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Worsley. 18 He was Serjeant of Salfordshire in 



I222. 19 



Richard de Hulton died before 1230, leaving as 

 heir his son Richard, then a minor. 20 This son 

 appears to have died without issue, and was succeeded 

 in turn by his brothers William and David, who 

 married Beatrice and Agnes, daughters and co-heirs of 

 Adam de Blackburn." To David de Hulton William 

 de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, in 1251, granted his lands 

 in Flixton and the manor of Ordsall. 22 David had 

 several children, and was still living in 1282." About 

 1285 he died," being succeeded by his son Richard, 25 

 who in 1304 obtained from Edward I a grant of free 

 warren in all his lands of Hulton and Ordsall, also in 

 Flixton and Heaton, outside the bounds of the royal 

 forests. 26 The ' Park ' long continued to be the 

 distinctive name of the estate. Before 1312 he was 

 followed by his son, another Richard." At this point 



there is some uncertainty in the succession. Richard 

 son of the last-named Richard, being childless, effected 

 a partition of the estates. 28 Farnworth and Rum- 

 worth went to one branch of the family, while Hulton, 

 with lands in Westhoughton and Rumworth, were 

 bestowed upon Richard de Hulton's uncle Adam, 29 

 from whom the hereditary succession is continuous to 

 the present time ; Ordsall with Flixton and Halli- 

 well with Blackburn passed to different branches of 

 the Radcliffe family. 



Adam de Hulton was in possession in 1335, about two 

 years after the grant by his nephew, 30 and a settlement 

 was then made of his park in Hulton and Westhoughton, 

 and his lands in Rumworth, Denton, and Manchester, 

 with the manors, mills, and appurtenances. The 

 occasion was the marriage of Adam's son Roger with 

 Aline daughter of Adam de Lever. sl Roger had by 

 1355" been succeeded by his son Roger, a minor, 13 



M Hulton Ped.T,. The grant included all the 

 land between Holesyke and Wholewhics- 

 waghe Brook and between Farnworth and 

 Tyldesley, the service being a rent of iz</.; 

 it was made when Sir William de Vernon 

 was sheriff of Lancaster, apparently as 

 early as 1204 ; P.R.O. List, 72. 



19 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 133. 



M Final Cone, i, izi, quoting Curia 

 Regis R. 107, m. 29 d., from which it ap- 

 pears that Robert de Hulton, being sum- 

 moned to justify his assarts in the woods 

 near Pendleton, adduced a charter of 

 Richard de Hulton, and called Richard, 

 son of the said Richard, to warrant him. 

 Richard the son being a minor and in 

 ward to the Earl of Chester, the case was 

 adjourned. 



This younger Richard is probably the 

 Richard son of Christiana de Alreton who 

 had four oxgangs of land in Heaton under 

 Horwich in 1241. 



21 Final Cone. loc. cit. ; Abram, Black- 

 burn, 251. As Beatrice widow of Wil- 

 liam de Hulton in 1256 claimed dower 

 in the Hulton lands in Salfordshire, it 

 would seem that William was the elder 

 brother and that David had succeeded him. 

 In Hulton itself he held two oxgangs of 

 land, one in demesne and one tenanted 

 by David son of AugereL 



David is said to have had two other 

 brothers Roger and John ; the latter was 

 rector of Radcliffe ; Hulton Fed. 4. 



22 Gregson, Fragments, 347. 



23 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, \, 249. His 

 children are stated to have been Richard, 

 Adam, Cecily, and John ; Hulton Fed. 4. 

 Cecily Daykins daughter of Hulton was 

 a defendant in 1348 ; Assize R. 1444, 

 m. 4. 



84 Agnes, David's widow, claimed dower 

 in 1285 ; De Banco R. 59, m. 75. 



85 In 1297 Richard son and heir of 

 David de Hulton made an agreement 

 with Richard son and heir of Henry de 

 Worsley, concerning an exchange of a 

 mediety of Little Haughton for lands and 

 easements in Hulton. The former re- 

 ceived 5 acres in the Gulnecroft, lying 

 next to his own land, and release of a road 

 leading to his mansion ; Eilesmere D. 

 no. 53. 



Richard de Hulton acted as a juror in 

 1299 ; Inq. and Extents, i, 305. In 1301 

 he withdrew a claim against Richard de 

 Worsley and others respecting common of 

 pasture in 100 acres of land, &c., in Hul- 

 ton ; Assize R. 1321, m. I2</. He granted 

 land in Farnworth to William de Priest- 

 croft ; Hulton Fed. 4. 



His wife Margery is said to have been 

 a daughter of Robert de Radcliffe, and to 

 have married secondly Geoffrey de Chad- 

 derton ; ibid. 5. 



88 Chart. R. 97 (32 Edw. I), m. 2, no. 

 40. 



27 As early as 1294 Richard son of 

 Richard son of David de Hulton received 

 from Joan daughter of Austin Crosscliff 

 lands in Halliwell, which she held of the 

 Abbot of Cockersand ; Hulton Fed. 5. 



