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worth. 18 For over sixty years there is scarcely any 

 mention of the manor, another Adam de Prestwich 

 appearing in 1278." He was probably the same 

 Adam who was plaintiff in 1292,'* and who in 1297 

 settled his manors of Prestwich, Alkrington, and Pen- 

 dlebury on John his son and heir and Emmota his 

 wife. 16 This arrangement was not permanent, for he 

 appears to have married about the same time one 

 Alice de Wolveley, whose children became his heirs. 17 

 In 1311 he gave the manor of Pendlebury to her son 

 Robert, 18 and in 1313 settled the manors of Prestwich, 

 Alkrington, and Pendlebury, and the advowson of the 

 church of the manor of Prestwich upon Thomas his 

 son by Alice, with remainders to her other children. 19 

 In virtue of this Alice his widow succeeded him, 10 

 and was in turn followed by her son, Thomas de 

 Prestwich. He very quickly granted his manors to 

 Richard son of William de Pvadcliffe for life, and then 

 in fee. 21 In 1346, therefore, Richard de Radcliffe 

 was returned as holding the manor of Prestwich with 

 the advowson of the church. 11 Two years afterwards 

 he made a feoffment of the manor and advowson, 

 probably on his marriage with one Isabel.* 3 What- 

 ever may have been the meaning of this transfer to 

 the Radcliffes, it appears that in 1362 new feoffments 

 were made," and the trustees regranted the manor of 

 Prestwich and the advowson of the church for the 

 lives of Richard and Isabel, and for a year and a day 



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after their decease, paying to Richard de Langley 50 

 marks a year, and also performing the services due to 

 the chief lords, the manor to revert to Richard de 

 Langley or his heirs. 25 The right of the Langleys 

 under the settlement of 1 3 1 3 was thus fully acknow- 

 ledged. 



What became of Thomas de Prestwich is unknown. 26 

 He had two daughters and co-heirs Margaret and 

 Agnes. 27 The former took the 

 veil at Seaton in Cumberland 

 in 1360, but afterwards left 

 the convent and married Ro- 

 bert de Holland ; and Agnes, 

 *who had married John son of 

 William de Radcliffe, and who 

 was considered the heir after 

 her sister's veiling, died with- 

 out issue about I362. 28 In 

 1367 a further agreement was 

 made between the Radcliffes 

 and Langleys for securing the 

 succession of Richard de Lang- 

 ley and Joan his wife and the 

 heirs of Joan. 29 About the same time Robert de 

 Holland put forward his claims to the manor as the 

 right of Margaret, and in 1371 Richard de Radcliffe 

 the elder and Isabel his wife released to Robert and 

 Margaret all their claim to the manor and advowson,* 



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18 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 67. Heaton 

 and Fails-worth were held by under-tenant*. 



14 Thomas, lord of Prestwich, made a 

 grant in Heaton about 1260 ; Harl. MS. 

 2112, fol. 148/1 84. A John de Prestwich, 

 rector of Whitwell, occurs about the same 

 time; ibid. fol. 145^/181*. Robert son 

 of Robert de Nettleham was non-suited 

 in a claim for a tenement in Prestwich 

 made against Adam de Prestwich in 1278; 

 Assize R. 1238, m. 33d. 



15 Assize R. 408, m. 25 ; Adam de 

 Prestwich claimed arrears of customs and 

 services for a tenement in Prestwich held 

 by John Byron, but was non-suited. This 

 probably refers to Failsworth. 



16 Agecroft D. 4. 



17 A fuller account of Adam de Prest- 

 wich and his descendants is given under 

 Pendlebury, Agecroft in that township 

 having become the principal seat of his 

 heirs. Other descendants of his are named 

 in the account of Whittleswick in Barton. 



18 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 12; the grant included 40 acres 

 in Prestwich also. 



Alice, the sister of Robert, succeeded ; 

 she married Jordan de Tetlow, and her 

 heir was her daughter Joan, who married 

 Richard de Langley ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 53. 



19 Final Cone, ii, 1 6 ; Agecroft D. II. 

 After the children of Alice the remainder 

 was to Roger de Prestwich. Claims were 

 put in by Alice, sister of John de Byron ; 

 John son of John de Prestwich, Adam de 

 Worley, and Emma his wife, and John and 

 Thomas sons of Emma possibly the Em- 

 mota of 1297. 



At the beginning of 1319 Adam de 

 Prestwich claimed a messuage, etc., in 

 Prestwich held by Roger de Prestwich and 

 Thomas his son ; De Banco R. 226, m. 

 24. Adam and Alexander de Prestwich 

 were also plaintiffs as executors of the will 

 of John, rector of Whitwell ; ibid. m. 65. 

