A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



South. The public library, built by Mr. Carnegie, 

 was opened in 1904. The other public buildings 

 include town hall, baths, and isolation hospital. 



One of the Oldham cemeteries is at Springbrook, 

 on the Middleton road. 



There were 121 hearths liable to the tax in 1666. 

 The largest houses were those of Edmund Ashton, 

 thirteen hearths, and Alexander Potter, seven. 10 



From the earliest record of it, the 

 MANORS survey of 1 2 1 2, it appears that CHAD- 

 DERTON was a member of the Mont- 

 begon or Tottington fee, 11 and so passed to the Lacys 

 and the Crown. At the date mentioned, having 

 been given to the * ancestors ' of Gilbert de Notton, 

 lord of Barton in right of his wife, it was held by 

 him as 12 oxgangs of land, by the service of the 

 fourth part of a knight's fee." It is supposed to have 

 been held under him or his immediate successor by 

 Geoffrey de Chetham, thus passing to the Traffords." 

 About 1255 Gilbert [de Barton] son of Sir William 

 de Notton, released to Sir Edmund de Lacy the 

 homage and service of Richard de Trafford for the 

 manor of Chadderton and its appurtenances. 14 From 



this time, therefore, the TrafFords held directly of the 

 lords of Tottington and Clitheroe. 14 



Richard de Trafford made a partition of his estates, 

 and thus Chadderton came into the possession of his 

 younger son Geoffrey, who 

 adopted the local surname. 16 

 It is difficult to decide as to 

 the succession at this point ; a 

 Henry de Chadderton seems 

 to have been in possession in 

 1 292," yet Geoffrey de Chad- 

 derton, either the same or his 

 son, held the manor in I3O2. 19 

 William de Chadderton, son 

 of Geoffrey, followed ; he was 

 living in I332. 19 His son 

 Geoffrey left a daughter and 

 heir Margery, who in or before 1367 married John 

 de Radcliffe, 10 illegitimate son of the rector of Bury. 

 The husband died in 1407, having survived his wife 

 and their son John, but continuing to hold Chadder- 

 ton by the courtesy of England until his death. The 

 tenure was described as of the king as Duke of Lan- 



CHADDERTON. Ar- 

 gent a griffin ttgreant 

 gules. 



10 Subs. R. bdle. 250, no. 9, Lanes. 



11 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 61. In 1324 it was 

 returned that Thomas Earl of Lancaster 

 had held the fee in right of Alice his wife ; 

 the sake fee due from Chadderton was 31.; 

 ibid, ii, 102. 



12 Inq. and Extents, loc. cit. It descended 

 to Gilbert's son Roger (who died in 124.1), 

 and was in 1234-5 granted by Roger to 

 Gilbert de Barton (his nephew) as the 

 manors of Chadderton and Denton in Lan- 

 cashire with mills and the land of Cfomp- 

 ton; Feet of F. Hen. Ill, Div. Cos. no. 

 66. 



Gilbert de Notton granted to Stanlaw 

 Abbey land in Chadderton within bounds 

 beginning at the Constable's Oak, and 

 going by Netherlee Brook and the Moss, 

 ' as the moss and the dry land divide,' to 

 Tache Lache and the bounds of ' Caule 

 Shaw" (Coldshaw), and by a lache on 

 the south back to the oak ; fPhalley 

 Coucher (Chet. Soc.), i, 48. In 1549 two 

 ^arts of a messuage in Chadderton were 

 held by James Ashton of the king, by 

 .reason of the attainder of the Abbot of 

 Whalley, the service being $.d. yearly ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, 29. A 

 house called Thatch Leach lies about a 

 quarter of a mile to the south-east of 

 Foxdenton Hall. 



la 1242 Gilbert de Barton held the 

 fourth part of a knight's fee in Chadderton, 

 of the Earl of Lincoln's fee of Tottington ; 

 it belonged to the dower of the countess ; 

 Land. Inq. and Extents, i, 153. 



In 1324 the judge of Chadderton paid 

 41. to the steward of the court at Totting- 

 ton in respect of a fine for respite of suit ; 

 Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 9. In 1626 three constables were required 

 to attend the Tottington court ; Shaw, 

 Oldham, 70. 



13 See the account of Cheetham. 

 "Duchy of Lane. Anct. D. L.I22I ; 



the date is fixed by the name of the first 

 witness 'Henry de Wingeham, Chan- 

 cellor of the King,' 1255-8. 



Gilbert de Barton's succession had been 

 in 1224 disputed by Roger de Notton ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1216-25, p. 488. 



ls The Traffbrd tenure is that recognized 

 in the feodaries, &c. In the De Lacy Inq. 



of 1311 (Chet. Soc. p. 1 9) it was stated 

 that Henry de Trafford held of the earl 

 the manor of Chadderton by the service of 

 one knight's fee, and suit of court. 



