SALFORD HUNDRED 



ments down to 1660.** Two years later it was sold, 

 with Royton, to Thomas Percival and his brother 

 Richard, and descended with 

 Royton for some time. 47 



In 1787 Thomas Butter- 

 worth Bayley of the Hope 

 in Pendleton was one of the 

 chief landowners. 48 



FOXDENTON,^ the fami- 

 ly seat, gives a name to the 

 third of the manor which be- 

 longed to Elizabeth Radclyffe 

 and descended to her son 

 William, who died in 1507, 

 leaving as heir his son Thomas, 

 then six months old. In this 

 case also the wardship was 

 claimed by the Traffords in right of their mesne 



RADCLYFFK of Fox- 

 denton. Argent nvo 

 bends engrailed sable, a 

 label of three points gules. 



PRESTWICH WITH 

 OLDHAM 



manor. 50 In 1567 Thomas Radcliffe made a settle- 

 ment of his manor, and dying in the same year was 

 succeeded by his son William, then forty years of 

 age." William, who forfeited the manor to his brother 

 John in ten years," died in 1 590 without issue. John, 

 dying in 1587, was succeeded by his daughter Mar- 

 garet, 53 who at her death in I 590 was also the heir of 

 her uncle William ; she married Richard Radcliffe 

 of Newcroft, a younger son of Sir William Radcliffe of 

 Ordsall, and left as heir a son William, nine years of 

 age in I59I. 54 He was living in 1642, when he 

 made a settlement of his estates.* 5 He left three sons, 

 one of whom, Sir William, fought on the king's side 

 in the Civil War, and was knighted. 56 He was with 

 Lord Hopton's force when it capitulated at Truro 

 in l646. 57 He died soon afterwards, and was 

 succeeded by his brother Alexander, 58 but the 

 ultimate heirs were two daughters Mary, who 



vice ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 25. 

 Ralph his son and heir in 1512 came 

 forward to correct the finding of the in- 

 quest, stating the descent of the manor 

 and establishing the Traffords' mesne 

 lordship ; ibid, iii, 2. 



In 1540 the king granted the Earl of 

 Derby an annual rent of 20 marks issuing 

 from the third part of the manor of Chad- 

 derton, together with the wardship and 

 marriage of Ralph son and heir of Alex- 

 ander Standish, a minor ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Misc. Bks. xxii, 161 d. Edward Standish 

 in 1556 sought a division of 100 acres of 

 land, &c., which he held in Chadderton 

 jointly with Thomas Radcliffe of Fox- 

 denton ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 202, m. 

 13. About the same time Mary Standish, 

 widow, complained of the interruption of 

 a road between Chadderton and Alkring- 

 ton ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 305. 

 Edward Standish, who died in 1610, held 

 the third part of the manor ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 18$. 

 In this and other inquisitions the service 

 is erroneously stated as the third part of a 

 knight's fee, instead of the third part of a 

 fourth part. 



44 E.g. Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 75, 

 no. 1 1 (1610); bdle. Si, no. 8 (1613); bdle. 

 121, no. 5 (1632); bdle. 165, no. 8 (1660). 



*1 Shaw, Oldham, 157. The Standish 

 inheritance seems to have been sold piece- 

 meal. In 1668 Edward Standish sold land, 

 &c., to various tenants ; ibid. 169. 



48 Land Tax returns at Preston. The 

 other principal contributors were Sir Watt* 

 Horton and Mr. Radclyffe's executors. 



49 As above stated, Gilbert de Barton 

 sold his right in Chadderton to the superior 

 lord, Edmund de Lacy, about 125$. Fox- 

 denton, however or Denton simply, as it 

 was anciently called was not included in 

 this sale, but transferred to the Grelleys, 

 lords of Manchester, and held of them by 

 the Chadderton family e.g. by Geoffrey 

 de Chadderton in 1282, and by William 

 de Chadderton in 1320, as i oxgang, by 

 the rent of id. ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 247 ; Mamecestre, 279. From this time 

 Foxdenton seems to have merged again in, 

 Chadderton, its connexion with Man- 

 chester being forgotten. 



Gilbert de Barton granted to the canons 

 of Coekersand land in Denton, with the 

 usual easements in the vills of Chadderton 

 and Denton, and acquittance of pannage 

 for their pigs in the wood of Lyme. The 

 bounds recited mention Ridley Syke, 

 Blacklache, the Church land, Hazelhead 

 Brook, and Ripley Brook ; Coekersand 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 732. 



50 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 139; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 36 ; iv, 96. 

 From this it appears that Elizabeth had 

 married again, and in 1497 a ve John 

 Duncalf for life a messuage and 40 acres 

 in Chadderton. William Radcliffe's feoff- 

 ment, made shortly before his death, is 

 recited, making provision for his various 

 children. Two of these, John and Roger, 

 were illegitimate, and their lands reverted 

 at their death in 1527 and 1528 to 

 Thomas Radcliffe ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. vi, 60. 



