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liam ; 46 his successor was his great-grandson Adam, 

 born in 1607. 



Adam Hulton had livery of his lands in November 

 1632," and died in 1652.** He does not appear to 

 have taken any part in the Civil War on one side or 

 the other. 49 His son and heir William contested the 

 borough of Clitheroe in April 1660 ; he had a majority 

 of the free burgesses in opposition to William White, 

 elected by the freemen at large, and the latter being 

 unseated on petition, William Hulton represented the 

 borough from July to December i66o. M He re- 

 corded a pedigree at the visitation of i664. 51 He 

 died thirty years later, 5 * being succeeded by his son 

 Henry, 53 who died childless in 1737. The manor 



then passed to William son of Jessop Hulton, Henry's 

 younger brother, 44 who was in turn succeeded by his 

 son, grandson, and great-grandson, each named Wil- 

 liam. 55 The last of these, sheriff of Lancashire in 

 1810, and constable of Lancaster Castle, died in 

 1864; his son and heir, William Ford Hulton, 56 

 dying in 1879, was followed by his son Sir William 

 Wilbraham Blethin Hulton, also constable of Lancaster 

 Castle, created a baronet in 1905." He died in 1907, 

 and was succeeded by his son Sir William Rothwell 

 Hulton, the present lord of the manor. 



A number of deeds and other records have been 

 preserved, showing how the Worsleys and their suc- 

 cessors dealt with their estate in Hulton. 58 It has 



46 William Hulton the younger, described 

 as 'of Manchester, gentleman," died 6 Sept. 

 1613 holding Harpurhey and other lands 

 near Manchester, as well as some in Hul- 

 ton, Farnworth, Heaton, and Wigan ; those 

 in Hulton and Farnworth were held of the 

 lord of Manchester by the hundredth part 

 of a knight's fee. In 1610 he engaged 

 that before Whitsuntide 1612 he would 

 provide for the jointure of his wife {Cather- 

 ine daughter of Robert Hyde of Norbury 

 in Cheshire, mention being made of 

 * mines of coal and cannel ' on his land. 

 Adam Hulton the son and heir was six 

 years of age on 5 July 1613 ; Land. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 



265. 



Some time after the death of William 

 Hulton a further inquisition was taken 

 (1631), and it was found that the manor 

 of Over Hulton, with a capital messuage 

 called the Park, with messuages, orchards, 

 lands, dove-house, two water-mills, &c., 

 was held of Rowland Mosley as of his 

 manor of Manchester ; there were other 

 lands in Westhoughton and Rumworth, 

 also held of the manor of Manchester. In 

 default of hein male of William Hulton 

 the grandson, the remainders were to 

 William, Robert, Henry, and Rowland 

 Hulton, younger sons of William Hulton 

 the grandfather ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxv, 20. {Catherine widow of Wil- 

 liam Hulton the grandson was living at 

 Todmorden in 1631. She married Saville 

 Radcliffe, called ' father ' in Adam Hul- 

 ton's will. 



4 7 Hulton Fed. 26. The endorsement of 

 the writ has ' Adamus Hulton, infra eta- 

 tem,' though if the inquisition of 1613 

 is correct he must in 1632 have been 

 twenty -five years of age. 



48 Ibid, where his will is printed in full; 

 his son William was the principal legatee, 

 but his ' mother Radcliffe ' and other re- 

 lations are mentioned. 



49 Either Adam or his brother Edward 

 (stated to have died in 1645) was a cap- 

 tain in the Parliamentary army, for in 

 Jan. 1643-4 a correspondent of George 

 Rigby of Peel mentions that ' Captain 

 Hilton, your brother-in-law," was then a 

 prisoner at Chester ; it was proposed to 

 exchange him 'for one Mr. Browne, a 

 minister, now prisoner at Manchester' ; 

 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 61. 

 John Hulton of Darley also stated about 

 the same time that ' the last man living 

 upon my land that was able to bear arms 

 is with Captain Hulton's company'; ibid. 

 63. 



Pink and Beaven, Parl. Rep. of Lanes. 



*53 



51 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 159; 

 this records William Hulton's age as thirty- 

 eight, and states that his son William 



(not entered in the printed Pedigree) was 

 then five years of age. 



sa He seems to be the Mr. Hulton ' 

 frequently mentioned in Henry Newcome's 

 Diary and Autobiography (Chet. Soc.). He 

 sympathized with the persecuted Noncon- 

 formists of the time ; Oliver Heywood, 

 Diaries, i, 197. By his will he devised 

 all his estates at Hulton and elsewhere 

 in Lancashire and at Bryanstown in West- 

 meath to his eldest son Henry and heirs 

 male ; then to his other sons Jessop, 

 Charles, Francis, and Edward successively 

 in tail male ; Hulton Fed. 28. 



