SALFORD HUNDRED 



The sash windows retain their wooden bars, and the 

 elevation has a certain dignity now much impaired by 

 neglect and change of surroundings. A gatehouse, 

 named in the year 1651, has now disappeared. eae 



Manor courts were held in the iyth century by 

 the three lords jointly, as it would appear. 64 



The church at Prestwich had land in Chadderton 

 of the gift of Gilbert de Barton ; a moiety of it was 

 granted by Robert the rector to Richard son of Gil- 

 bert de Scolecroft. 65 The Hospitallers also had land 

 in the township, 65 and grants to Stanlaw and Cocker- 

 sand Abbey will be found recorded in the notes. 67 



Apart from the lords of the manor there were not 

 any freeholders of note before the I7th century. 68 

 About that time the Scholes family came into notice ; 

 they held land in Okeden or Ogden of the lords of the 

 manor. 69 The mills are mentioned in several ancient 

 deeds. 70 Matthew Fold is mentioned in 1691." 



PRESTWICH WITH 

 OLDHAM 



John Ashton of Cowhill was one of the victims of 

 the ' Peterloo Massacre' in 1819." 



There are several places of worship in Chadder- 

 ton. 73 The earliest in connexion with the Established 

 Church St. Margaret's, Hollinwood is now in Old- 

 ham. It was followed by St. Matthew's, 1 848-5 7 ; 

 the Crown and the Bishop of Manchester present 

 alternately. 74 Then came Christ Church in 1870, 

 the patronage being vested in five trustees ; it has a 

 chapel of ease called Emmanuel, and some mission 

 rooms. 75 St. Luke's, to which the Bishop of Man- 

 chester collates, was built in 1888 : the district was 

 taken from St. Matthew's. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have churches at Chad- 

 derton Fold and Middleton Junction, and a preach- 

 ing room at Cowhill. 



The Baptists have a chapel at Mills Hill, on the 

 border of Tonge. 



63C Raines* notes to Gastrell's Notitia 

 (Chet. Soc. xix). Raines notes in 1849 

 that numerous family portraits still hung 

 in the house. 



64 Oldham Notes and Gleanings, ii, 223, 

 from Raines MSS. xxiv, 107. 



65 Hornby Chapel D. The bounds de- 

 scribed began on the east side of the springs, 

 and mention the land of Robert de Hulton, 

 the lache under Lonesedge, Romesdene, 

 Hennerode; Ytheyc; andTinte Carr. The 

 rent payable was id. 



By another grant the parson of Prest- 

 wich gave to Robert son of Gilbert de 

 Scolecroft and his heirs by Amaria daugh- 

 ter of Peter de Hopwood all the land in 

 Chadderton granted in pure alms by 

 Gilbert de Barton to God and B. Mary of 

 Prestwich at a rent of zs. ; Booker, Prest- 

 ivich, 250 ; Agecroft D. 5. 



Richard de Scolecroft, son of Gilbert 

 son of Wllet, granted to his son Alan the 

 half of the land he had purchased from 

 Sir Gilbert de Barton, and to hold as 

 freely as the grantor had held it of the 

 rectors of Prestwich ; Booker, op. cit. 252. 

 The bounds of this land ate identical with 

 those of the first-mentioned deed, so that 

 Gilbert de Barton, after selling to the 

 Scolecrofts, had granted his lordship to 

 Prestwich Church. Then Alan son of 

 Richard de Scolecroft gave this land to his 

 brother Robert ; ibid. 251. 



William de Scolecroft in 1415 demised 

 his lands in Chadderton to Robert de 

 Buckley for five years ; Raines D. (Chet. 

 Lib.), 3/35. 



The family took their name from a 

 place in the north-west corner of the 

 township, now Scowcroft. 



In 1304 Master William de Marklan, 

 the rector, claimed two messuages, 31 

 acres of land, and 7 acres of meadow in 

 Chadderton and Radcliffe as the free alms 

 pertaining to the church of Prestwich ; 

 the defendants, who held it as a lay fee, 

 were Richard de Radcliffe, Geoffrey de 

 Chadderton, Margery de Scolecroft, and 

 Adam her son ; De Banco R. 149, m. 255; 

 R. 158, m. 158 d, &c. Adam de Scole- 

 croft and Adam son of Amaria contributed 

 to the subsidy of 1332 ; Exch. Lay Subs. 

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



66 It is mentioned in the list of their 

 lands in 1292 ; Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. 

 Com.), 375. 



67 These monastic lands are probably 

 the lands in Chadderton held by Thomas 

 Holt of Gristehurst in 1560; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 46. 