The inquisition after William Radcliffe 

 is also recorded in Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 113, m. 19, in connexion with the Traf- 

 ford claim to the wardship of the heir. 

 At m. 1 8 is the Standish case. 



Margery Kirke, widow of William 

 Radcliffe of Chadderton, died in 1521, 

 Thomas the son and heir being then 

 described as over sixteen years of age ; 

 she had held eight messuages, 40 acres of 

 land, &c., in the township ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 38. 



61 Ibid, xi, 25. The settlement re- 

 cited in it granted the manor, after the 

 death of Thomas, to the use of his eldest 

 son William for sixty years, then to the 

 use of any wife of William for her life, 

 then to any son of the said William and 

 his heirs male ; then to the second and 

 third sons of Thomas in the same way. 

 William was to 'leave and forbear the 

 company of Margery Hawkirk, with 

 whom he was suspected to lead an un- 

 godly life,' and within ten years marry 

 ' such gentlewoman or other woman being 

 of honest name and fame,' approved by 

 the trustees ; see ibid, iii, 13. 



The will of Thomas Radcliffe is 

 printed in Piccope's Wills (Chet. Soc. ),ii, 

 163-4 ; his sons William and John, and 

 daughters {Catherine, Ellen, Margaret, 

 Elizabeth, and Anne, are named, and three 

 bastard children. He desired to be buried 

 in Oldham Church, near his wife. 



52 In accordance with the father's set- 

 tlement. 



53 Inq. p.m. last cited, and xiv, 54. 

 John Radcliffe, who was ' of Gisburn,' in 

 1580, in consideration of the marriage 

 between his daughter Margaret and 

 Richard Radcliffe of Newcroft, gave his 

 manor and lands in Chadderton to trus- 

 tees for their benefit. John had various 

 disputes with his elder brother William 

 (see Ducatus Lane. [Rec. Com.], iii, 177, 

 512), who in 1589 laid claim to the 

 estate, but seems to have been defeated. 

 William made settlements of the third 

 part of the manor, with various mes- 



suages, water-mills and dovecotes, lands, 

 &c., in Chadderton, Foxdenton, Oldham, 

 and Glodwick, in 1587 and 1588 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 49, m. 54 ; 50, m. 

 118. 



William Radcliffe died 30 June 1590, 

 holding two messuages, &c., in Glod- 

 wick, his heir being his niece Margaret ; 

 ibid, xv, m. 23. His nuncupative will is 

 printed in Wills (Chet. Soc. new ser.), i, 

 108. He left his goods to his wife and 

 his son Walter. 



54 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xv, 25. 

 She died 28 November 1590. There were 

 a younger son and six daughters, of whom 

 one grew up. Her husband died 13 

 January 1602-3, an( * was buried in Flix- 

 ton Church, where there is a brass. 



45 He granted to Sir Alexander Rad- 

 cliffe of Ordsall and other trustees his 

 capital messuage of Denton and the manor 

 of Chadderton, with the demesne lands ; 

 the coal mines at Huntclough ; part of a 

 water corn - mill and two kilns, and 

 various tenements ; the capital messuage 

 called Newcroft in Urmston ; for the use 

 of his son and heir Robert, with remain- 

 der to younger sons William and Alexan- 

 der. The father reserved to himself 

 rooms at Foxdenton and an annuity of 

 40, and made provision for his younger 

 sons and his daughters Margaret, Eliza- 

 beth, Susan, and Mary ; Shaw, Oldham, 



93- 



56 He was made a knight in the field, 

 at the pursuit of Essex's army, i Septem- 

 ber, 1 644 ; Metcalfe, Knights, 202. 



*7 He had a colonel's commission from 

 Prince Charles. After the surrender he 

 had leave to return to Foxdenton, Lord 

 Fairfax reporting that he was ' very civil 

 and fair in his demeanour,' the country 

 commending him 'for preserving them 

 often from the injuries which they were 

 subject unto by the unruly soldiers.' His 

 estates were, of course, sequestered by the 

 Parliament, but he compounded, stating 

 the annual value of the estates as 235, 

 and claiming a mitigation of the fine on 

 the ground that he was neither ' a papist 

 in arms,' nor a participant in the ' rebel- 

 lion of Ireland.' He made his will in 

 1647, desiring to be buried in Oldham 

 Church, and making provision for his 

 wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Rowland 

 Egerton of Farthinghoe ; Shaw, Oldham 

 96-8, 103-8. Dame Elizabeth's will, 

 dated 1650, is printed ibid. 116, 117. 



58 In 1652 a settlement was made by 

 Alexander Radcliffe and Mary his wife ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 152, m. 6$. 

 The remainders, after his issue, were to 



