A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Gilliams," and bjr an heiress conveyed to John 

 Greaves of Manchester, apothecary," who was high 

 sheriff in 1 733." This family held it for about a 

 century, when it was sold ; the owner in 1862 was 

 named Assheton Bennett." 



A family named Holland was long resident in 

 Newton." 



MONSALL was an estate which only in part be- 

 longed to the warden and fellows. The portion 

 which did not belong to them was about 1872 pur- 

 chased by the Manchester Infirmary for a fever 

 hospital building, and in 1896 was sold to the cor- 

 poration.*' 



In 1787 the principal landowner was Edward 

 Greaves, who paid about a sixth part of the land 

 tax. — Hulme, EdmundTaylor, and — Holland were 

 the next contributors." 



The chapel, now ALL SAINTS' 

 CHURCH CHURCH, was built on the heath per- 

 haps not long before the Reformation.^' In 

 the Visitation list of 1563 Ralph Ridde appeared as 

 curate of Newton.** There was no endowment, and 

 the minister in 1 6 1 o was paid by voluntary offerings.™ 

 The Parliamentary Surveyors in 1650 recommended 

 that it be made a parish church ; the minister had 

 a stipend of ^^40 raised by subscription." In 1717 

 it was certified that * nothing belonged to it ' except 

 the minister's dwelling ; surplice fees and subscriptions 



amounted to about ^24. There were two wardens.'* 

 The chapel was then ' well and uniformly seated ' ; " 

 it was enlarged in 1738," and rebuilt 1 8 14- 1 6." A 

 separate chapelry was assigned to it in 1 839.'' The 

 rector is presented by the Dean and Canons of Man- 

 chester. The followmg is a list of the curates and 

 rectors : — " 



Ralph Ridde 



— Medcalfe 



RandleBate" 



Humphrey Barnett 



George Gee " 



Humphrey Bernard* 



William Walker" 



John Walker" 



Thomas Law ton 



James Lawton 



Grifiith Swinton*' 



Thomas Wroe 



William Shrigley 



William PurneU, M.A. (Oriel Coll. 



Oxf) 

 Richard Millward, LL.B." 

 William Jackson, M.A." 

 Abraham Ash worth, M.A. (Brasenose 



Coll. Oxf.) « 

 Thomas Gaskell 



1449 i»><le a lettlement of four mes- 

 suages, 90 acres of moss, &c., in Newton 

 near Manchester and Poulton and Wool- 

 ston near Warrington ; the remainders 

 were to Richard, Ralph, Katherine, and 

 Ellen, children of Richard, and to the 

 right heirs of Elizabeth 5 Final Cone. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 115. 

 A statement of title will be found in 

 Crofton, op. cit. ii, 269. 



Ralph Culcheth paid 41. 6J. free rent 

 for his estate in Newton in 1547 ; Raines, 

 Chant, i, i6. He made a settlement of 

 his lands in Newton, Poulton, Woolston, 

 and Fearnhead in 1563 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 25, m. 38. He died a 

 year or two later, holding land in Newton 

 of the warden and fellows of the collegiate 

 church by a rent of 45. 6J. and a pound 

 of wax ; it was worth ^^4 a year ; the heir 

 was his daughter Grace, twenty-five years 

 of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 34. 



Immediately William Culcheth alias 

 Linaker, bastard son of Ralph, put for- 

 ward his claim to the estate against 

 Grace, and she admitted it } Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 27, m. 129. In 1568 

 John Byron of Newstead acquired a part 

 of the estate from the said William Cul- 

 cheth J ibid. bdle. 30, m. 140. Sir John 

 Byron, however, appears to have been in 

 possession of the remaining and greater 

 part of the estate in 1564 ; ibid. bdle. 26, 

 m. 10. 



In 1574 William Culcheth granted a 

 lease of land in Culcheth in Newton 

 called the Stormcroft to Adam Holland, 

 for the lives of Adam, Jane his wife, and 

 George their son, at a rent of zos. ; it 

 was agreed * that the pits made and to be 

 made within the said Stormcroft should 

 remain only to the use and commodity 

 for fishing to the said William and his 

 heirs,' as had been accustomed ; Raines 

 D. (Chet. Lib.). See further in Crofton, 

 op. cit. i, 209, 210. 



