SALFORD HUNDRED 



BOLTON-LE-MOORS 



Trafford. 4 The matter, however, is not quite clear, 

 the separation of the manor of Bradshaw causing some 

 confusion. 5 The Trafford moiety was sold in 1589 

 to Nicholas Mosley, 6 and he in turn sold it to five 

 partners, who appear to have been acting for a 

 number of others, for in 1615 the manor had been 

 divided into thirty-five portions, of which Giles 

 Ainsworth held one. 7 Large portions came into the 

 possession of William Hulme, and form part of his 

 endowment fund. 8 



A grant of free warren in Harwood was obtained 

 in 1266-7* 



The Radcliffes and Bartons of Smithills 10 and the 

 Hollands of Denton held lands in ' Harwood ' for 

 many generations. 11 Adam Mort of Astley in 1630 

 held a messuage and fulling mill of Edward Mosley, 

 lord of Manchester." 



Manchester Church had lands in Harwood in 

 I528. 13 



Goodwin Fold was once the property and residence 

 of Richard Goodwin, the ejected vicar of Bolton. 14 



In 1797 it appears from the land tax returns that 

 the land was held by a number of small proprietors. 15 



The commons were inclosed in i8oi. 16 



Maud his wife ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 169. It does not 

 appear how the latter pair had obtained 

 this portion. John D'Ewias and Cecily 

 his wife put in their claim. 



Robert de Holland and Maud his wife 

 held the sixth part of the manor of Har- 

 wood, i.e. the third part of a moiety, in 

 1322 ; ibid, ii, 193. The sixth part of 

 the manor of Harwood was held of the 

 Baron of Manchester by a rent of 6d. by 

 Sir Robert, Lord Holland, who died in 

 1373 ; Inq. p.m. 47 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 19. In 1451 the estate of Sir John 

 Holland is described as 2 oxgangs in the 

 vill of Harwood, held of Sir Reginald West, 

 and worth 33*. Ofd, ; Lanes. Rec. Inq. p.m. 

 no. 45-6. The manor of Harwood is 

 named among the possessions of Thomas, 

 Earl of Derby, in 1521, but the tenure is 

 not stated ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 

 no. 68. It appears from the rental that 

 tenants at will paid 29*. fya". a year, and 

 that 4</. of new rent was due from one 

 Peter Greenhalgh, for a house built on the 

 waste, &c., in addition to 12 J. paid to 

 Edmund Trafford for the same encroach- 

 ment ; Rental of 1523-4 in possession of 

 Lord Lathom. This looks as if the Earl 

 of Derby then claimed a fourth part of the 

 manor and Edmund Trafford three-fourths. 



4 In 1227 Alexander de Harwood ac- 

 knowledged the suit of court claimed by 

 the lord of Manchester ; Final Cone, i, 

 47-8. From a fine of 1241 it appears 

 that John de Harwood held the half 

 plough-land of William de Samlesbury, for 

 he called upon his mesne lord to acquit 

 him of the suit at the court of Manchester 

 required by Thomas Grelley ; ibid, i, 90. 

 If John de Harwood were the heir of 

 Alexander, he would then hold the entire 

 manor, half immediately of the Grelleys, 

 and half of the Samlesburys. 



In 1278 Alan de Harwood complained 

 that Richard D'Ewias, Margery his wife, 

 Robert de Holland, and others, had dis- 

 seised him of half the manor of Harwood. 

 The defence was that Richard had gone to 

 the war in Wales, and that Margery had 

 wrongly made a grant to the plaintiff ; he 

 showed, however, that the grant was made 

 by her in her widowhood, after the death 

 of Robert de Hampton her former hus- 

 band. The service was 30*. a year until 

 15 marks had been paid, then id. a 

 year; Assize R. 1217, m. 32^. 



This Alan de Harwood may have been 

 the Alan de Bradshagh who held lands in 

 Harwood (or Bradshaw) in the time of 

 Edward I ; De Banco R. 345, m. 64 d. 



Maud widow of John son of Thomas 

 de Harwood in 1283 claimed dower in 

 Harwood and Longworth against Thomas 

 de Harwood ; De Banco R. 50, m. 4. 



Cecily daughter of John de Harwood 

 was a plaintiff respecting a tenement in 

 Harwood in 1292, the defendants being 

 John D'Ewias and Robert de Holland, 



but was non-suited ; Assize R. 408, m. 

 34 d. This may be an indication that the 

 Harwood family had ended in several 

 daughters and co-heirs. The mode in 

 which the Traffords succeeded is not 

 known. In the same year John son of 

 Adam son of William de Radcliffe claimed 

 a messuage and lands in Harwood against 

 Henry son of Henry de Trafford ; but it 

 was found that the defendant derived his 

 title to it from Thomas de Longworth, and 

 not from Adam de Radcliffe ; ibid. m. 70, 

 1 5 d. Henry de Trafford was defendant 

 in another suit ; ibid. m. 57. 



The Traffords held part of the other 

 moiety of the manor, for in 1306 Nicholas 

 son of Sir John D'Ewias made a grant of 

 his land in Harwood to his brothers Roger 

 and William, the service of Henry de 

 Trafford being included ; Dods. MSS. liii, 

 fol. 19, no. 37. 



