A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



worthy offshoots;'" Radcliffe'" — several families, including those of the Conduit ^^' and of the 



did fealty on admission to his father's 

 land ; Ct. Leet Rec. ii, 131. About 1610 

 he was called upon to defend his title to 

 the Booths, Sir Nicholas Mosley laying 

 claim to it ; but he was able to show that 

 it, with the tolls, &c., had been granted 

 in 15 14 to his ancestor Richard Hunt; 

 ibid, iii, 24, z^, notes. In 1620 the jury 

 ordered him to repair • the Court-house 

 commonly called the Booths,* and sweep 

 it weekly; ibid. In 1625 Margaret his 

 daughter and (co-) heir married John Hol- 

 croft ; ibid, iii, 76, 352 notes. They 

 appear to have sold their lands ; ibid, iii, 

 153, 246. For the Holcrofts see Local 

 Glean. Lanes, and Ches. il, 149. 



Other branches of the Hunt family 

 occur. Among the De Trafford deeds 

 are grants about 1 3 1 5 from EUota Bray- 

 bon, widow, and William her son of two 

 burgages to Walter le Hunt, Margery his 

 wife, and David and Richard their sons 

 (no. 2, 5) ; and in 1347 Richard son of 

 Walter le Hunt granted land In Man- 

 chester to Richard son of Richard Chokes 

 (no. 13). The two burgages, which lay 

 in Deansgate, opposite the Parsonage, had 

 by 1396 passed to Richard del HuUe (no. 

 23-5). Lawrence, son and heir of John 

 Hunt and grandson and heir of Thomas 

 Barker, held land in St. Mary Gate in 

 1482 ; Ibid. no. 56, 57. 



Among the Grammar School deeds is a 

 grant (1337) from Roger son of Richard 

 de Manchester to Richard del Crosseshagh 

 and Dyota his wife of a burgage next the 

 Pirlewallgate ; from the latter Richard to 

 Thomas son of John le Hunt (1357) of 

 goods ; from John son of William del 

 Crosshagh of a burgage In the Millgate 

 (1369) ; bonds to John le Hunt (1361, 

 1368) ; release to the executors of Richard 

 le Hunt (1385), and from John son of 

 Richard le Hunt to Richard de Worsley 

 (1399) ; the will of Agnes widow of John 

 le Hunt (1390), mentioning Ellen daugh- 

 ter of Richard le Hunt, and leaving the 

 guardianship of John and Richard, sons of 

 Richard le Hunt, to Richard de Worsley 

 and John de Tonwallcllff, her executors ; 

 lease of a burgage In Millgate from Cecily 

 widow of Henry Chadkirk, and Joan le 

 Hunt her daughter, to William Bradford, 

 Richard le Hunt of Audenshaw being a 

 witness. 



John le Hunt and Agnes his wife in 

 1 371 sold a messuage to Thomas de 

 Whitley ; Final Cone, ii, 180. 



^^^ Robert Laboray or Laborer, serjeant- 

 at-arms to Henry VII, acquired lands near 

 St. Mary Gate in 1511-2 ; Hulme D. 

 no. 38. He left several daughters as co- 

 heirs, and his widow Isabel in 1544 grant- 

 ed a burgage to their daughter Alice, who 

 had married with Stephen Hulme ; ibid. 

 no. 48. Elizabeth, another daughter, 

 about 1533 married William Hulton of 

 Donnlngton, Lincolnshire ; a third daugh- 

 ter married Thomas Greenhalgh of 

 Brandlesholme, who was Robert's execu- 

 tor ; and various disputes broke out in- 

 volving the customs of the county as to 

 the distribution of the goods of a husband 

 or father ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 156, &c. ; Dueby Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and dies.), Ii, 136, 152. See zl^oManch, 

 Ct. Leet Ree. i, 26, 180 note. *Labrey's 

 House' retained its name in 1586 ; ibid, 

 ii, 6. It was near the present infirmary, 

 and in 1580 was styled 'Laborer's house 

 near the end of Marketstead lane,' in the 

 tenure of Robert Hulme of Newton ; 

 ibid, ii, III n. and information of Mr. 

