THE HUNDRED OF SALFORD 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



MANCHESTER RADCLIFFE ROCHDALE (Part) 



ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE PRESTWICH BOLTON 



ECCLES BURY (Part) and the 



DEANE MIDDLETON Township of Aspull in Wigan 



FLIXTON 



In 1066 King Edward held Salford, with its 3 hides and 12 plough- 

 lands, its forest 3 leagues square with many heys and a hawks' eyry, and 

 a hide in RadclifFe, where a second hide was held as a royal manor. The 

 churches of the manor of Manchester had a plough-land in Manchester. 

 The rest of the ' manor or hundred,' including Rochdale, was divided into 

 twenty-one berewicks, held by as many thegns, assessed as 1 1 1 hides and 

 loj plough-lands, with extensive woodlands. The whole manor rendered 

 £lj 4J-. for farm of the plough-lands. In 1086 the demesne was worth 

 looj. ; there were two ploughs and serfs and villeins with one plough; and 

 by the grant of Roger of Poitou five knights held 3 hides and 7 plough- 

 lands, in which were thegns, villeins, and others, including a priest, having 

 thirty-two ploughs ; and the whole was worth £j} The area was probably 

 much the same as that of the existing hundred.^ 



The lordship of the hundred followed the same descent as the district 

 anciently known as ' Between Ribble and Mersey,' ' and with the honour 

 and Duchy of Lancaster is now vested in the Crown. Nearly a third of the 

 hundred continued to be held in thegnage, as the survey of 12 12 shows, 

 the parish of Rochdale being so held of the lord of Clitheroe ; the principal 

 military tenant at that time was the baron of Manchester, other prominent 

 holders being the lords of Penwortham and Tottington — whose fees were 

 acquired in the first half of the 13th century by the Lacy family and after- 

 wards incorporated in the honour of Clitheroe — and the lord of Great 

 Bolton.* These feudatories did suit to the hundred court of Salford from 

 three weeks to three weeks.' 



' F.C.H. Lanes, i, 287. 



' The possible exceptions are the township of Aspull, in Wigan parish ; the northern extremity of Bury 

 parish, now in Blackburn Hundred ; and Saddleworth in Rochdale, now in Yorkshire. 



' See the grant to Ranulf, Earl of Chester ; Cal. Chse, 1227-31, p. 221 ; also the accounts of the honour 

 of Lancaster and the hundred of West Derby in the present work. In 1257, during the minority of Robert 

 son and heir of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, the hundred was in the hands of Prince Edward by the 

 king's gift; Lanes. Inq. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 205. In 1324 the issues of the hundred or 

 wapentake amounted to ^^58 per annum ; ibid, ii, 203. 



* Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 52-72. 



'Ibid. 248, 268. Court rolls of the wapentake from 1324 to 1326 are printed in Lanes. Ct. R. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 150-64. The judiees or doomsmen of Withington, Oldham, Middleton, Barton, 

 Stretford, and Bolton were fined, as were a number of townships (p. 157). Other court rolls (1510 onward), 

 surveys, and ministers' accounts are preserved in the Record Oifice, 



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