In the Trafford inquisitions, their tene- 

 ment is not called a manor, and was stated 

 in 1564 to be held of Lord La Warre, by 

 a rent of i zd. for all services ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. n. 



5 In 1302 Robert de Holland, John 

 D'Ewias, and Henry de Trafford held of 

 Thomas Grelley the eighth part of a 

 knight's fee in Harwood ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents, i, 313. 



In 1320 the same names are given as 

 those of tenants of the eighth part of a fee 

 in Bradshaw and Harwood, from which 

 two suits were due to the court of Man- 

 chester, also \%d. for sake fee, \%d. for 

 castle ward, and puture of the Serjeants ; 

 M amecestre (Chet. Soc.), ii, 288, 400. A 

 few years later Robert de Holland and 

 Thomas de Southworth were said to hold 

 the plough-land in Harwood ; ibid. 260. 



In 1473 Christopher Southworth and 

 Sir John Trafford each held a moiety 

 of the manor the Holland holding being 

 ignored by the sixteenth part of a fee and 

 suit of court, also ^d. for sake fee and 

 4^</. for suit of court. It will be noticed 

 that the whole of the knight's service due 

 and half the sake fee and castle ward are 

 accounted for ; the remainder of these pay- 

 ments was due from Bradshaw ; ibid, iii, 

 479-80. 



6 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 51, m. 

 11$. Sir Nicholas Mosley in 1601, stat- 

 ing that he had for fourteen years held the 

 manor of Harwood, with waste ground and 

 moor called Harwood Common and Har- 

 wood Lee, complained that John Brad- 

 shaw and others had entered therein and 

 filled up a coalpit sunk there at plaintiff's 

 great cost, and further that John Brad- 

 shaw had sunk a shaft on his own land but 

 also took coals under the plaintiff's land, 

 caused water to flow into plaintiff's pit, 

 and took slate, stone, and turf in Harwood; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. cciv, M. 4. 



7 Hulme D. no. 108. The deed recites 

 the sale of the manor or lordship of Har- 

 wood and all messuages and lands in Bol- 



269 



ton by Sir Edmund Trafford and his son 

 Edmund ; and the sale of the same in 

 1612 for 1,100 by Sir Nicholas Mosley 

 and Sir Edward Mosley to Ralph Higson, 

 Henry Haworth, Edward Greenhalgh, 

 Lawrence Horrocks, and Matthew Harri- 

 son ; and the purchasers in 1615 for 38 

 sold to Giles Ainsworth certain messuages 

 and lands in the hands of occupiers named, 

 and a thirty-fifth part of the moors, com- 

 mons, &c., belonging to the manor. An- 

 other part was soon afterwards sold to John 

 son and heir of William Brooke ; ibid. no. 

 109. This perhaps afterwards came into 

 the possession of William Hulme, for in 

 1664 he leased to William Brooke the 

 tenement in Harwood then occupied by 

 the said William Brooke and Margaret 

 his mother, and previously by John Brooke, 

 the father of William ; the rent was 1 31. %d. 

 All corn and grain grown there were to 

 be brought to Oakenbottom mill to be 

 ground, or io*. rent was to be paid to 

 Charles, Earl of Derby ; ibid. no.. 112. 



Edmund Brooke died 2 May 1628 

 holding a messuage and lands in Harwood 

 of Edward Mosley ; George, his son and 

 heir, was of full age ; Towneley MS. 

 C, 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), fol. 70. The Rev. 

 Samuel Brooke of Dorking, 1698, was a 

 benefactor to the poor of Harwood ; End. 

 Char. Rep. for Bolton Parish, 1 904, p. i o. 

 Edward Greenhalgh died 14 Nov. 1624, 

 holding a similar tenement ; John, his son 

 and heir, was about thirty years of age ; 

 Towneley MS. C, 8, 13, fol. 459. 



8 In the preceding notes it has been 

 shown that he purchased various parts of 

 the manor : he included his estate in Har- 

 wood in those destined for the benefit of 

 ' four of the poor sort of Bachelors of Arts ' 

 at Brasenose College, Oxford ; Notitia 

 Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 72. 



9 A charter to Robert de Hampton of 

 free warren in Allonby in Cumberland, 

 Formby, Harwood, &c., in Lancashire ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 55 ; Cal. Rot. Cart. 

 (Rec. Com.), 94. 



lu The land was perhaps partly or wholly 

 in Bradshaw ; q.v. 



11 This was probably in Sharpies ; q.v. 



12 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxv, 33. 

 18 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 201. 



14 It had been held by John and James 

 Crompton, and was purchased by Richard 

 Goodwin in 1645, together with lands of 

 Joshua Lomax of St. Albans, and John 

 Lomax of Harwood ; afterwards it came 

 to James Okey, and in 1790 was the pro- 

 perty of James John Hey wood, having been 

 bought from Richard Jones and Sophia his 

 wife ; Sol ton Journ. 21 Aug. 1875. 



15 Land Tax Returns at Preston ; the 

 estate of Brasenose College (or Hulme's 

 trustees) paid an eighth part of the total. 



16 The inclosure was brought into con- 

 sideration in 1781 ; the Act was obtained 

 in 1797 (37 Geo. Ill), and the award made 

 in 1801 ; Bolton Hist. Glean, i, 357-8. 



