SALFORD HUNDRED 



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these and others w only meagre accounts can be given. bailiffs of the 

 The Greenhalghs of Brandlesholme were hereditary settled here. 81 



manor, 30 and one branch of them 



Edward Rawstorne of New Hall was a 

 freeholder in 1600, and one of the same 

 name contributed to the subsidy in 1622 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 246, 

 162. Edward Rawstorne was sheriff in 

 1628-9 ; P.R.O. List, 73. During the 

 Civil War Captain Edward Rawstorne, 

 probably a son of the last-named, took an 

 active part on the king's side, being en- 

 gaged in the defence of Lathom House, 

 and being appointed colonel and governor 

 of it by Prince Rupert ; he was com- 

 pelled to surrender it by famine and mutiny ; 

 Civil War Tracts (Chet. Soc.), 169-84, 

 201, 212. His estates were sequestered 

 by the Parliament ; he died without male 

 issue in or before 1650, when his brother 

 and heir Lawrence, ' having faithfully 

 served Parliament,' claimed the restora- 

 tion of the estate under a settlement made 

 about 1620 by his grandfather, with re- 

 mainders to Edward, claimant's father, to 

 Edward his eldest son, the ' delinquent,' 

 and heirs male; Cal. of Com. for Comf. 

 iv, 2653. The estates were restored to 

 Lawrence. 



A pedigree was recorded in 1 664 ; Dug- 

 dale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 248. Of this 

 family Lawrence Rawstorne was sheriff 

 of the county in 1680-1, William his son 

 in 1712, Lawrence, grandson of the latter, 

 in 1776; P.R.O. List, 73, 74. Lawrence 

 eon of Lawrence purchased Penwortham, 

 and is represented by Mr. Lawrence Raws- 

 torne of Penwortham, recently the owner 

 of New Hall ; see Burke, Landed Gentry. 

 There is a pedigree in Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), i, fol. 159. The Bury Water 

 Board has obtained an Act for the pur- 

 chase of the estate. 



V From the Tottington Court Rolls it 

 appears that Geoffrey Ramsbottom died 

 in or before 1532, holding Ramsbottom, 

 Digfield, and Carr House ; he left a widow 

 Alice, and his next of kin was one Richard 

 Ramsbottom. In 1540 Richard son and 

 heir of Edmund Ramsbottom and Joan 

 his wife sold or mortgaged Ramsbottom 

 and the other lands to Thomas Warburton 

 of Little Clegg. 



In 1562 Richard Ramsbottom of Rams- 

 bottom was found to be kinsman and heir 

 of Elizabeth, widow of Lawrence Raws- 

 torne. 



Francis Gartside in 1573 had the water 

 corn-mill of Caldwell under Geoffrey 

 Ramsbottom ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com. ), 

 iii, 6, 43. 



Richard Ramsbottom contributed to the 

 subsidy in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 162. 



28 In the court rolls it is stated that 

 Richard son and heir of John Booth asked 

 admission to messuages and land, with 

 common of pasture, &c., in Alden. He 

 appeared again in 1509 ; the property was 

 a messuage and 42 acres in the Booth, a 

 messuage and oxgang in the Old Earth, 

 and a messuage, &c., in the Hollins in 

 Edenfield. Richard Booth, perhaps the 

 lame, died in 1564, holding various land 

 and the fourth part of an oxgang ; two 

 sons are mentioned Christopher, the heir, 

 and Richard ; Richard the son of Chris- 

 topher had a wife, Alice. 



Richard Booth in 1573 claimed a 

 capital messuage in Tottington against 

 Thomas Holden ; Ducatus Lane, iii, 3. 

 Another of this name contributed to the 

 subsidy in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 



and Ches.), i, 162. A pedigree was re- 

 corded in 1665 showing that John Booth, 

 who died about 1615, had a son Richard 

 living in 1665, With a son George, aged 

 thirty-four, and a grandson William, aged 

 five; Dugdale, Vint. 44. In 1682 Wil- 

 liam son and heir of George Booth and 

 grandson of Richard Booth by Margaret 

 his wife was admitted at Tottington Court 

 to a messuage in Booth Lane ; but ten 

 years earlier James Lomax of Unsworth 

 appears to have purchased Booth Hall. 

 His daughter and heir Elizabeth married 

 John Halliwell of Pike House, and their 

 son John died intestate in 1771 ; Raines 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxi, fol. 345-6. It 

 descended to John Beswicke, and after his 

 death was in 1796 sold to Robert Nuttall 

 of Bury, whose grandson, Robert Nuttall 

 of Kempsey, was the owner in 1849 ; 

 Raines, in Notitia Cestr. ii, 31. 



29 Henry de Lacy in 1302 granted that 

 Geoffrey de Elton should in future hold 

 freely that tenement he had held at will, 

 paying 131. \d. a year ; Add. MS. 32104, 

 no. 966. In 1511 Robert Elton was 

 admitted to a messuage and 20 acres in 

 Edenfield. He died in 1548 or 1549, 

 and his son Roger succeeded him ; Ct. R. 



Lands were held in Horncliffe about 

 1355 by Hugh son of Robert de Horn- 

 cliffe ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 



344- 



The Warburton family occur early. 

