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ther and heir William Orrell," who in 1628 sold the 

 manor to Humphrey Chetham, the founder of Chet- 

 ham's Hospital and Library.* 3 



On Humphrey's death in 1653 he was succeeded 

 at Turton by his nephew George, son of James 

 Chetham.* 4 George Chetham 

 was alderman and sheriff of 

 London in 1656," and high 

 sheriff of Lancashire in 1659- 

 60 ; K he died at Turton in 

 1664, and was succeeded by 

 his son James, who held the 

 manor till his death in 1697. 

 His eldest son Samuel fol- 

 lowed, and then in 1745 the 

 third son Humphrey, who died 

 unmarried in 1749.*' Turton 

 then by his will went to a 

 cousin, Edward Chetham of 

 Nuthurst, after whose death in 



1769 a partition of the estates was made. Alice, 

 his elder sister, who had married Adam Bland, re- 

 ceived Turton.* 8 She left an only daughter Mary, 

 wife of Mordecai Greene, a Spanish merchant, 19 and 

 their son James was in 1782 placed in possession of 

 the manor of Turton, with Turton Tower, the water 

 corn-mill, and other properties. 30 



James Greene died in 1814, leaving five daughters 

 as co-heirs, 31 and the estates were divided among them 

 in 1833, Turton Tower and the reputed manor being 

 assigned to the eldest, Mary Anne wife of Edward 

 Frere of Clydach ; they sold it in 1835 to James 

 Kay. 31 The new lord was born at Edgefold in En- 

 twisle, and was a successful cotton spinner at Preston 



CHETHAM. Argent a 

 griffon tegreant gulet 

 ivithin a bordure table 

 bexanty. 



and Pendleton. He resided at the Tower till his 

 death in 1857. Robert, the eldest surviving son, was 

 incapable of managing the estate, and his younger 

 brother James was the acting owner. He died in 

 1876, and his son James suc- 

 ceeded, becoming lord of Tur- 

 ton on his uncle Robert's death 

 in 1878. The trustees of 

 James Kay, under his will of 

 1882, sold to Mrs. Appleton, 

 from whose representatives the 

 Tower and the lordship of the 

 manor were in 1903 acquired 

 by Sir Lees Knowles, bart., who 

 resides at Westwood in Pendle- 

 bury, 33 and belongs to a family 

 connected with the Turton dis- 

 trict for several centuries. 333 



TURTON TOWER stands 

 on high ground in a situa- 

 tion described by Camden as 'amongst precipices 

 and wastes,' about 4 miles north of Bolton. It is an 

 exceedingly interesting building, the oldest part of 

 which consists of a stone tower built square with the 

 compass, measuring externally 45 ft. in length from 

 north to south, and 28 ft. in width, with walls 4ft. 

 thick. There is no architectural feature remaining 

 to determine the precise date of the original walls, 

 which are of a somewhat rough order with large 

 quoin stones ; whether any part of the building is 

 earlier than the first part of the ijth century is very 

 doubtful. The tower was altered and raised in the 

 1 6th century, when additions in stone and timber 

 were made on its eastern and northern sides, and a 



KNOWLES, baronet. 

 Gulet on a che-veron 

 cotised between two cres- 

 centt in chief and a cross- 

 let in base argent three 

 roset of the field. 



M John Orrell was buried at Manches- 

 ter Church 21 January 1626-7 ; his 

 brother William was found to be his heir ; 

 Mancb. Ct. Lett Rec. iii, 128. An abstract 

 of the will of his widow Alice, 1647, is 

 given in Wills (Chet. Soc. new ser.), i, 



239- 



38 The deed of sale is among the few 

 Turton deeds in the Clowes muniment* ; 

 see also Raines and Sutton, Humph. Chet- 

 ham, i, 31 ; James C. Scholes, Turton 

 Tower, 16 ; and Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 114, m. 34. The sale included the 

 manor or lordship, the Tower, messuages, 

 dove-houses, water-courses and mills, court 

 leet, mines, lands, &c. 



94 The story from this point is mainly 

 taken from James C. Scholes, Turton 

 Tower (Bolton, 1880), and Supplement 

 (1881), in which a large number of docu- 

 ments are printed. For Humphrey Chet- 

 ham see Raines and Sutton, Life, quoted 

 above ; he was described as ' of Turton ' 

 in 1632, when he paid 25 on refusing 

 knighthood ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 223. 



