SALFORD HUNDRED 



to have been charged with that rent, 10 or from lands 

 purchased by Adam de Prestwich and given to his son 

 John," whose descendants sold it to the Hollands of 

 Denton. 1 * This family also acquired a moiety of the 

 Radcliffe part of Heaton, 13 the other half apparently 

 descending with Radcliffe ; M thus in 1346 Richard de 

 Radcliffe and Thurstan de Holland held Heaton Fal- 

 lowfield in socage by a rent of 6s. 8</., paying double as 

 a relief ; puture also was due. 15 In later inquisitions 

 the tenure is called knight's service. 16 



The Heaton family appear throughout the I3th 

 century, but sold their lands to the Prestwiches and 

 others ; and part was obtained by the Hollands. 17 

 This family became the principal one in the two 

 townships. Their original house, known as the Old 



PRESTWICH WITH 

 OLDHAM 



Hall, was in Little Heaton, but about 1750 the 

 present Heaton Hall in Great Heaton was built, and 

 remained the seat of the family until its purchase by 

 Manchester. A junior branch of the family was 

 seated at Rhodes in Pilkington. 18 



At the beginning of the I Jth century the Hollands 

 of Denton seem to have acquired the inheritance of 

 the Reddish family in Great Heaton, 19 and from that 

 time chose Heaton for their principal residence. 10 In 

 1684 Elizabeth, sister and heir of Edward Holland, 

 married at Prestwich Sir John Egerton of Wrinehill, 11 

 and her son Holland, born two years afterwards," in- 

 herited the manors of Heaton and Denton.* 3 He 

 was succeeded in turn by his sons, Sir Edward and Sir 

 Thomas Grey Egerton, 24 and his grandson Sir Thomas 



as the manor of Crumpsall, had recently 

 been purchased from William Sedley 

 probably in 1608; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxvi, 53 ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 70, no. 82. 



The ' manor of Heaton ' continued to 

 descend with Reddish, and is named in a 

 settlement by Sir Robert Coke in 1685 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 217, m. 20. 



10 See the account of Prestwich. 



11 A grant by Robert son of Robert de 

 Nettleham to Adam de Prestwich in 

 1297 is given in Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 

 164/200. In the same year Adam de 

 Prestwich granted to John his son all the 

 lands in Heaton, a hamlet of the vill of 

 Prestwich, which he had acquired from 

 Adam son of the widow of Heaton, and 

 from Robert de Nettleham, with common 

 of pasture, &c., in Awekeshowe ; a rent 

 of $.od. was payable to the grantor ; Lord 

 Wilton's D. By earlier deeds Alexander 

 son of Adam de Heaton had granted part 

 of his land to Christiana daughter of Alan 

 de Harwood ; the bounds touched Sandy- 

 ford, Teribrook, the ancient mill-site, 

 Ithek, Mereshawbrook, and the great 

 road ; and Thomas the son of Alexander 

 de Heaton gave to Robert de Nettleham 

 the same piece of land, described as lying 

 in the vill of Heaton upon Fallowfield, a 

 member of Prestwich ; ibid. 



13 John de Prestwich in 1321-2 granted 

 to John his son certain lands in Heaton 

 in Prestwich; and in 1329 the younger 

 John granted to his son, also John, all 

 his lands in Heaton, Salford, and Man- 

 chester ; Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 164/200. 

 A few years later (1338) John son of John 

 de Prestwich gave a rent of 401., charged 

 on his lands in Salford and Heaton, to 

 Margaret, who had been the wife of 

 Henry de Worsley ; ibid. fol. 146^/1 82^. 

 This was followed in 1 343 by a grant to 

 her of all his lands in Heaton ; ibid. fol. 

 148/184. In 1368 and later Thurstan 

 son of John de Prestwich made several 

 grants and releases to Thurstan de Hol- 

 land ; ibid. 148/184, i^^h/igoh, 164/200. 



18 How they acquired it is not clear, 

 but in 1402 Richard de Holland of Den- 

 ton died seised of a moiety of the manor 

 of Heaton upon Fallowfield, holding it of 

 the king in chief by the service of 40^. a 

 year ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1461. The 

 difficulty of distinguishing between the 

 various parts of Heaton is increased by 

 this rent being the same as that for the 

 lands of John de Prestwich, as recorded 

 in a preceding note. 



Sir Robert de Holland in 1319 granted 

 to Thurstan de Holland son of Margaret 

 de Shoresworth all his lands and tene- 

 ments in demesne and lordship in Heaton 

 on Fallowfield, and the services of all the 



free tenants and others, rendering 5 marks 

 a year for ten years and then only i</., 

 and rendering to the chief lords the ser- 

 vices due ; Lord Wilton's D. 



About 1348 Margaret de Shoresworth 

 recovered seisin of her free tenement in 

 Heaton, Denton, &c., of which she alleged 

 that Thurstan son of Sir William de Hol- 

 land (and her son also) had disseised her ; 

 Assize R. 1444, m. 7 d. 



