SALFORD HUNDRED 



BURY 



scended regularly to the fifteenth earl, 33 who in 1872 

 sold his rights, the advowson excepted, to the Improve- 

 ment Commissioners, who have been succeeded by 

 the present corporation. He remained the principal 

 landowner, as his successor, the present earl, still is. 



The principal incidents of the tenure by the 

 Pilkingtons were the grant of a weekly market and 

 two fairs about 1440," and the licence in 1465 to 

 fortify the manor-house of Bury, afterwards known as 

 the Castle. 35 



At the beginning of last century three courts leet 

 were held annually for the manor of Bury in April, at 

 Whitsuntide, and in October ; a court baron was held 

 every three weeks for the recovery of debts under 4O/. 36 



A family bearing the local surname long continued 

 to have lands within the parish ; 37 they may have 

 been descended from the former lords of the manor. 

 The bridge appears to have given a surname to a 

 resident family. 38 CHESH4M, sometimes called a 

 manor, was once owned by the Holts of Stubley. 39 

 A family named Allen formerly lived at Redvales. 40 

 Haslum also occurs. 41 The Hulmes of Davyhulme 

 had property in Bury." 



A petition for the delimitation of the bounds of 

 Bury and Middleton was addressed to the Chancellor 

 of the Duchy about 1 520." 



The custom of the county as to the distribution of 

 the goods of intestates led to disputes in the latter 



had been recovered by his servants pro- 

 clamation was, as usual, made in the 

 market of Bury, and they were delivered 

 to their owners ; Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 84-8. The earl 

 was said to hold the manor of Bury, 

 'to be one of the four judgers' at 

 every court held within the lordship of 

 Tottington ; Duchy of Lane. Dep. xii, 

 Gia. 



The manors of Bury and Pilkington 

 with the advowson of Bury were among 

 the dower lands of Charlotte, Countess of 

 Derby, in 1652, and she was allowed to 

 compound for them. The ' old rents ' of 

 Bury in 1640 amounted to ,163 81. gd., 

 and the tolls of fairs and markets to 10; 

 Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 182, 184. 



M The manor of Pilkington, the ad- 

 vowson of Bury, &c., were included in a 

 settlement by William, Earl of Derby, in 

 1677; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 199, m. 

 55. The advowson of Bury and other pro- 

 perties were in the hands of John, Earl of 

 Anglesey, and Henrietta Maria his wife 

 in 1708 ; ibid. bdle. 260, m. 53. The 

 manors of Bury and Pilkington, with the 

 advowson of Bury, were included in a 

 general arrangement in 1715 ; ibid. bdle. 

 276, m. 71. The manors of Bury and 

 Pilkington and the ' perpetual advowson, 

 presentation, donation, and the free dis- 

 position of the church of Bury' were like- 

 wise included in a recovery of the estates 

 of Edward, Earl of Derby, the first of 

 the Bickerstaffe line, in 1 747 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 567, m. 3. There were 

 similar recoveries in 1776 and 1797 ; 

 ibid. R. 623, m. ia ; Assize R. 10, Aug. 

 Assizes, 37 Geo. III. 



84 Henry VI about 1440 granted to Sir 

 John Pilkington a weekly market on 

 Friday and two fairs of three days each at 

 the feasts of St. George and the Nativity 

 of Our Lady ; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxxviii, fol. i. 



Edward IV seems to have confirmed 

 or varied this grant to Thomas Pilkington; 

 Lanes, and Cbes. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 299. In the ijth and l8th 

 centuries Thursday was the market day. 



Thomas Chetham of Nuthurst com- 

 plained that having been appointed 

 (Fin 1521) bailiff of the manors of Bury and 

 Pilkington for eighteen years during the 

 minority of the heir, he had exercised his 

 office till 22 April, ' on which day yearly 

 time out of mind hath been a fair within 

 the said manor of Bury' ; but John 

 Greenhalgh and about six score ' misruled 

 and riotous persons,' provided with bills, 

 gleaves, batts, staves, swords, and bucklers, 

 assaulted at the toll booth, commanded 

 him ' not to be so hardy nor further to 

 intermeddle in the said office of baili- 

 wick,' and made a solemn cry in the fair 

 that all should obey only the orders of 



John Greenhalgh, as deputy bailiff of Sir 

 Richard Tempest ; Clowes D. 



In 1826 the Thursday market had long 

 been obsolete, but custom had established 

 one on Saturday. Fairs were held on 

 5 March, 3 May, and 1 8 September ; 

 Baines, Lanes. Dir. i, 581. 



85 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 179 ; 

 licence to Thomas Pilkington to build, 

 fortify, and caste-Hate a mansion within his 

 manor of Bury. It appears to have fallen 

 into decay very quickly, as Leland about 

 1535 speaks of it as a ruin ; I tin. vii, 49. 



It ' stood in Castle croft, close to the 

 town, on the banks of the old course of 

 the Irwell' ; Baines, Dir. i, 576. The 

 * old course ' is represented by the boun- 

 dary of the township of Elton. There is 

 a plan in Aikin's Country Round Manches- 

 ter, 269 ; and a description of remains 

 found in 1864 in Trans. Hist. Soc. xx, 

 1 7-20 ; and see Lanes, and Cbes. Antiq. 