 Crofton, who kindly adds the following 



pedigree of William Hulton : Roger Hul- 

 ton of Hulton — younger son William, 

 married Jane Everard of Southcoton, 

 Lines. — 8. Roger, married Katherine 

 Anyas — s. William. 



1^0 In the account of the chantries it 

 is shown that Richard Bexwick left a 

 daughter Isabel, who married Thomas 

 Beck, and that their daughter Cecily 

 married Francis Pendleton. He was the 

 son of Thomas Pendleton, who died in 

 1534 and whose will is printed in Pic- 

 cope, ^;7/i, Ii, 187. Francis died in 

 1574, leaving his son Henry as heir; 

 Ct. Leet Rec. i, 164, 167. Henry mar- 

 ried Elizabeth daughter and heir of 

 Robert Marler 5 ibid, i, 233. He died 

 at the beginning of 1586, leaving a son 

 Francis, a minor ; ibid. I, 257. The in- 

 quisition taken after the death of Henry 

 Pendleton states that his father Francis 

 had settled his burgage in Deansgate and 

 other lands with remainders to Henry his 

 son, to Margaret, Isabel, and Ellen his 

 daughters, and to his brother George ; the 

 messuage, &c. in Grundy Lane was held 

 of the queen as of her duchy of Lan- 

 caster, by knight's service, and the rest of 

 the queen by a rent of 14^/. Robert 

 Marler's lands were held of the queen by 

 the 200th part of a knight's fee. Francis, 

 the son and heir of Henry, was ten years 

 of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, 

 61. 



Francis Pendleton was of age in 1596 ; 

 Ct. Leet Rec. ii, 115, 166, He was thrice 

 married, and died in 1621, leaving as heir 

 a son, under age ; Ibid, iii, 37, where an 

 abstract of his will is given. By his 

 second wife, Anne Holland, he had a son 

 Francis, who died at Manchester in 1626 

 without a son ; and by his third wife, 

 Sarah Byrestowe, had a son Edward, de- 

 scribed as 'son and heir' in 1627, when 

 he was sixteen years of age ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, 34. The feoffments 

 and will of Francis the father are fully 

 set out in his inquisition, Lanes, Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 322—6. 



The will of Alice widow of George 

 Pendleton of Manchester, dated 1588,18 

 given in Piccope, fVilh, ii, 218-20 ; 

 they had a daughter and heiress Cecily. 



"1 Henry Pendleton, D.D., the most 

 prominent of them, is said to have been 

 a brother of the Thomas who died in 

 1534. He was of Lancashire birth and 

 educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, 

 M,A. 1544; D.D. 1552. He was a 

 Protestant and beneficed in the reign of 

 Edward VI, but in the next reverted to 

 the old religion, having frequent disputa- 

 tions with Bradford and others brought 

 before Bishop Bonner on charges of 

 heresy ; he is said to have been shot at 

 when preaching at St. Paul's Cross. He 

 published some homilies, &c., and died 

 i° '557 ; see Diet, Nat, Biog. ; Wood, 

 Athenae, and Gillow, Bibl, Diet, of Engl. 

 Catk, vi, 256 ; Foxe, Acts and Monu- 

 ments (ed. Cattley), vi, 629 ; vii, 185. 



His nephew, Edward Pendleton (son 

 of Thomas), became fellow of Manchester 

 and vicar of Eccles. 



A later Henry Pendleton of Manches- 

 ter compounded for ' delinquency ' in 

 1645, having taken part against the Par- 

 liament by going into the king's quarters. 

 He returned and submitted, took the 

 National Covenant, Negative oath, and 

 paid a fine of ,^80 ; Cal, of Com, for Com- 

 poundingy ii, 1270. 



