A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of Mortain, to lorwerth de Hulton. On becoming 

 king in 1 1 99 John did not confirm this grant, but 

 gave lorwerth the vill of Pendleton instead of it." 

 Restored to its former position it remained in the 

 hands of the lord of the honour, yielding a varying 

 rent," for perhaps a century longer. About 1324 

 Broughton proper vi^as held by Katherine daughter of 

 Adam Banastre by a rent of 27/.,'' and descended to 

 the Harringtons of Farleton '° and their successors in 

 title, the Stanleys, Lords Mounteagle. In 1578 the 

 manor of Broughton and lands there were sold by 

 William, Lord Mounteagle, to Henry, Earl of Derby,*' 

 who gave the estate to his illegitimate son Henry 

 Stanley." Ferdinando Stanley, the son and successor 

 of Henry, as a Royalist, had to compound for his 

 estates in 1646.'" He recorded a pedigree in 1664.^* 

 Ferdinando and his son Henry having mortgaged the 

 manor and lands to the Chethams of Turton and 

 Smedley, it finally, about 1700, came into the hands 

 of this family .*' 



The manor then descended in the same way as 

 Smedley, and on the partition of the Chetham estates 

 in 1772 became the property of Mary younger sister 

 of Edward Chetham of Nuthurst and Smedley, and 

 wife of Samuel Clowes the younger.*' She died in 

 1775, having survived her husband about two years. 



and by her will left Broughton and other estates to her 

 eldest son Samuel, who died in 1 801, having survived 

 his eldest son Samuel, high sheriff in 1777, and being 

 succeeded by his grandson, also named Samuel. This 

 last died without issue in 1 8 1 1, 

 and was, in accordance with a 

 settlement he had made, suc- 

 ceeded by his brother the Rev. 

 John Clowes, one of the fel- 

 lows of Manchester Church, 

 who made Broughton Hall his 

 chief residence till his death 

 there in 1846.'' A younger 

 brother, Lieut.-Colonel Wil- 

 liam Legh Clowes, who had 

 served in the Peninsular War, 

 then inherited the estates, and 

 dying in 1862 was followed 

 by his son, Samuel William, 

 who in turn was in 1899 succeeded by his eldest son 

 Captain Henry Arthur Clowes, late of the First 

 Life Guards, born in 1867 ; he resides at Norbury 

 near Ashbourne. 



TETLOfV was an estate partly in Broughton and 

 partly in Cheetham, held in the 14th century by a 

 family using the local surname,'' the service due being 



Clowes. Azure on a 

 cheveron engrailed be- 

 tween three unieorni' 

 heads erased or as many 

 crescents gules. 



17 Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 27. 



18 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Chcs.), i, 13 — in 1226 48s. 

 assized rent. Ibid. 207 — in 1257 assized 

 rent of Broughton and Pendleton 781. 6;/., 

 while other rents and profits, including 

 the farm of the mill, and corn and other 

 produce sold, brought the receipts up to 

 ^19 4J. <)d. 



" Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 39. Kersal 

 and Tetlow had been separated from it. 

 The tenure suggests a grant by Thomas, 

 Earl of Lancaster, to Margaret sister of 

 Sir Robert de Holland ; see the next 

 note and the account of Great Bolton, also 

 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), , 

 ii, 1 00- 1. 



'"In 1346 John de Harrington held 

 Broughton by the sixteenth part of a 

 knight's fee, and Saleficld Hey, taken 

 from the waste, by a rent of 27s. ^d. by 

 charter of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster ; 

 Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146*. To the aid 

 of 1378 Sir Nicholas de Harrington paid 

 I ^d. for the sixteenth part of a knight's 

 fee in Broughton ; Harl. MS. 2085, fol. 

 422. Margaret widow of Sir William de 

 Harrington held it in 1445-6, the relief 

 for it being 6s. ^d. ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Knights' Fees, 2/20. It is named among 

 the Harrington of Farleton manors as late 

 as 1572 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 34. m. 76, 80. 



^ A settlement of the manor of Brough- 

 ton and 60 messuages, &c. in Broughton 

 and Hayfield was made in 1574 by Sir 

 William Stanley, Lord Mounteagle ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 36, m. 146. The 

 sale in 1578 included the manor and 30 

 messuages, &c. in Broughton ; ibid. bdle. 

 40, m. 152. 



'' The grant is recited in the Inq. p.m. 

 of Ferdinando, Earl of Derby, in 1595 ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, fol. 424. 



