SALFORD HUNDRED Manchester 



Bibby/*' Bowker,'" Boterind,"* Gee,"^ Goodyear,'" Hunt,**' Laboray,"' Pendleton,'«" with several note- 



15S This family appears early both in 

 Manchester and Salford. Sir John La 

 Warre in 131 3 granted John Bibby two 

 plots of land, and in 1320 the grantee 

 paid zs. for 2 acres of land on the heath 

 at Manchester; Mamecestre, ii, 293, 350. 



William Bibby and Cecily his wife in 

 1348 made a feoffment of their lands; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlii,fol. 198, no. 42. Eleven 

 years later Richard Bibby gave his bur- 

 gages and lands to William and Robert le 

 Hunt ; ibid. no. 45. 



John Pouston and Margery his wife 

 fa 1 36 1 gave to Robert Bibby all their 

 lands, &c., in Salford ; Hopwood D. 



William Bibby died in 1577 or 1578, his 

 heir being his brother James ; Cr. Leet 

 Rec. i, 194, where is printed an elaborate 

 settlement made in 1564. 



ia* Edward Bowker died about the end 

 of 1586, leaving a son and heir Geoffrey ; 

 C^ Leet Rec. i, 258. The heir was of age 

 in 1589 ; ibid, ii, 32. 



John Bowker, apothecary, in 1623 pur- 

 chased from Thomas Chadderton of Lees 

 a burgage and smithy in Deansgate ; his 

 mother Alice was then living ; ibid, iii, 72. 



Peter Bowker of Manchester and Adam 

 Bowker of Salford, chapmen, had their 

 estates — tenements in Salford — seques- 

 tered by the Parliamentary authorities, 

 they having adhered to and assisted the 

 king's forces. They compounded in 165 1 ; 

 Royalist Comp, Papers, i, 214, 215. 



^** Henry Boterind, 13 20, has been men- 

 tioned. Henry son of Henry de Boterind 

 was one of those killed at Liverpool in 

 1345 with Adam de Lever ; Coram Rege 

 R. 348, m. 22. 



Richard son of Henry de Boterind in 

 1349 made a feoffment of a burgage in 

 the Middlegate by Todd Lane, which he 

 had acquired from Adam son of Robert 

 the Dyer ; De Trafford D. no. 14. This 

 burgage had in 133 1 been granted by 

 Adam son of Robert de Manchester to 

 Robert the Dyer and Joan his wife, daugh- 

 ter of the grantor ; ibid. no. 6. It appears 

 that Richard son of Henry Boterind became 

 a monk; De Banco R. 435, m. 346 d. 

 See also the account of Ashley above. 



^^^ John Gee appears prominently in 

 the Ct» Leet Rec, lof the third quarter of 

 the i6th century. In 1559 his mother 

 Elizabeth came into court to confess that 

 he was her eldest son, and that she had 

 granted him all her lands in Manchester 

 and Salford ; i, 41. He died at the 

 beginning of 1589, holding lands in Man- 

 chester and Salford, and leaving as heir 

 his son John, of full age; ibid, ii, 31 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, 46. The 

 son also is frequently mentioned ; either 

 he or his father was the deputy-receiver 

 for the lord of the manor ; C/. Leet Rec. 

 i, 200. The younger John Gee seems to 

 ihave died in Oct. 1629, leaving sons Ed- 

 mund and Joseph and four daughters ; 

 ibid, iii, 168, where an abstract of his 

 will is printed. The inquisition taken 

 after John*8 death states that Edward was 

 his son and heir, and forty years of age ; 

 Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), p. 

 463. Joseph Gee died in or before 1655; 

 Ct. Leet Rec. iv, 143. 



Two members of the family distinguished 

 themselves in the 17th century as contro- 

 versialists, viz, John Gee, who was prob- 

 ably a Devonshire man by birth, but 

 grandson of Ralph Gee of Manchester (died 

 1598}, brought up a Protestant, reconciled 

 to the Roman Church, reverted to Pro- 

 testantism, and wrote his experiences in 

 The Foot out of the Snare {162^), and died 



as Vicar of Tenterden in 1639 ; also Ed- 

 ward Gee, born in Manchester in 1659, 

 educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 author of the jesuifs Memorial. See N. 

 and Q, (Ser. 6), ii, 71 ; Local Glean. 