In 1346 Isabel Queen of England held 

 it of the heirs of Alice de Lacy as the 

 fifth of a knight's fee, paying 31. by the 

 hands of Henry de Trafford her tenant, 

 and 21. for castle ward ; Add. MS. 32103, 

 fol. 146. 



In 1445-6 Sir Edmund Trafford held 

 Chadderton for the fifth part of a knight's 

 fee ; the relief due for it was 20*., but he 

 said that he was in ward, and no relief 

 was paid ; Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, 

 bdle. 2, no. 20. 



The reduction from the fourth part of 

 a knight to the fifth may have been due 

 to the separation of Foxdenton. 



In 1856 Chadderton still owed suit and 

 service to the court baron of the honour 

 of Clitheroe ; E. Butterworth, Oldham 

 (ed. 1856), 13. 



18 Margery, widow of Geoffrey de Chet- 

 ham, in 1275 claimed dower in 20 acres 

 in Moston and Chadderton against Geoffrey 

 de Chadderton ; De Banco R. 10, m. 35. 

 Chadderton is not noticed in the settle- 

 ment of Geoffrey de Chadderton's estate 

 in 1278, unless the 'Couentre' is a mis- 

 take for it ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 153. Geoffrey de Chadder- 

 ton was a juror in 1282 ; Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 244. In 1291 Thomas de Cowlishaw 

 complained that Geoffrey de Chadderton, 

 the chief lord, had deprived him of com- 

 mon of pasture in 100 acres of moor in 

 Chadderton, appertaining to Thomas's free 

 tenement in Foxdenton ; but he did not 

 succeed ; Assize R. 1294, m. 9. In the 

 same year Geoffrey de Chadderton made 

 a claim against William son of Robert de 

 Staynringes, and Christiana his wife, re- 

 specting his hereditary estate ; ibid. m. 

 1 1 d. The defendants may have been the 

 William de la Hacking and Christiana his 

 wife of the fine above referred to. 



V Henry son of Henry son of Richard 

 de Trafford claimed the manor of Chad- 

 derton against Henry de Chadderton, on 

 the ground that his grandfather had de- 

 mised it to the defendant while of unsound 

 mind. As in relating he claimed against 

 Geoffrey de Chadderton, the defendant 



116 



Henry was acquitted ; Assize R. 408, m. 

 40 d. 



18 Inq. and Extents, i, 313. 



In 1301 Geoffrey de Chadderton was 

 one defendant to a plea of novel disseisin ; 

 and Geoffrey son of Geoffrey de Chadder- 

 ton, was a defendant in another case ; 

 Assize R. 1321, m. 3. In 1304 Geoffrey 

 de Chadderton the elder claimed certain 

 lands as his inheritance against Adam de 

 Rossendale and Margery his wife ; Assize 

 R. 419, m. 4. In the following year 

 Geoffrey de Chadderton called upon Henry 

 son of Henry de Trafford to warrant him 

 in the possession of certain lands in Chad- 

 derton claimed by the rector of Prestwich ; 

 De Banco R. 153, m. 292 d. 



Between 1301 and 1305 Geoffrey de 

 Chadderton and Joan his wife acquired an 

 estate in An coats ; Mamecestre (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 250 ; Final Cone, ii, I. Geoffrey de 

 Chadderton and Geoffrey his son attested 

 a Royton charter in 1310. Geoffrey, 

 perhaps the younger, was living in 1318, 

 when Richard his son is mentioned ; 

 Mamecestre, loc. cit. He died before 1320, 

 in which year his son William held Fox- 

 denton ; ibid. 279. 



19 The descent here followed is that re- 

 corded in the inquisition of 1408, recited 

 in 1511 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 

 96. Geoffrey de Chadderton had several 

 other sons, e.g., Alexander and Roger ; 

 Assize R. 1435, m. 37. They had lands 

 in Moston and Nuthurst in 1320 ; Mame- 

 cestre, 279. Alexander was living in 1329 ; 

 Assize R. 427, m. 3. 



William de Chadderton, who, as shown 

 above, succeeded before 1320, was in 1332 

 among the plaintiffs regarding land in 

 Chadderton and Oldham ; Assize R. 1411, 

 m. I2d. In the same year Margery, 

 widow of William de Chadderton, contri- 

 buted to the subsidy ; Exch, Lay Sub. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 30. 



^John de Radcliffe, 'the parson's son 

 of Bury,' and Margery his wife were 

 plaintiffs respecting waste in Chadderton 

 against John de Huxley and Beatrice his 

 wife in 1367, and against Sir Henry de 

 Trafford in 1369 ; De Banco R. 426, m, 

 35 5 435> m - I2 6- Margery seems to 

 have been living in 1386 ; Def. Keeper's 

 Rep. xl, App. 525, 526. 



