SALFORD HUNDRED 



BOLTON-LE-MOORS 



at Lostock 5 May 1592, holding the manors of 

 Lostock, Heaton-under-Horwich, and Tyldesley, and 

 messuages, mills, and lands in 

 these townships and many 

 others in South Lancashire. 

 James Anderton, the son and 

 heir, was thirty-five years of 

 age. 15 He was * backward in 

 religion,' and 'his wife a re- 

 cusant.' 16 He obtained the 

 rectories of Eccles and Deane." 

 He had no children, and his 

 estates on his death in 1613 

 passed to a younger brother 

 Christopher, 18 who died in 

 i6i9. 19 In 1615 the two- 

 thirds of Christopher's manors 

 and lands sequestered for his recusancy were granted 

 by the king on lease to Patrick Malde and Henry 

 Gibb.* In the inquisitions cited the manors and 

 lands in Lostock, Heaton, and Horwich are not 

 distinguished, the whole being held of the lord of 

 Manchester in socage by a rent of 22s. id. ; the 

 knight's service had been placed upon Rumworth 

 alone. 11 



Early in the I yth century a secret printing-press 

 at Lostock Hall issued a number of Roman Catholic 

 books, devotional and controversial. It was after- 

 wards removed to Birchley, near Wigan. 11 



ANDERTON of Lostock. 

 Sable three shacklebolti 

 argent, a mullet or for 

 difference. 



Christopher Anderton left a son and heir of the 

 same name, who was nearly twelve years of age at his 

 father's death, but had already been married to Agnes 

 daughter of John Preston, of the same age as himself." 

 Three years later the heir went to Douay, but stayed 

 less than eighteen months, being 'not inclined to 

 study.' " On the outbreak of the Civil War he, like 

 others of the old religion, espoused the royal cause, 25 

 but appears to have grown tired of it, and was im- 

 prisoned for refusing to act for the king ; he then fled 

 into Wales and escaped to France. His estates were, 

 however, sequestered by the Parliament ' for popery 

 and delinquency,' and he had not regained possession 

 at his death on 7 July 1650. His widow Alethea 

 and the son and heir Francis also petitioned the Com- 

 monwealth authorities.* 6 Francis, having for the 

 time renounced his religion, had the estates granted to 

 him." He acquired the manor of Anderton in i668, 28 

 and was created a baronet in 1677, and dying in 

 Paris the following year 29 was buried there in the 

 chapel of the English Benedictines, St. Edmund's. 30 



Charles, the eldest son, in 1675 married Margaret 

 daughter and heir of Lawrence Ireland of Lydiate. 31 

 After his father's death he resided at Lostock, 31 and 

 his widow and then his son Francis continued there 

 till about 1715, when owing to the forfeiture the hall 

 ceased to be the family residence, and was partly taken 

 down a century later. 33 The manor continued in the 

 hands of the Andertons and Blundells of Ince till 



widow of great wealth. She heard my 

 mass and sermon at Lostock, and sent me 

 money to her son James ' ; from S.P. Dom. 

 Eliz. cclxiii, 70. 



14 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 41. 



16 Lydiate Hall, 250, quoting S.P. Dom. 

 Eliz. ccxxxv, 4. Being one of the Duchy 

 officials, and a farmer of outlaws' goods, 

 James Anderton must have conformed to 

 the statutory worship. He is stated to 

 have been reconciled to the Roman Church 

 by Fr. Holland, but the story is doubtful ; 

 Foley, Rec. S. J. v, 371 ; see Gillow, 

 Bill. Diet, of Engl. Catb. i, 32. The 

 informer above quoted stated : 'James 

 Anderton did at the same time [as his 

 mother] hear my mass and relieved me ; 

 he is of great living and I know not 

 whether he be put amongst the rest ; ' 

 Lydiate Hall, 259, from S.P. Dom. Eliz. 

 cclxiii, 70. 



V Anderton Evidences, no. 82-3, 90-2. 

 The family also farmed the rectory of 

 Bolton, of the Bishop of Chester ; Scholes 

 and Pimblett, Bolton, 109. 



18 Lana. Inj. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 25. In this are recited the 

 jettlement of 1583, and a later one of 

 1611. James Anderton had in the former 

 year married Margaret daughter of Edward 

 Tyldesley of Morleys ; he had brothers 

 Thurstan, Christopher (his successor), and 

 Roger (of Birchley) ; Anderton Evidences, 

 no. 46, 64 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 255, 

 m. 7. James Anderton had continued to 

 consolidate his estates in Lostock and 

 Horwich ; Anderton Evidences, no. 53-4, 

 6S> 6 7-8, 70, 76. 



19 Lana. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 161. Estates acquired by 

 Christopher Anderton in Althorne in 

 Essex and Clitheroe and its neighbour- 

 hood are included. 



