A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of Geoffrey, his manor of 

 Hundersfield. 41 Adam appears 

 to have taken the surname 

 of Buckley, and his son John, 

 living in 1 392," was succeeded 

 by Robert his son, 43 and the 

 descent of the estate is fairly 

 clear 44 down to Edward Buck- 

 ley, who in 1786 sold it to 

 Robert Entwisle of Foxholes, 



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41 Add. MS. 32107 no. 432 ; 

 Geoffrey de Buckley to Randle 

 son of Henry de Stott, part of 

 Middled iff at a rent of \fyd, ; Robert de 

 Buckley was a witness, so that this deed 

 may be one of the earlier Geoffrey's. In 

 1281 Geoffrey gave to Adam de Hulton 

 for life all his lands in Buckley, together 

 with an eighth part of the mill, at a rent 

 of i mark ; no. 464. In 1296 he gave a 

 third part of three-fourths of Buckley mill 

 to Michael de la Shaw ; no. 443, 422. 

 The grants to Adam de Hulton (no. 436, 

 461, 434) included the services of Henry 

 de Haworth, John de Holden, Michael de 

 la Shaw, and Alexander de Henesnape, for 

 lands in Hundersfield and Castleton. 



Adam de Hulton received other grants, 

 as of Woldurth or Worldesworth, the mill, 

 &c. 5 see ibid. no. 448, 446, 447, 459, 

 445, 427, 425- 



43 John son of Adam de Buckley, at 

 early as 1335, released to his brother 

 Robert all claim on the latter's tenement 

 in the hamlet of Wardle in the vill of 

 Hundersfield; ibid. no. 421. A tripartite 

 agreement was made in 1369 between (i) 

 Geoffrey de Buckley, (2) John de Buckley 

 and others, and (3) John the son of 

 Geoffrey, who was a minor, concerning 

 the release of the last-named from all 

 claims arising out of the death of Thomas 

 son of William de Butterworth ; no. 440. 

 Robert son of Adam de Buckley in 1373 

 made a grant of lands in Butterworth ; 

 John de Buckley was a witness ; Towne- 

 Jey MS. GG, no. 565. In 1392 John son 

 of Adam de Buckley gave lands to his son 

 Thomas; Add. MS. 32107, no. 460. 

 Thomas son of John gave a quittance to 

 .Robert his brother (no. 439) ; Robert de 

 Buckley the elder was a witness. From 

 another charter it appears that Robert was 

 ihe elder brother ; no. 473. 



48 In 1393 the same Thomas de Buckley 

 enfeoffed Roger de Clegg, chaplain, of all 

 his lands in Hundersfield, and four years 

 later the feoffee gave them to Robert son 

 of John de Buckley ; no. 449, 396. About 

 the same time Robert made a settlement 

 of Buckley and its appurtenances, w'th 

 remainder to John his son and his issue 

 by Alice daughter of Roger de Wolfenden, 

 and a further remainder to Robert de 

 Buckley ; no. 444. Geoffrey de Buckley 

 was a witness. See also no. 430-1 

 (1401-3). 



Thomas de Buckley had a son Robert ; 

 no. 452, 423. 



After the death of Robert de Buckley 

 his widow Alice married Henry de Dearn- 

 ley, an outlaw, whereupon the escheator 

 took the estate into the king's hands, or, 

 at least, the widow's third part. Alice 

 died in Sept. 1423, and John de Buckley, 

 son of Robert, in Oct. 1429, leaving a son 

 and heir James ; ibid. no. 496 ; Towneley 

 MS. DD, no. 1483 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. 

 xl, App. 536. The lands were held of 

 Sir Thomas Savile in socage. 



In 1421 licence was granted to Randle 

 de Buckley and Katherine his wife for 



BUCKLEY of Buckley. 

 Sable a che-veron be- 

 tween three built' headt 

 tabossed argent. 



whose descendants have retained it. 4i Fieldhouse, 

 part of the Buckley lands, 4Sa was the scene of a 

 great demonstration in 1447, hostile, it would seem, 

 to Ralph Holt. Some sixty persons, led by Richard 

 and Geoffrey Belfield and Gilbert Butterworth, 

 marched to the place and fixed their white ban- 

 ner there 'with much noise and blowing of 

 horns.' 44 " 



FOXHOLES itself appears to have been originally 

 part of the Buckley estate, 46 but early in the i6th 



an oratory ; Add. 

 MS. 32107, no. 

 442. 



44 In 1460 James son and heir of John 

 Buckley made a feoffment of all his lands 

 in Hundersfield and Spotland, and in 1476 

 granted messuages called Stockrode in 

 Hundersfield to his son Robert ; ibid, 

 no. 454, 492. 



It is at this point that the descent is 

 obscure. The next in possession was 

 Thomas Buckley, probably the son of 

 Alice widow of James Buckley, named in an 

 undated acknowledgement for 32 marks; 

 ibid. no. 481. Thomas appears in several 

 deeds of the time of Henry VII (no. 474, 

 468, 476), and in 1511 made a grant to 

 James his son and heir apparent ; no. 478. 

 It was probably another James Buckley 

 who in 1492 gave his son John, for life, 

 a close of land at the east end of the vill 

 of Rochdale, which he had received from 

 Maud Buckley ; no. 453. James Buckley 

 of Buckley arranged for the marriage of 

 his daughter Katherine in 1512, and 

 appears to have been in possession of the 

 family lands ; see no. 406, 489, 433. He 

 was living in 1539, when he delivered up 

 a box containing thirty-two pieces of evi- 

 dence ; no. 403. 