14 It is not mentioned in the Radcliffe 

 inquisitions, but from that after the death 

 of Sarah Coke, quoted above, it appears to 

 have been included with the Radcliffe 

 manor of Crumpsall, and purchased by 

 Alexander Reddish. 



In 1329 Roger de Reddish made com- 

 plaint against a number of persons who 

 had carried away his goods from Heaton ; 

 De Banco R. 279, m. 391 d. 



"Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146 ; it is called 

 6 plough-lands instead of 4 oxgangs. 

 This seems to prove that Thurstan de 

 Holland held part of the Radcliffe manor ; 

 the charters above quoted refer to the Prest- 

 wich moiety. 



16 Thus in the inquisition of Robert 

 Holland, taken in 11514, his seven mes- 

 suages, 60 acres of land, &c., in Heaton 

 were stated to be held of the king, as of 

 his duchy of Lancaster, by knight's ser- 

 vice ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 58. 

 So also a century later ; Lanes . Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 141. 



V The charters previously quoted show 

 this. 



To Cockersand Abbey Alexander son of 

 Edward de Prestwich, with the assent of 

 Adam his heir, about 1200 gave an acre 

 and toft of his land in Heaton, between 

 Terebrook and Mereshaw, next to his 

 mill ; Cockermnd Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 

 723. This heir was no doubt the Adam 

 de Heaton of 1212. One charter of Alex- 

 ander son of Adam de Heaton has been 

 noticed ; by another he gave to Peter son 

 of Adam de Radcliffe his part of Puchlin- 

 cheles in Heaton, the boundaries begin- 

 ning at the brook and going across to the 

 bounds of Middleton, thence to Hich and 

 down to Puchlissale brook, and up the 

 brook to the starting point ; the rent was 

 4<D</., and a third part of the forinsic ser- 

 vice for the vill was also due ; Wilton D. 

 Thomas de Prestwich was a witness to 

 this grant. To Alexander, Thomas his 

 son succeeded. In 1292 Thomas de 

 Heaton and Joan his wife secured two 

 messuages, a mill, and lands in Prestwich 

 and Heaton from William son of William 

 de Hopwood ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 171. 



There is one other early fine relating 

 to this township ; ibid, i, 66. 



18 A number of entries in the parish 



81 



registers referring to them are printed by 

 Booker, PrestwicA, 176, 177. There is a 

 reference to them in Vitit. of 1533 (Chet. 

 Soc.), 218. 



19 In 1619 Richard Holland's estate in 

 Heaton was described as seven messuages, 

 60 acres of arable land, &c., in Heaton on 

 Fallowfield, held of the king by knight's 

 service ; and 12 acres of land, meadow, 

 and pasture in Over Heaton lately pur- 

 chased from Oswald Mosley, tenure un- 

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

 and Ches.), ii, 142, 146. A like state- 

 ment was made as to his brother Ed- 

 ward's estate in 1636 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxvii, 42. 



20 See the account of Denton for this 

 family ; also Booker, Denton (Chet. Soc.), 

 16. 



The Prestwich registers began in 1603, 

 and the Hollands of Heaton seem to have 

 been buried in the church from 1616 on- 

 wards. Thomas Holland, of the Old Hall 

 in Heaton, had a son baptized in 1627, 

 and was buried in 1651 ; Booker, Prest- 

 <wicb, 176, 177. As 'Holland of Hea- 

 ton' they recorded a pedigree in 1664; 

 Dugdale, Vhit. (Chet. Soc.), 146. 



21 Booker, op. cit. 178. Sir John Eger- 

 ton and Elizabeth his wife were the defor- 

 ciants in a fine concerning the manors of 

 Denton, Heaton, &c., in 1685 ; PaL of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 214, m. 41. For 

 Sir John Egerton and his family see G.E.C. 

 Complete Baronetage, i, 108. Lady Eliza- 

 beth died in 1701. 



22 Baptized at Prestwich 6 Jan. 1686-7, 

 having been born 18 Dec. 1686 ; the 

 younger children of the marriage do not 

 appear in the Prestwich registers. On 

 entering Brasenose College, Oxford, in 

 1704, he was called fifteen years of age ; 

 Foster, Alumni. He succeeded his father 

 as fourth baronet in 1729. 



23 In 1711 a settlement of the manors 

 of Heaton, Denton, &c., had been made, 

 Holland Egerton and his brother Edward 

 being deforciants in the fine ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 267, m. 34. Sir 

 Holland was a distinguished antiquary. 

 He appears to have resided usually at 

 Heaton Hall, as his children were baptized 

 at Prestwich. He died at Heaton, 25 Apr. 

 1730, and was buried at Madeley. 



24 Sir Edward Egerton, the fourth son, 

 was baptized 2 June 1719 ; matriculated 

 at Oxford (Brasenose College), 1736 ; 

 Foster, Alumni. He died of smallpox, un- 

 married, on 1 6 Feb. 1743-4; his monu- 

 ment in Prestwich Church records the 

 virtues by which he adorned an ancient 

 and illustrious family. 



His brother and successor, Sir Thomas 

 Grey Egerton, was baptized 7 Nov. 1721, 

 and entered Brasenose College in 1740. 



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