A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



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son of William, then about thirty years of age. 16 

 According to the pedigree recorded in 1664. this 

 William died without issue, 

 and the manor passed to a 

 cousin of the same name, who 

 left sons William and Samuel. 16 

 The former, by his will in 

 1673, made his brother Samuel 

 his principal heir. 17 The es- 

 tate descended to William 

 Bamford, who died in 1761," 

 leaving three daughters who 

 died without issue, the eldest, 

 Anne, devising it in 1779 to 

 a distant kinsman, William 



BAMFORD of Bam- 

 ford. Argent a fesse 

 engrailed gules. 



Bamford of Tarleton Bridge, 

 sheriff of Lancashire in I787. 19 He died in 1806, 

 when Bamford and other estates became the property of 

 Robert Hesketh in right of his wife, Nicholson ; 20 he 

 changed his name to Bamford, but afterwards resumed 

 his proper one. His son Robert married the heiress 

 of Gwrych in Denbighshire. Bamford, however, was 

 sold in 1816 to Joseph Fenton, whose son James in 

 1841 took down the hall built in the time of Queen 

 Anne, and erected a new house. Bamford became 



the property of a younger son, and on the failure of 

 Fenton's Bank was sold by the trustees. The hall, 

 park, and part of the land were purchased in 1888 

 by Mr. E. Stocks Massey, J.P." 



Moscrop House in Bamford was part of the Age- 

 croft Estate. 12 The Holts of Gristlehurst and of 

 Ashworth also held lands here. 23 



WHITTLE has no special history." Ferdinando 

 Stanley lived there in 1O56. 25 



LQMAX was given by Adam de Bury to Monk 

 Bretton Priory. 86 It gave a surname to a widely- 

 spread family, 27 and was often named as a hamlet. 18 



The Smethurst family appear to have had lands in 

 Heap. 29 Lands called Bymonds in Heap were the 

 subject of dispute in 1575.* 



In 1788 the principal landowners in Heap were 

 William Bamford, James Starky, Mrs. Nuttall, the 

 executors of John Lancashire, the executors of Samuel 

 Howorth, and John Partington. 31 



HEYWOOD gave a surname to a widely-spread 

 family. 32 Adam de Bury granted to Peter de Hey- 

 wood certain lands at a rent of ^s. ; should Adam's 

 pigs enter the wood of Heywood in mast time, Peter 

 was to be at liberty to drive them out. SJ The estate 

 descended regularly to Robert Heywood, who died on 



15 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 

 35 ; in it is recited a settlement made by 

 Samuel Bamford a fortnight before his 

 death, the remainders being to William 

 son of Edward Bamford of Mawdesley, and 

 to Edward son of Samuel Bamford of 

 Bretherton. 



William Bamford declined knighthood, 

 paying in 1631 a composition of 10 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 216. 

 Mr. Bamford of Bamford' died 10 Aug. 

 1649 ; Bury Reg. 



16 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 22. 

 William Bamford died 28 Mar. 1673 ; 

 Bury Reg. 



W Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), vi, fol. 

 299. The remainder of this account of 

 Bamford is from Canon Raines's note in 

 Notitia Cestr. ii, 29, except where other 

 references are given. 



18 A settlement was made in 1735, the 

 deforciants in the fine being William Bam- 

 ford and Margaret his wife, George Bam- 

 ford and Margaret his wife, and Anne and 

 Susan Bamford ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 315, m. 69. The estate is not de- 

 scribed as a manor, but as messuages and 

 lands in Bamford, Spotland, and Wolsten- 

 holme. P.R.O. List, 74. 



20 Burke, Commoners, iv, 524. For the 

 Fentons see Burke, Landed Gentry, Fen- 

 ton of Dutton Hall. 



81 Information of Mr. Massey, who 

 died in Dec. 1909. 



22 In consequence of disputes about it 

 between Richard Ashton of Middleton and 

 Robert Langley of Agecroft an arbitration 

 was arranged in 1524, and it was decided 

 that the former ought to pay the latter a 

 free rent of 6d. ; Agecroft D. 101. 



28 For Gristlehurst see the account of 

 Birtle in Middleton. 



24 Hawise de Whittle (Quitul), Adam 

 of the same, and his brothers John and 

 Roger, in 1292 sought to prove their free- 

 dom against Adam de Bury ; Assize R. 

 408, m. 33 d. 



A family named Langley resided in the 

 1 7th century at Whittle ; William Lang- 

 ley was summoned by the heralds in 1664; 

 Dugdale, Visit, p. v. 



25 Manchester Free Library D. no. 100; 

 the field names given include Warriner 



Wood, Reyne Cloughs, and Pingle. The 

 Bury registers contain some entries refer- 

 ring to the family. 