 Soc. xxii, 152. Some of the stones, show- 

 ing the masons' marks, have been built 

 into the walls of the volunteer drill hall. 



86 Baines, Dir. i, 580. 



7 Alan son of William de Bury it 

 named in 1357 ; Duchy of Lane. Assize 

 R. 6, m. i d. 



James Bury, who died about 1515, had 

 various messuages and lands in Bury, 

 Middleton, and Tottington, held of the 

 king as of his duchy of Lancaster by the 

 sixth part of a knight's fee ; Ralph, the 

 son and heir, aged forty in 1521, had been 

 an idiot from his birth, and his uncle 

 Rawlin, brother of James, was the next 

 heir ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 34. 

 Ralph died in 1539, and was succeeded by 

 his cousin Gilbert, son of Rawlin ; ibid. 

 viii, no. 24. 



There is nothing to show in what part 

 of the manor (or parish) of Bury their 

 lands were situated. 



88 Henry de Bury in 1309 claimed 4 

 acres of land and half an acre of meadow 

 against Robert del Bridge ; De Banco R. 

 1 79, m. 206 d. ; and three years after- 

 wards the defendant called upon John son 

 and heir of John de Heaton to warrant 

 him; ibid. R. 195, m. 219 d. It was 

 found that John, the heir, was a minor, 

 and the case was adjourned till he should 

 be of age ; ibid. R. 198, m. 36 d. 



Geoffrey del Bridge in 13 13-14 claimed 

 common of pasture in Bury against Henry 

 de Bury, Hugh son of Thomas de Long- 

 worth, and others ; but it was shown 

 that Geoffrey had no land except an ap- 

 provement from the waste, to which 

 common of pasture did not pertain ; Assize 

 R. 424, m. i. 



89 Geoffrey son of John del Holt in 

 1345 purchased a messuage and lands 

 from Henry de Broxop (Broksoppe) and 

 Margery his wife ; Final Cone, ii, 121. 



Robert del Holt of ' Chesum ' is named 

 in 1428-9 ; ibid, iii, 125. 



In the inquisition (1555) after the 

 death of Robert Holt of Stubley, his lands 

 in Bury are stated to have been held of 

 the Crown by knight's service ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 48. Robert Holt, 

 his nephew and heir, who died two years 

 later, settled a part of his land in Ches- 

 ham and Bury on his wife Cecily for her 

 life ; ibid, x, no. 7. The succeeding 

 Robert Holt, who died 1561, held his 

 lands in Bury of the Earl of Derby in 

 socage by a rent of 41. $d. for all services; 

 ibid, xi, no. 15. John Holt of Stubley, 

 who died in 1622, held the 'manors' of 

 Naden and Chesham ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 336. 



Chesham for over a century descended 

 with Naden (and Stubley) ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 63, no. 177 ; 198, m. 92. 

 In 1708 the manor of Chesham, with 

 lands, houses, water-mill, horse-mill, 

 dovecote, &c., in Chesham, Bury, Tot- 

 tington, Elton, Middleton, &c., were the 

 subject of a settlement by James Holt, 

 Dorothy [Grantham] his wife, Vincent 

 Grantham, and Edward Jodrell the elder ; 

 ibid. bdle. 261, m. 84. 



40 Captain John Allen was summoned 

 by the heralds in 1664 ; Dugdale, Vith. 

 p. v. There is a pedigree in Raines' MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xxxi, fol. 84, 85, from which 

 it appears that John Allen had a soa 

 Richard, whose daughter Elizabeth married 

 William Dawson of Manchester, and was 

 the mother of James Dawson, executed 

 for participation in the rebellion of 1745. 

 Captain Allen's daughter Dorothy was 

 mother of John Byrom of Kersal. 



41 Isabel wife of John de Wakefield in 

 1313-14 claimed Haslum against Henry 

 de Bury and Richard Spacald ; Assize R. 

 424, m. i. 



Robert Nevill, son and heir of Sir 

 Thomas, by William Bradford his guardian, 

 complained in 1429 that Sir John Pil- 

 kington had disseised him of three mes- 

 suages, 200 acres of land, &c., in Bury 

 and Haslum, held of Sir John in socage, 

 by the service of id. a year, and grinding 

 his corn without multure at the mill of 

 Bury. Sir John replied that the tenure 

 was knight's service, and that Robert, 

 being a minor, was his ward. The jury, 

 however, found for the plaintiff ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 2, m. 21. 



Adam de Haslum occurs in 1256 ; 

 Final Cone, i, 120. The surname con- 

 tinued to be common in the district. 

 Haslam Brow lies to the south of Bury ; 

 Haslem Hey is in Elton. 



42 Final Cone, iii, 102 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xviii, no. 9. The land was 

 called Quistondene, and was perhaps in 

 Walmersley ; there are deeds about it 

 (1276 and 1427) in Court of Wards, 

 Deeds and Evidences, box 153, no. i, 7. 



48 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 239. 



