SALFORD HUNDRED 



DEANE 



ried Margaret Roby. Their daughter Esther inherited 

 it, and by marriage in 1 749 conveyed it to her hus- 

 band James Milnes of Wakefield ; their son, also 

 James Milnes, bequeathed it in 1805 to his cousin 

 Benjamin Gaskell of Clifton in Eccles, whose grand- 

 son, Mr. Charles George Milnes Gaskell of Thornes 

 House, Wakefield, is the present owner.* 6 



The change of tenure from monastic to secular 

 lords was accompanied by a number of lawsuits 

 respecting the customs of the manor." 



The Pendlebury family, already mentioned, held 

 SNFD4LE of the lord of Manchester as early as 1 2 1 2, zs 



and appear to have retained it 

 down to the end of the i6th 

 century, 39 when it passed to 

 the Worthingtons, who re- 

 mained in possession for a 

 century and a half. 30 On 

 the bankruptcy of William 

 Worthington in 1744 it 

 was purchased by the Starkies 

 of Huntroyde, who still re- 

 tain it. No manorial rights 

 are exercised. 31 



STARKIE of Hunt- 

 royde. Argent a bend 

 sable between six storks 



2S Information of Mr. Milnes Gas- 

 kell. 



87 Numerous references to these suits 

 will be found in the Ducatus Lane. 



I n X 553 James Browne complained 

 that William Reeve and others had forcibly 

 entered two messuages and 100 acres of 

 land, parcel of his manor of Westhoughton, 

 * by reason of a feigned custom they call 

 tenant right.' The defendants claimed 

 common of pasture and turbary for fuel to 

 be burnt in their tenement. William 

 Pendlebury deposed that his father Nicholas 

 had had a messuage and land for the 

 ' town's term ' of nineteen years, paying 

 to the Abbot of Coekersand 14*. lod. 

 He had succeeded his father, and paid an 

 'earnest penny or God's penny,' and an 

 entry penny, and was one of those affected 

 by the settlement between the abbot and 

 his tenants already mentioned. Others 

 said that plaintiff was 'very covetous, 

 cumbersome, insatiable, and extreme' with 

 his tenants and farmers, and was trying 

 to evade or upset the settlement. Plain- 

 tiff, who lived at Brinsop, denied this, and 

 said that defendants, acting on bad advice, 

 were troubling him needlessly. One of 

 them had admitted that a scholar in his 

 house, since gone to Cambridge, had ad- 

 vised him to say that 8*. he had paid was 

 for a fine for his house, whereas it was 

 for arrears of rent. Ralph Browne, brother 

 of James, acted as his bailiff"; Duchy 

 Plead. Hi, 14.5-51. 



James Browne was again plaintiff in 

 1556, Adam Hulton and others being 

 defendants. He claimed to have suc- 

 ceeded the Abbots of Coekersand as lords 

 of the manor, and of the waste. Many 

 approvements had been made, cottages and 

 mills built, mostly long before the Disso- 

 lution. The abbots had held courts, taken 

 perquisites and profits, and appointed con- 

 stables and other officers. The defence 

 attempted was that the lord of Manchester 

 was the true lord of the manor and of the 

 wastes, and that the Abbot of Coekersand 

 had paid a chief rent of i8i/. a year for 

 his lands in Westhoughton ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Dep. Ixxiv, B. 2. 



Probably as a consequence of this the 

 jury at Manchester Court Leet in 1557 

 found that a rent of i8</. was due from 

 the township of Westhoughton, but had 

 been withheld ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. i, 

 35. Nothing further is heard of this 

 claim, James Browne having no doubt 

 justified his title. The constables of 

 Westhoughton were summoned to attend 

 the Manchester court down to the end of 

 the 1 7th century, but had ceased to ap- 

 pear ; ibid, vi, 254. 



From a summary of depositions made in 

 1588 it appears that the manor-house had 

 been the grange of the Abbots of Cocker- 

 sand. The decrees previously made against 

 the alleged ' tenant right ' were recited, 

 and it was stated that the old name was 



' town term.' Against the claim of custom 

 the following reasons were alleged : Most 

 of the tenants had taken leases from James 

 Browne the grandfather of the James 

 Browne of 1588 ; a great part of the 

 tenants were not the heirs in blood of the 

 old tenants ; many of the tenements had 

 been inclosed from the waste ; some ten- 

 ants had assigned their tenements without 

 the leave of the lord ; most of them had 

 committed waste ; and many of the wives 

 of deceased tenants and their heirs had 

 not taken up their tenements within the 

 prescribed twelve months; Duchy of Lane. 

 Misc. bdle. 3, no. 9. 



28 Snydale has taken many forms. 

 Albert Grelley, jun. gave Ellis de Pen- 

 dlebury ' Sliuehale ' by i zJ. or by a sor- 

 hawk a year, and Ellis held the land in 

 1 21 2 ; Inq, and Extents, i, 58. From its 

 position it appears to be the Suynul or 

 Suinhul (? Sniuhul) of the Coekersand 

 Char, (ii, 676-7), which Roger son of 

 Adam de Pendlebury excepted from his 

 grant to the abbey. 



