A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



families appear holding small estates in this part of 

 the township, for example, the Kays of Cobhouse, 9 

 Rothwells, 10 and Woods. 11 Shipwalbottom, now Ship- 

 perbottom, also occurs as an estate and a surname. 18 

 Gollinrod was the estate of a Nuttall family. 13 



The estate of Oliver Nabb in Walmersley was 

 sequestered by the Parliament. 14 



SHUTTLEWORTH appears to have been a part 

 of Tottington, acquired by an ancestor of Adam de 

 Bury, who in 1227 established his right to a moiety 

 of it. 15 Henry de Bury in 1311 held half the manor 

 of Shuttleworth of the lord of Tottington by a rent 

 of I2</. a year. 16 The Shuttleworth family is occa- 

 sionally mentioned. 17 There is little further to record 



8 Some charters preserved by Kuerden 

 (iii, B, 17) seem to refer to this est'ate ; by 

 one of them Adam de Bury granted to 

 Henry son of Gilbert de Redvales an acre 

 within 'Gobbetris,' by ' Pedeksdene ' 

 Brook, with all easements in Walmersley 

 and ' Kobholris.' 



William son of Roger Kay of ' Cob- 

 holleres ' was in 1 346 charged with having 

 cut down John del Holt's trees in Bury ; 

 De Banco R. 346, m. 113 ; R. 347, m. 

 231. In 1360 John del Holt the elder 

 was plaintiff respecting an assart at ' Pig- 

 kisdene* in Bury, now Pigsden in Wal- 

 mersley ; Assize R. 450, m. I. Ralph 

 Holt in 1441 claimed two messuages, 60 

 acres, &c., in Bury and Middleton against 

 Thomas son of William Kay and others ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 3, m. 14. 



A settlement of the estate of Thomas 

 Kay in Walmersley was made in 1586 by 

 iiimtelf, his wife Anne, Richard Kay, 

 Charles Holt, and Mary his wife ; it con- 

 tained three messuages, a water-mill, 1 8 

 acres, &c. ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 48, m. 216. The estate of Robert 

 Kay, consisting of ten messuages, a mill, 

 60 acres of land, &c., seems to have 

 been purchased by Edward Rawstorne in 

 1582 ; ibid. bdle. 44, m. 160. 



Some deeds of the Kays of Cobbas or 

 Cobhouse, as it is now spelt, are copied in 

 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxi, 411, &c., 

 with a pedigree reaching down to 1858. 

 Captain William Kay of Cobhouse took 

 part in the defence of Lathom at both 

 sieges (Civil War Tracts [Chet. Soc.], 

 169, 212) ; his sword and dagger are 

 in possession of descendants at present. 

 Stones in the house bore the inscriptions: 



1C K 



W D and R K. 



1631 1662 



In the same volume of Raines MSS. 

 will be found extracts from the journals 

 of Richard Kay of Baldingstone, near 

 Cobhouse, of the early i8th century ; 

 pp. 430-449. 



10 Thomas Rothwell in 1578 purchased 

 a messuage, &c., in Walmersley from 

 Ralph Nuttall ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 40, m. 71. Giles Rothwell, who 

 died 17 March 1630-1, held a messuage 

 and lands in Walmersley of the Earl of 

 Derby, as of his manor of Bury; Thomas, 

 the son and heir, was twenty-two years 

 of age ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. 

 Lib.), fol. 1073. 



11 Thomas Wood and Joan his wife in 

 1552 acquired a messuage, &c., from 

 Richard Lache, clerk ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 14, m. 66. Henry Wood 

 died 28 Feb. 1625-6, holding a messuage 

 in Bank Lane in Walmersley of the Earl 

 of Derby ; Thomas, the son and heir, was 

 only five years of age, but by his will the 

 estate was left to a son Henry for life, 

 after the death of the testator's brother, 

 John Wood, he paying 201. to the heirs ; 

 Towneley MS. C, 8, 1 3 (Chet. Lib.), fol. 

 1293. 



13 Joan daughter of Roger Eleteson of 

 Shipwalbottom in 1351 claimed against 

 Thomas Johnson of the same a messuage, 

 20 acres of land, and 10 acres in Bury 



otherwise in the place called Shipwal- 

 bottom in the hamlet of Walmersley in 

 the town of Bury ; she being daughter 

 and heir of Roger son of Richard, brother 

 of Adam de Shipwalbottom (possessor in 

 the time of Edw. II), whose son Richard 

 had died without issue. The defendant 

 held by a grant from one Henry de Stock, 

 who received from Richard, the plaintiff's 

 grandfather ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 

 1, m. 3d. 



Twelve years later Joan prosecuted the 

 same claim against Margaret widow of 

 William de Kirkhagh ; De Banco R. 415, 

 m. 205 d. 



The estate appears soon afterwards to 

 have descended to the Wolstenholme 

 family ; see Fishwick, Rochdale, 526. 

 Early in 1507 it was sold by James son 

 and heir of John Wolstenholme, Joan his 

 wife, and Nicholas Wolstenholme, to 

 Thomas Hesketh (of Rufford) ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 103, m. 3. It occurs, as a 

 messuage and lands in Walmersley, in the 

 Hesketh inquisitions, without notice of 

 the tenure ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 

 no. 1 6 ; vii, no. 14; and was in 1555 

 sold by Sir Thomas Hesketh and Alice 

 his wife to Elizabeth Nuttall, widow ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 16, m. 131. 