Richard, John, and Roger, sons of 

 Richard de Hulton, attested a Sharpies 

 charter about 1307; Harl. MS. 2112, 

 fol. 145/181. 



In 1 3 1 i-i 2, when Richard was evidently 

 in possession of the lands, he released to 

 the Abbot of Cockersand all his right in 

 the wastes and pastures of Westhoughton, 

 reserving, however, common of pasture 

 and reasonable estovers for himself and his 

 tenants ; Hulton Fed. 6. He gave his 

 brother John in 1325-6 certain lands in 

 Hulton with reversion of the dower of 

 his mother Margery in Westhoughton ; 

 ibid. 5. 



In June 1311 agreements as to bounds 

 and an exchange of lands in Hulton were 

 made by Richard de Hulton (probably the 

 son of Richard) and Richard de Worsley ; 

 Cartelache is named as the ' true division 

 between Salfordshire and Derbyshire ' ; 

 Eilesmere D. no. 56-7. 



28 In 1331 Richard son and heir of 

 Richard de Hulton, in making a grant to 

 Robert son of Adam de Hulton in Irlam, 

 mentions his grandfather Richard ; De 

 Traffbrd D. no. 267. 



In 1334 Richard de Hulton of Ordsall, 

 convicted with others of having broken 

 into the king's park at Ightenhill, re- 

 ceived a pardon ; Coram Reg. R. 298, 

 Rex m. 2. 



Richard de Hulton had a wife Maud, 

 from whom he was divorced ; Assize R. 

 438, m. 15 d. 



Sir Nicholas de Langford in 1344 at- 

 tempted to unsettle the disposition of the 

 estates, alleging that Richard de Hulton 

 had in 1334 granted him a rent of 200 

 marks, in case that he made an aliena- 

 tion without Nicholas's consent ; Assize 

 R. 1435, m. 40. Among the defendants 

 were John de Hulton of Manchester and 

 Roger de Atherton, who had received lands 

 in Rumworth ; Adam de Hulton and 

 Avice his wife, who had twelve messuages, 

 200 acres of land, &c., in Hulton, two 

 messuages, 40 acres of land, &c., in West- 

 houghton, and a messuage and land in 

 Rumworth. The defence was that Richard 



27 



had made an enfeoffment of his lands with 

 the advice of Sir Nicholas. 



29 In 1333 Richard de Hulton, lord of 

 Ordsall, granted to his uncle Adam de 

 Hulton and his heirs all the grantor's land 

 in Westhoughton,with his manor and tene- 

 ment in Hulton, and that part of his lands 

 in Rumworth formerly held for life by 

 Richard del Meadow; Hulton Fed. 6. The 

 armorial seal shows the lion rampant, with 

 the legend : si . RICARDI . DE . HILTVN. 



Richard son of Richard de Hulton 

 (perhaps of the Farnworth family) and 

 Adam his brother attested a local charter 

 in 1293 ; Eilesmere D. no. 49. 



80 Adam de Hulton was a plaintiff in 

 1333 ; Cal. Pat. 1330-4, p. 498. 



In 1334 Richard son of Alexander de 

 Denton claimed a fourth part of the manor 

 of Denton against Adam son of Richard 

 de Hulton and Avice his wife; De Banco 

 R. 338, m. 126 d. 



Adam and his sons Roger and Robert 

 occur in 1343 ; Cal. Close, 1343-5, p. 82. 



81 Hulton Fed. 7. There were remainders 

 to Robert and Hugh, brothers of Roger. 

 The lands in Denton and Manchester 

 seem to have come to Adam de Hulton 

 with his wife Avice ; ibid. ; a deed of 

 1316-17 being quoted. 



Although the marriage of Roger the 

 son was arranged in 1335, it does not 

 seem to have taken place until 1346, when 

 the parents of the parties agreed as to 

 dower and maintenance ; ibid. 8. Roger 

 de Hulton was in 1343 found guilty of 

 overthrowing John de Hulton's house at 

 Rumworth ; Assize R. 430, m. 1 8. 



Adam de Hulton had two other sons 

 named in a grant of 1347, by which 

 Roger and Robert, already named, gave 

 the reversion of a rent from Tyldesley to 

 their brothers Adam and Lowe ; Hulton 

 Fed. 9. 



82 Roger son of Roger de Hulton is 

 found claiming the manor as early as 

 1356; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 5, m. 

 14, 1 8. He was called to warrant in 

 1355, being then a minor ; ibid. R. 4, 

 m. 4. 



88 Roger son of Roger de Hulton had 

 the king's protection from all actions in 

 1371, on his setting out for Calais, in the 

 retinue of Nicholas de Tamworth, captain 

 of the town ; De Banco R. 444, m. 34 d. 



Roger de Hulton was living in 1389, 

 when Hugh de Ince and others released 

 all actions to him, his son Roger, William 

 son of Adam de Hulton, &c. ; Hulton 

 Fed. 9. 



In 1396-7 the feoffees of Roger de 