It should be noticed that the Pendle- 

 burys had lands also in Halliwell, of which 

 there is a part called Smithills. 



In 1320 Robert de Pendlebury held 

 ' Smythell ' for one sparrow-hawk or izd. ; 

 Mamecestrtj 290. 



Isabel Hulton and {Catherine her 

 daughter in 1449 received 39 from the 

 lands called Snydale in Westhoughton for 

 the marriage of {Catherine, from Sir Geof- 

 frey Massey of Worsley and Margery his 

 wife ; Ellesmere D. no. 221. 



Henry son of Robert de Pendlebury 

 and Joan his wife had in 1363 and 

 later years disputes with Hugh de Leigh, 

 John de Leigh, and John son of Rich- 

 ard de Leigh, concerning messuages, 

 &c., in Westhoughton ; De Banco R. 

 413, m. 100 ; 418, m. 315 d. ; 438, m. 

 209 d. 



In 1532 Roger Pendlebury of West- 

 houghton was murdered in his house. An 

 inquest was held, but, as his brother and 

 heir William averred, by the favour and 

 contrivance of Ralph Bradshagh the cor- 

 oner, the jury found the crime had been 

 committed in self-defence ; Duchy Plead, 

 ii, 51. 



29 Adam son of Roger Pendlebury in 

 1531 granted a lease of Snydale to Adam 

 Hulton of the Park ; Towneley MS. 

 RR, n. 58. 



In 1574 a settlement was made of a 

 messuage, windmill, 40 acres of land, 

 &c., in Westhoughton, by Roger and 

 Ralph Pendlebury ; after these the re- 

 mainders were to William, Nicholas, 

 Adam, Richard, and Lawrence Pendle- 

 bury in succession ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 36, no. 83. 



A sequel to this arrangement is given 

 in Duchy of Lane. Plead, clxv, P. 8. 

 William, a son of Robert Pendlebury of 

 'Snythyll,' in 1595, alleged that Roger 



2 3 



proper. 



P e n d lebury, 

 the son and 



heir of Robert, had been seised of the capital 

 messuage called ' Snythull,' with barns, or- 

 chards, fishings, &c., in the parish of Deane. 

 Having no sons, Roger settled the estate 

 on his brothers successively Ralph, Wil- 

 liam (plaintiff), Nicholas, Adam, Richard, 

 and Lawrence. Ralph having died, Roger 

 sold to Christopher Anderton the mar- 

 riage of his daughter Anne, afterwards 

 wife of James Worthington, with the re- 

 version of the estate should Anne die 

 childless. In 1613 James Worthington of 

 Sneithell and Anne his wife had a son 

 Ralph, twelve years of age ; Visit, of 1 6 1 3 

 (Chet. Soc.), 126; also Visit, of 1567 

 (Chet. Soc.), 28. 



There was a recovery of Snydale in 

 1585, Christopher Anderton being tenant 

 and Roger Pendlebury vouchee ; Ander- 

 ton D. no. 48. The marriage of Anne 

 Pendlebury the daughter had been granted 

 in 1580 as appears by an exemplification 

 at the request of James Worthington ; 

 ibid. no. 74. 



80 The sale, or more probably mort- 

 gage, referred to in the last note, was 

 made in 1584, ten years after the settle- 

 ment, when Christopher Anderton ac- 

 quired from Roger Pendlebury and Anne 

 his wife the capital messuage called Sny- 

 thell, with lands in Westhoughton and 

 Golborne ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 46, m. 190. 



James Worthington, of ' Snithell ' and 

 Barnard's Inn, a younger son of Lawrence 

 Worthington of Crawshaw, married Anne, 

 daughter and sole heir of Roger Pendle- 

 bury ; Visit, of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 126. 

 He contributed to the subsidy as a land- 

 owner in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 1 60. 



His son and heir Ralph was twelve 

 years of age in 1613. Ralph Worthing- 

 ton of ' Smithells ' was a member of the 

 Presbyterian classis in 1646 ; Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. 1868), i, 227. 



In 1690 William Worthington and 

 Ralph, Peter, and John Worthington made 

 a settlement of the 'manor of West- 

 houghton ' and of messuages and lands 

 there and in Thornton ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 225, m. 53. 



From William Worthington the tithes 

 of ' Snydle or Snythill,' &c., were pur- 

 chased in 1726-7 by William Leigh ; 

 Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 234, from 

 Rolls I & 2 of Geo. II at Preston. 



William son of William Worthington 

 of Bolton matriculated at Queen's Col- 

 lege, Oxford, in 1739, being fifteen years 

 of age ; he proceeded to the B.A. degree ; 

 Foster, Alumni Oxon. 



William Worthington was vouchee in 

 a recovery of the manor in 1745 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 560, m. 8 d. 



81 Information of Mr. Daniel Howsin 

 of Padiham. 



