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north of it. 8 There are other recreation-grounds. 

 Claremont is the Manchester seat of Sir Arthur 

 Percival Heywood, bart. 



The worthies of Pendleton include Peter Gooden, 

 Roman Catholic controversial writer, who died 1695 ; 

 Felix John Vaughan Seddon, orientalist, 17981865 ; 

 George Bradshaw, who published the railway guides, 

 180153 ; 9 Robert Cotton Mather, a missionary in 

 India, 1808-77. Notices of them will be found in 

 the Dictionary of National Biography. 



PENDLETON was originally included 

 M4NOR in the royal manor of Salford. King John 

 in 1199 gave it to lorwerth de Hulton 

 in exchange for Broughton and Kersal on the Man- 

 chester side of the Irwell, which, while Count of 

 Mortain, he had bestowed on lorwerth. 10 It was 

 assessed as four oxgangs of land, and held by the 

 service of a sixth part of a knight's fee. 11 It remained 

 for about fifty years in the Hultons' possession ; ll 

 but was in 1251 exchanged for Ordsall in Salford and 



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part of Flixton." Robert de Ferrers ten years later 

 granted Pendleton to the priory of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr, Stafford." The right of the prior was 

 called in question in 1292," but was soon afterwards 

 allowed, 16 and the house retained possession until the 

 Dissolution. 17 



Pendleton, as part of the priory estates, was in 

 1539 granted to Rowland Lee, Bishop of Lichfield. 18 

 On his death his property was divided among his four 

 nephews, and the priory site, together with the manor 

 of Pendleton, went to Bryan Fowler, 19 whose descen- 

 dants enjoyed it down to the beginning of the i8th 

 century. The family, who adhered to the old re- 

 ligion, do not seem to have resided at Pendleton, nor 

 is there much sign of their connexion with the place. 

 Walter Fowler, the great-grandson of Bryan, took the 

 king's side in the Civil War, and the ' well affected 

 inhabitants of Stafford ' complained of him to the 

 Parliament 'not only as a Papist, but a malignant, 

 because he took up arms for the king and abused and 



8 It was opened in 1902. Races had 

 been held on the same ground from 1847 

 to 1868. Mr. J. L. Purcell FitzGerald, 

 the landowner, refused to renew the lease 

 on moral grounds ; ' he took a warm in- 

 terest in the evangelization of the masses ' ; 

 W. Axon, Annals of Mane A. 372. 



9 On the origin of the Guide in 1839 

 see AT. and Q. (Ser. 6), xi, 16. 



10 Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 27 ; the gift 

 was of ' the vill of Pendleton and all its 

 appurtenances ' to be held ' by the service 

 of the sixth part of one knight.' See also 

 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 112, 115, &c. 



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

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 65. 



la In 1218 Richard de Hulton had not 

 paid the 20 marks relief on succeeding 

 his father lorwerth at Pendleton ; Rot. 

 Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 380. To 

 Eccles Church he gave a piece of land in 

 Pendleton, on the west side of the road 

 to Pendlebury, as a site for the tithe-barn; 

 no one was to dwell in it ; Whalley 

 Couch. (Chet. Soc.), i, 52. 



In 1236 Richard de Hulton, and in 

 1242 the heirs of Richard de Hulton, 

 held the sixth part of a fee in Pendleton ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 144, 153. It 

 is noteworthy that in 1256 the Hultons' 

 estate was described as a plough-land and 

 half a plough-land in Pendleton, not half 

 a plough-land only, as recorded in 1212; 

 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 122. As late as 1302 Richard de 

 Hulton was recorded as holding the sixth 

 part of a fee in Pendleton, but this is a 

 duplication (in error) of his tenement in 

 Ordsall and Flixton, which is also given ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 314. 



18 William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, 

 granted to David de Hulton his land in 

 Flixton and manor of Ordsall in July 

 1251 ; Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 



347- 



M The grant in frankalmoign was made 

 in Dec. 1261 ; it included the manor of 

 Swineshurst and of the Walneys (now 

 Wallness) by Salford, with the mill on 

 the Irwell, &c., the town of Pendleton 

 with all the villeins holding the villeinage 

 of the town, their chattels, and sequel ; 

 Phillips MS. 7899, printed in Staffs. 

 Coll. viii. 



The bounds of the waste of the New 

 Hall by Saltfield and of Pendleton about 

 the same time were as follows : From 

 Wallness Pool to Broad Oak Snape, fol- 



lowing the lache to Wetsnape, by the 

 Rowe Lache to Saltfield Clow as far as 

 Wolfhays meanigate ; thence by the high 

 road [? to Eccles] to Little Leyhead and 

 thence to Gildenaver Ford [Gilda Brook] 

 and so by Tippesbrook [Folly Brook] 

 to Bispeslowe [? Irlams-o'-th'-Height], 

 thence by the Black Lache to Alwine 

 Mere and Redford, and by the syke under 

 Pendlebury Park to the Irwell, and down 

 this to the starting-point ; Coll. Tofog. et 

 Gen. i, 248. 