The settlement of Turton on George 

 Chetham is recited in the Life, ii, 238, 

 239 ; and an inventory of the goods at the 

 Tower at pp. 274-6. 



a * For George Chetham, citizen and 

 grocer of London, see E. Axon's Chetham 

 Genealogies (Chet. Soc.), 49-52. He lived 

 at Turton from 1648 to 1653 as tenant 

 of his uncle Humphrey. His eldest son 

 Humphrey died there in 1659 ; an abstract 

 of the funeral sermon, Vvxilffrifita, is given 

 by J. C. Scholes, 19-24 ; he was a pious 

 youth of the Puritan type. 



A pedigree was recorded in 1664 ; 

 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 77. 



86 P.R.O. List, 73. 

 *7 Axon, op. cit. 52-6. 

 98 Ibid. 62-3 ; Adam Bland died 

 in 1723, but his widow lived on till 



1774. 



In 1 769 there was a fine respecting the 

 manor of Turton, &c., Joseph and William 

 Clowes being plaintiffs, and Samuel 

 Clowes and Mary his wife deforciants ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 381, m. 205. 

 In 1772 there was a further settlement, 

 Alice Bland and Samuel and Mary Clowes 

 being deforciants ; ibid. bdle. 387, m. 

 90. 



29 A settlement of the manor of Turton, 

 &c., was made by Mordecai Greene and 

 Mary his wife in 1775 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 393, m. 283. Mordecai 

 Greene died in 1787, and his wife in 1796; 

 Scholes, Turton Tower, 29. The Greenes 

 and their descendants have not resided at 

 Turton. 



80 Ibid. 30, where the deed is printed. 



81 Ibid. 32. The daughters were (i) 

 Mary Anne wife of Edward Frere one 

 of their sons being Sir Bartle Frere ; see 

 Burke, Landed Gentry, Frere of Roydon 

 Hall ; (2) Arabella Penelope Eliza wife 

 of Peter Richard Hoare son of Sir Richard 

 Hoare, bart. ; (3) Charlotte Alice wife of 

 Richard Wilkins and then of Edward 

 William Seymour ; (4) Angelina Frances 

 wife of George Matthew Hoare of Mor- 

 den, Surrey ; (5) Anna Sophia, living 

 1835, unmarried. The descendants of the 

 second and fourth daughters are still 

 among the chief landowners in the town- 

 ship. 



In the Common Pleas Rolls are the 

 following recoveries and deeds enrolled 

 relative to the manor of Turton : East. 



275 



55 Geo. Ill, m. 2 Edward Frere, Peter 

 Richard Hoare, George Matthew Hoare, 

 their wives and others, four-fifths of the 

 manor of Turton and of lands in Bolton, 

 Turton, Clayton, Droylsden, Failsworth, 

 Newton, Spotland, and Rochdale ; Mich. 

 59 Geo. Ill, m. 2 Anna Sophia Greene, 

 John Fitchett, and John Richards, the 

 fifth part of the manor of Turton and 

 lands in Bolton, &c.; Hil. 3 & 4 Geo. IV, 

 m. 148 Edward Frere and others and 

 Charles Barrett and George Frere, the 

 manor of Turton, mills, farms, free school, 

 chapel, mines, &c. ; Hil. 3 Will. IV, m. 

 62 Edward Frere, Peter Richard Hoare, 

 George Matthew Hoare, Anna Sophia 

 Greene and others, the manor of Turton, 

 and lands in Turton, &c., this being the 

 record of partition. 



82 The details concerning this family 

 are taken from Mr. Scholes's works already 

 cited ; there is a pedigree of the Kay 

 family in the Supplement, and another in 

 his Turton Documentary Notes (Bolton, 

 1882). 



88 Information of Sir Lees Knowles. 

 For the pedigree of this family see Baines, 

 Lana. (ed. Croston), iii, 222-4 > James 

 C. Scholes, Genealogy of the Knowles 

 Family of Edge-worth, &c. (1886). 



883 There are memorials of them in 

 Bolton and Turton churches. The 

 Hawkshaw estate, the family inheritance, 

 now belongs to Mr. Robert Knowles, of 



Ednaston Lodge, Derby. Plaster-work 

 i 



with the initials R ,' A from Quarl- 

 1670 



ton Old Hall, referring to Robert and 

 Ann Knowles, is in the possession of 

 Sir Lees Knowles, who has given thi 

 information. 