Christopher was over fifty years of age 

 at his brother's death in 1613 ; ibid. 27. 

 He seems to have paid a flying visit to 

 Douay in 1586; \)ouay Diaries, 21011. 

 In 1600 he married Anne daughter of 



Edward Scarisbrook ; Anderton Evidences, 

 no. 80. 



80 Pat. 1 3 Jas. I, pt. jucii. 



81 Compare the account in Mamecestre, 

 480, where the knight's service appears to 

 have been considered due from Lostock 

 and Rumworth jointly (1473), and the 

 above-cited inquisition after the death of 

 William Hulton (1556). 



88 J. Gillow, in Philips'* Old Halls of 

 L<.63-8 ; Bill. Diet. ofEngl.Cath. i, 3 5-8. 



88 Inq. p.m. of 1619 above referred to. 

 By this marriage he had a daughter Mar- 

 garet, who died unmarried. His second 

 wife wa Alethea daughter of Sir Francis 

 Smith of Wootton Wawen, and sister of 

 Sir Charles Smith, a zealous Royalist, 

 created Baron and Viscount Carrington in 

 1643 ; G.E.C. Complete Peerage ; Dugdale, 

 Vhit. (Chet. Soc.), 7. 



84 Douay Diaries quoted in Lydiate Hall, 

 6 1. At the time he was in ward to the 

 king ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 1 60. In 1632 he paid 30 on refusing 

 knighthood ; ibid, i, 223. It appears that 

 in 1638 two-thirds of his estates were in 

 the king's hands for his recusancy ; Pat. 

 14 Chas. I, pt. xxxviii. 



K Captain Anderton of Lostock, under 

 the orders of Lord Derby, led the unsuc- 

 cessful attack on Bolton in Feb. 1643 ; 

 .Civil War Tracts (Chet. Soc.), 83. He 

 with other recusants had in 1642 peti- 

 tioned the king to be allowed to take up 

 arms in his cause ; ibid. 38-9. 



86 Roy. Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 36-54. The witnesses de- 

 posed that at the time of the battle on 

 Westhoughton Common in 1642 there 

 were armed men in Mr. Anderton' s house 

 at Lostock ; that he was at the battle of 

 Middlewich, assisting the Royalists, but 

 not, apparently, armed ; and that he had 

 acted as a royal commissioner at Liver- 

 pool, after the capture of the town in 1644. 

 Other witnesses deposed to the statements 

 in the text. The statement that he was 

 killed in the defence of Greenhalgh Castle 



297 



in 1645 is erroneous, as in Gillow, Bill. 

 Diet, i, 30. 



*7 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, iii,2 1 26- 

 His mother was a consistent recusant, and 

 refusing the oath of abjuration was allowed 

 only a third of her estates ; she applied to- 

 contract for the remainder ; ibid. ; Roy. 

 Comp. Papers, i, 53. For the persecutions 

 they suffered from the Parliamentary 

 authorities, see Foley, Rec. S. J. iii,, 

 780-1. 



28 Anderton Evidences, no. 131. He 

 also purchased Ladyhalgh in Anderton ; 

 ibid. no. 126, 139. 



29 Lydiate Hall, 62 ; G.E.C. Complete 

 Baronetage, iv, 92. In 1654 Francis- 

 married Elizabeth daughter and co-heir of 

 Sir Charles Somerset of Troye, Monmouth^ 

 when a settlement of Lostock and other 

 manors was made ; Anderton Evidences,. 

 no. 123 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 156, m. 174. In 1664 he recorded the 

 pedigree quoted above at Dugdale's visita- 

 tion ; his own age is given as thirty-six, 

 and his son Charles's as seven. Francis, 

 one of his sons, became a Jesuit, and died 

 in 1723 ; Foley, Rec. S. J. vii, 10. 



so Note of Mr. H. Ince Anderton, cit- 

 ing Weldon, Chronol. Notes, 216 ; N. an& 

 Q. (3rd sen), vii, 130. 



81 Anderton D. no. 141. A settlement 

 of Lostock, Anderton, Heaton, Horwich, 

 Rumworth, and Horrocksford was made 

 in 1685 ; ibid. no. 143. 



88 Lydiate Hall, 63. The will of Sir 

 Charles, made in 1691, mentions Dame 

 Margaret his wife, his son Charles, daugh- 

 ters Mary, Elizabeth, Ann ; brothers 

 Christopher, Francis, John; uncles Stephen^ 

 Thurstan, and Bruno ; Anderton D. no. 

 146. A son James, also mentioned in the 

 will, was a Jesuit, and died at St. Omer's 

 in 1710 ; Foley, Rec. S. J. vii, 10. 



Sir Charles was buried under the com- 

 munion table in Bolton Church, but no 

 monument was allowed by the authorities, 

 Scholes and Pimblett, Bolton, 157-8. 



88 Lydiate Hall, 64. 



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