^ There were several families named 

 Gilliam around Manchester ; they took 



the Parliamentary side in the Civil War ; 

 Crofton, Newton, i, 153; Booker, Dids- 

 hury (Chet. Soc), 232. There are a 

 number of references to them in the 

 Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. 



Culcheth was sold in 16 14 by Sir John 

 Byron the younger to John Whitworth 

 of Newton ; Crofton, op. cit. i, 210. It 

 must have been purchased by the Gilliams 

 soon afterwards, John Gilliam being de- 

 scribed as *of Newton* in 1637, 



512 Ibid, i, 211, 154; John Greaves 

 married (about 1708) Jane daughter and 

 heir of John Gilliam of Newton j they 

 had a son Edward, who died in 1783, and 

 his son, also Edward Greaves, was high 

 sheriff in 18 12. He died in 1824, and 

 after his widow's death Culcheth passed 

 to his nephew John Bradshaw, who took 

 the surname of Greaves. 



S8 P.R.O. Li:t, 74. 



^ Crofton, op. cit. i, 212. 



"5 Ibid, i, 156-61. 



"" Ibid, i, 209-41. Of the other places 

 of which notices are given in Mr. Crof- 

 ton's work may be mentioned — Baguley 

 Fold, Gaggs' Fields, Hall's Tenement, 

 Hulme Hall or Pedley's Place, Miles 

 Platting, Scotland, and Whitworth Hall. 



^^ Returns at Preston. 



^ For a full account of the chapel see 

 Crofton, op. cit. i, 22-103. Copious 

 extracts are given from the earlier re- 

 gisters, which begin in 1656 for baptisms. 

 The plate, furniture, church library, &c., 

 are described. 



29 Chester Dioc. Reg. 



*" Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 II. 'Bishop Bridgman in the time of 

 James I made an order respecting the 

 rents of the pews and the maintenance of 

 the curate ' ; Raines, in Notitia Cestr. 

 (Chet. Soc), ii, 90. 



'1 Commonwealth Ch. Surv, (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 6 ; the people, how- 

 ever, 'kept in their own hands [the 

 tithes] towards payment of the said £\o.' 

 An allowance of ,^40 from the tithes was 



272 



sanctioned in 1654 ; Plund. Mins. Acets. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 5 J. 



** Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 89, 90 ; the 

 chapelry then contained the townships of 

 Newton and Failsworth, and parts of 

 Moston, Droylsden, and Bradford. 



'" Ibid.; see Crofton, op. cit. i, 27, 28. 



^ Ibid, i, 28 ; a list of pew-holders 

 about 1763 is printed on pp. 35—9. 



«s The old building fell down in 1808. 

 Briefs were issued on behalf of it in 1 804 

 and 1808. In 1813 it was proposed to 

 rebuild it, and an Act was obtained in 

 the following year (54 Geo. Ill, amended 

 57 Geo. Ill, cap. 22) ; the church was 

 consecrated i Nov. 1816 ; ibid, i, 29-35. 

 It appears that the building cost about 

 ^7,000, and the Acts of Parliament 

 about j^i,9oo. 



°^ Lond. Gax. 29 Mar. 1839 ; 16 June 

 1854. 



'' This list is taken almost entirely 

 from Mr. Crofton's work (i, 59-71), 

 where full details will be found ; a list of 

 the assistant curates follows. 



"8 Presented for not wearing the sur- 

 plice and for preaching without a licence. 



'9 See also Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 54, 66. 



■"<> Afterwards of Oldham ; Manek. 

 Classis (Chet. Soc), i, 6. 



"Ibid, iii, 448. He signed the ' Har- 

 monious Consent' of 1648, and became 

 fellow of the collegiate church. 



*^ Son of the preceding ; he is said to 

 have been ejected in 1662 ; ibid, iii, 448. 

 It appears, however, that the Noncon- 

 formists retained the use of the chapel 

 for many years ; see Nightingale, Lanes. 

 Nonconf, v, 40, 



•" Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 90. 



■" Afterwards fellow of Manchester. 



*^ Also minister of Denton. 



*^ He had an impediment in his speech, 

 and was suspended many years. After 

 the chapel collapsed in 1808 he kept 

 himself in office by preaching once a year 

 in the east end of the ruins. 



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