SALFORD HUNDRED 



ROCHDALE 



and heir, was only ten years of age, and his wardship 

 was granted to James Stanley, clerk. 46 His descen- 

 dant, Jordan Chadwick, died in 1634, holding a 

 messuage in Healey, together with other messuages 

 and lands in Spotland and Hundersfield ; John, his 

 son and heir, was seventeen years of age. 47 The 

 common land of Healey in 1626 was 240 acres in 

 extent. 48 



HEALEY HALL stands on elevated ground com- 

 manding a wide prospect, about 2 miles north-west of 

 Rochdale, and is a plain rectangular stone classic build- 

 ing with pediment and cornice, erected in 1774 in 

 place of an older house which dated from 1 6 1 8, and 

 was in its turn a rebuilding of a still older structure. 

 The 17th-century building was of two stories with 

 four gables to the front, and with mullioned and 

 transomed windows on the ground floor and low 

 mullioned windows above. 49 This house being much 

 decayed, in 1773 was taken down and the present 

 mansion, which is said to be * exactly of the same 

 extent in front as the old house and on the same 

 site,' * built. In the early part of the igth century 

 the house was divided into two tenements, but has 

 since been restored to its original state. Over the 

 back door is an inscribed stone taken from the old 

 house with a number of initials of the Chadwick 

 family and the date 1618." 



WHITWORTH vi^, about 1200, held in moieties 

 by the Elands and Liversedges. 61 John de Eland 

 granted his moiety to Stanlaw Abbey ; it included 



the services of the moieties of Healey and Falinge ; 

 the monks were to pay the ancient rarm of \s. for 

 Whitworth, and ^s, for the other hamlets. 53 Robert 

 de Liversedge gave his moiety to Sawley Abbey, at a 

 rent of 4^., and Robert de Flamborough confirmed 

 the grant. 64 The Abbot of Sawley transferred it, at 

 the same rent, to the nuns of Hampole, 45 and the 

 prioress and convent in 1259 granted their land in 

 Whitworth to Robert son of Randle the White, at a 

 rent of 1 6/. 56 Of this portion the Abbot of Stanlaw 

 held 2 oxgangs, or a moiety, and Andrew son of 

 Robert de Whitworth granted his rights in the re- 

 mainder sometime after the abbey had been trans- 

 lated to Whalley. 67 In 1322 an inquiry was held as 

 to the loss the king might sustain by this alienation, 

 and licence of mortmain was subsequently granted. 48 

 Whitworth, like Spotland, was acquired by the Holts 

 of Gristlehurst, and in 1626 Theophilus Holt was 

 the principal owner, having nearly two-thirds of the 

 land in his possession. 59 Facit M and Tong 61 were 

 parts of the Whalley lands. The Common in 1626 

 measured 515 acres in three parcels. 61 



HRJNDWOOD was granted to Stanlaw by Roger 

 de Lacy about I zoo, 63 and passed to the Holts ; Theo- 

 philus Holt, in 1626, held nearly the whole of it. 64 

 It is called Rossendale in the Survey. 



As in the other townships of the parish, there were 

 from old time a large number of freeholders, whose 

 names may be collected from various documents, in- 

 cluding especially the Survey of l626. M There was 



46 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 42; 

 the services due were not known. 



47 Ibid, xxvii, no. 36. The tenures are 

 not stated. A curious pedigree appears in 

 the printed Vint, of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 

 no. Another pedigree was recorded in 

 1664 ; see Dugdale, Vitit. (Chet. Soc.), 74. 



The family, retaining Healey Hall, 

 afterwards settled at Ridware in Stafford- 

 shire. Charles Chadwick, who died in 

 1829, was an antiquary. 



48 Surv. ut sup. 215. 



49 There is an elevation of Old Healey 

 Hall in Corry's Lanes, ii, 553. 



50 Corry, Lanes, ii, 637, where a de- 

 scription of the new building is given. 



51 Fishwick, Rochdale, 485. On the 

 house is a long Latin inscription adapted 

 from Horace, and a stone cut in 1800 

 bears on it 'John de Heley, 1250,' and 

 'i.e. 1483.' 



53 The history of the Liversedge moiety 

 is told in the Inq. a.q.d. of 1322 ; Whalley 

 Coucher, iii, 706-8. 



53 Ibid. iii. 637. The grantor reserved 

 his right to hunt. By a second charter 

 he granted the waste, and then gave Hall- 

 steads and Swineshead ; ibid. 639-43. 



A large number of charters concerning 

 Whitworth are given in the Coucher, iii, 

 637-726. For the tenants about 1540 

 see ibid, iv, 1226-8, Whitworth, Tong 

 End, and Rockliffe. The commons were 

 Bagden, Prickshaw, and Trough. 



