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in length. The centre portion has Doric pilasters, 

 a heavy cornice and panelled attic of stone, and 

 is flanked by slightly recessed wings with four win- 

 dows on each floor, the end windows on each side 

 being much too near the angles of the building. The 

 whole of this portion of the house is practically 

 gutted, and is in a dangerous condition. 



WILD HOUSE was about 1540 held of the Hos- 

 pitallers by Nicholas Butterworth, who paid a quit- 

 rent of 6d. K It passed by marriage to the Hamers, 

 and after several sales became the property of the 

 Fentons. 30 Birchinley is another old estate, which 

 has also come into the Fentons' possession." 



LOW HOUSE was also held of the Hospitallers 

 by a rent of I %d. ; the tenant about 1 540 was Robert 

 Butterworth. 32 In 1626 it was held by John Butter- 

 worth, together with the adjoining Crow Nest estate, 

 paying various rents to the chief lords. 33 It after- 

 wards descended to the Chadwicks of Roughbank. 34 



FL4SH HOUSE, also part of the Hospitallers' 

 estate, was long held by the Chethams of Nuthurst. 35 



Turnagh, corrupted into Turner, occurs in deeds of 

 the 1 3th century. 36 The family appear to have 

 settled at Scholefield, and in 1626 Edward White- 

 head held part of it by grant of Gerard Scholefield, 

 paying a rent of jd. to Sir John Byron ; John Butter- 

 worth held another part. 37 



SCHOLEFIELD or Schofield gave its name to a 

 family who held it for many centuries. 38 A number 

 of the charters have been preserved, 39 from which it 

 appears that John son of Alan de Hollinworth gave 

 Adam de Turnagh, his lord, an oxgang of land in the 

 Scholefield in Hollinworth, which his father had pur- 

 chased from Roger de Winterworth ; 40 and that 

 Roger de Butterworth released all his right in the 

 same oxgang. 41 William son of Adam de Turnagh 

 had a grant of land in Longden Brook," and perhaps 

 John de Scholefield, the first known to have assumed 

 the name, was another son of Adam, or else a son of 

 William. 43 John appears to have had several sons 

 John, William, Adam, and Richard ; 44 and in the 

 time of Richard II John the son, then known as John 



29 Kuerden MSS. v, foL 84. The place 

 may have taken its name from the Wyld 

 family, one or two of whom have been 

 named in preceding notes. 



Thomas le Wild of Butterworth gave 

 all his title in the vill to Thomas his son ; 

 this included an oxgang granted by John 

 de Byron, and land held of Henry de Lacy 

 by a rent of 2s. 6d. ; Towneley MS. GG, 

 no. 603. 



By an inquisition made in 1496 it was 

 found that Henry Butterworth had died 

 seised of four messuages, 60 acres of land, 

 &c., in Butterworth and Hundersfield, held 

 of the king as of his duchy by a rent of 

 i$d., and of the clear value of 2.6s. 8</. 

 Ralph, his son and heir, was five years 

 old ; Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 9, 10. 



From a deed of 1308-9 quoted in the 

 survey of 1626, when Ralph Butterworth 

 was tenant, it appears that a rent of i <;</. 

 was then paid to Henry de Lacy. In the 

 survey the i^d. was stated to be paid to 

 the king, while another rent of 1 5</. was 

 paid to the Saviles for the Hospitallers, 

 though in a deed of 1609 relating to the 

 mansion-house and lands a rent of i %d. is 

 said to be due to St. John's Hospital ; 

 Raines MSS. xxi, 41. 



80 Fishwick, op. cit. 372. 



81 Ibid., 368-70. Robert Butterworth 

 of Birchinley died in 1609 holding mes- 

 suages and lands in Hundersfield, Butter- 

 worth, and Oldham ; those in Hunders- 

 field being held of the king as of the dis- 

 solved priory of St. John of Jerusalem by 

 a rent of 12 d. ; and those in Butterworth 

 of Sir John Byron by the 2OOth part of a 

 knight's fee and zod. rent. The heirs were 

 his sisters and their sons ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 142-4. 



82 Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84. 



88 Survey in Raines MSS. xxi, 43. 

 For Low House, with 55 acres, the St. 

 John's rent was 1 8<f., as in the rental ; 

 for Crow Nest, with 92 acres, 6d. was 

 due to the Saviles, izd. to Robert Holt, 

 and izd. to St. John's. John Butterworth 

 died 13 March 1626-7, holding Low 

 House, &c., as of the suppressed Hospital ; 

 the heir was his grandson John (son of 

 Ralph son of John), aged twenty-seven 

 and more ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. 

 Lib.), 56. 



84 For the later history see Fishwick, 

 Rochdale, 374-5. 



85 Thomas de Chetham, who died in 

 1383, held it; Towneley MS. DD, no. 

