 De Trafford D. no. 280. 



A release by Alice daughter of William 

 the Clerk of Eccles to Roger de Pendle- 

 bury of all her right in Whittleswick is 

 the only indication of the origin of the 

 Pendlebury tenure ; De Trafford D. 

 no. 277. Alice is no doubt the Alice de 

 Whittleswick who had a brother William, 

 of the Whallcy Couch, i, 66 ; a Thomas 

 de Whittleswick is also named ; ibid. 

 1,67. 



Gilbert de Barton released to Matthew 

 son of William Laling, and to Margery 

 niece of Gilbert, all his claim upon the 

 manor of Whittleswick, with liberties and 

 common rights in all places in Barton, 

 except Boysnope ; the ancient rent was to 

 be paid in lieu of all services. The 

 bounds are thus given : From Merley 

 following the pool to Irwell, along the 

 Irwell to Harelache, then across to the 

 Moss and so to Dedmere and the starting 

 point ; from an old copy in the De 

 Trafford D. (no. 108). Another copy 

 states that the 'ancient rent' was io</. 

 (no. 290). 



118 Roger de Pendlebury granted the 

 manor of Whittleswick to his son Ellis, 

 who afterwards restored it to his father ; 

 De Trafford D. no. 276, 278. 



119 For the Pendlebury family see the 

 account of that township. William son 

 of Roger de Pendlebury gave the manor 

 of Whittleswick, which he had by the 

 death of Maud daughter of his elder 

 brother Ellis, to Adam de Prestwich 

 in 1292 ; De Trafford D. no. 290. 

 Adam son of Alexander de Pilkington 

 had in 1291 released to Adam de Prest- 

 wich and to William de Pendlebury his 

 right in the ' manor,' derived from his 

 former wife Maud ; ibid. no. 282, 283. 



Beatrice, the other daughter of Ellis, 

 in 1300 released her rights also ; Final 

 Cone, i, 1 88. The 'one oxgang in Bar- 

 ton* of the fine is identified with 'the 

 hamlet ' of Whittleswick by De Trafford 

 D. no. 281, 284. Adam de Hulme 

 released to Adam de Prestwich the rent 

 of id. due for the sixth part of the manor; 

 ibid. no. 279. 



The new owner, having thus assured 



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his title, settled the manor in 1301 upon 

 Henry, his son by Alice de Trafford, with 

 remainders to his daughters by her, Mar- 

 garet, Ellen, Margery, and Joan ; Final 

 Cone, i, 196. The estate is described as 

 ' a messuage, eighty acres of land, six 

 acres of meadow, ten acres of wood and 

 100 acres of pasture in Barton.' In 

 1308 Avice, elsewhere called Alice, widow 

 of William de Pendlebury claimed dower 

 in four messuages, &c., in Barton against 

 Henry son of Agnes de Trafford ; De 

 Banco R. 173, m. 345. 



130 The inquisition, taken in 1423-4, 

 is in Towneley MS. DD, no. 1485. 



lal For this part of the descent see 

 Dtp. Keeper s Rep. xl, App. 5 3 5-6 ; for 

 pedigrees, Piccope MS. Ped. (Chet. Lib.), 

 ii, 65 ; Cole MSS. xi, fol. 54. 



It appears that Geoffrey de Bold had in 

 1389 enfeoffed Henry son of Sir Henry 

 de Trafford of this manor, and that in 

 1426 Sir Edmund de Trafford was in 

 possession ; De Trafford D. no. 2857. 

 Testimony as to the fact of enfeoffment 

 was forthcoming ; ibid. no. 288. It 

 further appears, however, that a pardon 

 was obtained in 1403 for Geoffrey's share 

 in the rebellion, and that he made a feoff- 

 ment of Whittleswick in 1422; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. i64^;cxlii, fol. 209^(114). The 

 restoration of his manors was for Geof- 

 frey's life, and they afterwards came into 

 the king's hands, who gave the custody of 

 Whittleswick to William Booth ; Add. 

 MS. 32108, no. 1677. A lease to Rojer 

 Booth was made in 1433 ; Fine R. 240, 

 m. 6. 



In 1440 Hugh Massey and Agnes his 

 wife set out their title by descent, and 

 petitioned the king for restoration, and 

 this was after trial granted ; livery being 

 ordered on 8 Feb. 1442-3 ; De Trafford 

 D. no. 290 (as above) ; also Pal. Lane. 

 Chan. Misc. 1/7. In some pedigrees 

 Hugh Massey is described as 'of Cod- 

 dington, Cheshire, sixth son of Sir John 

 Massey of Tatton ' ; but this is discoun- 

 tenanced by Ormerod (Cbcs. ii, 729-31). 

 He seems in fact to have been an illegi- 

 timate son of Sir Geoffrey Massey of 

 Worsley ; he was defendant in an assault 

 case in 1444 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 6, 

 m. ib. He was living in 1466 ; Elles- 

 mere D. no. 100. 



ia Thomas Massey died 13 Aug. 1590, 

 holding the manor of Whittleswick of the 

 heirs of Adam de Prestwich in socage. 

 The pedigree is given thus : Thomas was 

 son and heir of Thomas, brother and heir 

 of John, son and heir of Thomas, son 

 and heir of Nicholas, son and heir of 

 Agnes, wife of Hugh Massey ; and Agnes 

 was daughter and heir of Nicholas Bold, 

 son and heir of Geoffrey Bold, son and 

 heir of Katherine, wife of John Bold and 

 daughter and heir of Henry de Prestwich. 



