SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



were in 1579 sold for ;^3,ooo by the heir of the 



Wests to John Lacy, citizen and clothworker of 



London ;" and Lacy in 1596 



sold them to Nicholas Mosley, 



Lord Mayor of London in 



1599.'^ 



The new lord of the manor 

 was knighted in the same year 

 and settled at Withington, ac- 

 quiring this manor also and 

 building the hall at Hough 

 End." 



The manor descended regu- 

 larly to his great grandson, Sir 

 Edward Mosley, who, dying 

 childless in 1665, bequeathed 



his manors to a cousin.'* His widow, however, con- 

 tinued to hold Manchester till her death in 1680," 

 when, as the disposition made by Sir Edward had 

 been set aside owing to litigation, and a division of 

 the estates had been made, the manor went to a 

 cousin Edward, who was succeeded in 1695 by his 

 daughter Lady Bland. After her death in 1734 

 this manor passed to a second cousin, Sir Oswald 



West, Lord La Warre. 

 Argent a /esse dancetty 

 sable. 



Mosley, descendant of Sir Nicholas's younger bro- 

 ther, Anthony Mosley.'" Sir Oswald was succeeded 

 by his two sons, Oswald and 

 John, and on the death of the 

 latter in 1779 the manor 

 went by bequest to a cousin, 

 John Parker Mosley, created 

 a baronet in 1 781. Dying in 

 1798 he was followed by his 

 grandson Sir Oswald, who in 

 1 846 sold the lordship to the 

 Corporation of Manchester for 

 ^^200,000.'' {Pedigree, p. 232.) 

 A grant of free warren in 

 all Thomas Grelley's demesne 

 lands of Manchester was made 

 by the king in 1 249.'' 



The date of 

 BOROUGH borough— if 



Mosley of Manches- 

 ter. Sable a cheveron 

 between three pickaxes ar- 

 gent. 



the creation of the 

 there was any formal 

 grant — is not known ; in 1282 there 

 were nearly 150 burgesses in the town, which had a 

 borough court.*^ A market every Saturday and an 

 annual fair on the eve, feast, and morrow of St. Mat- 

 thew had been granted by the king in 1227.** The 



■went by that highway to the lane to Bes- 

 -wick Bridge as far as Shootersbrook, 

 thence to the head of Dogsiield, and by 

 the boundary as far as the lane from An- 

 coats to Manchester, and so to Barlow 

 Cross ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen, VI, no. 

 54. The uses for which these and other 

 lands were committed to trustees are not 

 stated. The jury declared John Griffin 

 to be heir general of Thomas La Warre, 

 ignoring the half-sister's issue. A number 

 of notices respecting the lands of Thomas 

 La Warre may be seen in Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep. xxxii, App, 337-9, 346 ; ixxiii, 

 App. 27-9. 



The inquisition after the death of Sir 

 Reginald West in 1450 has some particu- 

 lars of the manor, which included the 

 hamlets of Withington, Denton, Open- 

 flhaw, Clayton, Ardwick, Crumpsall, 

 Most on, Nuthurst, Gotherswick, and 

 Ancoats, as well as a borough commonly 

 called Manchester of which each burgess 

 paid \zd, yearly for a whole burgage and 

 in which there was (or ought to be) a 

 common oven at which all the burgesses 

 and residents ought to bake. The fishery 

 of the Irk, Medlock, and Gorebrook was 

 the lord's, as well as the Manchester half 

 of the Irwell. There were two mills, one 

 a fulling-mill, the other for grain ; at the 

 latter all the burgesses and tenants of the 

 borough and hamlets ought by custom to 

 grind to the fifteenth grain, Richard 

 West, the son and heir, was nineteen 

 years of age 5 Lanes. Rec. Inq. p.m. no, 

 41, 42 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 

 177, 



The rental of 1473, printed in Mame- 

 ■cestre^ iii, 477-91, shows the sums for 

 castle ward and sake fee received from 

 the tenants by knight's service, the chief 

 rents, tolls, and other rents and dues from 

 the whole barony, the net total reaching 

 j^i 3 1, From Manchester proper the 

 principal receipts were the burgage rents 

 j^8 OS. 3^/,, the fair and market tolls 

 £% 6i. 8^., corn mill jf 6, fulling mill 

 j^2, rents of Over and Nether Alport 

 ^413^.4^. 



In 1503 the manor with its hamlets 

 was restored by the king to Thomas Lord 

 La Warre for a year ; Duchy of Lane. 

 JVlisc. Bks. xxi, p. 32 d. The will of 



Thomas (son of Richard) Lord La Warre, 

 dated 1 505, is printed in N. and Q. (Ser. 8), 

 iv, 382 ; it names his sons Sir Thomas, 

 WiUiam, and Owen. 



