SALFORD HUNDRED 



BURY 



Bury ' the manufacture of cotton . . . was ended, 

 and the woollen manufacture of coarse sorts, called 

 half-thicks and kerseys, begun ; which employs this 

 and all the villages about it.' 6 There are also extensive 

 cotton mills, iron and brass foundries, paper mills, 

 and bleach works. Bury is also noted for simnel 

 cakes, and the fourth Sunday in Lent is kept as a 

 festival ; 7 parkin, a corruption of Tharcake, was made 

 at the beginning of November. 8 



The old festivals were those of the Royal Oak, 

 Robin Hood, and ' Maying Night.' 9 Football games 

 were played at certain seasons. 10 Otter-hunting was 

 one of the sports of the district. 11 



Fairs are held on 5 March, 3 May, and 1 8 Septem- 

 ber. The wakes begin on the Saturday after August 

 Bank Holiday. 



The dungeon, 13 pillory, 13 and town cross 14 have 

 disappeared. The ghosts or * boggarts ' have also 

 gone. 15 



The printing press was introduced in ijSg. 16 The 

 first newspaper was the Bury Mercury, issued in 

 1 83 1. 17 There are now four the Times (begun in 

 1855) and the Guardian (1857), published twice a 

 week, and the Visitor and the Advertiser, each once. 18 



There is a theatre. 19 



A halfpenny token was issued in 1667. 

 In Bury town there were 114 hearths liable to the 

 tax ; John Greenhalgh's rectory had ten hearths, 

 John Brook's house eight, Richard Tootell's seven, 

 those of John Eckersall and John Redferne six each. 

 In Bury Upper End were fifty-two hearths. 21 



Various changes in the boundaries have taken place 

 in recent years, 22 and the present township or civil 

 parish of Bury contains not only the ancient hamlet 

 or township, but parts of Elton, Walmersley-with- 

 Shuttleworth, and Heap. 23 



The manor of BURT was held of the 

 MANORS lord of Tottington as one knight's fee. 24 

 The tenant bore the local surname, and 

 in 1193-4 Adam de Bury offered 5 marks for having 

 the king's good will after the rebellion of John, 

 Count of Mortain.* 5 Under Roger de Montbegon 

 Adam de Bury, son of Ailward de Bury by his wife 

 Alice de Montbegon, 26 in 1212 held the fee of one 

 knight ' of ancient tenure ' ; 27 the formation of this 

 . holding may therefore date from the early part of the 

 1 2th century. In 1302 Henry de Bury held the fee 

 of the Earl of Lincoln. 28 In 1313 he made a settle- 

 ment of the manor, 29 and two years later was killed 

 in some of the disturbances raised by Adam Banastre. 30 



6 Tour through Great Britain (ed. 1738), 

 iii, 182. 



7 Barton, Bury, 23. 



8 Ibid, 109. 9 Ibid. 10-13. 



10 Ibid. 41 ; Christmas, Shrovetide, and 

 Good Friday each had special matches, 

 the final games being played in Easter 

 week. 



11 Ibid. 45. 



12 Ibid. 42. The old court house stood 

 near the cross ; ibid. 44. 



18 Ibid. 43 ; it was used for the last 

 time about 1800. 



14 Ibid. 43, 300. It stood near the 

 centre of the market-place, and was taken 

 down in 1818. 



16 Ibid. 13, 34; one of them was like 

 a white rabbit. 



18 Ibid. 7 ; Local Gleanings, Lanes, and 

 Ches. i, 71, gives ' in or before 1798.' 



V Manch. Guardian N. and Q. no. 490. 



18 In 1867 they were the Times, Guar- 

 dian, and Broadsheet. 



19 An early theatrical performance in a 

 barn in Moss Lane in 1787 ended in the 

 collapse of the building and death or injury 

 to many of the spectators ; Barton, Bury, 

 18-23 ; see also 32. 



20 Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. v, 75 ; 

 it was issued by Samuel Waring, other- 

 wise notable as a prosperous Noncon- 

 formist ; ibid., and Ormerod, Parentalia. 



21 Subs. R. bdle. 250, no. 9, Lane. ; for 

 1666. 



22 By the Bury Improvement Acts, 1872 

 and 1885. The bounds are described in 

 the Bury Times Business Directory. 



28 The county borough includes Bury 

 and parts of Elton, Tottington Lower 

 End, Walmersley - with - Shuttleworth, 

 Birtle-with-Bamford, Heap, Pilsworth, 

 Pilkington, and Radcliffe. It was made 

 a single civil parish or township in 1894 

 by Local Gov. Bd. Order 31671. 



24 Lanes, Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 59, 60, 145. After 

 the Montbegons sold Tottington to the 

 Lacys, Bury was held of the Earl of 

 Lincoln, as in 1242, when it was part 

 of the dower of the countess (ibid. 153) ; 

 and afterwards of the Earls and Dukes of 

 Lancaster. Sake fee of 81. and castle- 

 ward lot. were payable for Bury ; Extent 



of 17 Edw. II ; Sheriff's Compotus of 

 22 Edw. III. 



25 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 77. A little 

 later Henry de Bury is named ; ibid. 



