SALFORD HUNDRED 



BURY 



19 March 1543-4, holding Heywood of the Earl of 

 Derby in socage by the ancient rent of zs., payable at 

 St. Oswald's feast-day. James 

 his brother and heir was forty 

 years of age. 34 The next 

 notable possessor of the estate 

 is Peter Heywood, who in the 

 Civil War was at first a cap- 

 tain for the Parliament, but 

 went over to the king's side, 35 

 his lands being sequestrated. 36 

 His son Robert recorded a 

 short pedigree in 1664," and 

 was succeeded by his son 

 Peter, and grandson Robert, 

 a clergyman. The last-named 

 Robert in 1717 sold Hey- 

 wood to John Starky of Rochdale,* 9 whose grandson 

 James Starky died in 1 846 without issue.* 9 



Richard Milnes was a freeholder in Heywood in 

 l6oo. 40 



A declaration by adherents to the Commonwealth 

 in 1650-1 is extant. 41 



Towards the end of the i8th cen- 



BOROUGH tury Heywood began to grow into a 



town. Several cotton mills were 



HEYWOOD of Hey- 

 wood. Argent three tor- 

 teaux bet-ween two bend- 

 lets gules. 



established about 1780," and the manufacture has 

 continued to advance, while other trades have been 

 added. 43 A branch of the Rochdale and Manchester 

 Canal was brought to the town in 1830. The station 

 at Bluepits on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Com- 

 pany's line from Manchester to Rochdale was opened 

 in 1839 f r the convenience 

 of Heywood people, who were 

 conveyed to and from the 

 town by a packet-boat on the 

 canal. The railway was ex- 

 tended to Heywood itself in 

 1841. A gas-lighting Act was 

 obtained in 1826, but the 

 town was not lighted till 

 1851. A local board was 

 established in 1864," and in 

 1867 the district was extended 

 and renamed Heywood. 45 In 

 1 88 1 the borough was in- 

 corporated ; 46 the area now 



includes parts of Heap, Hopwood, Pilsworth r 

 Birtle-with-Bamford, and Castleton, 47 and in 1894 

 this area was made a civil parish, the old township 

 limits being abolished. 48 The town is governed by a 

 mayor and council of six aldermen and eighteen 



BOROUGH OF HEY- 

 WOOD. Or Jive torteaux 

 between two bendlets 

 engrailed and at many 

 matcles sable. 



to Robert son and heir of Peter de Hey- 

 wood ; ibid. 



In 1501 an agreement was made be- 

 tween James Holt of Gristlehurst, Ralph 

 bis son and heir, and their partners, on one 

 side, and Robert Heywood of Heywood, 

 Peter his son and heir, and their partners, 

 on the other : ibid. 



M Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, no. 29. 

 This recites the settlement of 1455-6, 

 and traces the descent to Robert Heywood, 

 who was the son and heir of the Peter last 

 mentioned. Peter Heywood had given 

 Leonard's Croft and other lands to trustees 

 for the use of Elizabeth daughter of Charles 

 Radcliffe, on her marriage with Robert his 

 son. A settlement was made in 1539 

 (see Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 1 2, m. 

 7), whereby the lands in Heywood, Heap, 

 Bury, and Middleton, were, after the death 

 of Peter, to go to his son Robert, and in 

 default of male issue, to a younger son 

 James. The lands in Middleton were held 

 of Robert Langley in socage, by a rent of 6d. 



James Heywood in 1559 made a settle- 

 ment of his estates in Heywood and else- 

 where, the remainders being to his sons 

 Peter, heir apparent, and Robert ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 21, m. 65. Peter 

 Heywood succeeded before 1569, when he 

 made a settlement ; ibid. bdle. 31, m. 17. 

 Peter Heywood was returned as a free- 

 holder in 1600 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 247. He was buried 14 Feb. 

 1599-1600 ; Bury Reg. According to the 

 pedigrees the Peter Heywood who assisted 

 at the arrest of Guy Fawkes in 1605 was 

 a younger son. The heir was the elder 

 son Robert, who rebuilt Heywood Hall in 

 1611, and is described by Oliver Heywood 

 as ' a pious, reverend old gentleman and an 

 excellent poet ' ; Iter Lane. 1 7 ; O. Hey- 

 wood's Diaries, i, 17. His Observations has 

 been printed by the Chetham Society (vol. 

 76). 



