SALFORD HUNDRED 



&c. In 1587 he had settled the manor of Shaw and 

 various lands upon his second son, Lawrence, who, 

 however, died without issue two years later, and then 

 a fresh settlement was made in 1591 in favour of the 

 third son, Leonard, and his heirs male." The eldest 

 son, Edward, was still living, thirty-four years of age, 

 in April 1595. Shaw and the lands in Flixton were 

 stated to be held of George Hulton by fealty and a 

 rent of 1 6/. 100 



Leonard, who thus inherited Shaw, died there 

 12 April 1633, holding the manors of Shaw and 

 Flixton, with views of frank- 

 pledge, the former of Tho- 

 mas Hulton of Farnworth 

 in socage, and the latter of 

 Edward Mosley, as of his 

 manor of Manchester, also 

 in socage by a rent of 1 8</. 

 Elizabeth, his daughter and 

 heir, thirty years of age, was 

 the wife of Peter, son of Sir 

 Ralph Egerton of Ridley in 

 Cheshire. 101 



Peter Egerton, who thus 

 became lord of Shaw and 

 Flixton in right of his wife, 

 was one of the most pro- 

 minent men in the county 

 during the Civil War period. 

 He was sheriff in l64l. 1M 

 On the outbreak of the war 

 he embraced the side of the 

 Parliament, taking part in 

 the defence of Manchester 

 in 1642 10S and the sieges of 



FLIXTON 



Lathom House ; as General Egerton he received the 

 surrender of this place in December i645. 104 He 

 died in 1656 by the accidental administration of 

 poison. 105 



He was succeeded by his son Leonard and grand- 

 son Peter. 106 The family appear to have become im- 

 poverished, and their lands were gradually sold in the 

 latter part of the i yth century. Peter Egerton died 

 in 1712, and his son John sold the Shaw Hall estate 

 in 1722 to William Latus. 107 On the new owner's 

 death in 1 764 it was advertised for sale. 108 It passed 



SHAW HALL 



99 Leonard Asshaw matriculated at Ox- 

 ford (Brasenose College) in 1584, being 

 fifteen years of age ; B.A. 1588 ; Foster, 

 Alumni. 



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

 II j see also M.anch. Court Leet Rec. ii, 91, 

 121. In the settlement of 1587 Edward the 

 son and heir was associated with his father ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 49, m. 4. 

 He was buried at Flixton 4 May 1611. 



The Asshaw estates also came to this 

 family on the death of Lawrence's elder 

 brother Thomas. 



101 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 

 39. As stated above he had purchased 

 the RadclirFe manor of Flixton in 1608, 

 but the tenure stated in the inquisition it 

 that for the quarter of Flixton held of the 

 lord of Manchester, the rent being i8</. 

 instead of 2O</. as in 1473. The inquisi- 

 tion recites a fine, Lent, 8 Jas. I. Jane 

 the widow was living at Shaw. Peter 

 Egerton and Elizabeth Asshaw were mar- 

 ried at Flixton 28 April 1610. 



A pedigree was recorded in 1613 ; Visit. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 6. Leonard Asshaw in 1631 

 paid 25 fine on refusing knighthood ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 21 5. 

 His funeral certificate is printed in the 

 Record Society's volume, p. 198. 

 ^ 1M P.R.O. List, 73. 



108 Civil War Tracts (Chet. Soc.), 45, 

 52, 333. Soon afterwards the Parliament 

 appointed him a magistrate ; ibid. 60. In 

 1 the following year he was placed on the 

 committee for sequestering 'delinquents' 

 estates' ; ibid. 90; and in 1645 on the 

 military committee; ibid. 210. 



104 Ibid. 167, 212; also Lanes. War 

 (Chet Soc.), 62. 



105 He was buried at Flixton 22 May 

 1656. Henry Newcome states that he 

 4 used to take flour of brimstone for some 

 distemper he had ; and he sent the maid 

 into the closet, and she mingled it with 

 milk and he drank it, and it proved mer- 

 cury ; and by this woeful mistake he was 

 poisoned and died within a few hours ' ; 

 Autobiog. (Chet. Soc.), i, 79. 



108 A settlement was made in 1662 of 

 the manors of Shaw and Flixton, with 

 views of frankpledge, free fishery, &c., by 

 Leonard Egerton, Mary his wife, and 

 Peter son and heir apparent ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 168, m. 100. A deed of 

 sale to John Lowe in the same year is 

 printed in Local Glean. Lanes, and Ches. 

 1,276. 



A pedigree was recorded in 1664 ; Dug- 

 dale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 102. Leonard's 

 age is given as forty-seven, Peter's as 

 twenty-two ; and that of Peter's daughter 

 Mary as one year. 



Leonard Egerton was buried at Flixton 

 15 Jan. 1679-80; and Mary his widow 

 2 April 1681. Peter Egerton was buried 

 26 Mar. 1699. Soon afterwards, 3 Aug. 

 1699, an annuity of 25 a year was 

 charged on Shaw Hall in favour of Mary 

 Egerton, widow, by her son Peter Egerton 

 and Anne his wife ; Local Glean. Lanes, 

 and Ches. ii, 3. 



107 These particulars are from Dr. 

 Leech's paper already quoted, 191 ; he 

 states that the last Peter Egerton was one 

 of the leading florists of the county. 



Peter Egerton was sheriff in 1703 ; 

 P.R.O. List, 74. 



In 1707 Peter Egerton and Anne his 

 wife made a settlement of the manor of 



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Shaw, and a messuage and lands in Shaw 

 and Flixton ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 258, m. 37. 



For the fine accompanying the sale to 

 William Latus the deforciants were John 

 Egerton, Anne Egerton, widow, Henry 

 Leigh, and Thomas Ashton ; and the es- 

 tate is described as the manor of Shaw, 

 seven messuages, dovecote, 40 acres of 

 land, &c., free warren in Shawtown, Flix- 

 ton, and Urmston, and free fishery in the 

 Mersey and Irwell ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 289, m. 105. There is a further 

 deed in Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 

 216 (from Roll 7, Geo. I at Preston), re- 

 citing a mortgage in 1707 and the sale in 

 1722. 



In 1748 the manor of Shaw, with the 

 free fishery, was held by Peter Leigh and 

 Elizabeth his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R_ 

 569, m. 9 ; and they conveyed a moiety 

 to John Girardot of Chaucour, esquire,, 

 together with a moiety of the prebend or 

 parsonage of Flixton and the tithes and 

 oblations belonging thereto ; Pal. of Lane, 

 Feet of F. bdle. 351, m. 138, 175. 



Peter Leigh, of the West Hall, High 

 Legh family, married a daughter of Wil- 

 liam Latus of Manchester. He was chief 

 justice of South Carolina, and his son 

 Egerton Leigh was made a baronet ia 

 1773 ; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), i, 456. 



Some of the Egertons continued to live 

 at Shaw, for in 1757 widow Egerton of 

 Shaw Hall married Humphrey Owen, the 

 curate of Flixton. 



los The advertisement from the Man- 

 chester Mercury is printed in R. Lawson's 

 Flixton, 53 ; it mentions the capital mes- 

 suage of Shaw, with the demesne lands, 



