SALFORD HUNDRED 



THE HOSPITALLERS. 

 Gules a cross argent. 



been more properly the portion 

 held by the local family of the 

 Hospitallers, who had land 

 here from an early period. 3 



The Entwisle family can 

 thus be traced back to the 

 latter years of the I2th cen- 

 tury, but in this case, as in 

 others, no proper account can 

 be given of it, owing to the 

 lack of evidence. 4 Anian En- 

 twisle died in May 1442, 

 having a fourth part of the fourth part of the manor of 

 Edgeworth, held by the sixteenth part of a knight's 

 fee and the service of is. ^d. a year ; its clear value 

 was 2O/. He also held the manor of Entwisle of 

 St.John of Jerusalem by the service of 1 2</. a year ; its 

 value was iocu. ; also lands in Turton and Bolton. 

 Ellis, his son and heir, was twenty-three years of age. 5 

 Of the same family is supposed to have been the Sir 

 Bertin Entwisle who fell fighting on the Lancastrian 

 side at St. Albans, 1455." 



Edmund Entwisle died 8 July 1544, holding the 

 manor of Entwisle of the king in socage by a rent of 

 \2d. yearly (i.e. the Hospitallers' rent); messuages and 

 lands in Entwisle and Edgeworth, of the king by the 

 third part of the fourth part of a knight's fee and 

 rent of i$d. ; also lands in Turton, Bolton, RadclifFe, 



BOLTON-LE-MOORS 



and the Manchester district. George his son and heir 

 was twenty-two years of age. 7 



George Entwisle in 1546 and 1551 made settle- 

 ments of his estate in thirty or thirty-six messuages and 

 various lands, largely moor and pasture, in Entwisle, 

 Wayoh ('Wao'), Bolton, Chorlton, Rusholme, Ard- 

 wick, Withington, and Manchester. 8 In the second 

 case the estate, after one week, was to pass to Thurstan 

 Tyldesley, his younger son, and his heirs. 9 



ENTWISLE. Argent 

 on a bend engrailed sable 

 three mullets ofthefeld. 



TYLDESLEY. Argent 

 three mole-hills proper. 



The manor thus passed into the hands of the Tyldes- 

 leys of Morleys. 10 The hall and lands in the township 

 were sold by Edmund Tyldesley between 1657 and 

 1670 to a large number of persons, 11 and the history 

 of the manor cannot be traced further. 



8 The Hospitallers' lands in ' Edge- 

 worth' are named in 1292 in the Plac. de 

 Quo Warr. (Rcc. Com.), 375. The term 

 would include both Entwisle and Quarlton ; 

 in Edgeworth proper nothing seems to have 

 been held by them. 



The rental of c. 1540 states that the 

 Hospitallers' ' manor of Entwisle ' was held 

 by the heirs of Ellis Entwisle by a rent 

 of 120". ; Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84. 



4 Ellis son of Richard de Entwisle was 

 in 1 276 called upon to defend his title to 

 20 acres of wood in Edgeworth. He stated 

 that his ancestors had held the pasture in 

 severally, and that his father had inclosed 

 part of the common ; Assize R. 405, m. 



3d- 



Ellis de Entwisle in 1292 claimed that 

 the Prior of the Hospital of St. John 

 should acquit him of the service required 

 by the Earl of Lancaster out of the free 

 tenement in Entwisle and Edgeworth, of 

 which the prior was mesne lord. The 

 prior appeared, and Ellis was then unwill- 

 ing to plead against him, and so the prior 

 was acquitted ; Assize R. 408, m. 56. Ellis 

 again occurs in 1297 ; Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 297. 



In 1329 the Prior of the Hospitallers 

 claimed from John de Entwisle the ser- 

 vices due for a messuage and 40 acres in 

 'Turton' ; De Banco R. 279, m. i8od. 

 John de Entwisle contributed to the sub- 

 sidy in 1332 ; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 40. He was tenant of 

 the third part of the manor in 1346 ; 

 Add. MS. 32103, fol. 46. 



Ellis de Entwisle is mentioned in 

 1394, 1398, and 1407 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 57, 61, 65, 68 ; Towneley 

 MS. RR, no. 1549 ; and an Ellis son of 

 Ellis de Entwisle in 1410 ; Final Cone. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 69. Ed- 

 mund de Entwisle occurs in 1412 ; Towne- 

 ley MS. RR, no. 1556. 