 Lanes, and Cbes. ii, 300 ; Wood, Athenae^ 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



1*7 In 1574 Thomas Goodyear was ad- 

 mitted to be burgess in right of Ellen his 

 wife, paying to the lord %d. a year ; Ct. 

 Leet Rec. 1, 168. He was borough-reeve 

 in 1579-80, and one of the constables in 

 1580-1 ; ibid, i, 207, 213, The wife 

 was sister of Ralph Proudlove, who died 

 in 1588 ; she died in 1591, leaving a son 

 Robert Goodyear as heir; ibid, ii, 21, 

 and note. Thomas Goodyear died in 

 1599, when this son was not quite of age ; 

 ibid, ii, 153 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xvii, 38. His lands were in Millgate, 

 Deansgate (part called a dole), Newton 

 Lane (' Gibbs *), and Withy Grove. 



Robert Goodyear was borough-reeve in 

 1606, and died in April 1621, having 

 increased his estate, among the additions 

 being 6 acres called * Bibby Fields' ; he 

 left a widow Elizabeth and a son Thomas, 

 under age ; Ct. Leet Ree. ii, 2 11 ; iii, 36 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, 46. 

 Thomas Goodyear died in 1638, holding 

 the Bibby Fields and a messuage in Mill- 

 gate ; his heir was a posthumous daughter 

 named Anne ; ibid, xxx, 25, He sold 

 some of his lands to Robert Neild ; Ct, 

 Leet Rec. ni, 179 note; and his mother 

 Elizabeth and her daughter Mary in 1639 

 sold land in Shudehill to Robert Marler ; 

 ibid, iii, 286. 



Another Thomas Goodyear of Man- 

 chester died in 1607, leaving a son Henry, 

 ten years of age ; Lanes. Inq, p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc), i, 112. Henry was in 1621 sum- 

 moned to do his suit and service at the 

 lord's court, and died in 1627, leaving as 

 heir his sister Margaret, wife of Thomas 

 lUingworth ; Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 36, 136. 



Margaret lUingworth died in 1634-5, 

 holding her father's property ; Towneley 

 MS. C, 8, 1 3 (Chet. Lib.), p. 708, reciting 

 Thomas Goodyear's disposition of it. 

 Thomas lUingworth died early in 1639, 

 leaving a son and heir Thomas, under age ; 

 Ct, Leet Rec, iii, 288 ; an abstract of his 

 will is printed in the note. The younger 

 Thomas died in 1671 ; ibid, v, 156. 



1*8 Abstracts of a number of this family's 

 deeds were made by Dodsworth (MSS. 

 cxlii, fol. 161-72), being in 1635 in the 

 hands of John Holcroft of Marton ; they 

 do not suffice to give an exact account of 

 the descent. 



The pedigree begins with two brothers, 

 William and Robert le Hunt, to whom in 

 1359 Richard Bibby granted all his bur- 

 gages and lands in Manchester ; Dods. ut 

 supra, no. 65. William son of Geoffrey 

 de Manchester released to them all actions 

 in 1367 ; ibid. no. 35. Robert le Hunt 

 acquired land in Salford from Thurstan de 

 Prestwich in the following year ; and 

 from John le Hare and Alice his wife in 

 Woodfield in Ashton ; ibid. no. 37, 49. 

 Alice was no doubt the daughter of John 

 de Whitwood, who had granted Robert her 

 lands in 1358; ibid. no. 57, The bro- 

 thers William and Robert in 1374 made 

 a feoffment of their lands in Manchester 

 and the Ridge in Ashton ; ibid. no. 36. 



