SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



Commonwealth period. The courts were held at 

 Michaelmas and April. The officers appointed in 1597 

 were borough-reeve, constables, mise layers, mise 

 gatherers, bylaw men, afFeerers, and ale-founders ; in 

 1656 the following additional ones were elected : 

 scavengers for the Greengate and Gravel Hole, 

 scavengers for the Lower Gate, apprisers, officers for 



surprising and robbing of coals, for pinning of swine 

 trespassing, for mastiff dogs, for the pump, and for 

 measuring of cloth.^"^ 



A number of grants of tenements and tolls in Sal- 

 ford are found in the Duchy Records,^^ and some 

 private charters are accessible ; ^^ the Plea Rolls have 

 some records of disputes among the inhabitants.^® 



8^ The 1597-1669 records have been 

 printed in full by the Chetham Soc, (new 

 ser. 46-8), the late Alderman Mandley 

 being editor ; a few earlier ones are at the 

 Record Office, and that for 1559 was in 

 1857 in possession of Stephen Heelis, 

 mayor of the borough ; Raines MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xxxvii, 389. 



The business at the courts was of the 

 usual kind : admitting new tenants, ad- 

 judging on assaults, breaches of the laws 

 regulating ale-selling, keeping swine, &c. 

 In 1656 a man was ordered to remove, 

 with his wife and children, or give security 

 to hold the town harmless. 



The danger of fire claimed attention in 

 16 1 5, but it was not till twenty years later 

 that expenditure was incurred on buckets 

 of leather, hooks, and long ladders for use 

 in emergency. 



In 1608 the jury found that there was 

 no cuckstool, but 'unreasonable women* 

 might be put in the stocks or the dungeon. 

 A general lay was ordered in 161 9 to de- 

 fray the cost of the cuckstool. The bridle 

 was ordered to be placed on a scold in 

 1655. In the same year two men were 

 fined for profaning the Sabbath, The 

 laying of stalls upon the Sabbath Day had 

 been forbidden in 1615. Three ingrossers 

 were presented in 1658, 



Among other offences it was reported 

 (in 1650) that there was * great abuse 

 committed by divers persons * who brought 

 coals for sale, ' by gelding and robbing 

 their loads before they come to town.' 

 Milk dealers (in 1 64.6) were warned against 

 selling it except * by true measures, as 

 quart, pint, and gill.* 



The inhabitants were about 1606 an- 

 noyed by Manchester people driving their 

 swine into ' the Wastes of Salford, there 

 to depasture,' and officers were appointed 

 to impound such swine. 



In 1655 it was ordered that the con- 

 stables should have ' that little house upon 

 the bridge, formerly called Sentry house,' 

 paying 2.d. a year to the lord. * Madam 

 Byrom of Salford, widow,* in 1696 laid 

 claim to the watch-house at the end of the 

 bridge, which had been built by the Sal- 

 ford burgesses ; Peel Park D. no, 4. 



A number of place-names occur in the 

 records : Galley Lane, Cross Lane, Gar- 

 net Acre in Oldfield Lane, High Lane, 

 the Broad Gate towards Ordsall Hall, 

 White-cross Bank and Sandivall Gate, 

 Back Street, Parker Pits, Clay Acre, 

 Docky Piatt, Bird Greatacre, Penny Mea- 

 dow, Lady Pearl, a spring called the Pirle, 

 Hanging Meadow, Barrow Brook, Barley 

 Croft, and Middlefield. Mrs. Byrom had 

 •two doles in the Oldfield' in 1621. 



The footway to Ordsall (from Pirle 

 Spring along the riverside) occasioned 

 much disputing about 1610. One Richard 

 Knott had stopped up a way * over Good- 

 steele,* which, it was asserted, had been 

 open for sixty years. Sir John RadclifFe 

 had more recently opened a way over 

 George Croft, * for the ease of his children 

 which went to school to William Debdall 

 in Salford.' 



William Freeman was in 1634 ordered 

 to gravel the way * where he makes ropes.* 



A logwood mill is mentioned in 1660; 

 the 'great ditch in the Gravel Hole* 

 passed the northern end of the mill. 



It was ordered in 1635 that all burgesses 

 holding lands within the borough of Sal- 

 ford should attend the steward at the fairs, 

 sending every man a halberd and a man to 

 carry the same. 



The keeper of the king's fold in 1639 

 enforced poundage for the burgesses' cattle, 

 to their great grievance, as they considered 

 themselves protected from it by their 

 charter. There are several entries as to 

 the custody of the charters ; ' a sufficient 

 box with lock and key* was ordered in 

 1655. In 1650 a rental of the borough 

 was ordered ; and in 1656 a translation of 

 the charter. 



One of the Peel Park D, (no. 2) is an 

 acknowledgement by Anthony Giles, foun- 

 der, of London, dated 1672, that he had 

 received from the Treasury Commissioners 

 on behalf of the burgesses and constables 

 of Salford several weights and measures of 

 brass, 'sized and sealed by his Majesty's 

 measures and standards ' at the Exchequer. 

 These were to be used in the borough. 



87 In 1337 Alexander de Pytington 

 (? Pilkington) released to Henry, Earl of 

 Lancaster, his right in the waste for his 

 two burgages, reserving turbary and free 

 entry and exit ; similar releases were given 

 by other burgesses, and are mentioned in 

 the extent of 1346 already referred to; 

 Duchy of Lane. Great Coucher, i, 66, 67, 

 no. 32-5, In return for a similar release 

 by John son of Ellen Chokes, the earl in 

 1339 granted him 15 acres of the waste at 

 a rent of 7J. ^d. ; ibid. no,36 ; see also ibid, 

 no. 40, and Duchy of Lane. Anct. D. 