68 In 1537 the free tenants numbered 

 12, 13, and 19 in the Standish, Ashton, 

 and Radcliffe lordships; Shaw, Oldham, 13. 



An assessment for the fifteenth in 1577 

 is printed in Oldham Notes and Gleanings, 

 iii, 61-3, from the Raines MSS. xxiv, 

 275. It gives the names of the contribu- 

 tors ranged under the three lordships. 



69 ' For goods ' James Scholes contri- 

 buted to the subsidy of 1526 ; Shaw, Old- 

 ham, 1 6. William Scholes contributed to 

 that of 1541 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 145. Various members of 

 the family holding under the Standish 

 part of the manor paid to the fifteenth in 

 1577, John Scholes contributing as a 

 ' mesne tenant ' ; Shaw, 29. John Scholes 

 died in 1589, holding a messuage and 

 23 acres called Okeden of the lords of the 

 manor in socage by a rent of 6J. t leaving 

 a son and heir John, aged over thirty- 

 eight in 1619 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 147. This 

 John Scholes died in 1630, holding the 

 same lands, and leaving as heir his son 

 William, over twenty-three years of age ; 

 Towneley MS. C. 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 p. 1 08 1 -2. Robert Scholes contributed 

 to the subsidy in 1622 ; Misc. (ut sup.), 

 i, 157. Richard and William Scholes 

 were two of the four presenting the names 

 of those liable to be assessed in Chadderton 

 in 1641 ; Shaw's Assessment, 14 ; see 

 also Shaw, Oldham, 153, 155, 171. 'The 

 late Mr. S. Scholes' s estate, near Earn- 

 shaw Lane,' which separates Moston and 

 Chadderton, is mentioned in Butterworth's 

 Oldham (1817), 165. 



James Scholes, 1671, issued a half-penny 

 token ; Lane, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. v, 75. 



With regard to their holding it may be 

 noted that Richard de Okeden paid zs. zd. 

 to the subsidy of 1332; Exch. Lay Subs. 

 30. 



The other 'mesne tenants' in 1577 

 were the Mill, James Whitehead, Henry 



Brearley, and Francis Buckley. The 

 Whiteheads and Buckleys occur in other 

 lists. John son and heir of Richard 

 Chadderton in 1507 demised his tenement 

 called Colesha (Coldshaw) for twenty-one 

 years to Nicholas Whitehead and Margery 

 his wife ; Raines D. (Chet. Lib.), 4/48. 



Stockfield (Hibbert) and Birchen Bower 

 (Robinson) are mentioned in 1817 as 

 recently seats of the owners ; Butter- 

 worth, op. cit. 162, 163. 



7 In 1448 John Huntington, warden 

 of Manchester, was arbitrator in a dispute 

 between the rector of Prestwich and the 

 lords of Chadderton as to tithe of th mill. 

 Elizabeth daughter of Richard de Rad- 

 cliffe, one of the co-heirs, was not then of 

 full age ; Raines D. (Chet. Lib.), 3/40. 



Twenty years later an agreement wag 

 made for the leasing of the ' old mill ' ; 

 Edmund Ashton, Thomas Radcliffe, and 

 Thomas Duncalf also agreed to make no 

 new mill during the term, but would re- 

 quire their tenants to grind at the old 

 one, as before ; ibid. 3/42. 



The three lords in 1581 ordered their 

 tenants to grind at the Chadderton mill 

 and not elsewhere, under a fine of 6s. 8</.j 

 Shaw, Oldham, 31. Further orders were 

 made in 1 5 99 and 1617; Oldham Notes 

 and Gleanings, ii, 163 (from Raines MSS. 

 in Chet. Lib. xxiv, 58). 



Edmund Ashton in 1 669 leased to James 

 Wilson of Poppythorn in Prestwich, 

 clothier, the fulling mill in Chadderton ; 

 Raines D. 



7* James Taylor was the owner or 

 lessee ; Shaw, Oldham, 209. 



7 2 E. Butterworth, Oldham (ed. 1856), 

 170. 



73 The ' curate at Chadderton,' men- 

 tioned in 1622, was perhaps the curate of 

 Oldham ; later curates lived in Chadder- 

 ton ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 67. The name of the place may be 

 wrongly given. 



7 4 Lond. Gam. 22 Oct. 1844. The 

 original building of 1848 a temporary 

 one, of wood was burnt down ; the pre- 

 sent church was consecrated 9 November 

 1857. 



75 For district assigned, ibid. 28 Mar. 

 1871. 



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