A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



In 1808, however, John Brandwood paid 1 to 

 Bamber Gascoyne, as lord of Much Woolton, for 

 twenty years' rent known as St. John of Jerusalem's 

 rent. 11 Of this family probably was derived James 

 Brandwood, born in 1739, son of John Brandwood of 

 New House, Entwisle, who joined the Society of 

 Friends and achieved some distinction among them. 

 He died in 1826." 



Entwisle Hall, a two-story stone-built house stand- 

 ing on a high situation about i| miles north of Turton 

 Tower, was described by Camden " as a ' proper fair 

 house,' but this probably refers to an older building 

 than the present one, which seems to have been erected 

 in the first half of the I yth century. It has a long front 

 facing south and is of the type of plan having a central 

 hall and projecting end wings ; but has a further east 

 wing with large stone chimney and end gable. The 

 roof of the main portion of the building has been 

 covered in modern times with blue slates, but the 

 eastern end retains its ancient grey stone slates and 

 stone coping and balls to the end gable ; the two gables 

 facing south are quite plain. The windows at this 

 end too are the original ones, with stone mullions and 

 hood-moulds, but those of the rest of the house have 

 been mutilated and done away with altogether, and 

 smaller modern windows inserted, though the hood- 

 mould of a former long low window still remains in 

 the centre part of the house. 



The building is divided into three tenements and 

 seems to have been so since the middle of the iyth 

 century. A deed for the transfer of the middle 

 part of Entwisle Hall to John Kay in 1657 speaks of 

 * all that capital Messuage or Manor House commonly 

 known by the name of Entwisle Hall, and the demesne 

 lands thereunto belonging, That is to witt, the Room 

 called the Hall, containing three bays of buildings or 

 thereabouts, standing and being betwixt the parlour 

 and the kitchen, with all the chambers and rooms over 

 the same room called the Hall.' Mention is also 

 made of the ' out Ileinge adjoining to the Hall on the 

 north side,' and of the ' court or yard lying on the 

 south side of the Hall.' Another deed of the same 

 year referring to the sale of the east end of the house 

 to Roger Brandwood refers to it as * the kitchen con- 

 taining four bays in length with the chambers and 

 rooms over,' and gives Brandwood the liberty ' to pass 

 and repass through the fold or yard on the south side 

 of the hall and parlour unto and from the kitchen.' 



The building still fairly well corresponds with these 

 descriptions. The middle part, or hall, seems always 



to have been of two stories, and probably the house as 

 described in 1657 had been lately rebuilt. The court 

 on the south side appears to have been a yard only as 

 at present. The barn now on the south side of the 

 house was erected in 1720, which date it bears, to- 

 gether with the initials I R B M, probably those of 

 James and Roger Brandwood and Mary, the wife of 

 James. 15 The Brandwoods also appear to have re- 

 stored their end of the house in the 1 8th century, and 

 later unimportant additions have been made to the 

 building on the north and west sides. 



In 1826, during the days of industrial distress and 

 starvation, the old kitchen and other apartments on the 

 ground floor at the east end, were used as a * dow- 

 house,' and about the same time the rooms over the 

 hall, most of which retain their oak floors, were con- 

 verted into weaving places to find employment for 

 those out of work. 16 



A Houghton family had some estate in the town- 

 ship. 17 



The Wesleyan Methodists have a Sunday service at 

 Entwisle. 



QUARLTON 



Quernedon, 1301 ; Querndone, 1302 ; Quordone, 

 1309. Quarndon or Quarnton was the usual spelling 

 till modern times. 



This boundary township on the hill-side has an 

 area of 798 acres. The hamlet of Quarlton lies near 

 the western border at a height of about 650 ft. above 

 the sea ; the ground rises rapidly to the north-east, 

 over 1,250 ft. being attained at the boundary. The 

 population was in 1901 included in Edgeworth. 



Wickenlow is in the northern part of the township, 

 and Waives in the south-eastern. 



The road from Bury to Blackburn crosses the 

 western corner of the township. 



There are old-established calico-printing works on 

 the border of Turton. The land is chiefly in pasture. 



As a township Quarlton was joined to Edgeworth 

 in 1898, and so ceased to exist. 1 



In 1666 the houses in Quarlton were few and 

 small ; none had more than two hearths liable to the 

 tax, and the whole number for the township was only 

 twenty-one. 11 



The manor of QU4RLTON appears 



M4NOR to have been the two oxgangs of land in 



Edgeworth which the Radcliffes reserved 



on granting the main portion to the TrafFords. 1 It 



13 The receipt is in the possession of 

 Sir Lees Knowles, bart., who, according 

 to the pedigree in Baines, Lanes, (ed. 

 Croston), iii, 223, is a descendant of 

 Andrew Knowles of Quarlton and Eliza- 

 beth his wife, daughter of a John Brand- 

 wood of Entwisle ; she died in 1757, aged 

 twenty-six. 



The descent of the Brandwood moiety 

 of the hall and its demesne lands is traced 

 by Mr. Scholes, op. cit. no. 54, 56-7. 

 Roger Brandwood, the purchaser, was suc- 

 ceeded in 1678 by his second son Roger, 

 and he in 1707 by his son James, who died 

 in 1711. His first and second sons, James 

 (died 1715) and Roger (died 1761), fol- 

 lowed ; and the latter's daughter Anne 

 carried it by marriage to Christopher Baron. 

 Their son Roger Baron became bankrupt 

 in 1785, and Roger Hamer purchased it 

 in 1786. He held it till 1841, when it 



passed to his son Richard (died 1849), and 

 to the latter's daughter Elizabeth, wife of 

 Henry Field Fisher. It was sold in 1853 to 

 William Barlow, again in 1854 to James 

 Winder, and in 1857 to John Barlow, 

 nephew of William ; he died in 1870 and 

 his executors held it in 1882. A pedigree 

 of the Barlow family is given; op. cit. 118. 



A settlement of thirty messuages, water- 

 mill, lands, &c., in Entwisle, Edgeworth, 

 Sharpies, and Bolton, was made in 1762 

 by Christopher Baron and Anne his wife ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 367, m. 39. 



John Brandwood in 1779 P a '^ a duchy 

 rent of is. ^d. for Entwisle Hall ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Rentals, 14/25. 



James Brandwood of Charnock Richard, 

 and formerly of Entwisle Hall, in 1762 left 

 100 to the poor stock ; End. Char. Rep. 

 for Bolton Parish, 1904, p. 67. 



18 A biography of him was compiled by 



284 



James C. Scholes, and published in 1882. 

 He is in Diet. Nat. Biog. 



14 Britannia (ed. 1697), 746. 



15 J. C. Scholes, Documentary Notes relat- 

 ing to the district of Turton, 1882. 



" Ibid. 



V Final Cone, iii, 146 ; Excb. Deps. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 34. 



1 By the Bolton, Turton, &c. Extension 

 Act, 1898. 



la Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



3 See the account of Edgeworth. 



In an extent of 1324 it is stated that 

 William de Radcliffe held Edgeworth by 

 the service of zs. 6d. ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 

 105. The service is that due for a fourth 

 part of the whole, i.e. for two oxgangs. 



Roger de Radcliffe made a claim against 

 Richard de Radcliffe in 1301 and 1302 

 respecting lands in Quarlton, but did not 



