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appear to have sold it to the Tyldesleys. 66 From these 

 it passed to Edmund Fleetwood of Rossall, 66 and after- 

 wards to the Morts. About 

 the middle of the 1 8th cen- 

 tury Joseph Yates of Man- 

 chester purchased it, 67 and 

 about seventy years later his 

 descendants sold it to Ellis 

 Fletcher of Clifton, a colliery 

 proprietor. 68 Peel Hall is a 

 modern house erected in 1840 

 by Matthew Fletcher, from 

 the designs of Sir Charles 

 Barry. It stands in the site 

 of an older hall which was a 

 stone building consisting of a 



centre and two wings with three gables to the front. 

 All that is left of the old hall is part of the moat, 

 which has been made into an ornamental lake. 68 * 

 Another PEEL, known as Kenyon Peel Hall, 69 was 



RIGBY. Argent on a 

 cross fiory azure ji-ve 

 mullets or. 



about 1600 in the possession of Alexander Rigby ; he 

 gave it to a younger son George, 70 whose daughter and 

 heir, Alice, 71 brought it to her husband Roger Kenyon 

 of Parkhead and his descend- 

 ants, the present owner being 

 Lord Kenyon of Gredington. 72 

 Kenyon Peel Hall is situated 

 about a quarter of a mile south 

 of the ancient highway, run- 

 ning from Manchester in a 

 north-west direction towards 

 Bolton, and is on the southern 

 slope of the high ground lying 

 between the valley of the Ir- 

 well on the north and Chat 

 Moss on the south. Before 

 the locality was given over 

 to collieries and manufacture 



KENYON, Lord Ken- 

 yon. Sable a che-veron 

 engrailed or between thret 

 crosses fiory argent. 



the situation must have been a pleasant one, but to-, 

 day the house lies amidst surroundings which have 



the Ral to Richard son of John son of 

 Meuric ; Hulton Fed, 48. Henry son of 

 Henry de Tyldesley was defendant in a 

 Hulton suit in 1313-14 ; Assize R. 424, 

 m. 4 d. 



Hawise, as widow of Richard de Wich- 

 eves, demised to Henry son of John de 

 Hulton her right in the Hope Hey in 

 Wicheves in the vill of Worsley ; Hulton 

 Fed. 34. Hawise is said to have been 

 a daughter of Gilbert de Lymme. 

 Richard son of Richard son of John de 

 Hulton in 1295 released to the same 

 Henry de Hulton all his right in the 

 Hope Hey, held of Gilbert de Lymme 

 and his heirs by the rent of a rose ; ibid. 

 At the same time John son of Hugh de 

 Hulton released to Henry his uncle his 

 land in Wicheves in the Hope Hey, the 

 bounds touching those of Farnworth at 

 one point ; ibid. Joan widow of Adam 

 son of Richard de Hulton of the Wich- 

 eves in 1336 released to her father-in- 

 law all her dower lands in Worsley and 

 Tyldesley ; ibid. 35. 



5 The Peel of Hulton is named as 

 early as 1395 among the lands of Thomas 

 son of Henry de Tyldesley, whose son Peter 

 appears to have married Maud daughter of 

 Richard Mort ; Yates Evidences. 



In 1465 Thomas son and heir of James 

 Tyldesley, who was son and heir of Thomas 

 Tyldesley, was a minor in ward to Sir 

 Geoffrey Massey of Worsley; ibid. James 

 Tyldesley had married Alice daughter of 

 Roger Hulton of the Park ; the contract 

 is dated 1437 ; Hulton Fed. 12. 



Thomas Tyldesley of the Peel in 1501 

 leased the Fennyslack in Worsley to James 

 son of Thomas Mort; ibid. In 1523 

 the feoffees of Thomas Tyldesley made 

 provision for an annuity for Elizabeth his 

 wife ; ibid. 



The wardship and marriage of Thomas 

 son and heir of James Tyldesley of Peel 

 was claimed by Sir John Brereton in 1530 ; 

 Ellesmere D. no. 76. 



To Lora Browne, widow, formerly 

 wife of the above-named James Tyldesley, 

 dower was assigned in 1546 from the 

 lands of William Tyldesley of the Peel 

 of Hulton, or Wicheves Hall, with ten 

 messuages, a water-mill, &c.; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 12, m. 278. 



84 In 1550 William Tyldesley seems to 

 have mortgaged or sold his estate, Robert 

 Fleetwood and John Stokes being plaintiffs 

 in a fine of that year ; ibid. bdle. 14, m. 

 153. Thirty years later Edmund Fleet- 



wood, esq. was in possession ; ibid, 

 bdle. 42, m. 39. From the Yates deeds 

 it is evident that Edmund Fleetwood was 

 owner in 1574, Thomas Mort of Dam- 

 house being in possession. Edmund Fleet- 

 wood of Rossall died in 1622, holding a 

 capital messuage with 120 acres in Wors- 

 ley and Little Hulton of the lord of Wors- 

 ley ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 316. 



