SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



St. George's chapels ; '" also a gild of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary, which may have been associated with 

 the Lady chapel.*^' This chapel was at the east end 

 of the church,'" and there was an altar of St. Michael, 

 probably at the east end of the south aisle of the 

 quire.^^* The chapel of Salford Bridge does not ap- 

 pear to have had any special chaplain or endowment. 

 The grammar school, founded by Hugh Oldham 

 in 1515,*^ and Chetham's Hospital and Library, 

 founded under the will of Humphrey Chetham, who 

 died in 1653, are described elsewhere. 

 CMj4RTT/F^ Apart from the grammar school 

 there does not seem to have been 



any endowed charity for the whole parish, but several 

 of the townships have valuable estates. An inquiry 

 was held in 1904, but it concerned only those por- 

 tions of the parish which are outside the boroughs 

 of Manchester and Salford, so that the latest de- 

 tailed official report is that of 1826, in which year 

 the following were the existing charitable endow- 

 ments, apart from schools,'^^ some of the funds having 

 been lost.*^' For Manchester the charities of George 

 Clarke,'^ George Marshall,^^^ Ellen Shuttleworth,"" 

 Thomas Hudson,^" Henry Dickenson,*'^ John Alexan- 

 der and Joshua Brown,*" Thomas Percival,^''* Joseph 

 Champion,"^ James Moss,*^^ Walter and Margaret 



8^2 See the preceding notes. In the 

 chapel of St. George was a statue of the 

 saint on horseback ; HoUinworth, op. cit. 

 47. Later it was known as the RadclifFe 

 chapel. 



^5 It held burgages in the town in 

 1473; Mamecestrey iii, 506. For the 

 Gilds see Lanes, and Ches. Antip Soc, x, 

 1-24. 



^* Afterwards called the Byron or 

 Chetham Chapel. 



3*5 St. Michael's altar is named in the 

 will of Henry Turton, cited above ; Pic- 

 cope, Wills, ii, 12. 'The east window 

 of the south aisle had Michael and his 

 angels ; the nine orders of angels, fighting 

 with the Dragon and his angels ' ; Hollin- 

 worth, op. cit. 46. 



36sa v,CM. Lanes, ii, 578. 



S66 The scholastic endowments were 

 for schools at Ardwick, Blackley, Crump- 

 sail, Didsbury, Gorton, Heaton Norris, 

 Levenshulme, and Newton. The bene- 

 factions for Crumpsall and Newton are 

 still available. 



Anne Hinde in 1723 left lands in Sal- 

 ford and Manchester for the instruction 

 of ten poor children of Manchester and 

 ten of Salford, half boys and half girls. 

 They were to be taught to write and read 

 (up to a chapter in the Bible), and they 

 must learn the Church Catechism. Green 

 clothes were to be provided for them ; 

 hence this was known as the * Green 

 Gown* Charity, The land in Salford 

 was sold for ^1,967 loj., the New Bailey 

 prison being erected on it. In 1838 the 

 houses in Fennel Street were sold to the 

 Corporation of Manchester for ^^ 2,600. 

 The income in 1826 was almost ^^200, 

 which sufficed for the education and 

 clothing of fifty-seven children. The in- 

 come (from consols) is now only 

 /'114 zs, %d., and is spent on education 

 and clothing by the trustees. 



St. Paul's (Turner Street) Charity 

 School was founded in 1777. The pre- 

 sent income is ^^40 2.s. 



Richard Lichford in 17 10 left a rent- 

 charge of ^5 on Cooper's tenement in 

 Blackley to pay a schoolmaster in that 

 township. This is still in operation, 



Elizabeth Chetham in 1689 gave ^20 

 for the teaching of children in Moston 

 and Newton to read the Bible. The in- 

 come is noWj^i. 



At Heaton Norris there were in 1826 

 two charity school foundations — one by 

 John Holiingpriest, 1785, the other by 

 public subscription. The latter has been 

 lost ; the former has an income of 

 ^24 zs, 4(/., paid to schools in the town- 

 ship. 



Margaret Usherwood in 1742 left the 

 residue of her estate for the education and 

 clothing of six poor children of Chorlton- 

 with-Hardy ; this was in 1826 represented 



by ]^i6o in the hands of Robert Feilden, 

 who paid ^8 as interest. The capital is 

 now invested in a Manchester Corporation 

 bond, producing £^ izs, a year, applied 

 for the benefit of children of the town- 

 ship. 



8fi7 John Whitworth in 1623 left ^20, 

 and William Drinkwater in 1688 left 

 j^ioo for the relief of the poor ; Mary 

 Chorlton in 1706 left ^^50 to provide ap- 

 prenticeship fees ; and the Rev. John 

 Clayton in 1772 gave ^30, which was to 

 be lent without interest. These had 

 been lost before 1826. 



