SALFORD HUNDRED 



DEANE 



had no issue. 16 He died in 1542, when family dis- 

 putes, which had already begun, were continued with 

 energy. Miles Gerard of Ince, who had married 

 William's daughter Jane, claimed the manors of 

 Heaton and Birchley, Alice, the other daughter, 

 having died without issue. 17 The manors, however, 

 passed to the heir male, William Heaton son of Ralph, 

 half-brother of the William named above. A settle- 

 ment was made in I55z, 18 but the new owner appears 

 very soon to have fallen into difficulties and mort- 

 gaged his possessions. 19 



Christopher Anderton, said to be descended 

 from the lords of Anderton, obtained an interest in 

 the matter. In 1562 he purchased the adjoining 

 manor of Lostock, with lands in Rumworth and 

 Heaton, 20 but it was not till 1572 that he actually 

 obtained the manor of Heaton, and many years more 

 elapsed before his estate was secure. 11 It is stated 

 that the mortgage money was offered to him by the 

 Heatons just after the expiry of the term, and, to the 

 great scandal of the neighbours, he refused it and kept 

 the manors." Heaton descended in the same way as 

 Lostock to the Blundells of Ince. Henry Blundell, 

 who died in 1810, annoyed that his only son refused 



to marry, bequeathed the Anderton properties to his 

 two daughters. A division took place, and the manor 

 of Heaton, with lands in Heaton and Rumworth, fell 

 to the share of Elizabeth wife of Stephen Tempest of 

 Broughton near Skipton. By a family arrangement 

 Henry Tempest, a younger son, received this moiety, 

 and his son Charles Robert, on being created a 

 baronet in 1 866, gave Heaton as his seat. 23 Sir Charles 

 died in 1 894, leaving a daughter, Mary Ethel, as heir ; 

 she married Miles Stapleton, tenth Lord Beaumont, 

 who was accidentally killed in 1895, and has two 

 daughters. 



In 1789 the lands of Henry Blundell paid five- 

 sixths of the land tax. Mr. Starkie had a small 

 estate. 24 



From the old Heaton family descended Martin 

 Heaton, Bishop of Ely from 1599 to i^og. 25 



In the Subsidy Rolls of 1541 and 1622 Heaton is 

 joined with Halliwell. 



The estate called ROGERSTEJDcan be traced back 

 to the time of Edward III.* 53 It was held early in the 

 1 5th century by Roger de 'Walmersley,' J5b and de- 

 scended by 1591 to Roger * Walmesley. 56 In 1726 

 it was sold by Roger Walmsley of Bolton to Pierce 



16 Duchy of Lane. Dep. liv, H, i ; 

 it was alleged that the feoffees of Richard 

 Heaton the father of William in 1532 

 conveyed the manor of Heaton, with mill 

 and messuages in Heaton and Horwich, 

 to the use of Richard for life, and then 

 to the use of William his son and heir for 

 life, and then of Ralph Heaton and heirs 

 male. (This feoffment is among the 

 Anderton D. no. 4.) On behalf of Eliza- 

 beth daughter of Sir Richard Aughton, 

 widow of William Heaton, and before 

 1 549 remarried to John Bold, it was stated 

 that William was seised in his demesne as 

 of fee, and therefore she claimed as jointure. 



*7 Ibid, xxxiv, G, I. Miles Gerard son 

 and heir of Thomas Gerard of Ince 

 alleged that by his marriage settlement 

 it was arranged that if William Heaton 

 died without male issue one half of all 

 the manors, &c., in Billinge, Birchley, 

 Rumworth, Lostock, Horwich, and Ulver- 

 ston, was to go to the said Jane ; and if 

 Alice, the other daughter of William 

 Heaton, should die without issue, the 

 other half should also be Jane's. Heaton 

 was otherwise settled. The disputes 

 began before William's death, which took 

 place on 25 November 1542, for his 

 answer to some of the pleadings is pre- 

 served. His widow Elizabeth immediately 

 after his death complained that the 

 Gerards had expelled her from Birchley. 



Humphrey Winstanley, who had 

 married Jane, in 1560 complained that 

 Christopher Anderton, William Heaton, 

 and Ralph Heaton had entered his wife's 

 inheritance. William Heaton claimed as 

 heir male, under a settlement made in 

 1 540 by William the father of Jane, 

 apparently on his marriage with Elizabeth 

 Aughton ; Duchy of Lane. Plead, xlvii, 

 W, 13. 



18 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 14, 

 m. 142; and ibid. m. 103. The defor- 

 ciants in the latter were John Bold and 

 Elizabeth his wife, William Heaton, 

 and Lambert Heaton. The fine con- 

 cerned two messuages, &c., 60 acres of 

 land, with meadow, pasture, wood, moor, 

 and moss in Heaton. An annuity of 541. 

 for life was granted to Elizabeth Bold, 

 with ultimate reversion to William 

 Heaton ; the messuages, &c., being given 



to Lambert Heaton and Katherine his 

 wife and their male issue ; in default to 

 Fernando Heaton and Richard, Geoffrey, 

 Bryan, and Vane Heaton. 



