SALFORD HUNDRED 



ROCHDALE 



century was held by the Entwisle family/ 7 At the 

 Survey in 1626 it was stated that the 78 acres then 

 held by Richard son of Richard 

 Entwisle had formerly been 

 the lands of Shipwalbottom, 

 and later of Henry de Brad- 

 shaw, whose daughter married 

 the ancestor of Entwisle ; an- 

 other moiety descended to 

 John Holden, and was in 1626 

 the inheritance of Charles Nut- 

 tall, who had the deeds, and 

 held 52 acres in Wardle- 

 worth. 48 The most prominent 

 member of the family was 

 John Entwisle, Recorder of 

 Liverpool in 1662, and an active county magistrate ; 49 

 his granddaughter Ellen married John Markland of 

 Wigan, and her grandson, who eventually succeeded 

 to the estates, assumed the name and arms of En- 

 twisle in 1787 ; from him Foxholes, augmented by 

 many purchases, has descended to the present owner, 

 Mr. John Bertin Norreys Entwisle. 50 The house 

 was built in 1792 on the site of the old hall. 



The abbey of Whalley had 2 oxgangs of land in 

 Wardleworth. 61 



In 1626 the copyhold land was 65 acres. 



ENTWISLE of Fox- 

 holes. Argent on a bend 

 engrailed sable three mo- 

 lets of the f eld. 



The land tax returns of 1788 show that Wardle- 

 worth was very much subdivided ; John Entwisle 

 was the principal owner, contributing about a sixth 

 part of the sum collected. 52 



BLATCHINWORTH AND CALDERBROOK 



In this part of Hundersfield there were a number 

 of ancient estates, some of which, as Sladen 53 and 

 Lightollers, 54 gave surnames to the proprietors ; but 

 the most prominent is a comparatively recent one, 

 that of PIKE HOUSE, near Littleborough, the pos- 

 session of the Halliwells and their successors from the 

 latter part of the 1 6th century. 55 The present owner 

 is Captain Clement Robert 

 Nuttall Beswicke-Royds. Pike 

 House stands on high ground 

 on the lower slope of Black- 

 stone Edge, about half a mile 

 north-east of Littleborough, 

 facing south-west. It is a 

 stone-built house of two stories, 

 with attics, erected about 



1608-9 i n the pl ace f an 



older building, but greatly al- HALLIWELL of Pike 



, , , . , : House. Argent on a bend 



tered and modernized a hun- gules thre * antekpei O f 

 dred years later, when the the fold attired or. 



4 ? In an indenture of Hen. VII 

 William Entwisle and Janet his wife 

 agreed with Thomas Buckley and James 

 his son as to the division of lands called 

 Foxholes ; Janet was to have a close called 

 Summerhey, while the Buckleys were to 

 have some other closes ; ibid. no. 474. 

 Janet, therefore, was probably the heir of 

 the Thomas Dickson of 1400. 



Edmund Entwisle contributed to the 

 subsidy in 1523 ; Fishwick, op. cit. 37. 

 Robert Entwisle died in Aug. 1574, leaving 

 as heir his eldest son Richard ; to Jane 

 his wife and Richard he bequeathed a 

 little Bible, ' they to see the same occu- 

 pied every Sabbath day when there is no 

 sermons or sacraments in ministering, and 

 in the week day my will and mind is that 

 my poorest kinsfolks which are not able 

 to buy a Bible shall have the same lent 

 unto them* ; Piccope, Wills, ii. 221-3. 

 Richard Entwisle died in 1621 holding in 

 Wardleworth, Spotland, and Hundersfield 

 of Sir John Byron in socage, by a rent of 

 41., also lands in Worsley. Richard his 

 son and heir was thirty-four years old ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 241. 



48 Surv. ut sup. 80. In 1631 Richard 

 Entwisle paid ,10 on refusing knight- 

 hood ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 215. He died in 1645. 



49 He recorded a pedigree in 1665 ; 

 Dugdale, Visit. 104. For some notices of 

 his doings with letters see Hist. MSS. Com. 

 Rep. xiv, App. iv, 101, 135, &c. ; O. Hey- 

 wood, Diaries, ii, 90. 



50 See the pedigree and account of the 

 family in Fishwick, Rochdale, 409-13. 



81 They were given by Gilbert de 

 Notion to Stanlaw Abbey, together with 

 two oxgangs in Healey ; Whalley Couch. 

 ii, 623, 626, 627 ; iii, 680. 



52 Land Tax Ret. at Preston. 



58 See the account of Ogden in Butter- 

 worth. 



Quenilda de Sladen in 1246 recovered 

 half an oxgang in Hundersfield against Ma- 

 thew son of Adam, Henry son of Ivo, and 

 Agnes his mother ; Assize R. 404, m. 4 d. 