"'^ Adam de Radcliffe had 4 acres 

 in 1320, paying 45. rent ; Mamecestre, ii, 



244 



291. He also had part of Gotherswick. 

 To Adam sod of Robert de Radcliffe and 

 Alice liis daughter, for life, John La 

 Warre in 1324. granted a place called 

 Osecroft with the Brend-orchard, at a 

 rent of 7s. 6d. ; Manch. Corporation D. 

 See also Mamecestre, ii, 412 ; iii, 465. 

 A settlement of Adam's lands was made 

 in 1323 ; Final Cone, ii, 55. Alice mar- 

 ried John de Hulton of Farnworth ; see 

 Harpurhey, 



Margery daughter of Henry Luthare 

 in 1428 granted to her son, Robert Tet- 

 low, two burgages in Manchester ; they 

 lay beside the road from the parish church 

 to Salford bridge, abutting on the Irwell 

 at one end and on the road from the 

 church to the parsonage at the other 

 end ; De Trafford D. no. 34. Robert de 

 Tetlow and Elizabeth his wife made a 

 settlement of the same ; ibid. no. 35, 36 ; 

 but in 1430 sold them to Nicholas son of 

 Sir Ralph de Radcliffe, who acquired land 

 adjoining them ; ibid. no. 38, 39. Five 

 years later a settlement was made, the 

 remainders being to Ralph, Thomas, 

 John, James, William, and Edmund, sons 

 of Nicholas, and then to Sir Ralph de 

 Radcliffe ; ibid. no. 45. Nicholas son 

 and heir of Ralph Radcliffe in 1487 made 

 a lease of a burgage in Deansgate, and in 

 the same year the dowry of Elizabeth his 

 mother was settled ; a chief rent of 2i. zd, 

 was payable to the college ; ibid. no. 62, 

 63, 61. Margery Leigh, daughter and 

 heir of John Marshall, made a grant to 

 Nicholas Radcliffe in 1490 ; ibid. no. 64. 

 The property had passed to the Traffords 

 by 1548 ; Raines, Chant, i, 13. 



The rental of 1473 shows that the fol- 

 lowing held burgages : William Radcliffe, 

 divers burgages and an intake, at a rent 

 of 21. ^d. ; John Radcliffe, a burgage, 

 iizd. ; and Richard Radcliffe, the same ; 

 Mamecestre, iii, 489-91. 



Richard Radcliffe, lord of Radcliffe, 

 had lands in Manchester in 1501 ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 148. 



Robert Radcliffe of Radcliffe, who died 

 in 1617, held a burgage, &c., of Richard 

 Holland, by a rent of izd.; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 75. 



John Radcliffe, alias More, purchased 

 messuages, &c., about 1571 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 33, m. 98 ; 34, 

 m. 66 ; 43, m. 99 ; 46, m. 67. 



168 A pedigree of the Radcliffes of the 

 Conduit was recorded in 1613 ; Visit. 

 (Chet. Soc), 130. In 1511-12 James 

 Radcliffe and Thomas his son granted to 

 Robert Laboray land near the end of 

 St. Mary Gate ; and in 15 17-18 Thomas 

 son of James Radcliffe made another grant 

 to the same, as ' my brother-in-law ' ; 

 Hulme D. no. 38, 39. Margaret widow 

 of James (son of Thomas) Radcliffe of 

 Manchester was a defendant in 1535 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 161, m. 2 d. A 

 William Radcliffe and Elizabeth his wife 

 in 1553 had a dispute with the Hulmes, 

 carried on in violent fashion ; Duchy 

 Plead, iii, 143, 193. William Radcliffe, 

 said to be grandson of Thomas, occurs 

 frequently in the Ct. Leet Rec, and served 

 as one of the constables. He was de- 

 scribed as ' of the Conduit.' At one time 

 he encroached upon Barkhouse Hill and 

 the Cuckstool Pool, but was in 1598 re- 

 quired to lay the ground open again ; Cl. 

 Leet Rec. ii, 6, 145. He died early in 

 1600, and was succeeded by his son 

 William, then of full age ; ibid, ii, 

 155. The eon died in 1608, and 

 his heir, his son William, was of full 



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