A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



manor, being part of their gifts." Thurstan seems to 

 have acquired another fourth part from the heirs of 

 the Moston family." He was living as late as 1 376," 

 and his son and heir Richard," w^ho added to his 

 patrimony by a marriage with Amery daughter and 

 heir of Adam de Kenyon/* died in 1402 holding 'the 

 manor of Denton ' of Sir Nicholas de Longford by 

 knight's service ; he also held the manor of Kenyon 

 in right of his wife, a moiety of the manor of Heaton 

 Fallowfield, and land called Mateshead in Claughton 

 in Amounderness.^^* Thurstan his son and heir was 

 over thirty years of age.'® 



Thurstan,*^ whose widow Agnes was living in 1430 

 and 1438/^ left a son of the same name. The 

 younger Thurstan was in 1430 divorced from his first 

 wife, Margaret de Abram,^^ and lived on till about 

 1461,^° his widow Ellen being named in 1462.'^ 

 ' Richard the son and heir held the manors of Denton 

 and Kenyon, and messuages and lands in Heaton, 

 Bolton le Moors, Wardley, Barton, Manchester, 

 Pemberton, and Myerscough. In 148 1 he settled 

 part of his lands on himself and Agnes his wife, with 

 life remainders to younger sons. His eldest son 

 Richard succeeded him in 1483, and in i486 made 



provision for Joan daughter of John Arderne, vvho 

 was to marry his son Thurstan. In the following 

 year and in 1497 he made provision for younger sons, 

 and in 1499 granted messuages 

 and lands in Bolton and My- 

 erscough to his son Thurstan 

 and Joan his wife. Richard 

 Holland was living in 1500, 

 but seems to have died soon 

 afterwards.^* 



Thurstan Holland succeed- 

 ed, but died in October 1 508, 

 leaving a son Robert, who 

 though then but nineteen years 

 of age had in 1 500-1 been 

 married to Elizabeth daughter 

 of Sir Richard Assheton of 

 Middleton. The manor of 

 Denton was described as held of Sir Ralph Longford 

 in socage ; its clear annual value was jf 20." Robert 

 died in 1 5 13, leaving his brother Richard as heir, he 

 being twenty years of age ; the manor of Denton 

 was held by services unknown, and its value was 

 returned as X^'-" Richard was afterwards made a 



Holland of Denton, 

 Azure semie of Jleurs 

 de lit and a lion rampant 

 guardant argent^ over all 

 a bendlet gules. 



^^ Margaret de Shoresworth was twice 

 married — to Henry de Worsley and to 

 Robert de Radclitfe, as will be seen in the 

 accounts of Worsley and RadcUfFe. Her 

 connexion with. Sir William de Holland 

 is not clearly known ; she may have been 

 married to him invalidly. In 1330 

 Alexander de Shoresworth granted all his 

 lands, &c., in Denton to Margaret daugh- 

 ter of Robert de Shoresworth, and she at 

 once granted to Thurstan her son all her 

 messuages and lands in Denton under 

 Doneshagh in the vill of Withington, 

 with remaindersto William son of Robert 

 de Radcliffe, to John brother of Robert, 

 and to Robert son of Henry de Worsley ; 

 Lord Wilton's D, Five years later 

 Thurstan regranted the same to his 

 mother ; ibid. Margaret de Shoresworth 

 was still living in 134.8, when she re- 

 covered seisin of her lands in Bolton, 

 Manchester, Pendleton, Wardley, Barton, 

 Myerscough, Heaton, and Denton against 

 Thurstan son of Sir William de Holland 

 and Richard son of Thurstan ; Assize R. 

 14.4.4, m. yd. 



In 1 3 14-15 land in Pleasington had 

 been settled upon Sir William de Holland 

 and Joan his wife, with remainder in de- 

 fault of issue to Thurstan son of Sir 

 William; Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 158A/ 

 194^. Thurstan is described as son of 

 Sir William in other deeds ; e.g. ibid, fol, 

 156/192. In 1355 he was called *our 

 cousin ' by Roger La Warre, in a demise 

 of the park of Blackley ; ibid. fol. i6oi/ 

 196^. 



^* See below in the account of the 

 Moston family. 



^ In that year the feoffee regranted 

 him the manors of Heaton and Denton ; 

 ibid. fol. 164^/200^, 



Thurstan had a pardon from the king 

 in 1348 ; Cai. Pat. 1348-50, p. 145. 



In 1359 the feoffees regranted to Thur- 

 stan de Holland all his messuages, lands, 

 &c., in Denton, Heaton, Manchester, 

 Bolton in Eccles, Barton, Bolton on the 

 Moors, Harwood, Worsley, Myerscough, 

 and Sharpies, with homages and services 

 of the free tenants, with remainders to 

 Richard his son and his issue by Amery 

 daughter of Adam de Kenyon ; to Robert 

 and John sons of Alice de Cobbcleres ; 



and to William son of Alice de Pussch ; 

 to Williamson of Robert de Radcliffe ; to 

 William son of Robert de Worsley ; and 

 to Sir Robert de Holland ; ibid. 



