A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Pilkington by services unknown." This statement of 

 the tenure is repeated in the inquisitions taken after 

 the deaths of his descendants — John, 151 5/^ Thomas, 

 1546,'^ John, 1573," Henry, 1577/^ and James, 

 1614.^^ In practice the mesne lordship was ignored 

 and the Chethams paid their quit-rent directly to the 

 lord of Manchester.^" 



James Chetham was succeeded by his son Thomas, 

 then a minor. During the Civil War Thomas espoused 

 the Parliamentary side and was a captain of infantry, 

 taking part in the defence of Manchester in 1642 and 

 being appointed a commissioner two years later.^^ He 

 died in 1657. His son Francis*^ quickly mortgaged 

 Nuthurst ; dying without issue in 1678, he was suc- 

 ceeded by a younger brother, John Chetham of Linton 

 in Cambridgeshire, who, after encumbering the estate 

 still further, sold it in 1692 to Edward Chetham of 



Manchester, son of Edward Chetham of Smedley," 

 The purchaser's son and heir, also named Edward, 

 ultimately inherited not only Nuthurst, but the estates 

 of various branches of the family, and dying unmarried 

 in 1769 his heirs were his sisters — Alice widow of 

 Adam Bland," and Mary wife of Samuel Clowes the 

 younger.^* 



On a division Moston and Nuthurst were part of 

 the latter's portion. She died in 1775. Nuthurst 

 was by her will given to James Hilton, son of her 

 daughter Mary, who married Samuel Hilton of Pen- 

 nington. The trustees of his son Samuel Chetham 

 Hilton were in possession in 1851.^® 



Roger son of Geoffrey de Chadderton in 1340 

 settled his lands in Moston upon his son Roger, with 

 remainders to younger sons.^' The family remained 

 in possession until the beginning of the 1 7th century,'^ 



Thomas de Chadderton ; Lanes. Inq, p,m, 

 (Chet. See), i, 54-6. His son John was 

 a minor, but obtained livery of his lands 

 in 1404 J Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 

 4. In 1412 John son of Thomas Chet- 

 ham granted to Ellis son of John Chadder- 

 ton all his lands in Nuthurst for the term 

 of thirty years at a peppercorn rent ; 

 Towneley's MS. DD, 2222. In 141 3 

 John Chetham made a settlement of his 

 lands in Crompton, Ashton, and elsewhere, 

 with remainder to his son James and his 

 issue by Eleanor daughter of Ellis de 

 Buckley ; Clowes D. no. 102-3. Charles, 

 another son, was living in 1465 ; ibid. no. 

 124. John Chetham was still alive in 

 1442 ; ibid. no. 91, iii, 



James Chetham, the son of John, mar- 

 ried as his second wife, about 1440, Mar- 

 gery daughter of John Langley ; ibid. no. 

 91, 115. James Chetham was living in 

 1475 ; ibid. no. 128. 



Margery was living a widow in 1480 

 and 1487 ; ibid.no. 130, 138, In 1466 a 

 grant was made by William Heaton to 

 Thomas Chetham, son and heir apparent 

 of James, on his marriage with William's 

 daughter Elizabeth; ibid. no. 125. A 

 son Nicholas is mentioned in 1496 \ ibid, 

 no. 141. 



By an agreement between James and 

 Thomas his son in 1468, the latter re- 

 ceived Nuthurst and Sidgreaves, paying 

 j^4 a year to his father ; the father also 

 had i%d., a moiety of the free rent of 

 Moston ; ibid. no. 164. 



i"* Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 62. 

 He held a messuage, 34 acres of land, 6 

 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, and 

 60 acres of wood in Nuthurst, together 

 with messuages and lands in Butterworth, 

 Middleton, Castleton, and Crompton. 

 John Chetham, the son and heir, was 

 thirty-four years of age. 



In 1487 John Chetham married Mar- 

 gery daughter of Ellis Prestwich ; Clowes 

 D. no. 138-9. 



A Thomas Chetham left a manuscript 

 of the Gest Hystoriale to be an heirloom at 

 Nuthurst ; see note in Chetham Gen. 

 15 ; Lanes, and Cbes. Antiq. Soc. xxiii, 62. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 6, 

 Thomas Chetham, the son and heir of John, 

 was twenty-six years of age. 



Thomas married Elizabeth daughter of 

 John Hopwood ; Clowes D. A series of 

 rentals from 1520 to 1546 has been pre- 

 served. Nuthurst itself seems to have 

 been almost entirely in the hands of the 

 Chethams ; there was one under-tenant in 

 1520 who paid 35. 4^/., and in 1524 a 

 second appears, paying zs. In 1 524 

 Richard Shacklock, who had made a gar- 



den on the waste, agreed to give a bunch 

 of leeks to each of the owners of Nuthurst, 

 Moss Farm, with a rent of 165. %d.f was 

 added to the rental in 1535 ; ibid, no, 143, 

 &c. 



^* Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, 5 ; his 

 son and heir Joha was twenty-four years 

 of age. The heir had livery in 1547 ; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, App. 552. 



John Chetham made a settlement of 

 his lands in 1557 ; Clowes D. no. 165. 

 Among the same deeds are rentals dated 

 1566 and 1572. 