54 Whalley Coucher, ii, 631 ; Fishwick, 

 Richdale, 4379. Maud widow of Richard 

 son of Henry son of Ivo in 1291 and 

 later claimed dower in Hundersfield 

 against Roger de Lightollers for i oxgang, 

 Richard son of Roger de Lightollers for 

 2 oxgangs, and other tenants of 5 J oxgangs 

 in all; De Banco R. no, m. 48 d. ; 167, 

 m. 22 d. Roger de Lightollers claimed a 

 messuage, oxgang, &c., against Andrew 

 son of Patrick de Hundersfield in 1296 ; 

 ibid. R. 114, m. 85. 



Roger de Lightollers was plaintiff in 

 1301 respecting lands in Hundersfield; 

 against Thomas and Adam sons of Adam 

 Dudeman and Richard son of Geoffrey de 

 Turnagh he failed, but recovered against 

 Andrew son of Patrick de Hundersfield 

 and Henry son of Roger de Butterworth ; 

 Assize R. 1321, m. 8. In 1324 Agnes wi- 

 dow of Henry son of Richard de Hunders- 

 field made a claim for land against William 

 de Lightollers, and Richard son of Roger 

 de Lightollers ; De Banco R. 250, m. 7. 



Roger Lightollers and Joan his wife 

 were defendants in 1444 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 6, m. 3. 



Lightollers became the property of the 

 Kirshaws of Town House, and was divided 

 between Newall and Chadwick. One 

 half was acquired by the Halliwells of Pike 

 House. In 1626 Jordan Chadwick (of 

 Healey) held 32 acres in Lightollers and 

 lands in Denehurst and Anningden ; those 

 i n the first-named place were held by virtue 

 of a grant of William de Lightollers to 

 Roger his son, and a rent of 3*. &d. was 

 payable to Savile, while those in Dene- 

 hurst were held by a grant of Hugh de 

 Eland's in 1292, a rent of %d. being due ; 

 Surv. ut sup. 107. 



55 The evidences of this family were 

 transcribed by Canon Raines, who was 

 connected with them by marriage ; Raines 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iv. 



In 1522 Thomas Halliwell released to 

 James his father and John his brother all 

 his actions relating to the Ealees, then 

 held by James ; Add. MS. 32107, no. 470. 

 Pike House was acquired in 1561 from 



227 



the Earl of Derby by John and James 

 Halliwell, the latter being of Ealees, which 

 is at the east end of Littleborough ; see 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 25, m. 29, 

 25, from which it appears that the earl 

 sold his Hundersfield lands at that time. 

 In 1564 James Halliwell acquired a mes- 

 suage and lands from James son of Roger 

 Chadwick ; ibid. bdle. 26, m. 193 ; this 

 was perhaps the moiety of Lightollers, but 

 in 1578 John Halliwell and James (son of 

 James) Halliwell of Ealees purchased a 

 messuage, &c., from Richard Lightollers 

 and Margaret his wife ; ibid. bdle. 40, 

 m. 60. James Halliwell acquired a mes- 

 suage in Hundersfield from Arthur White- 

 head in 1585 ; ibid. bdle. 47, m. 77. 

 John Halliwell acquired another in 1593 

 from John Sale ; ibid. bdle. 55, m. 4. 



John son of James Halliwell died in 

 1619 holding lands, &c., in Pike House 

 and Lightollers of Sir John Byron in 

 socage by icJJ. rent, in Hundersfield of 

 Sir John Byron and John Holt, in Butter- 

 worth also of Sir John Byron, in Buersill 

 of the Earl of Derby as of his manor of 

 Woolton, in Ditton near Widnes, and 

 elsewhere. James his son and heir was 

 thirty years of age ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 165-6. 



In 1626 James Halliwell held Ealees 

 and 104 acres of land. John Butterworth 

 of Littleborough held 26 acres in Ealees ; 

 Surv. ut sup. 104, 108. 



James Halliwell was summoned to 

 attend the Visitation of 1664, but it 

 appears that he died in 1661 ; Dugdale 

 Visit, q.v. 



The estate descended to John Halliwell, 

 who died in 1771, when he was succeeded 

 by Robert Beswicke, whose grandmother 

 was Mary Halliwell, sister of the last John 

 Halliwell ; Robert's grandson, John Halli- 

 well Beswicke, died in 1842, and hi: 

 daughter and heiress, Mary Alice Gibson, 

 married Capt. Clement Robert Nuttall 

 Royds, who has assumed the name Bes- 

 wicke before Royds ; see Fishwick, Roch- 

 dale, 440-1, and Raines MSS. iii, 62, 

 for an account of the Beswicke family. 