 Thomas de Warburton paid to the sub- 

 sidy in Bury in 1332; Exch. Lay Subs. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 33. Two 

 years earlier he had acquired a messuage 

 in Tottington, in the possession of John 

 del Heywood and Margery his wife, the 

 widow of Roger de Red Lees ; Final Cone. 

 "> 7S> 76- In 1539 Thomas Warburton 

 seems to have been the owner and George 

 Warburton the tenant of Red Lees ; 

 Ct. R. A Thomas Warburton contri- 

 buted to the subsidy in 1622 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 162. Of 

 this family perhaps was John Warburton, 

 F.R.S., F.S.A., Somerset Herald, son of 

 Benjamin Warburton of Bury by his 

 wife Mary, daughter and heir of Michael 

 Buxton of Buxton. He was born in 

 1681 and died in 1759. A full account 

 of him is given in Baines, Lanes, (ed. 

 1836), ii, 678 ; also Diet. Nat. Biog. 



John Nabbs of Tottington was a free- 

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

 and Ches.), i, 247. The surname occurs 

 in the court rolls. 



Edward Rothwell died in 1530, leaving 

 Peter his son as heir. Margaret widow 

 of Edmund is named in 1547. Adam 

 Rothwell died in 1561, leaving John his 

 idiot brother as heir ; another Adam 

 died about the same time, the heir being 

 his son Thomas ; Ct. R. 



There appear to have been several Holt 

 families in Tottington. Robert del Holt 

 of Tottington in 1429 complained that 

 Richard son of Richard de Radcliffe of 

 Radcliffe and others had broken into his 

 close at Tottington and taken his cows ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 2, m. 13 b. Chris- 

 topher Holt in 1512 or 1513 made a 

 settlement of his estate. He died in 

 1517, holding Hollingrave, Birch Hey, 

 and Wood Hey; Geoffrey was his son and 

 heir. Geoffrey died in 1541, leaving the 

 estate to his son Christopher. George 

 Holt died in 1523, his heir being his son 



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William; Ct. R. John Holt in 1622 

 contributed to the subsidy for his lands ; 

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

 162. 



Roger Holt married Jane cousin and 

 heir of Oliver Law, and they had disputes, 

 about 1 540, with Edmund Law concerning 

 lands in Alden ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), i, 163, 208 ; ii, 73. From the 

 Court Rolls of 1 544 it appears that Jane 

 was the daughter and heir of John son 

 and heir of Oliver Law. There was a 

 dispute as to the measure of the land, 

 whether it was by 8 or 7 cloth yards to the 

 rod. Oliver son of Edmund Law held 

 the Law in Tottington in 1551. 



Robert Holt left several daughters as 

 heirs to lands in Alden, Holcombe, and 

 Blacklow ; Alice, one of the daughters, 

 was in 1595 the wife of John Green- 

 halgh, and Margaret, another, the wife of 

 John Belfield ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), 



i 33 6 353- 



Croichley seems to have been in the 

 possession of the Ley and Leyland fami- 

 lies. Robert Leyland in 1539 made a 

 feoffment of ' Crichlow ' ; the rent to the 

 king as chief lord was 31. 8<; Ct. R. 



Other families named in the Court Rolls 

 are Ashworth, Bamford, Barton, Brook, 

 Bury, Chadwick, Elcock, Haslam (Wal- 

 shaw), Holden, Lomax, Robert, Schole- 

 field (of Carr), and Wood. 



Tottington occurs as a surname in 

 1292, when Henry son of Hugh de Tot- 

 tington and Mabel his wife claimed a 

 tenement held by Alexander son of Adam 

 de Tottington, but were non-suited ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 32 d. 



A full list of the tenants and freeholders 

 in 1443 ' 8 gi yen m W. Farrer's Clitberoe 

 Ct. R. i, 501, 507. 



Giles Morris and Agnes his wife laid 

 claim to a messuage and lands in Totting- 

 ton about 1553 ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), i, 300; ii, 157. In 1560 Agnes 

 Morris, widow, made a settlement of her 

 la ids, with remainders to her sons Richard 

 and William ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 22, m. 16. Soon afterwards Agnes 

 married George Birch, and disputes began 

 with John Ainsworth, who claimed under 

 the will of a grandfather ; Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 259, 273, 384 ; iii, 24. 

 A settlement appears to have been made 

 in 1582 by John Ainsworth and Jane his 

 wife, and Richard Morris and Dorothy 

 his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdl& 

 44, m. 153. 



Richard Towneley, who died in 1636, 

 had lands in Edenfield and Tottington ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 165. 



80 Whitaker, Whalley, i, 327; Duchy 

 Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 



lot. 



81 Geoffrey Greenhalgh died in 1552, 

 holding a messuage and land in Totting- 

 ton ; Thomas was his son and heir ; 

 Ct. R. 



John Greenhalgh had a capital mes- 

 suage called Fearnes and land which he 

 in 1592 settled upon his son Thomas and 

 his issue by Christabel his wife. Thomas 

 succeeded his father, and died in 1608 

 without issue, Richard Greenhalgh, his 

 brother and heir, being over forty years of 

 age. The lands were held of John Holt 

 in socage, by a rent of t>d.; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 129. 