 1463. In 1470 James Chetham leased it 

 to Elinor Wardle for twenty years, at the 

 rent of 27*., with boons of four days' 

 'shearing' in harvest and four hens at 

 Yule ; Clowes D. no. 5. James Chetham 

 about 1540 paid a rent of iSJ. for the 

 estate ; Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84. This 

 service is not usually stated in the Chetham 

 inquisitions, though Flash House is men- 

 tioned. The 1626 survey describes the 

 estate as 99 acres ; Raines MSS. xxi, 43. 



In 1659 the trustees of Thomas Chet- 

 ham of Nuthurst sold it to Edward Chet- 

 ham to raise money for the portions of 

 Thomas's daughters ; Clowes D. no. 12. 

 It seems afterwards to have come into the 

 hands of the Holts of Lower Place in 

 Castleton ; Fishwick, op. cit. 324. The 

 family also held lands in Castleton ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 

 16-18. 



86 The Byron Chartulary has several 

 deeds relating to the family ; see also the 

 account of Scholefield. Thus Geoffrey 

 de Turnagh granted the whole of Turnagh, 

 which his father Richard had held, to 

 Richard de Turnagh at a rent of 3*. zd. ; 

 Byron Chartul. no. 78/205. Henry de 

 Turnagh granted Over Turnagh to Henry 

 son of Ellen, with common of pasture in 

 Spotland, at ^d. rent ; ibid. no. 79/206. 

 Nicholas son of Richard de Turnagh 

 afterwards granted all Turnagh, which he 

 had inherited from his father, to Sir John 

 de Byron and Joan his wife ; ibid, 

 no. 49/207. See also Raines MSS. xi, 

 247, &c. William son of Geoffrey de 

 Turnagh received a moiety of the Leys in 

 Hollinworth from William de Rudhurst 

 in 1298 ; Towneley MS. GG, no. 700. 



John son of Alan de Hollinworth in 

 1278-80 claimed an oxgang of land in 

 Butterworth against William son of Adam 

 de Turnagh ; De Banco R. 24, m. 65 ; 

 36, m. 125 d. 



John de Hindley in 1296 claimed an 

 oxgang in Butterworth against John son 

 of Adam de 'Turney ' and Alice his wife; 

 De Banco R. 113, m. 20 d. ; 125, m. 157. 



8 7 Survey, ut sup. 41, 43. John was the 

 son of Charles Butterworth, who died in 

 1622 holding the capital messuage called 

 Turnagh in Butterworth and the Crook 

 in Hundersfield of Sir John Byron, the 

 former by a rent of 4*. 3</., and the latter 



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by one of 3</. ; also lands in Bedford and 

 Pennington ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 338. See Fish- 

 wick, Rochdale, 355-7. 



88 Scholefield Hall is now regarded as 

 in the hamlet of Low House ; but from 

 the charters quoted below it appears to- 

 have been originally within Hollinworth 

 in Clegg. 



89 InTowneley MS. GG, no. 558-739. 



40 GG, no. 604-5. 



41 GG, no. 602. 



42 GG, no. 607 ; the grantors were 

 William de Sale and Cecily his wife, who- 

 occur again in Hollinworth. Cecily 

 widow of William de Sale in 1294 granted 

 all her lands in 'Witach* to John and 

 Adam sons of Adam de Turnagh ; GG, 

 no. 674. 



48 William son of Geoffrey de Turnagh 

 in 1301 gave John de le Scholefield part 

 of his land in Butterworth called the 

 Leys, to be held of the nearer chief lord 

 of the fee ; ibid. GG, no. 663. Two 

 years later John obtained land called the 

 * Brerylees ' in Hollinworth from the son 

 of Andrew de Rudhurst ; GG, no. 664. 



In 1306 Matthew de Clegg granted to 

 John de Scholefield the homage of Alex- 

 ander de Belfield, viz. a rent of 12^.; and 

 that of Richard de Hundersfield, viz. id.- r 

 GG, no. 629. 



44 John son of John de Scholefield was 

 a witness in 1321 ; Whalley Coucher, ii, 

 634. In i Edw. (? Ill) William son of 

 Henry de Ogden gave to John son of 

 John de Scholefield land in Hollinworth 

 of which the bounds touched or included 

 Whitacre Syke, Birchinbrook, and Brier- 

 leys ; Towneley MS. GG, no. 612. 



William son of John de Scholefield re- 

 ceived land in Hollinworth called Simon- 

 rode from Richard son of Andrew de 

 Hollinworth in 1313 ; ibid. no. 621 ; see 

 also no. 647 (1321). 



William de Lightollers in 1325 released 

 to Adam son of John de Scholefield all 

 his claim to land in Hundersfield then 

 occupied by Adam ; GG, no. 630. Adam 

 de Scholefield in 1340 released to his 

 brother John all his land in Clegg for 

 life ; ibid. no. 727. 



William de Lighbfllers, apparently in 

 1320-1 (14 Edw. ), gave to Richard, 

 son of John de Scholefield a rent of 6d. 

 payable by Richard de Ogden from a 

 tenement in Blatchinworth ; ibid. no. 



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