SALFORD HUNDRED 



occupier, John Lees, and has 

 descended in the family to the 

 present time. 65 The Cud- 

 worths also had the whole or 

 part of Greenacres. 67 



Roundthorn was part of the 

 estate of Sir Ralph Assheton 

 of Middleton, and on his 

 death in 1716 passed to Sir 

 Nathaniel Curzon of Kedle- 

 ston, in right of his wife Mary, 

 a co-heir of Sir Ralph's, and 

 descended to Earl Howe. 68 

 Waterloo, formerly Sheep- 

 washes, was in the 1 7th and 

 1 8th centuries the residence of the Brierley family. 6 



LEES. Argent tivo 

 bars raguly bet-ween three 

 crosslets Jitchy in chief 

 and a falcon belled in 

 base all gules. 



PRESTWICH WITH 

 OLDHAM 



GLODWICK, another of the ancient divisions of 

 Oldham, 70 came by 1301 into the possession of Hugh 

 de Atherton, 71 and descended to the Nevills of 

 Hornby. 72 The later history is uncertain. In the 

 1 6th century the Radcliffes of Foxdenton paid the 

 chief rent of T,S. id. due to the duchy, but the Standish 

 and Ashton families also had shares." During the 

 1 7th century the estate appears to have been sold in 

 parcels. 74 The duchy rent of 3/. \d. was in 1779 

 paid by the Rev. Richardson. 75 



SHOLFER was in 1212 found to have been 

 held by Ralph Tagun as 4 oxgangs of land ; it 

 was part of the Nevill estate then in the king's 

 hand. 76 By 1 246 it seems to have become divided ; 77 

 but in 1324. Robert (or Roger) de Ashton paid 

 the chief rent due for it, holding in right of his wife, 



66 E. Butterworth, Oldham (ed. 1856), 

 38-40. The family were actively engaged 

 in the business of the district as bankers, 

 cotton spinners, and coal owners. John 

 Lees of Fairfield in 1824 built Salem 

 Moravian chapel and schools at Clarks- 

 field. There is a pedigree in Burke, 

 Landed Gentry Lees of Thurland Castle, 

 near Kirkby Lonsdale. 



6 ' Greenacres is mentioned as early as 

 1266, when Margery widow of Jordan de 

 la Leye claimed dower, a messuage, and 

 30 acres there against Richard de la Leye. 

 Margery had a son Adam ; Curia Regis 

 R. 176, m. 5 d. 



In the inquisition of Ralph Cudworth, 

 above cited, Edmund Ashton is stated to 

 have paid a rent of 2 1 \d. for land in Green- 

 acres in 1558. Some was bought from 

 George Chadderton in 1537 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. n, m. 43. 'In 1702 a 

 Mr. Rainshaw possessed much property 

 here, which in 1725 was in the hands of 

 Mr. Rothwell, and in 1752 of the Rev. 

 James Rothwell, vicar of Deane ' ; E. 

 Butterworth, op. cit. 41, 58. 



Dowry Mill and Wellyhole were in 

 Greenacres. The latter of these was 

 purchased from John Mayall by Edmund 

 Ogden in 1748 ; ibid. 62. 



68 Ibid. 44. Curzon Street is on the 

 east of this Roundthorn ; there was 

 another place of the same name near 

 Glodwick ; information of Mr. S. Andrew. 



69 Ibid. 56. The Brierleys or Brearleys 

 were also seated at Barrowshaw, which 

 became the property of the Radcliffes of 

 Royton ; ibid. 6 1 . The last-named family 

 also purchased Priest Hill ; ibid. 45. 



70 In 1 21 2 Adam de Glodwick held two 

 oxgangs of land of Montbegon and two of 

 Nevill ; Inq. and Extents, i, 63, 64. The 

 latter portion escheated to the Crown, and 

 about ten years later Agnes de Glodwick 

 should have been in ward to the king in 

 respect of two oxgangs held by a rent of 

 i<)\d. and by finding the sixth part of a 

 judge; ibid. 128. Jordan de Glodwick 

 gave land in Oldham to his son Richard ; 

 id. rent was due to the king ; Hopwood 

 Chart. 



> l Final Cone, i, 210; a fine (1307) 

 between Alexander Atherton, plaintiff, and 

 Hugh de Atherton and Joan his wife, de- 

 forciants, of a messuage, 100 acres of land, 

 &c., in Oldham and Glodwick. 



In 1292 Joan relict of Adam de 

 Holdene was in possession of a messuage 

 and 100 acres of land in Oldham, inherited 

 from her mother Agnes, who had married 

 one Ralph de Astone (or Ashton). It is 

 just possible that this Agnes was identical 

 with Agnes the heiress in 1222-6. Being 

 left a widow she married Jordan de 



Crompton, and Joan was their daughter. 

 Later a claim to the estate was made on 

 behalf of Jordan's son Adam, then a 

 minor, probably the son of a later marriage, 

 whom the father wished to benefit out of 

 his former wife's estate. The jury, how- 

 ever, held that Jordan had never been 

 seised as of fee, so that Joan's claim was 

 upheld ; Assize R. 408, m. 7, 1 2. This 

 Joan seems afterwards to have married 

 Hugh de Atherton, for the claim of Adam 

 de Crompton was prosecuted in 1301 

 against Hugh de Atherton and Joan his 

 wife, who was seised when he married 

 her; Assize R. 419, m. \^d. 