The pedigree of 1664-5 begins with 

 Robert Heywood, who paid i o on refusing 

 knighthood in 1631; Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 216. He was buried 

 19 Jan. 1646-7 ; Bury Reg. By his will, 

 dated 8 Oct. 1646, he devised his estate 

 to the use of his son Peter, reserving 



dower for Margaret his wife and portions 

 for his daughters and a younger son 

 John ; then to his grandson Robert and 

 heirs male ; in default to his said son 

 John, &c. ; 'provided that the trustees 

 should stand seised of two houses in Roch- 

 dale to the use of his son John, upon 

 his submission to Parliament, until he 

 came to some ecclesiastical preferment 

 in the Church of England of 50 a year.' 

 This son was made rector of Walton at 

 the Restoration. There was a further 

 provision that if his son Peter should 

 submit to the Parliament the trustees 

 were 'to stand seised of the premises unto 

 the said Peter Heywood, his heirs and 

 assigns, for ever ' ; Roy. Comp. Papers 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 222, 223. 

 It thus appears that while the father was 

 a Parliamentarian and a member of the 

 Bury Classis, his sons were Royalists. 

 John was living ' at Oxford as a scholar ' 

 in 1652. 



84 Civil War Tracts, 230. He not only 

 ' held intelligence with the enemy ' while 

 a Parliamentary officer, but after he had 

 joined the king's army 'he offered,' says 

 Colonel Rosworm, ' in the behalf of Prince 

 Rupert, that I should have a very great 

 sum of money paid me in my hand before 

 my delivery of the town, that I should have 

 great preferment under Prince Rupert," &c. 



86 Roy. Comp. Papers, ut sup. His fine 

 was ,351. He also desired to compound 

 for the dower of his wife in lands in Roch- 

 dale and Stidd, the inheritance of her 

 former husband, Theophilus Holt. Peter 

 Heywood died 4 Jan. 1657-8 ; Bury Reg. 



W Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 139. 

 Robert was then Clerk of the Green Wax 

 for the county palatine ; his son Peter was 

 two years of age. Robert Heywood and 

 Mary his wife, one of the sisters and co- 

 heirs of John Haslam of Rochdale, who 

 was son and heir of Ellis Haslam, sold 

 land in 1671; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxxi, fol. 67. Robert Heywood and Peter 

 his son were burgesses at the Preston 

 Gild of 1682 ; Guild Rolls (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 189. 



88 Robert Heywood, son and heir of 

 Peter, son and heir of Robert, sold the 



139 



Heywood estates together with the 

 manor of Spotland in Rochdale for 

 1,841 8*. 6d. The capital messuage of 

 Heywood Hall, with water corn - mill, 

 lands in Heap, Middleton, and Bamford, 

 and the site and advowson of the chapel 

 of Heywood, are mentioned, and many 

 field names (including Coal pit field) are 

 given ; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xvi, 

 fol. in. See also Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 279, m. 86. From another deed 

 given by Canon Raines it appears that the 

 vendor died before 1742. 



89 Extracts from the diary of John 

 Starky of Heywood are given in Raines 

 MSS. viii, fol. 343. 



In 1 749 an agreement was made for the 

 marriage of John son and heir apparent of 

 John Starky with Esther Whalley of 

 Blackburn. James Starky in 1786 married 

 Elizabeth daughter of Edward Gregge- 

 Hopwood. See Raines MSS. xvi, fol. 1 1 1 ; 

 and Notitia Cestr. ii, 29. James Starky 

 also owned Tonge Hall near Middleton ; 

 he was sheriff in 1791-2 ; P.R.O. List, 74, 



In a statement of the Starky title to the 

 advowson of Heywood in 1834, it is stated 

 that John Starky purchased from Hey- 

 wood, was succeeded by his only surviving 

 son John, and he by his son James, seventy- 

 two years old in 1834 ; Church P. at 

 Chester. 



40 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.) r 

 i, 249. 41 Add. Chart. 7180 (B.M.). 



43 In a lecture by Mr. J. A. Green in 

 1899, it is stated that James Kershaw of 

 Wrigley Brook Mill purchased cotton in 

 1777 ; three other mills were also in ex- 

 istence, and Makin Mill was built by Peel, 

 Yates & Co., about 1780. 



48 An account of the progress of the 

 cotton manufacture is given in Barton,. 

 Bury, 276-7, from which volume are ex- 

 tracted several other particulars in the text, 



44 Land. Ga%, 8 Mar. 1864, for Heap 

 Middle Division. 



45 30 & 31 Viet. cap. 64 ; 38 & 39 

 Viet. cap. 76 ; and 42 & 43 Viet. cap. 76. 



46 The date of the charter is 1 8 Feb. 1 8 8 1 . 



4 7 The portion of Castleton was added 

 in 1900 ; Loc. Govt. Bd. Order P, 1640, 



48 Ibid. Order 31671. 