In 1 2 84 the king granted the Prior and 

 convent of St. Thomas free warren in 

 their demesne lands of Swineshurst; Chart. 

 R. 77, m. 6, no. 45. For a further licence 

 see Cat. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 146. 



There is a brief notice of St. Thomas's 

 Priory in Dugdale, Man. vi, 471. Some 

 charters and notes will be found in Staff's. 

 Coll. (Wm. Salt Soc.), viii, 125-201, re- 

 ferred to above. 



18 Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 386. 

 The estate was eighteen messuages, twelve 

 oxgangs (i.e. a plough-land and a half) and 

 1 20 acres of land, a toft, and a mill, held by 

 the sixth part of a knight's fee. Master 

 John de Craven was in possession. It 

 was asserted that the grant to the priory 

 had been made without the king's licence. 

 The sheriff took possession, and returned 

 the annual value as ^18 131. 4^.5 ibid. 

 228. 



16 The king confirmed the grant of 

 Robert de Ferrers in Aug. 1295 ; Cal. 

 Pat. 1292-1301, p. 146. 



A curious claim was made in 1292. 

 Agnes widow of David de Hulton claimed 

 dower in Pendleton, on the ground that 

 the tenements in Flixton and Ordsall 

 which William de Ferrers had given her 

 in exchange for Pendleton were not of 

 equal value. The jury agreed, finding 

 Pendleton the more valuable by 6 a 

 year, and averred that Agnes should re- 

 tain her dower in Flixton and have a 

 further 40*. a year from Pendleton ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 39. This claim 

 appears as early as 1285 ; De Banco R. 

 59, m. 31. Possibly there were other 

 suits, for in 1302 she surrendered her 

 right in return for an annuity of 441., to 

 be paid by the prior out of Pendleton ; 

 Staffs. Coll. viii. 



In 1324 account was given of 15*. of 

 the farm of eight oxgangs of land which 

 Sir Robert de Holland had in farm of the 

 prior of St. Thomas, among Sir Robert's 



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other forfeited lands ; L.T.R. Enr. Accts. 

 Misc. no. 14, m. 76 d. (2). 



V Maud de Worsley in 1332 granted 

 to the prior her interest in lands, &c., in 

 Pendleton, Newhall, Woodhouses, Wall- 

 ness, and Swineshurst ; Staffs. Coll. viii. 

 Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in 1339 gave 

 the prior 1 2 acres of heath in Salford and 

 Pendleton as recompense for the priory's 

 common of pasture on the heath ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Anct. D. L, 2084. To the aid 

 levied 1346-55 the Prior of St. Thomas 

 contributed 6s. Sd. for the sixth part of a 

 knight's fee, held in free alms ; Feud. 

 Aids, iii, 91. In the survey of 1346 a 

 rent of 1 1 \d. was charged for one plough- 

 land held by the prior ; this reappears in 

 an extent made a century later, the prior 

 stating that he held in frankalmoign and 

 not in socage ; Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' fees, 2/20. In 

 1525 the prior demised lands in Pendle- 

 ton to Ottiwell Wirrall for a term ; Staffi. 

 Coll. viii. 



18 Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. vi ; see 

 L. and P. xiv (2), 156. 



19 The account of the Fowlers is in the 

 main taken from Gillow, St. Thomas's 

 Priory, where a pedigree of the family is 

 given, 147-57. 



Bishop Lee (see Diet. Nat. Biog.) died 

 in 1543. His sister Isabel had married 

 Roger Fowler of Broomhill, Norfolk, and 

 the four nephews were Rowland of Broom- 

 hill, Bryan, William of Harnage Grange, 

 Shropshire, and James of Pendeford, Staf- 

 fordshire. 



Bryan Fowler in 1547 took action 

 against Robert Shaw, the king's farmer, 

 respecting Brindlache and other lands in 

 Pendleton ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), 

 ii, 93. He was frequently imprisoned for 

 recusancy, and died in 1587. By his wife 

 Jane, daughter and heir of John Hanmer 

 of Bettisfield, he had a son Walter, who 

 died in 1621, leaving a son Edward, father 

 of the Walter Fowler named in the text. 



Inquisitions are extant taken after the 

 death of Bryan Fowler, whose son Walter 

 was thirty-six years of age in 1588 ; and 

 of Walter Fowler, who died in 1621, 

 leaving a son and heir Edward, aged 

 thirty. The tenure of Pendleton is not 

 stated ; Chan. Inq. p.m. ii, 216, 393. 

 Edward Fowler died in Nov. 1623, hold- 

 ing the manor of Pendleton, and leaving 

 a son and heir Walter, only three years 

 old ; ibid. (Ser. ii), vol. 404, no. 126. 



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