^** Richard is named in various grants 

 from 1344 onwards. In that year he had 

 a general grant of Denton and his other 

 manors and lands from his father ; Harl. 

 MS. 21 1 2, fol. i6^bfzoob. 



He commissioned his dear and good 

 uncle Robert de Worsley to receive seisin 

 of the same ; ibid. fol. 1 54^/1 90^. 



Richard seems to have been in posses- 

 sion of the manor in 1377, when an 

 agreement was made by him with Richard 

 son of Richard de Hyde respecting the 

 marling of lands in Denton ; Lord Wilton's 

 D. He granted a lease of the manor to 

 William de Hulme in 1383 at a yearly 

 rent of 10 marks ; ibid. 



^^ See a preceding note, and the account 

 of Kenyon. The writ of Diem clausit 

 extr^ after the death of Amery was issued 

 on 19 Feb. 142 1-2 ; Dep. Keeper^ Rep, 

 xxxiii, App. 20. 



16a Mateshead is probably the Myer- 

 scough estate of preceding deeds. 



" Towneley MS, DD, no. 146 1. 



^7 The writ of Diem clausit extr. was 

 issued 12 Mar. 1422-3; Dep, Keeper's 

 Rep. xxxiii, App. 24. 



18 Harl. MS. 21 12, fol. 157/193, 



1^ Thurstan son of Richard de Holland, 

 acting with his brothers William and 

 Nicholas, had in 1407 made a settlement 

 of lands in Barton and Harwood on Mar- 

 garet daughter of Gilbert de Abram, on 

 her marriage with Thurstan the son of 

 Thurstan ; ibid. fol. 157/193. The elder 

 Thurstan in 1421 made a further grant 

 to Margaret wife of Thurstan de Holland 

 his son ; ibid. fol. 158/194, 



A divorce on account of consanguinity 

 was pronounced by the official of the 

 archdeacon of Chester in 1430 ; ibid. fol. 

 149^/185^. Margaret thereupon released 

 her jointure lands to Thurstan ; ibid. fol. 

 153^/189^. Thurstan immediately after- 

 wards married Margaret daughter of Sir 

 Lawrence Warren of Poynton, making a 

 feoffment of his manor of Denton and all 

 his lands in Denton and Withington ; 

 ibid, fol. 149^/185^ ; Earwaker, East 



312 



Ches. ii, 286. Margaret was his wife in 

 1439 ; Lord Wilton's D. Three years 

 later Maud daughter of Sir John Honford 

 was his wife ; he settled lands in Denton 

 called Brookwallhursts, Tochetcroft, &c., 

 on her, his son Richard to make a further 

 assurance on coming of age ; ibid. 



^ In 1456-7 Thurstan and his son 

 Richard granted two burgages in Man- 

 chester, next to the Booths and the Mar- 

 ket stead; Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 162/ 

 198. They granted another burgage in 

 the Millgate in 1460; ibid. fol. 161, 

 197. 



^ In that year she became bound to 

 Richard Holland sou and heir of Thurstan; 

 ibid. fol. 156^/1924. 



22 These particulars are from the lengthy 

 inquisition after the death of Thurstan 

 Holland, 15 10; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. iv, 36. Closes called Bokulhurst, 

 Newfield, Wheatfield, and the Five Acre 

 in Denton were in 1497 settled °^ Robert, 

 a younger son. The sons named in the 

 feoffinentof I486were Thurstan, William, 

 and Thomas ; that in 1487 was in favour 

 of William and Thomas. 



Lands in Kenyon and Lowton were in 

 146 1 settled on Isabel wife of Richard 

 son of Richard Holland ; Harl. MS. 2112, 

 fol. 1474/1 83A. In 1468 Richard the 

 father acknowledged that he had received 

 24 marks from Sir William Harrington 

 in part payment of the marriage portion ; 

 ibid. fol. 1594/1954. 



In i486 an agreement was made as to 

 the dower of Agnes widow of Richard 

 Holland the elder; ibid. fol. 1534/1894. 

 An agreement as to the bounds of their 

 turbary on the moss called Ashton Moss 

 and Denton Moss was in 1479 made be- 

 tween Sir John Ashton and Richard Hol- 

 land ; Lord Wilton's D. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 36, 

 as above. 



'* Ibid, iv, no. 58 ; many of the feoff- 

 ments of the previous inquisition are again 

 recited in this. Dower in Denton, &c. 

 was in 15 14 assigned to Elizabeth widow 

 of Robert Holland ; ibid, iv, no. 54. The 

 wardship of Richard Holland was granted 

 to John Byron ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. 

 Bks. xzii, 37 d. 



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