19 Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 50. 



In 1560 Roger Heaton as son and 

 devisee of Richard Heaton, one of the 

 younger sons of the Richard Heaton of 

 1533, claimed the manor of Heaton 

 against William Heaton and Mary his 

 wife by virtue of a lease ; and later Alice 

 the mother of Roger, who had married 

 Thomas Aughton, was joined in the suit ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Ixiii, H, ga ; 

 cxvii, H, 1 6. William Heaton was 

 plaintiff or defendant in other suits in 

 the early part of Elizabeth's reign ; Ducatus, 

 ii, 243, 311, 323, 363. Ralph the son 

 and heir of William Heaton of Birchley 

 occurs several times from 1568 to 1574; 

 ibid, ii, 363 ; iii, 13. 



William Heaton, merchant tailor of 

 London, of the parish of St. Martin 

 Orgar, acquired an interest, by purchase 

 or mortgage, from the above William 

 Heaton, in the lands and manor of 

 Heaton ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdles. 

 24, m. 158 ; 27, m. 145 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead. Ixiii, H, 9 ; Anderton D. no. 20, 



24, 35- 



20 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 24, 

 m. 96 ; and further in the account of 

 Lostock. 21 Lydiate Hall, 55. 



As early as 1572 an agreement was 

 made for the sale of the manors and lands 

 between Christopher Anderton, William 

 Heaton of London, and Ralph son and 

 heir of William Heaton 5 Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 232, m. 5. Two years afterwards 

 Christopher Anderton procured Heaton 

 from Humphrey Winstanley and Jane 

 his wife and William Gerard probably 

 only their reversionary rights in it ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 38, m. 80. In 

 1583 he made a settlement of the manor ; 

 ibid. bdle. 45, m. 25 ; while in 1589 he 

 and his sons James and Thurstan seem 

 to have made a further agreement or new 

 purchase ; ibid. bdle. 51, no. 25. 



Christopher Anderton died in 1592, 

 holding the manor of Heaton under Hor- 

 wich, &c., of the lord of Manchester ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 41. 

 The bargain, however, was not even then 



II 



secure, for three years later his son and 

 heir, James Anderton, procured the manor 

 (or reversionary rights in it), from Richard 

 the son and heir apparent of Fernando 

 Heaton, late of London ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 59, m. 17. Besides the 

 manor the estate embraced eighty mes- 

 suages, two water-mills, &c. 



Katherine widow of Lambert Heaton 

 and Fernando their son surrendered land 

 in Heaton in 1581 ; in 1593 Richard 

 Heaton son of Fernando, described as ' of 

 Alone in Westmeath,' sold his claim on 

 the manors to James Anderton ; Anderton 

 D. no. 43, 67, 68. 



22 Harland and Wilkinson, Lanes. Le- 

 gends, 44 ; some evidence in its favour 

 is printed in Lydiate Hall, 56. 



28 Lydiate Hall, 134, 135. In Baines' 

 Dir. of 1825, 'Henry Tempest, coal 

 proprietor, of Broughton Hall, Yorkshire,' 

 occurs under Heaton. 



24 Land Tax Ret. at Preston. 



25 He was the son of George Heaton, 

 of London, whose kinship to the parent 

 stock has not been ascertained. His 

 mother Joan daughter of Sir Martin 

 Bowes, lord mayor in 1545, died in giving 

 him birth, having dedicated him ' to God 

 and the Reformed Church.' He was 

 educated at Westminster and Oxford, 

 held various preferments, and was in 1599 

 promoted to the see of Ely in order to 

 make certain alienations of its lands. 

 He was the 'proud prelate' whom Eliza- 

 beth threatened to ' unfrock,' according 

 to the story. He made the alienations ; 

 see Local Glean. Lanes, and Ches. ii, 171 

 (from Strype's Annals, iv, 490) ; Foster, 

 Alumni , White, Elizabethan Bishops, ^Ql; 

 Cooper, Athen. Cantab, i, 442. 



253 In 1364 Hugh Thirlewinde and 

 Katherine his wife, daughter of Alice 

 daughter of Stephen de Cockerham, mort- 

 gaged a tenement in Heaton ; Starkie of 

 Huntroyde D. 



25b He had it in 1419, when it was 

 called Rogersted ; ibid. 



26 See Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 16, &c. Roger Walmes- 

 ley died 31 May 1624 holding two 

 messuages, &c., in Heaton of Christopher 

 Anderton ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 

 (Chet. Lib.), p. 1287. 