 At Easter in the same year Adam com- 

 plained that certain persons had cut down 

 and carried off some of his trees at Oldham, 



to the value of i o ; ibid. R. 229, m. 70 d. 

 Soon afterwards he died, for in July 1319, 

 Thomas son of John de Prestwich released 

 to Alice, widow of Adam de Prestwich, all 

 his claim on the family manors ; Agecroft 

 D. 1 3 (dated at Pontefract). 



20 She held Prestwich, Heaton, and 

 Alkrington in 1324. Her holding was 

 called one plough-land, and the service due 

 was 2os. ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 104, 

 135, 204. She appears to have died about 

 1330. 



21 Thomas son of Adam de Prestwich 

 and Alice de Wolveley in 1331 granted his 

 manors of Prestwich, Alkrington, and Pen- 

 dlebury, and the land he had acquired 

 from John son of Alexander de Prestwich, 

 to Richard son of William de Radcliffe for 

 his life, at a yearly rent of 26 and 19 J. 

 in silver for the first three years, and 100 

 marks of silver for the rest of the term ; 

 Agecroft D. 14. The rents seem to show 

 that this was a grant in trust. A little 

 later he gave the same Richard all his right 

 in the manor of Prestwich and the demesne, 

 including the park, and a pasture called 

 the Denehead ; ibid. 1 5. The grantee was 

 the lord of Radcliffe. 



In 1333 he granted to Richard and his 

 heirs his manor of Prestwich, with the 

 park and the Denehead, at a yearly rent of 

 a rose for the first twenty years and of 

 10 marks afterwards ; ibid. 17, 18. This 

 was soon followed by a release of all ac- 

 tions touching his fermes of Prestwich, 

 Pendlebury, and Alkrington ; ibid. 1 9. He 

 presented to the rectory in 1334, but soon 

 afterwards made over the advowson to 

 Richard de Radcliffe (ibid. 6, 20, 21), who 

 presented from 1347 to 1365. 



Thomas gave a release to his brother 

 Robert in 1345 ; ibid. 22. 



22 Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146; Dods. 

 MSS. Ixxxvii, fol. 59*. 



23 Agecroft D. 23, 24. The trustees 

 regranted to Richard de Radcliffe and Isabel 

 his wife and their issue ; ibid. 25, 26. 



24 Ibid. 28-30. In one grant a place 

 called the ' Fohcastel ' was reserved. In 



77 



1479 't was attested that * Foyecastell ' 

 moor belonged to the lordship of Prest- 

 wich, and not to that of Crumpsall ; ibid. 

 83. Castle Hill lies in the south-east 

 corner of the township, in the borders of 

 Broughton and Crumpsall. 



24 Ibid. 31, 32, dated 9 Dec. 1362. The 

 feoffees made a final release in 1364 ; ibid. 



33- 



86 He had an illegitimate son who re- 

 ceived land in Tonge and took the local 

 name, as will be seen in the account of 

 that township. Thomas was living in 

 1348, when he claimed certain lands in 

 Prestwich against his sister Alice and 

 against Robert and Thurstan sons of Jordan 

 de Tetlow ; De Banco R. 356, m 384 d. 

 Alice, widow of Thomas de Prestwich, 

 was a defendant in 1356, respecting lands 

 in the township ; Duchy of Lane. Assize 

 R. 5, m. 4. 



^ Margaret de Prestwich and Agnes her 

 sister were in 1357 plaintiffs respecting a 

 tenement in Prestwich, Richard, son of 

 John de Radcliffe being defendant ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. 6, m. 2 d. 



28 The story is told in Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 50-3, and in a more com- 

 plete record in the Agecroft D. 66. See 

 also Pal. of Lane. Misc. bdle. i, no 8, m. 

 25, 26. The dates of Margaret's entrance 

 into religion and her sister's death seem 

 to be marked by the feoffments above 

 related. 



29 Agecroft D. 44 ; in this the rent 

 payable by Richard de Radcliffe is stated as 

 5 (not 50) marks. It was confirmed by 

 a fine in 1369 ; Final Cone, ii, 176. 



Sir John de Radcliffe, of Ordsall, in 

 1412 quitclaimed to Robert de Langley 

 all his right to the Prestwich manors ; 

 Agecroft D. 59. 



80 Ibid. 34. Thurstan son of John de 

 Prestwich in 1375 released to Robert de 

 Holland all his claim on the manors of 

 Prestwich, Alkrington, and Pendlebury and 

 the advowson of Prestwich ; ibid. 37. In 

 1416 he gave a similar release to Robert 

 de Langley ; ibid. 72. 



