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later it was by his son Thomas 

 included in a settlement. 15 It 

 descended to Gilbert Ireland 

 of Hale, 16 and by him was sold 

 in 1670 to Thomas Mars- 

 den. 17 A later Thomas Mars- 

 den 18 by his will directed a 

 sale, and John Moss of Man- 

 chester, woollen draper, pur- 

 chased it in 1 7 1 6 ; 19 he was 

 succeeded by his son John 

 Moss, 10 and his grandson James 

 Moss," who died without issue. 

 The manor then went to the 



TIPPING. Argent a 

 bull's head erased sable, 

 armed or, on a chief of 

 the second three f Aeons 

 of the field. 



heir-at-law, John Gartside of Manchester, a cousin, 

 who died in 1817, having bequeathed this manor and 

 other estates to his nephew Thomas Tipping." The 



new lord was in 1 846 succeeded by his son Gartside, 

 and in 1890 by the latter's son Mr. Henry Thomas 

 Gartside-Tipping of Quarr Wood, Isle of Wight. 



Little Bolton Hall is a small rectangular building, 

 its external measurement being about 46ft. 6 in. in 

 length by 30 ft. in width, with a slightly projecting 

 portion on the north side and a south-west wing 

 nearly 20 ft. square. Its situation is very striking. 

 In 1833 it was described as standing in an isolated 

 part on a woody bank above the River Tonge ; JJ but 

 the house is no longer isolated, and the high bank 

 on which it stands above the curve of the river on 

 the east side is totally bare of foliage. But though 

 its surroundings are mean and ugly, and it is 

 overshadowed on the west by a high railway viaduct, 

 it is not hard even now to imagine the former beauty 

 of its position, and the defensive strength of its site. 



LITTLE BOLTON HALL 



u Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 119, no. 

 2Z. Thomas Ireland died in 1639, leav- 

 ing a daughter and heir Margaret ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 9. 



16 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 150, 

 m. 70 ; the deforciants were Sir Gilbert 

 Ireland and his wife Margaret, who was 

 the heir of Thomas Ireland. 



*7 Ibid. bdle. 185, m. 124 ; the purchase 

 included the manor with messuages, water 

 grain-mill, and lands in Great and Little 

 Bolton and Tonge, together with tithes. 



18 The remainder of this account of the 

 descent of the manor of Little Bolton is 

 taken chiefly from Scholes and Pimblett, 

 Hist, of Bolton, 56. They state that in 

 1700 the manor was settled by Thomas 

 Marsden on his wife Sarah daughter of 

 William Croxton. This Thomas may be 



the Thomas Marsden son of Thomas who 

 matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, 

 in 1665, being then seventeen years of 

 age; he took the M.A. degree in 1671 ; 

 Foster, Alumni Oxon. Thomas Marsden 

 was a benefactor to the church and parish 

 (Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 180, 182), 

 founding a charity school, which is still at 

 work, the endowment having been in- 

 creased by John Popplewell in 1820 ; 

 End. Char. Rep. for Bolton, 1 904, pp. 1 6, 



7 1 - 



19 In 1729 the new owner bequeathed 

 the manor to his son John, but the tithes 

 to the support of All Saints' Church ; 

 Scholes and Pimblett, loc. cit. Thomas 

 Moss, one of the sons of John Moss, was 

 a fellow of Manchester Collegiate Church. 



20 He settled it in 1733 on his wife 



251 



Mary daughter of Jeremiah Bower of 

 Manchester ; ibid. 



81 He settled it in 1764 on his wife 

 Appylina daughter of James Bayley of 

 Manchester ; ibid. 



82 See the pedigree of Gartside-Tipping 

 in Burke's Landed Gentry ; it is said that 

 Thomas was the son of John Tipping by 

 his wife Anne daughter and heir of Robert 

 Gartside. John Tipping was a cousin of 

 Martha wife of Samuel Clowes of Brough- 

 ton. In 1770 a fine respecting half the 

 manor of Little Bolton, &c., was made 

 between John and Robert Gartside, plain- 

 tiffs, and Samuel Clowes and Mary his 

 wife, deforciants ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 383, m. 76. 



23 Butterworth, Statistical Sketch of Co. 

 Pal. of Lane. 