^ He was taken prisoner by Lord Fair- 

 fax at Selby and took the National Cove- 

 nant on 10 Aug. 1644, being thereupon 

 enlarged ; afterwards he conformed to all 

 the ordinances of the Parliament and took 

 the Negative Oath i Cal. 0/ Com. for Com- 

 pounding, ii, 1446, The particulars of 



his estate show that Broughton Hall and 

 the demesne lands were held by his sister 

 Jane for her life ; his estate brought in 

 ,f20 5j. a year. His mother Jane was 

 living. He had never been a member of 

 Parliament, nor held office in the state ; 

 nor was he a popish recusant ; State P. 

 Com. for Compounding, vol. G, P, E, 186, 

 fol. 708. 



Nathaniel Atkins, physician, who mar- 

 ried Mrs. Stanley of Broughton — she was 

 Jane daughter and co-heir of Nicholas 

 Gilbert and sixty years old in 1651- — had 

 been noticed among the garrison at La- 

 thom, * very conversant and familiar with 

 the officers' while it was held against the 

 Parliament ; his estate, therefore, being 

 his wife's jointure from her former hus- 

 band, was sequestered by the Common- 

 wealth authorities ; Royalist Comp. Papers 

 (Rec, Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 114 ; Cal. 

 of Com. for Compounding, iii, 2352. 



=* Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 285 ; 

 Henry Stanley is said to have died in 

 1640, Ferdinando being forty-four years 

 of age in 1664. Amongthe Clowes Deeds 

 is a grant of the manor made in 1678 by 

 Charles II to Ferdinando Stanley ; Pat. 30 

 Chas. II, pt. 72, no. 8. 



*^ Some documents connected with 

 these transactions are among the Clowes 

 Deeds. 



In 1661 Ferdinando Stanley pledged the 

 manor of Broughton and its appurtenances 

 to George Chetham of Turton in con- 

 sideration of a loan of ,^250, for which 

 ,^280 was to be repaid within two years. 



Pleadings of 1691, in reply to a claim 

 by Henry Stanley the younger, recite an 

 indenture of 1626 between Henry Stanley 

 and others concerning the marriage of his 

 son and heir apparent Edward Stanley, 

 whose issue failed, leaving Ferdinando the 

 heir. The last-named was twice married, 

 and had by his second wife a son and heir 

 Henry, besides 'other children. He died 

 about 1684, when Henry succeeded to the 

 encumbered estate. The loan of ^250 

 had been increased by 1667 to j^Soo, 

 which by failure in paying interest quickly 

 grew to ,^1,600. In 1685 the debt was 



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Digitized by Microsoft® 



^2,194, and James Chetham, as mortga- 

 gee, seems to have taken possession, 

 Henry Stanley agreed in i6g6 to sell the 

 manor to George Chetham for ^3,600. 



The following fines relate to the manor, 

 some being in connexion with the various 

 mortgages : In 1625 Henry Stanley and 

 Joan his wife were deforciants ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 108, m. 1. In 1661 

 George Chetham (as above) secured the 

 manor from Ferdinando Stanley and 

 Ursula his wife ; ibid. bdle. 166, m. 148 ; 

 followed by a similar fine in 1667, James 

 Chetham being the plaintiff and Ferdi- 

 nando Stanley deforciant ; ibid. bdle. 179, 

 m. 119. In a recovery of the manor in 

 1700 Henry Stanley was called to vouch ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 471, m. 4d. 



^^ See the account of Smedley in Cheet- 

 ham. 



The statements in the remainder of the 

 paragraph in the text are derived from an 

 elaborate abstract of title prepared in 

 1844, which recites settlements, wills, &c., 

 from 1769 onwards ; and from the pedi- 

 gree in Burke, Landed Gentry, From the 

 abstract it appears that the ancient chief 

 rent of 27^. 4^. was in 1772 paid to Sir 

 George Warren. The first Samuel Clowes 

 mentioned was son of Samuel Clowes, 

 Manchester merchant, who first appears 

 in the Ct.LeetRec. in 1685 (vi, 192). He 

 purchased the Booths in Worsley. 



Among the Clowes Deeds is an extract 

 from the manor Court Roll of 1742. 



3' His long tenure of the estate at a 

 time when Broughton was rapidly becom- 

 ing a residential suburb of Manchester, 

 made him a somewhat important person- 

 age. He built and endowed St. John's 

 Church, Broughton, in 1836. He is said 

 to have been one of the first cultivators of 

 the orchid. He was educated at Trinity 

 Coll. Cambridge (M.A. 1805), and elected 

 fellow of Manchester in 1809; he re- 

 signed in 1833. He was ' a man of un- 

 impeachable conduct, of sober piety, and 

 of great benevolence ' ; Raines, Fellows of 

 Mancb. (Chet. Soc), 322-7. 



'^ Adam de Tetlow in 1302 paid izd, 

 to the aid for the fortieth part of a fee in 