Thomas Jones andThurstan Rawstorne 

 in 1577 had a suit with Ralph Nuttall 

 respecting Shipwalbottom in Walmersley ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 56. 



From the Bury registers it appears that 

 a family named Kay lived at Shipwal- 

 bottom in the first half of the I7th 

 century. 



18 Alexander de Bury, in the latter part 

 of the reign of Henry III, granted to 

 Nicholas de Golynrode all his land in the 

 hamlet of Walmersley, the bounds on 

 three sides being a brook, the great water 

 of Irwell, and Cowtelaw syke, at a rent of 

 i8</. at the feast of St. Oswald ; Ormerod, 

 Parentalia, 43. 



John son of Nicholas Gollin of Gollin- 

 rod in 1491 sold the estate to Henry son 

 of Richard Nuttall of Nuttall in Totting- 

 ton ; ibid. 41. In the work referred to 

 the descent of the estate is traced as 

 follows : Henry Nuttall s. George s. 

 Henry, s.f>. bro. Christopher s. George, 

 d. 1617 s. George, d. 1637 s. Richard, 

 d. 1675-6 dau. and heir Susanna wife of 

 Joshua Crompton of the Old Hall in 

 Pilkington. As late as 1559 Ralph, the 

 heir of John Gollin, claimed a messuage, 

 &c., in Bury against George Nuttall and 

 Roger Holt ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), 

 ii, 212. 



George Nuttall, murdered in March 

 1636-7 by Thomas Rothwell, held his 

 tenement of the Earl of Derby as lord of 

 Bury by a rent of 1 8</. ; Richard, his son 

 and heir, was twenty-five years of age ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxx, no. 94, 

 and Bury Reg. 



Susanna Crompton died in 1716, and 

 her daughter Hester, wife of Samuel 

 Wareing, succeeded to Gollinrod ; then 

 came the Nangreaves of Netherton in Ches- 

 ter, issue of Anne, eldest daughter and 

 co-heir of Hester. ' After their extinc- 

 tion by the death of Col. S. W. Nangreave 



142 



in 1815,' Gollinrod and Sedger hey 

 ' passed to the illegitimate issue of his 

 eldest brother, and were sold in parcels, 

 except a small part, which passed under 

 the will of Col. Nangreave to his natural 

 daughter, whose descendants still (1851) 

 possess it. The remains of the mansion 

 have been destroyed ' ; Ormerod, op. cir. 

 44, referring to the Gollinrod charters, 

 then ' in possession of the trustees of the 

 late Mrs. Edward Mangin of Bath, natural 

 daughter of Col. Nangreave.' 



14 Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 203-6. Abraham 

 Nabb of Walmersley had made a settle- 

 ment of his lands in 1638, just before hi 

 death, and they were held by his trustees 

 for the benefit of his son Oliver and other 

 uses, but seized by the Parliamentary 

 authorities about 1643 and again in 1645, 

 on the ground that Oliver had joined the 

 Royal forces. This was denied ; and it 

 was said that he had fought for the Par- 

 liament ' at the last invasion into Scot- 

 land '(1652). He was a butcher. George 

 Battersby, a tenant, was also concerned in 

 the sequestration ; ibid, i, 153. 



15 A deafforestation grant was made ir 

 1225 to John de Mara for Adam de 

 Bury; Cal. Pat. 1216-25, P- 57^- 



In 1227 Adam de Bury claimed 

 200 acres of land and a mill, with the 

 appurtenances, in Shuttleworth, against 

 John de la Mare, in right of descent ; and 

 John acknowledged the moiety of the 

 land, &c., claimed to be Adam's right, to 

 wit, a moiety of the whole demesne, 

 wheresoever it lay versus umbram, at the 

 rent of izd. Those who had been en- 

 feoffed by John must perform a moiety of 

 the due service to Adam and a moiety to 

 John ; Final Cone, i, 49. 



In 1246 Adam de Bury and Roger de 

 Shuttleworth were convicted of having dis- 

 seised Robert de Byron of his common of 

 pasture in Shuttleworth, by approving 

 30 acres of pasture ; Assize R. 404, m. 2. 



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

 Shuttleworth and Shipperbottom were 



particularly named in the grant of the 

 Pilkington manors to the Earl of Derby 

 in 1489. 



V Geoffrey de Denton [? Foxdenton] 

 in 1241 acknowledged Roger de Shuttle- 

 worth to be a freeman, for which he 

 received 20 marks ; Final Cone, i, 80. 



John de Rawstorne (Routhesthorn) in 

 1292 claimed certain lands in Bury against 

 Richard de Shuttleworth and against Eva 

 widow of Roger de Shuttleworth, but was. 

 nonsuited; Assize R. 408, m. 33. The 

 same property apparently was in dispute 

 in 1343, when John son of Richard de 

 Rawstorne held a messuage and plough- 

 land in Bury which his father had had 

 from John de Rawstorne the elder, and 

 which he said was only 5 acres of land. 

 The claimant was Agnes de Shuttleworth, 

 who stated that she had been seised in the- 

 time of Edward I ; De Banco R. 336, 

 m. 418 d. 



Margery daughter of Richard de Rad- 

 cliffe, Roger de Shuttleworth, and Roger 

 his son, in 1334 complained of a disseisin, 

 with force and arms by Robert de Horn- 