355- 



It was probably another Henry de Bury 

 who about 1240 attested a surrender of 

 part of Rochdale rectory ; Whalley 

 Coucber (Chet. Soc.), i, 143. 



26 In 1 244-5 Adam de Bury laid claim 

 to the Montbegon inheritance on the 

 strength of this descent ; the jury did 

 not allow it, so that Alice may have been 

 illegitimate ; Assize R. 482, m. 17. 

 Alice, wife of Eward (or Ailward) de 

 Bury, received from her father, Adam de 

 Montbegon, land in Tottington ; Lanes. 

 Inq. and Extents, i, 6 1. 



*7 Ibid. 60. Robert de Bury and 

 Adam de Bury attested an Eccles 

 Charter about 1205 ; JPhalley Coucher 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 57. It is impossible to 

 say how many Adams there were. Adam 

 de Bury secured an acknowledgement of 

 his right to a moiety of Shuttleworth in 

 1227 ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 49. He was one of the twelve 

 knights engaged in the perambulation of 

 the forest in 1228 ; Lanes. Pipe R. 420. 

 A little later he confirmed land in Mar- 

 land to Stanlaw Abbey ; W 'bailey Coucher, 

 ii, 593. He held the knight's fee in 

 1242 ; Inq. and Extents, i, 153. Four years 

 later he recovered a small strip of land, 

 probably on the boundary, against Geoffrey 

 de Radcliffe ; Assize R. 404, m. 3. 



An Adam, son of Adam de Bury, ap- 

 pears in 1246 at Bradley, near Chipping, 

 but he may be of another family ; Final 

 Cone, i, 1 02. 



The king in 1250 ordered the sheriff 

 not to place Adam de Bury on juries so 

 long as he continued to be coroner ; 

 Close R. 64, m. i. In 1251 Adam was one 

 of the knights attesting the grant of 

 Ordsall to David de Hulton ; Gregson, 

 Fragments (ed. Harland), 347. 



The rights of Adam's mill were in 1256 

 acknowledged by two of the tenants, who 

 agreed to grind corn growing on the 

 lands they held of him to the twentieth 

 measure ; but should Adam allow his 

 mill to fall into decay then they were to 



129 



be at liberty to grind elsewhere, without 

 giving any multure to him ; Final Cone, i, 

 1 2O. Two years before this Adam had 

 claimed suit of mill against various 

 tenants ; Curia Regis R. 154, m. 16, 17. 



An Alexander de Bury made a grant 

 of Gollinroyd about 1260 ; Ormerod, 

 Parentalia, 43. 



Adam de Bury was plaintiff and de- 

 fendant in suits of 1277 and 1278 ; Assize 

 R. 1235, m. 13; R. 1238, m. 31, 32; 

 R. 1239, m. 37, 39. He was again plain- 

 tiff in 1281 ; Pat. 9 Edw. I, m. 14 d. 

 Sir Adam de Bury and Adam his son 

 attested a Barton charter before or about 

 that time ; De Traffbrd Deeds, no. 192. 



In 1287 Anabel, widow of Adam de 

 Bury, claimed a third part of the manor 

 of Bury and advowson of the church, 

 against Henry de Lacy ; De Banco R. 

 67, m. 56. 



28 Inq. and Extents, i, 313. Already in 

 1300 he had been charged by Alexander 

 son of Henry del Hurst with unjust dis- 

 traint on cattle and corn at the Rhodes in 

 Bury, but in reply urged that Alexander 

 was his villein ; De Banco R. 131, m. II. 

 He occurs as plaintiff in 1306 and 1309 ; 

 De Banco R. 161, m. 437 d. ; R. 179, 

 m. 206 d. In 1311 Sir Henry de Bury 

 held the manor of Bury by the service of 

 one knight and suit to the court of Tot- 

 tington from three weeks to three weeks; 

 De Lacy Inq. (Chet. Soc.), 19. 



29 Final Cone, ii, i 3 ; Geoffrey son of 

 Robert de Bury acted as deforciant. The- 

 advowson of the church was included 

 with the manor ; after the death of Henry 

 de Bury they were to remain to Margery 

 daughter of Richard de Radcliffe for life j 

 after her decease to Henry son of Henry 

 de Bury and his issue, and in default suc- 

 cessively to Alice, Agnes, and Isabel, 

 daughters of the elder Henry ; finally to 

 Adam son of Matthew de Bury and his 

 heirs. This fine was frequently cited in 

 the subsequent disputes as to the manor. 

 Henry son of Adam de Bury was plaintiff 

 in 1313 ; De Banco R. 198, m. 36 d. 



80 At an inquiry in 1323 it was stated 

 that Sir Adam Banastre and others made 

 their confederacy on the Wednesday before 

 St. Wilfrid's Day, 1315, and a few days 