John Barlow of Pott Shrigley in 1684 

 charged his estate with ^6 a year for 

 apprenticeship fees of poor boys in Shrig- 

 ley and Manchester alternately ; but in 

 1826 it could not be ascertained that 

 Manchester had ever benefited by it, 



William Baguley in 1725 left ;^200 for 

 the founding of a charity school for poor 

 children in Manchester ; chief rents 

 amounting to ^^8 is, ^d, were purchased, 

 and a schoolmaster had received part at 

 least down to his death in 1821. In 1826 

 there were no trustees to claim the rents 

 and appoint a master, and it would seem 

 that the charity had thus become defunct, 



Elizabeth Bent in 1773 leftj^3oo for a 

 school in the Old Churchyard, and three 

 sums of j^5o each for poor housekeepers 

 of Manchester, Cheetham, and Prestwich. 

 The capital appears to have been lost in 

 1801 by a defaulting solicitor. 



John Gilliam in 1632 gave ^^20 for the 

 poor of Newton, and \zs, was paid by the 

 steward of Edward Greaves until about 

 1824 ; but the Culcheth estate had about 

 1790 been sold to Samuel Barker and his 

 brother, unburdened as they said, and in 

 1826 all payment had ceased. 



Sarah Taylor in 1680 left ,^20 for the 

 minister of Gorton Chapel, and ^^20 for 

 the poor. A voluntary payment of ^i a 

 year in respect of the latter legacy was 

 made in 1826, but has ceased. 



868 Founded in 1636 ; see the account 

 of Crumpsall. The present income is 

 ^^3,326, and is distributed by the Lord 

 Mayor in conjunction with some other 

 charities, as below, through the City Trea- 

 surer as almoner. The whole is distri- 

 buted partly in goods — blankets, shawls, 

 flannels, and sheets — and partly in cash, 

 at the mayor's discretion, to about 9,000 

 recipients who are recommended by rate- 

 payers and approved. Money is also 

 given to hospitals and benevolent socie- 

 ties. These and similar details of the 

 existing charities are taken from the Offi- 

 cial Handbook for Manchester and Salford, 

 issued annually. 



869 George Marshall in 1624 left his 

 lands for the benefit of the poor of Man- 

 chester, In 1826 it was stated that the 

 property had been sold to the Commis- 



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sioners, and was represented by ^^2,250 

 consols ; the interest was added to 

 Clarke's Charity. The present income is- 

 ^66 I 8j, ^d, which is distributed by the 

 Lord Mayor as the last. 



^70 In 1695 she left ^^50 for linen cloth 

 for the poor of Deansgate ; in 1826 the 

 capital was invested in Government 

 stock, producing ^^2 4j. %d. This now 

 forms part of the Lord Mayor's charities,, - 

 the income being £2 14J. lod, 



871 He in 1787 left ^500 for Charles 

 Kenyon, 'supposed to be beyond the sea^ 

 in America,' on condition that he should 

 return within five years and prove him- 

 self to be the son of one Esther Kenyon ; 

 otherwise the interest was to be paid to 

 the borough-reeve in augmentation of his 

 charitable funds. The Inquiry of 1826 

 appears to have been the means of recover- 

 ing this charity, for the interest had not 

 been paid for some years. The present 

 income is ^29 %s. %d., which is added to 

 the Lord Mayor's charities. 



872 He left the interest of ^^ 100 for the 

 poor of Manchester ; his executors pur- 

 chased an estate in Saddleworth called 

 Mere Stone Height, a rent of ^5 beings 

 charged on it in respect of the interest* 

 This was in 1826 distributed by the 

 churchwardens. The £^ is still received, 

 and is distributed by the churchwardens- 

 and overseers in bread, bedding, and cloth- 

 ing, 



878 John Alexander in 1688 gave some 

 land in Gorton called the Marshes for the 

 use of the poor, and about 1751 the- 

 churchwardens and overseers spent j^ioo 

 left by Joshua Brown in 1694 on im- 

 proving the land. In 1826 the estate 

 consisted of 6J acres (customary measure 

 of 7 yards to the perch), let at ^^30 a 

 year. The present income is ;^326 35., 

 which is distributed as the last-named 

 charity. 



874 For the benefactor's family see the 

 account of Royton. Thomas Percival 

 left £^$0 in 1693, and it was laid out in 

 the purchase of land in Royton, measuring 

 nearly lo acres customary measure, and 

 let in 1826 at ^28 ; there was coal under 

 the land. The present income is ^65 loj., 

 and this is distributed in the same manner 

 as the two preceding charities. 



375 By his will of 1684 he left ^^loo to- 

 provide twelve penny loaves of wheat 

 bread to be distributed to poor inhabitants 

 of Manchester on St. Thomas's Day. In 

 1826 it was represented by a charge of" 

 £y IS. 6d. on the rates. The present in- 

 come is only ^^4 51. 4^/., which is given 

 in bread by the churchwardens and over- 

 seers. 



87fi By his will (1705) he left ;f 100 to 

 purchase lands, the income from which 

 was to be spent on * five gowns for five 

 aged men' living in Manchester, *to be of 



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