^7 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, 33, 

 By his will he left to Isabel his wife his 

 mansion house of Nuthurst, with lands 

 appurtenant, and a messuage in Crompton, 

 towards the bringing up of their children, 

 and the marriage of their daughters Eliza- 

 beth, Martha, and Anne. Henry, the son 

 and heir, was twenty-two years of age. 



Isabel, the widow, married William 

 RadcIifFe, and a settlement of the hall of 

 Nuthurst, &c., was made in 1591 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F, bdle. 53, m. 1 82. Her 

 will, dated 3 Jan. 1596-7, is printed in 

 Chetham Gen. 22. 



^8 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, 25. 

 James, his brother and heir, was twenty years 

 of age. The wardship was granted to Isabel 

 Chetham, the widow ; Clowes D. no. 174. 



Henry Chetham was drowned at Mid- 

 dleton, while riding through the stream 

 there ; Chetham Gen, 23. 



^^ Lanes, Inq, p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 and Ches.), ii, 16. Thomas, the son and 

 heir, was under sixteen years of age. 

 The father's will is printed in the inquisi- 

 tion and in Booker, Blaekiey, 152. 



The king granted to Margery Chetham, 

 the widow, the guardianship of her son ; 

 Clowes D. no. 177. 



^^ This is seen from a list of chief rents 

 compiled in 1677. The total was ip.o^d.j 

 including the 35. from Moston divided be- 

 tween the lords of the two parts of Nut- 

 hurst ; los. was paid to the heirs of Sir 

 Edward Mosley. The list (Clowes D.) 

 is as follows : L. Chetham of Moston 

 Hall, 41. 5j(/., James Lightbowne, 3J. 4(^., 

 — Siddall, IS. 9^^., Widow Hall, yd., Robert 

 Haugh for Antonies, ^d.y Joshua Taylor, 

 6^d.f William Kenyon, 6^/., — Worsley, 

 4|£/., John Gorton, 4ji/., Abdy Scofield, 

 jd.j — Hartley, ^^d., Hercules Chadwick, 

 zd., John Travis, i^i., John Whitworth, 

 id., John ICenyon, id. 



An early memorandum attached to a 

 copy of the inquisition of Edward Bowker 

 (1588) states that Moston was held wholly 

 of the lord of Manchester by fealty and 

 los. rent ; Clowes D. 



^ Ci'vil War Tracts (Chet. Soc), 52, 91. 



266 



^ Francis caused a pedigree to be recorded 

 in 1664 ; Dugdale, Visit. (Chet Soc), j6. 



^ This part of the account is taken 

 mainly from Chetham Gen, 27-31, 61-64, 



'^ See further under Turton. 



^ See further under Broughton. 



^^ Booker, Blackley, 151, 139. The 

 estates included Great Nuthurst Hall, 

 Little Nuthurst Hall, and Moston Hall, 

 with 620 acres of land. T. W. Legh 

 Hilton, the son and successor of S. C. 

 Hilton, was resident in Moston in 1854, 



2' Clowes D. no. 147. The remainders 

 were to Geoffrey, John, Henry, Robert, 

 and Richard, brothers of the younger 

 Roger. There was a limitation to male 

 heirs in each case, 



2* There are no inquisitions relating to 

 them, nor was a pedigree recorded at any 

 visitation. 



In 1446 Geoffrey son of Ellis de Chad- 

 derton, then under fourteen years of age, 

 was contracted to marry Alice daughter of 

 Richard Chorlton, and had an estate in 

 Moston settled on him, the bounds begin- 

 ning at one and a half acres near a ditch by 

 the west part of Boothclough, and so south- 

 wards to Theale Moor and Moss Brook, 

 to the lower part of Smallclough, to the 

 Newearth, and between Hencroft and the 

 Newearth to Theale Moor and so back to 

 the start; Clowes D. no. 153. Ellis 

 Chadderton, the father, made a grant of 

 lands in the hamlet of Moston, the bounds 

 beginning at Saltergate ; ibid. no. 1 54. 

 Geoffrey Chadderton was in possession of 

 Nuthurst in 1483 ; ibid. no. 155. By 

 1529 he had been succeeded by his grand- 

 son Edmund Chadderton, who with John 

 Chetham had in 1537 a lease of the tithes 

 of Moston ; ibid, no 156-7, &c. 



George Chadderton in 1552 made a 

 settlement of his estates in Nuthurst 

 and Ashton ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 14, m. 121. He again appears in 

 iiJSS, and Edmund Chadderton in 1561 ; 

 Clowes D. Edmund in 1 573 confirmed to 

 Henry Chetham a sale made to the latter's 

 father, John of the New Close in Nut- 

 hurst, then occupied for life by Margery, 

 grandmother of Edmund ; ibid. no. 172. 



There is a brief pedigree in Booker's 

 Blackley, 147. It appears that George 

 Chadderton of Nuthurst (after 1529) mar- 

 ried Jane daughter of Lawrence Warren 

 of Poynton in Cheshire ; Earwaker, East 

 Ches. ii, 287. The will of Edmund Chad- 

 derton of Nuthurst, dated 1588 and proved 

 in 1589, is given in Wills{0\e.t. Soc. New 

 Ser), i, 206. He names Isabel his wife, 

 Edmund his son and heir, his ' dear uncle 

 and good lord ' the Bishop of Chester, and 

 others. 



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