43 His name occurs in the list of 

 ' Papists' ' estates returned in the time 

 of George I ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 195. 



M Upon the death of William the 

 testator his eldest son Henry entered on 

 the several estates devised to him as afore- 

 said and continued in possession thereof 

 till his death, which happened in the end 

 of the year 1737, when he died without 

 issue, having a short time before his 

 death married Eleanor Copley. Jessop, 

 the second son, died in the life of his 

 brother, and left issue one son, William. 

 Charles, Francis, and Edward also died 

 in the life of Henry, without issue. Upon 

 the death of Henry the said William 

 Hulton the son of Jessop entered into 

 possession of the several estates descended 

 to him, and his uncles Charles, Francis, 

 and Edward having all died without issue, 

 the remainder in fee expectant, as well 

 as the estate tail, vested in him ' ; Hulton 

 Fed. quoting an old abstract of title. 



In 1740 he made a settlement of the 

 manors and lands of Over Hulton, Rum- 

 worth, Farnworth, Kearsley, Denton, 

 Longworth, and Clegg Hall in Butter- 

 worth ; ibid. 29 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 321, m. 3. 



William Hulton died in April 1741, 

 aged twenty-five. 



55 William Hulton, only son of the 

 last-named William, matriculated from 

 Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1757, being 

 seventeen years of age ; Foster, Alumni. 

 In 1763 he made an arrangement with 

 his mother and her second husband (Ed- 

 ward Clowes of Manchester) regarding 

 lands in Hulton and Westhoughton ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 369, m. 89. 



In 1772 an Act was passed to enable 

 him to charge his settled estates in Lanca- 

 shire as a provision for his wife (Ann 

 Hall) and younger children. The tim- 

 ber growing upon the manors of West- 

 houghton, Harpurhey, and Denton was 

 valued at 4,200 ; Hulton Fed. 29. He 

 died in the following year. 



One of his sons, Henry (born 1765, 

 died 1831), entered Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford, in 1784, and became Captain ist 



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Royals and afterwards lieutenant-colonel 

 commandant of Lower Blackburn local 

 militia, and treasurer of the county, had 

 a son William Adam Hulton (180287), 

 barrister and judge of the county court, 

 who compiled the Hulton Pedigree already 

 quoted, and edited the Wballey Coucher 

 for the Chetham Society ; a notice of 

 him will be found in the Diet. Nat. Biog. 



William Hulton son of the above- 

 named William was sheriff of Lancashire 

 in 1789, and died in 1800. His son 

 and heir William matriculated from Brase- 

 nose College in 1804, aged seventeen, 

 and was created M.A. in 1807 ; Foster, 

 Alumni. For recoveries of the Hulton 

 manors in 1783 and 1809 see Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 638 ; Assize R. Lent 49 

 Geo. Ill (R. 9). 



86 Of Christ Church, Oxford, 18305 

 Foster, Alumni. 



57 See also Foster, Lanes. Pedigrees ; 

 Burke, Commoners, iv, 29 ; Burke, Landed 

 Gentry , and Baines, Lanes, (ed. Croston), 

 iii, 138. 



58 In 1292 Joan daughter of Richard 

 de Worsley claimed the manor of Hulton 

 against Henry de Worsley and John de 

 Brunscales. Her right being acknow- 

 ledged it was agreed that ' Henry should j 

 find all necessaries, as in sustenance and 

 clothing, for the said Joan at his house 

 during the term ' of two years, for which 

 he had a lease of the manor, and then pay 

 her 80 marks, ' for which she granted that 

 the manor should wholly remain to him 

 and his heirs in perpetuity'; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 30 d. 



In 1305 Margaret widow of Henry de 

 Worsley claimed dower in Hulton from 

 Henry son of Richard son of Henry de 

 Worsley ; she had married Robert son of 

 Richard de Radcliffe ; De Banco R. 153, 

 m. 124 ; R. 156, m. 92 ; R. 159, m. 98 ; 

 182 d.; R. 161, m. 92, 155. 



In May 1341 Geoffrey son of Henry 

 de Worsley came to Hulton with force 

 and arms, entered his father's house, and 

 broke the beer barrels, consuming beer to 

 the value of 41.; he also broke the hedges 

 of Richard de Hulton of the Wich ; Assize 

 R. 430, m. 16. 



In 1350 Alice widow of Henry de 

 Worsley sought dower in Hulton against 

 Amabel widow of Geoffrey de Worsley ; 

 Geoffrey, the kinsman and heir of Henry, 

 though a minor, warranted Amabel, and 

 it was ordered that Alice should have 

 equal lands as her dower ; De Banco R. 

 363, m. 107. See also Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 7, m. 7 (Lent 1359), at which 

 time Amabel was the wife of John le 

 Comyn of Newbold. 



The Worsley family acquired lands 

 from the smaller holders. Thus Richard 

 de Worsley repurchased from Richard 