There was another William le Hunt, a 

 chaplain, distinguished from William the 

 brother of Robert by Agnes widow of the 

 above-named William de Manchester in a 

 grant by which she released to the brothers 

 all her claim in the burgages and lands 



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which had belonged to William the chap- 

 lain ; ibid, no 53. About the same time 

 (in Oct. 1 381) William and Robert grant- 

 ed to Agnes for her life a garden in Man- 

 chester, at the end of Irk Bridge, which 

 had formerly belonged to William the 

 chaplain; ibid. no. 52. The position 

 named suggests that this was the land 

 known as Hunt's Bank. 



In 1385 the trustee of the two brothers 

 settled their estate upon Richard son of 

 Robert le Hunt, with remainders to 

 Ralph and William, brothers of Richard ; 

 ibid. no. 14. Thirteen years later, Maud 

 widow of William le Hunt of Ashton re- 

 leased to Richard le Hunt her claim on 

 lands in Ashton; ibid.no. 33. Richard 

 in 1402 had a grant of land in Salford 

 from his father's widow Cecily, who had 

 married William Clayton, son of Robert 

 son of Falconer ; ibid. no. 32. He seems 

 to have lived at Audenshaw in Ashton ; 

 ibid. no. 26, 30. Ralph is not heard of 

 again, but William le Hunt of Manches- 

 ter occurs in 1421 and 1422 (ibid. no. 

 27-29, 58) ; and in 1423-4 Richard le 

 Hunt leased his Manchester burgages and 

 lands to his brother William at a rent of 

 z\s. ; ibid. no. 34. 



At this point there arises uncertainty. 

 Richard Hunt, perhaps the same Richard, 

 in 1443 acquired a piece of land in Man- 

 chester; ibid. no. 31. Edmund Hunt 

 was a witness, and in 1447 a settlement 

 was made by Richard on the marriage of 

 Edmund's son William with Margaret 

 daughter of Roger Bird (or Brid) of Sal- 

 ford ; ibid, no, 38, 59, 39, 22. Edmund 

 Hunt made a feoffment of all his bur- 

 gages, lands, &c., in Lancashire, in 1460, 

 James Bird being a witness ; ibid. no. 3. 

 This James Bird of Salford occurs again 

 in 1467, and his son and heir Roger in 

 1513 ; ibid. no. 23, 64. 



William Hunt, no doubt the son of Ed- 

 mund, in 1473 held divers burgages, a 

 grange, and lands in Manchester, and 

 paid ys. ^d. to the lord ; Mamecestre, iii, 

 488. 



Richard ,Huat was in 1515 a feoffee 

 of the Oldham family ; Hibbert-Ware, 

 Mancb. Foundations, iii, 10. His will was 

 proved in London in 1523 ; Manch. Ct, 

 Leet Rec. i, 158 n. ; P.C.C. 15 Bod- 

 felde. In 1524 Agnes Hunt, widow, gave 

 a release to Richard Hunt and James 

 Radcliffe, executors of the will of Richard 

 Hunt, deceased ; Dods. ut supra, no. 65. 

 Five years later Richard Hunt of Man- 

 chester made a settlement in favour of 

 his wife Margaret ; ibid, no, 6S, It was 

 probably this Richard, or a son of the 

 same name, who died in 1573, leaving as 

 heir a son Richard of full age ; Ct, Leet 

 Rec. i, 158. 



Richard Hunt gave the lord a dagger as 

 heriot ; ibid. \, 160, He received a re- 

 lease of all claims on his father's lands 

 from George Birch in 1575 ; Dods. ut 

 supra, no. 67. He died in Dec, 1585, 

 leaving as heir his son John, under age ; 

 He held 6 burgages and lands in the town 

 of John Lacy, lord of Manchester ; a , 

 capital messuage and lands in Middlebrook 

 of the queen ; a messuage in Audenshaw ; 

 three burgages in Salford and lands in 

 Manchester, of the queen ; also the house 

 called the ToUbooth, with the toll and 

 stallage of Manchester, of John Lacy, by 

 a rent of ^^4 ; Ct. Leet Rec, ii, 19, 20, 

 where the inquisition (Duchy of Lane Inq. 

 p.m. xiv, 41) is printed ; for his will see 

 Piccope, fP^ills, iii, 116. 



John Hunt came of age in 1597, and 



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