The next to appear is Thomas Buckley, 

 probably the Thomas who in 1521 pro- 

 cured a divorce from Agnes Shepherd ; 

 no. 472. A little later, in 1528, a Henry 

 Buckley was divorced from Isabel Ha- 

 worth, to whom he had been contracted 

 in childhood ; no. 488. It appears that 

 Thomas Buckley was in possession in 

 1541 (no. 490, 475) ; in conjunction with 

 Robert his son and heir apparent he made 

 a lease of the Stockrode in 1557 to his 

 brother Hugh and Katherine his wife, and 

 in 1559 he assigned to Ellen widow of 

 Edmund Cowper a dower rent of 40*. 

 out of lands called Hastley in Buckley ; 

 no. 452, 466. Thomas Buckley in 1569 

 made a settlement of his manor of Buck- 

 ley and lands in Hundersfield, Spotland, 

 and Butterworth, with remainder to his 

 sons Robert, Arthur, James, Anthony, 

 and Francis ; their surname is given as 

 Buckley alias Haworth, so that they were 

 probably illegitimate ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 31, m. 194. 



Robert Buckley died in 1576, holding 

 the manor of Buckley, and messuages, &c., 

 in Hundersfield of Robert Savile in socage 

 by a rent of zs. \id. ; also holding a close 

 called Dicon Meadow in Hundersfield of 

 the queen as of her manor of Rochdale in 

 socage by a rent of is. Thomas the son 

 and heir was twenty-three years of age ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 13. 

 Thomas Buckley died in 1588 holding the 

 same manor and lands, together with 

 Fisher Field and Green Intake in Spotland, 

 held of Charles Holt by rents of 31. id. 

 and 6d. ; Robert his son and heir was 

 ten years of age ; ibid, xv, no. 54 ; xvi, 

 no. 47. 



Robert Buckley died in 1598, leaving a 

 brother and heir named Abel, aged twenty; 



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ibid, xvii, no. 58. In addition to the 

 lands previously named he held a capital 

 messuage, &c., called Fieldhouse in Hun- 

 dersfield, formerly the inheritance of Henry 

 Holt, held of John Byron in socage by a 

 rent of 3*. 



Abel Buckley made a settlement of the 

 manor of Buckley and various lands in 

 1601 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 63, 

 m. 332. He held the manor and 291 acres 

 of land in 1626, paying a rent of 31. lod. 

 to Savile and zs. to the king for Ditton 

 (or Diccon) Mead ; Surv. ut sup. 78. He 

 died in Oct. 1637 holding the family 

 estates, together with a messuage in 

 Butterworth formerly belonging to the 

 Hospitallers, another in Saddleworth, and 

 others in Todmorden. John his son and 

 heir was twenty-three years of age ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. 67. John 

 Buckley recorded a pedigree in 1665, his 

 son Abel being then twenty-five years old ; 

 Dugdale, Visit. 60. 



45 Abel Buckley had a son Thomas, 

 who died in 1697, his daughter Anne's 

 son, Thomas Foster, being his heir ; but 

 a brother, William Buckley, who died 

 about 1730, succeeded. Thomas Foster 

 then inherited Buckley, and took the 

 local surname. His son Edward was the 

 vendor ; see Fishwick, Rochdale, 393, 397 

 (where there is a pedigree), and the account 

 of Skerton. 



45a Many Fieldhouse deeds are con- 

 tained in the Buckley charters in Add. 

 MS. 32107. The earliest is dated 

 1369, being a grant of it by Robert del 

 Shore, chaplain, to William son of Thomas 

 del Stock (or Slack), with remainder to 

 the grantor's mother, Margaret ; no. 450. 

 Alice Holt of Fieldhouse, widow of John 

 Holt, granted it to her son Alan Holt 

 in 1 506 ; no. 477. Henry Holt, brother 

 of Alan, was in possession in 1 507 (no. 415) 

 and,dying in or before 1526, left a daughter 

 Grace, about whose inheritance there was 

 some disputing ; nos. 398, 407, 412, 402, 

 414,417, 418, 456. Grace married Thomas 

 Buckley, who died in 1588, and the above- 

 named Robert was her son, as appears by 

 the inq. p.m. of Thomas. Robert Holt 

 of Fieldhouse occurs in 1581 ; no. 494. 



^ Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 1 1, m. 32. In a 

 dispute in 1448 between William and Alice 

 Stock concerning a box of charters, the 

 following pedigree was alleged : Thomas 

 s. William s. Henry (died 1446) s. 

 John dau. Alice ; ibid. m. i6b. 



46 To Robert son of John de Buckley 

 the trustee in 1397 granted the parcels 

 of land called Foxholes and ' Woodfulrode ' 

 in Hundersfield and Tong Moss in Spot- 

 land ; Add. MS. 32107, no. 483. A 

 year later Thomas son of John de Buckley 

 released to Robert his son ( ? brother) all 

 his claim to messuages, &c., in c Wolfal- 

 rode,' Foxholes, and Stockrode ; no. 452. 

 In 1400 John son of Robert de Buckley 

 granted the Foxholes and ' Wolfenhole ' to 

 Thomas Dkkson and his heirs at the rent 

 of a grain of pepper for twenty-four years 

 and 40*. afterwards ; no. 451. 