In 1420 John de Entwisle and Margaret 

 his wife had settled upon them lands in 

 Withington, Manchester, and Chorlton, 

 the wife's inheritance ; Final Cone. (Rec. 



Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 77. The 

 trustees were Ellis de Entwisle and John 

 de Lever. A brief note has been preserved 

 of the inquisition after the death of John 

 Entwisle, dated 1436 ; he held the manor 

 of Entwistle of the Hospitallers by a rent 

 of lid. ; Towneley MS. Lanes. Tenures, 

 fol. 1 1 . The writ of Diem clausit extre- 

 mum was issued 23 Mar. 1435-6 ; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 36. 



6 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1478 ; 'the 

 fourth part of the fourth part,' may be an 

 error of copying. 



In 1444 and 1445 Margaret the widow 

 of John Entwisle claimed dower in certain 

 messuages, &c., in Entwisle, Turton, and 

 Bolton, against Elizabeth, the widow of 

 Anian Entwisle ; the defence was that 

 John had not been in seisin either at the 

 time of his marriage or later ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 6, m. izb ; R. 8, m. n*. 



Ellis Entwisle occurs in 1473 ; Mame- 

 cestre (Chet. Soc.), iii, 482. 



6 Fasten Letters (ed. Gairdner), i, 333. 

 There is a biography of him in Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. 1836), iii, 93-4. In 1446 Sir 

 Bertin Entwisle was one of the trustees 

 of Robert Callow of Oswaldtwistle ; Add. 

 MS. 32104, no. 1156. 



7 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, no. 30. 



8 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 1 2, m. 

 305. 



9 Ibid. bdle. 14, m. 247. See also 

 Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches), ii, 255. 



10 Edward Tyldesley and Anne his wife 

 in 1570 sold messuages and lands in En- 

 twisle and Over Darwen to John Osbaldes- 

 ton ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 32, m. 

 48. He asserted in 15 77 that Alexander 

 and Richard Entwisle had wrongfully taken 

 possession of parts of the manor of En- 

 twisle and its lands which he had acquired 

 from George Entwisle ; but it was shown 

 that Alexander's lands were at Broadhead 

 [in Edgeworth J, not parcel of the manor of 

 Entwisle ; Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. 

 cv, T. 5. 



Edward Tyldesley, being seised of the 



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hall of Entwisle and twenty-six messuages 

 and lands in the township in 1586, granted 

 them to feoffees for the use of the said 

 Edward for life, then of Elizabeth, widow 

 of Thomas Tyldesley for life, then of Ed- 

 ward, infant son and heir of Thomas. The 

 rent payable for Entwisle was given as 

 io,/.; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, 

 no. io. 



Like Morleys, the manor descended to 

 the famous Sir Thomas Tyldesley, slain at 

 Wigan in 1651, and was claimed by the 

 guardians of his son Edward, the whole 

 estate having been sequestered by the Par- 

 liament ; Cal. Com. for Compounding, iv, 

 2568. 



11 Sixty deeds relating to the sales and 

 later course of the history, with notes, will 

 be found in James C. Scholes' Documentary 

 Notes relating to the district of Turton (Bol- 

 ton, 1882). The hall was divided, and in 

 1657 the eastern part was sold to Roger 

 Brandwood, and the western (including the 

 room called the hall) to John Kay ; no. 

 5, 54. By Kay's will of 1671 his daughter 

 Jane, wife of Robert Norbury and after- 

 wards of Nathan Walker, inherited his 

 part of the hall ; she in 1723 appears to 

 have transferred it to a nephew, John 

 Wood; no. 17, 1 8, 38. It afterwards came 

 into the possession of the Kays of Turton. 

 who, according to a pedigree inserted in 

 the same work (p. 78), descended from 

 Alexander, a brother of John Kay. 



According to Canon Raines, Edward 

 Tyldesley sold Entwisle property to 

 Entwisle and Norbury in 1657, and they 

 dispersed it among the tenants ; Notitia 

 Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 24. A similar sale 

 to a large number of the tenants in 1670 

 seems to have ended the Tyldesleys* con- 

 nexion with the district ; Scholes, op. cit. 

 no. 41. 



Details of the descent of several other 

 properties in Entwisle will be found in the 

 work stated : Overhouse, Edge, Edge Foot, 

 Lowerhouse or Crow trees, &c. Many 

 field names are given : Paggas, Arma- 

 graves, Aspden field, Farnecar, &c. 