54 Ibid, iii, 719, 720, 726. 

 65 Ibid, iii, 720. 



56 Ibid, iii, 695. 



47 Ibid, iii, 703, 711, 712. 



58 Ibid, iii, 704, 721. 



At the inquisition it was shown that 

 the Abbot of Stanlaw had held 2 oxgangs 

 of land of Robert de Whitworth by a rent of 

 81. id., Germain, Robert's brother, i ox- 

 gang, by 31. 6d. ; Geoffrey de Whitworth, 

 \ oxgang, by is. id. ; and Michael de 

 Shaw, 2 acres, by id. rent ; ibid, iii, 707. 



Thus f oxgang was left to Robert de 

 Whitworth himself. The rents payable 

 to Andrew son of Robert in 1321 were 

 Abbot of Whalley, 8*. id. ; Robert son of 

 Henry son of Gemme, 31. 6d. ; Thomas 

 son of Robert del Stock, is. id. ; and John 

 son of Michael de Shaw, id. ; ibid, iii, 703. 

 In 1331 Robert son of Henry de Whit- 

 worth had a rent of lod. from Geoffrey 

 (son) of Adam de Buckley, Sd. from John 

 son of Richard son of Swain, and a pepper- 

 corn from Henry del Stock ; ibid, iii, 723. 

 John de Buckley in 1339 released to 

 Whalley all his right in the thirtieth part 

 of Whitworth ; ibid, iii, 725. 



59 Surv. ut sup. 217. Other holders 

 were Richard Milne, 61 acres ; Jordan 

 Chadwick (Healey), 74 acres ; and Robert 

 Holt, copyhold land called Ugshott, 187 

 acres. Ugshott land is named in a grant 

 by Swain de Whitworth to the monks of 

 Stanlaw ; Whalley CoucAer, iii, 654. 



80 Ibid, iii, 686, 664 ; it is called 

 Faghside. James Marland claimed Facit 

 in 1566; Richard Milne and Francis 

 Holt were the other holders ; see Frsh- 

 wick, Rochdale, 85. 



81 Hugh de Whitworth gave to Swain 

 his son $ oxgang in Tong, which was the 

 fourth part of his lands there ; Wballey 

 Coucber, iii, 653. For the Scholfields of 

 Tong End, see Fishwick, Rochdale, 522-3. 

 In 1575 Francis Holt purchased from 

 Alexander Scholfield and Emma his wife, 

 eight messuages, lands, &c., in Whitworth 

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

 bdle. 37, m. 121. 



68 Surv. ut sup. 233. 



68 Wballey Coucber, \, 153. The bounds 

 of this pasture in the forest began at Gor- 

 siches lache, went to Cowpe Head and by 

 Cowpe to the Irwell, up the river to Fule- 

 bachope (Bacup) to Sa'tergate, Hamstals- 

 clough, Denesgreve, and across the moss 

 to Cumbe hope at Gorsiche Lache. The 

 monks could place one hundred cows there 



211 



with their produce up to two years old. 

 For the tenants in 1540, see ibid, iv, 1228. 



64 Surv. ut sup. 235. 



65 Alice and Aldusa in 1246 successfully 

 claimed land in Chadwick as heirs of their 

 father William de Raidwath ; Assize R. 

 404, m. 8 d. Liulph de Reddewoth was a 

 benefactor of Stanlaw ; Wballey Coucber, 

 iii, 785. 



Alice widow of Robert son of Thomas 

 de la Lee in Lent 1352 claimed a messuage 

 and land in Spotland against John son of 

 Maud, daughter of Cecily the Marshal's 

 daughter ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. i, 

 m. 4 d. The dispute was long-continued. 

 The defendant called on William Emson 

 de Ainsworth, Almarica his wife, Robert 

 de Bromley, Margery his wife, John son of 

 Roger de Clegg, and Alice his wife, to 

 warrant him, the wives named being sisters 

 and heirs of Robert de la Lee ; ibid. R. 6, 

 m. 3. See also Assize R. 441, m. 4, 4d. 



James de Greenhalgh in 1422 acquired 

 an estate in Spotland ; Final Cone, iii, 8 1. 

 In 1576 Thomas Greenhalgh died holding 

 a messuage and lands there of Francis 

 Holt by a peppercorn rent ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 10. From a pre- 

 ceding note it will be seen that such a rent 

 was, in 1331, paid by Henry del Stock for 

 land in Whitworth. 



Robert Holt of Carburton, Notts., was 

 in 1529, in possession of messuages, mill, 

 &c., in Spotland and Hundersfield ; Geof- 

 frey, his son and heir, sold all or most of 

 the estate to Thomas Holt in 1539 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. n, m. 129, 27. 

 Francis Holt in 1575 had to make good 

 his title to lands in Dean Bank, and Green- 

 booths in Spotland, against the daughters 

 and co-heirs of Geoffrey ; Fishwick, op. 

 cit. 377, quoting Duchy Plead. Eliz. Ixii, 

 T. 7. 



Henry Holt of Fieldhouse, in 1523, con- 

 tributed to the subsidy for his lands ; Fish- 

 wick, Rochdale, 37. He died in 1526. 