 L1216, 1219. 



Some other grants may be seen in the 

 appendices to the Dep. Keeper's Rep, e.g. 

 xxxii, 331, (fee, to 334 ; xl, 528, 529 ; the 

 Holtfield, Windlehey, and Shawfoot are 

 mentioned by name, and among the sur- 

 names are Oldfield, Highfield, Bird, and 

 Grant. 



In 1402 Ralph de Prestwich and Alured 

 de RadclifFe had a licence to build two 

 mills on the Irwell, which seems to have 

 been renewed to the former in 1425 in the 

 form of a lease for ninety years at 13J, ^d. 

 a year ; Dep. Keeper's Rep, xxxiii, App. 

 39; xl, 533- 



Henry de Buckley in 1414 had aleaseof 

 the toll of Salford at the rent of 5 J marks; 

 Towneley's MS. CC. (Chet. Lib.) no. 476. 

 James de Prestwich succeeded him in 1425 

 at the lower rent of 605, ; ibid. no. 327. 



88 Cecily widow of William the Couper 

 of Salford in 1317 released to Randle the 

 Miller her dower from 5 roods in the Old- 

 field ; Lord Wilton's D, 



The Hunts of Audenshaw and Man- 

 chester (see Dods, MSS. clxviii, fol 163, 

 &c.) had lands in Salford. Their charters 

 include the following of interest : 1397 — 

 Regrant of a half-burgage to Ellen daughter 

 of Alexander de Pilkington, lying between 

 the burgage of Henry son of John de 

 Strangeways of Manchester and that of 

 Henry del Helde, with remainder to John 

 Lancashire; no. 21, 1399 — Emmota de 

 Glazebrook gave to Henry del Helde and 



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Emmota his wife a burgage between the 

 burgage of John de RadclifFe of Chadder- 

 ton (called the Cornel Orchard) and that 

 of John Bibby (called the Neldurs Acre) ; 

 no, 12. 1423 — Edmund de TrafFord 

 granted to Ralph son of Ralph de Prest- 

 wich his claim m land called the Glede- 

 yard ; no. 11. 1447 — Grant by feofFees to 

 Roger Brid (or Bird) of Salford, of 3 acres 

 of arable land and a meadow called Mere- 

 vall ; no. 22. 1467 — Demise to James 

 Brid, no, 23. 1513 — Roger son and heir 

 of James Brid granted to Richard Hunt a 

 burgage called the Cornel Orchard; no. 64. 

 In 1653 an exchange was made, John 

 Byrom of Salford giving a close called 

 Great Oldfield for William Radley's close 

 called ' Mary Mould meadow, otherwise 

 Merryvalls meadow ;' W. Farrer's D. 



Among the Clowes deeds are a number 

 referring to Garnet's Acre. In 15 19 it 

 was granted by Hugh Lathom to Edward 

 Pendleton, and in 1573 by Robert Pendle- 

 ton to Edmund Goldsmith ; Edward Chet- 

 ham of Smedley held it in 1642. 



Two closes in Oldfield called the Dawce 

 Latts were leased by Richard Gilbody of 

 Stretford in 1647 ; Mr. Earwaker's note. 

 They were probably the same as the Dockie 

 Flatt mentioned in October 1624 in the 

 Salford For mote Rec, i, 183. Part of the 

 inheritance of Adam Byrom of Salford, a 

 'dole* called the Little Breere riddings, of 

 about I acre, was sold to John Lightbowne 

 in 1688; Hulme D. no. 114, The 

 Higher Croft, messuages near the Court 

 House, and a cottage in Sandywell Field 

 with a little lane leading thereto from 

 Greengate, were in 1723 sold by Alexan- 

 der and Edward Davie (sons of Alexander 

 Davie of Salford), the former being de- 

 scribed as of Sidney-Sussex College, Cam- 

 bridge ; Manch. Free Lib. D. no. 49. A 

 dye-house and land called the Royles are 

 named in aleaseof 1726 ; Mr, Earwaker's 

 note. 



33 John de Broughton and Agnes his 

 wife, in the latter's right, in 1274 and 

 1275 recovered certain messuages and land 

 in Salford ; De Banco R. 5, m. 97 d. ; 9, 

 m. 40, 



In 1292 Geoffrey de Worsley and 

 Agnes his wife were nonsuited in a claim 

 against Richard the * Leycestere,* and 

 others respecting a tenement in Salford ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 7 d. 



William de Holland and Joan his wife 

 claimed various lands in Salford, Hay- 

 dock, Heaton by Fallowfield, and Eccles in 

 1324-5 i Assize R. 426, m. 6. 



John son of GeofFrey Walker claimed 

 two messuages and lands against Ellen 

 daughter of Richard de Salford, Roger the 

 Barker, and Margaret widow of Richard 

 de Worsley in 1346 ; De Banco R. 348, 

 m. 14. 



Joan daughter of Thomas de Pilking- 

 ton in 1352 unsuccessfully claimed a mes- 

 suage and land against Henry del Wood 

 and Joan his wife ; she alleged that her 

 uncle, Richard de Pilkington, chaplain, 

 had demised them to Joan with the stipu- 

 lation that they might be redeemed on pay- 

 ment of £6 ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R, 

 1, m, X. Henry del Wood and Joan his 



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