Hugh de Atherton in i 324 paid 31. I id. 

 for two oxgangs in Glodwick ; Duchy of 

 Lane ; Rentals and Surv. 379, m. 13. 

 In other versions the rent is given as 

 3*. id. or 3*. 4.d. ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 ii, 105. Richard de Oldham, clerk, and 

 others, were in 1343 charged with having 

 broken into Hugh de Atherton's houses in 

 Glodwick ; Assize R. 430, m. 32 d. For 

 this Atherton family see further under 

 Hindley and Aintree. 



72 In 1 346 Sir Robert de Nevill was 

 holding two oxgangs in Glodwick by the 

 service of 31. zd. rent, puture of the 

 Serjeants, and double rent at death ; Add. 

 MS. 32103, fol. 146. 



In the following year the estate in 

 Oldham and Glodwick 3 messuages, 140 

 acres of land, &c. was settled by Sir 

 Robert de Nevill of Hornby and Joan his 

 wife (whose inheritance it was) upon his 

 son John and Isabel his wife, with remain- 

 ders to John's brothers ; Final Cone, ii, 

 12$. As a result of this a claim was 

 made in 1363 by John de Nevill and 

 Isabel his wife against Sir John (? Robert) 

 de Nevill of Hornby, and Joan his wife ; 

 De Banco R. 416, m. 396 d. 



7" The Nevill estates passed to the 

 Harringtons, and Sir William de Harring- 

 ton is recorded to have paid the chief rent 

 in 1378 ; Harl. MS. 2085, fol. 442. In 

 1445-6 William de Strangeways held the 

 two oxgangs of land in Glodwick in socage, 

 rendering 31. zd. yearly, in right of his 

 wife, who held by conjoint feoffment ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, 

 no. 20. 



In 1526 the Radcliffes of Foxdenton 

 paid 31. as the chief rent due for Chadder- 

 ton and Glodwick (Shaw, Oldbam, 16) ; 

 but about the end of the century Richard 

 Radcliffe was responsible for 31. zd. rent 

 for Glodwick; Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1868), 

 i, 447. The inquisitions are not clear. 

 Thomas Radcliffe, who died in 1567, held 

 fifty messuages, &c., in Oldham of the 

 queen, as of the late Priory of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, by a rent of ^.d. ; Duchy of 



IOI 



Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 25. In 1589 the 

 tenure was stated more in detail ; four 

 messuages, &c., in Oldham, were held of 

 the queen as of the dissolved priory by a 

 rent of 4</. ; another messuage, &c., was 

 held of John Cudworth by a rent of $d. ; 

 the rest of the lands, &c. in Oldham were 

 held of the queen as of her Duchy of 

 Lancaster, by a rent of 6d. ; but of whom 

 the lands in Glodwick were held the jury 

 did not know; ibid, iii, 13. William 

 Radcliffe, the disinherited, held two 

 messuages in Glodwick of the queen in 

 socage by a rent of 6d. ; ibid, xv, 23. 

 Lands in Glodwick were included in a 

 mortgage or sale by William Radcliffe in 

 1627 ; the tenants were Pollit, Heap, 

 and others ; Shaw, op. cit. 73. John 

 Pollit in 1666 sold his interest in the 

 lease to Edward Taylor ; ibid. 166. 



Edward Standish of Standish died in 

 1610 holding six messuages, 60 acre* of 

 land, &c., in Glodwick of the king in 

 socage, by 1 1 ^d. rent ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 190. 



James Ashton of Chadderton, who died 

 in 1612, as above stated, held messuages 

 and lands in Glodwick; ibid, i, 230. 



" 4 Swineclough was leased in 1570 by 

 James Ashton and Dorothy his wife to 

 Adam Ogden ; it had lately been occupied 

 by his father Adam Ogden, and the new 

 lease was for the lives of Adam, Anne his 

 wife, and Adam his son ; Raines D. 

 (Chet. Lib.). It was sold in 1670 to 

 Adam Ogden by Edmund Ashton ; E. 

 Butterworth, op. cit. 37. The Dawsons 

 and other owners of land at Glodwick are 

 also named ; and others, including Andrew 

 of Lowside, at pp. 54, 56. 



75 Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 14, 

 no. 25 m. 



76 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 64 ; the 

 thegnage rent in later times is usually 

 given as 3.1. zd. 



Ten years earlier, Maud widow of Ralph 

 Tagun made an agreement as to her 

 dower with various tenants in Sholver ; 

 Final Cone, i, 20. Alward Tagun was on 

 the jury for Salfordshire in 1 242-3 ; Inq. 

 and Extents, i, 153. 



77 In 1246 Andrew de Sholver com- 

 plained that the Abbot of Roche and 

 others had disseised him of his free pasture 

 of Sholver; Assize R. 404, m. i. In 

 another plea respecting a mine Andrew 

 was joined by Alward Tagun and Roger 

 de Pilkington ; ibid. m. 2. The three 

 occur in other suits respecting lands in 

 Sholver ; ibid. m. 7, 9. 



Margery widow of Geoffrey de Chatham 

 in 1275 claimed dower in a messuage and 

 plough-land in Sholver against Geoffrey de 

 Bracebridge ; De Banco R. 9, m. 32 d. 