26 Monk Bretton Chartul. fol. 43, 44 ; 

 and Lansdowne MS. 405, fol. 49. The 

 land' called 'Lummehalenges' within 

 the bounds of Heap touched Gooden 

 (Guledene) and the water of Roch (Ra- 

 ched). A claim made in 1445 by the 

 Prior of Monk Bretton against Sir John 

 de Pilkington may refer to this land ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 7, m. 3^. 



*7 See the account of Pilsworth. The 

 Bury registers mention Lomax of Castle 

 Hill, Lomax of Redivales, Lomax of 

 Croichley, Lomax of Bent, &c. 



28 Robert de Radcliffe held a tenement 

 called ' Lomhalle ' of Henry de Bury in 

 1351; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. i,m. 2 d. 

 Richard son of John de Radcliffe seems to 

 have held the same estate in 1368 ; De 

 Banco R. 431, m. 351 ; and Sir Alexander 

 Radcliffe in 1546 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 12, m. 253. 



29 Richard Smethurst died 5 June 1597 

 holding lands in Bury of the Earl of Derby 

 in socage, by a rent of 6J</., also a mes- 

 suage in Middleton of the queen as of her 

 manor of Stanton Lacy in Shropshire. 

 Richard his son and heir was twenty-six 

 years of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xvii, no. 74. Richard Smethurst contri- 

 buted to the subsidy of 1622 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 161. 

 These seem to have been the Smethursts 

 of Broad Oak, whose estate was afterwards 

 acquired by the Nuttalls ; Raines MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xxxi, fol. 272, 273. 



Arthur Smethurst the elder made a 

 settlement of three messuages and lands in 

 Bury, &c., in 1568 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 30, m. 1 17. Arthur Smethurst of 

 Heap married Margaret Kay on 24 Feb. 

 1611-12 ; Bury Reg. The same or an- 

 other Arthur was a member of the Bury 

 Classis in 1646. 



80 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 34. 



81 Land tax returns at Preston. 



82 There are pedigrees in the Iter Lane. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 22 ; and in Lanes, and Ches. 

 Antiq. Soc. ix, 144. 



88 Iter Lane. 2350. Heywood, Diaries, 

 i, 124. The bounds began at Gooden 



138 



(Golden) in Hopwood, descended to the 

 Roch, ascended this to Heyden (Heedene), 

 and this to the boundary of the lands of 

 Adam de Bury and Roger de Middleton. 

 The date is about 1270. 



In 1246 Peter son of Robert de Hey- 

 wood had recovered 2 acres of land in 

 Heywood against Gervase de Halliwell, 

 Hawise his wife, Hugh the son of Ger- 

 vase, and Wimark his wife ; Assize R. 

 404, m. 3. In 1292 William son of Hugh 

 de Gooden complained that he had been dis- 

 seised of his common of pasture in 2 acres 

 of moor within Bury, Peter de Heywood 

 and his sons Henry, Richard, Robert, and 

 Gilbert being the principal offenders ; 

 but he was nonsuited ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 5. 



William de Heywood in 1344 granted 

 all his land in Bury to his brother Richard 

 for life, at a rent of z6s. a year ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxvii, fol. 163. Richard de Heywood 

 appears in 1357; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, 

 App. 336. Nicholas de Heywood in 1366 

 enfeoffed John de Radcliffe of Chadderton 

 of all his lands in Bury and Middleton ; 

 Dods. MSS. loc. cit. In 1375 Nicholas 

 complained of a trespass at Heywood ; De 

 Banco R. 460, m. 261. 



A Hugh de Heywood went to Portugal 

 on the king's service in 1385 } Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 524. 



Robert son of Nicholas de Heywood 

 made a feoffment of his lands in Heywood 

 in 1417 ; Dods. MSS. cxvii, fol. 163^. 

 Two years later the feoffees granted Ro- 

 bert's lands in the hamlet of Heap in the 

 vill of Bury and in Middleton to his brother 

 Geoffrey ; ibid. Geoffrey de Heywood in 

 1429-30 agreed not to alienate the lands 

 of his father Nicholas, in view of the 

 marriage of his son Peter with Margaret 

 daughter of Robert Tunnicliffe ; ibid. 



Geoffrey de Heywood survived his son, 

 and in 1455-6 a settlement of his lands 

 was made, by which they were to descend 

 successively to Robert, Nicholas, Geoffrey, 

 and James, the sons of Peter, and heirs 

 male ; in default to Nicholas, another son 

 of Geoffrey the elder 5 ibid. fol. 165. 

 Geoffrey had another son James, to whom 

 a moiety of Hurtilcroft in Bury was granted 

 for life at the same time, with remainder 