6 7 For a notice of this family see Ab- 

 ram, Blackburn, 408, 409 ; also Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. Croston), iii, 150. Joseph 

 Yates of Manchester married Ellen 

 daughter and co-heir of William Maghull 

 of Maghull; he died in 1773, and his 

 eldest son having left three daughters 

 the Peel estate passed to the heir of his 

 younger son, Sir Joseph Yates, justice of 

 the King's Bench, and afterwards of the 

 Common Pleas. Sir Joseph had settled 

 at Cheam in Surrey, and was buried there 

 in 1770; Foss, Judges ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 His son Joseph sold Peel to Ellis Fletcher. 

 Some deeds relating to the estate are given 

 in Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 147. 



The Rev. William Allen, author of 

 Collectanea Latina, at one time resided in 

 the house. He was minister of Peel 

 Chapel, and had a boarding school. 



68 From Ellis Fletcher it has descended 

 to his granddaughter, Mrs. Wynne Corrie. 

 She married the Hon. Robert Wellington 

 Stapleton Cotton, son of Lord Comber- 

 mere, but was divorced in 1 879. There 

 was no issue of this marriage. She 

 afterwards married Mr. Wynne Corrie ; 

 Burke, Family Rec. 181. See also the 

 account of Clifton in Eccles. 



68a Trans. Antiq. Soc. xvii, 242. 



69 For a view see N. G. Philips, Old 

 Halls of Lanes, and Ches. 57. 



7 Leonard Asshaw of Shaw in Flixton 

 was in 1595 found to have held lands in 

 Hulton of the lord of Worsley ; Duchy of 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. xvi, n. A daughter 

 married Alexander Rigby, who appears to 

 have had her portion in Hulton ; Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 332, 350. 



Alexander Rigby of Goosnargh, who died 

 in 1621, held a messuage and lands in Hul- 

 ton and Tyldesley, which with land in 

 Turton he gave to his younger son, George 

 Rigby; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.) iii, 458. 



7 1 Alice Rigby, spinster, made a settle- 

 ment of the manor of Peel, with lands in 

 Over Hulton, Little Hulton (otherwise 

 Lowest Hulton), Worsley, Goosnargh, 

 Turton, Wigan, Hopwood, Thornton near 



3 1 



Chadderton, Clayden, Manchester, Hun- 

 dersheld, Rochdale, and Rivington ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 160,01.63. A 

 further settlement was made in 1680 by 

 Roger Kenyon, Alice his wife, Leftwich 

 Oldfield, Alice his wife, and Jane Ha- 

 worth, widow ; ibid. bdle. 202, m. 101. 



? a Dugdale, Vhit. 166 ; Abram, Black- 

 turn, 752. Roger Kenyon made Peel his 

 residence. He represented Clitheroe in 

 Parliament from 1690 to 1695 as a Tory ; 

 Pink and Beaven, op. cit. 257. He 

 was also clerk of the peace for Lancashire 

 and Governor of the Isle of Man ; a very 

 large amount of information about him is 

 contained in the Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. 

 xiv, App. iv, passim. His eldest son Roger, 

 named at the Visitation of 1664, died 

 before him, and George Kenyon, a younger 

 son, Tory representative of Wigan from 

 171010 1714 (Pink and Beaven, 232) suc- 

 ceeded to Peel. A third son, Thomas, 

 was grandfather of Lloyd Kenyon, suc- 

 cessively Attorney General, Master of the 

 Rolls, and Lord Chief Justice, created a 

 baronet in 1784, and raised to the peerage 

 as Baron Kenyon of Gredington in 1788 ; 

 see Kenyon MSS. ; Life, by the Hon. 

 George Kenyon ; Foss, Judges ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. 



George Kenyon married his cousin Ann 

 daughter of Edward Kenyon, rector of 

 Prestwich, and dying in 1728, was suc- 

 ceeded by his son and grandson, both 

 named George. Roger and George Ken- 

 yon sons of George Kenyon, a lawyer, 

 entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 

 1719, being aged seventeen and sixteen 

 respectively ; R. F. Scott, Admissions, iii, 

 17. The last George Kenyon, who died 

 in 1770, left several daughters, co-heirs, 

 of whom the eldest married Sir Thomas 

 Hanmer, bart. The first Lord Kenyon 

 married Mary daughter of the second 

 George Kenyon cousin by both father 

 and mother ; and his son, the second lord, 

 also married a cousin, Margaret Emma, 

 daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Han- 

 mer. Their grandson, the present Lord 

 Kenyon, is the owner of Peel Hall. Alice 

 Kenyon, sister of Mary, Lady Kenyon, 

 held' Peel Hall till her death in 1836, 

 when it passed to her nephew, the second 

 Lord Kenyon. For an account of the 

 family see G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 

 3 5 8-60 ; also pedigree, Baines, Lanes, (ed. 

 Croston), iii, 148, and Piccope's MS. Pedi- 

 grees (Chet. Lib.), i, 218. See also Pal. 

 Note Bk. iv, 56, 143. 