Thomas West, Lord La Warre, was in 

 1498 called upon to show by what 

 warrant he claimed to hold Manchester 

 as a free borough and market town, with 

 amends of the assize of bread and ale, in- 

 fangenthief, peace-breach, gallows, pillory, 

 and tumbril, market and fair, free warren, 

 and other liberties ; Pal, of Lane. Writs 

 Proton. (20 Aug. 13 Hen. VII). 



An Act of Parliament was passed in 

 1552 settling the manor of Manchester on 

 Thomas, Lord La Warre, with remainders 

 to his half-brother, Sir Owen West, and 

 to the heirs male of Sir George West, 

 &c. 



26 Mamecestre, iii, 523. Lacy was 

 mortgagee of Sir Thomas West, Lord La 

 Warre, and his son WiUiam West ; and 

 his loan not being repaid he foreclosed 

 and obtained possession in 1581 or 1582, 

 being recognized as lord of the manor at 

 the court leet of April 1582; Manch. 

 Ct. Leet Rec. i, 225. 



It was while the sale was imminent 

 that Sir John RadclifFe, as deputy steward 

 of the hundred or manor of Salford, 

 began to amerce inhabitants of Over 

 Hulton, Rumworth, Lostock, Aspull, 

 Harwood, Pilkington, Heaton, Halliwell, 

 Chorlton, Withington, Heaton Norris, 

 Westhoughton, and Ashton under Lyne, 

 in the view of frankpledge held in Sal- 

 ford, on account of their non-appearance. 

 Thereby Lord La Warre was not able 

 to pay the rent due to the queen for the 

 town and manor of Manchester, the in- 

 habitants being illegally compelled to 

 appear at the Salford leet. Sir Edmund 

 TrafFord, as seised of the town of Chorl- 

 ton, made complaint about the matter in 

 1578, and Lord La Warre at the same 

 time stated that the inhabitants of Fails- 

 worth, Droylsden, Ashton under Lyne, 

 Gorton, and Moston had refused to pay 

 amercements for absence from the Man- 

 chester leets at Michaelmas and Easter ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz, cviii, W, i, 



^^^ Mamecestrey iii, 523, 524; Ct. Leet 

 Rec. ii, no. 



27 See further in the accounts of With- 



231 



ington and other townships. The history 

 of the family is given in the Baronetage, 

 in Sir Oswald Mosley's Family Memoirs^ 

 and in E. Axon's Mosley Fam. Mem. (Chet, 

 Soc). 



Sir Nicholas Mosley died at Withington 

 on 12 Dec. 1612, holding the manor of 

 Manchester of the king as of his duchy 

 of Lancaster by three knights' fees ; its 

 clear value was ^^o \ Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 4. His 

 son Rowland, then over fifty-four years of 

 age, died on 23 Feb. 1616-17, holdingthe 

 manor as before, and a capital messuage 

 called Alport Lodge by the twentieth part 

 of a knight's fee. Edward, his son and 

 heir, was not six months old ; ibid, ii, 

 66-70. 



^ See the account of Withington. 



"^^ Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. v, 78, ii6 ; 

 the dispute over Sir Edward's will lasted 

 until 1669, so that the first court held in 

 his widow's name was in 1670. The 

 courts were held in the names of Charles 

 (Lord) North and Katherine his wife till 

 1679, and thence till 1683 in Lord North's 

 name alone. From 1683 Edward Mosley 

 was lord of the manor ; cf. Axon's 

 Mosley Fam. Mem. and Earwaker's intro- 

 duction to Cf. Leet Rec. vi. 



8^ See the account of Ancoats, 



^^ Mamecestre^ iii, 530 ; Sir Oswald 

 had in 181 5 offered to sell the manor to 

 the inhabitants for ,^90,000, and rejected 

 the counter offer of ^70,000 made by 

 them. He died in 1871. 



^2 Printed in Mamecestre, i, 90 ; Cal, 

 Chart. R. 1226-57, p. 342. 



8^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 245, 246. 

 The burgage rents amounted to ^7 35. 2.d. 

 or I43J- burgages. The perquisites of the 

 court of the borough were reckoned as 

 worth 8j., while those of the court baron 

 were worth looi. 



8-* Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, P- 5^ ; 

 Mamecestrcj i, 45 ; the grant was made to 

 Robert Grelley, who had obtained a pre- 

 liminary grant in 1222, 'until the full age 

 of the king ' ; ibid. 46. 



The tolls levied on both buyers ana 

 sellers in 13 20 are printed ibid, ii, 316— 25. 

 Besides cattle and poultry, grain and pro- 

 visions, honey, wax, fish (herring and 

 salmon being named), and pottery there 



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