A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



patronage, which has descended to the Earl of Wilton. 

 A formal renunciation was made by the warden and 

 fellows in 1750." A district chapelry was assigned 

 in 1839." The following is a list of curates and 



rectors : — 



161 1 



1630 

 1631 



1677 

 1679 

 1691 

 1695 



1696 



1707 



1709 

 1720 

 1723 

 1750 



I7S9 



1791 

 1853 

 1869 



1881 



Humphrey Tylecote'^ 



Charles Broxholme" 



John Angier, B.A." (Emmanuel College, 

 Camb.) 



JohnOgden" 



Roger Dale""" 



Joshua Hyde™ 



Noah Kinsey, M.A."' (Pembroke College, 

 Camb.) 



Daniel Pighells "» 



John Berry, M.A.'" (Sidney-Sussex Col- 

 lege, Camb.) 



John Jackson '"' 



— Grey "" 



Joseph Dale "" 



William Williams, M.A.™ (Brasenose 

 College, Oxf.) 



William Jackson, B.A.'°' (Brasenose Col- 

 lege, Oxf.) 



William Parr Greswell "" 



Walter Nicol, M.A. (Glasgow) "' 



Charles James Bowen, B.A."' (Trinity 

 College, Camb.) 



David Rowe 



Christ Church, for which a district was formed "' 

 in 184.6, was consecrated in 1853, the Crown and 

 the Bishop of Manchester having the patronage alter- 

 nately.'" 



The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have 



churches in Denton."' The Congregationalists also 

 have one.'" 



The Roman Catholic school-chapel of St. Mary, with 

 the title of the Seven Dolours, was built about 1870 ; 

 the mission was separated from Ashton in 1889. 



HAUGHTON 



Halghton, 1306, and commonly. 



This narrow township stretches north and south 

 on the right bank of the Tame for over 2 miles ; 

 it measures 887 J acres. The highest ground lies 

 along the western border. The population was in 

 1 90 1 numbered with Denton, with which for local 

 government Haughton has been united. 



The principal road is that from Manchester to 

 Hyde, crossing the northern end of the township ; 

 along it lies the village of Haughton, a prolongation 

 of Denton. Another road runs north and south on 

 and near the western edge. At the southern end is 

 the hamlet called Haughton Green. There are five 

 bridges over the Tame. 



The manufacture of hats is carried on. About 

 1600 glass seems to have been made, and a hamlet 

 called Glasshouse still exists.' 



It is probable that the two oxgangs of 

 MANOR land in Haughton formed that moiety of 

 the holding of Matthew de Reddish in 

 Denton, granted to Richard rector of Stockport, 

 which has not been clearly accounted for in Denton 

 proper." They were in 1307 settled upon John de 

 Hyde and Isabel his wife and the heirs of John,' and 

 have descended in the family of Hyde of Norbury in 

 Cheshire and their successors the Clarkes. The 

 history seems to have been quite uneventful, Haugh- 



'^^ Booker, op. cit. 62—9. 



"^ Land. Ga%. 29 Mar. 1839 ; 16 June 

 1854. 



"= This list is taken almost entirely 

 from Booker, op. cit. 70-1 1 1, where bio- 

 graphies will be found, together with a 

 number of illustrative documents. John 

 Brereton was in 1576 licensed as * reader* 

 for Denton Chapel ; Pennant's Acct. Bk. 

 Chester. 



»« H. T. Crofton, S/ref/Sr</(Chet. Soc), 

 i, 6i. 



*7 He was silenced for nonconformity ; 

 Booker, op. cit. 70. Also named Broxopp. 



S3 One of the most famous Puritans of 

 Lancashire. He signed the ' Harmonious 

 Consent' of 1648, and was not disturbed 

 in 1662. His hife was written by Oliver 

 Heywood ; Booker, op. cit. 71-8 (with 

 pedigree) ; W. A. Shaw in Mancb. Claisii, 

 iii, 406-8 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. See also 

 Royalht Comp. Papen (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 86. 



^^ Samuel Angier, nephew of the late 

 minister, was rejected for nonconformity 

 and John Ogden was nominated by the 

 warden and fellows. The people were 

 hostile and he stayed there only a year ; 

 Booker, op. cit. 79-87. 



^^^ This appointment was made by the 

 landowners — W. Holland and R. Hyde — 

 and agreed to by the warden and fellows. 

 Mr. Dale, * a great preacher of loyalty 

 and obedience,' exasperated many of the 

 people by * bringing the surplice, Book of 

 Homilies, &c.' See Booker (op. cit. 88- 

 102) for the attempt to get rid of him in 

 1685. He took the curacy of Northenden 

 in 1690, and became rector of RadclifFe. 



^°t Nominated by the warden and fel- 

 lows with the consent of Sir John Eger- 

 ton ; ibid. 103-5. 



102 Ibid. 105 ; nominated by the war- 

 den and fellows. 



"' Ibid. 106 ; nominated by the war- 

 den and fellows. 



IM Ibid. '"* Ibid. 



"s Ibid. At this time the Denton 

 people's 'indifference to the Church was 

 so great that a small disobligation would 

 be sufficient to make them join the Dis- 

 senters' ; ibid. 107. 



"' Ibid. 107-8 ; nominated by Holland 

 Egerton. He was schoolmaster of Stock- 

 port and son of Roger Dale, a former 

 curate ; Earwaker, East Ches. i, 418. 



108 Booker, op. cit. 108 ; he was senior 

 fellow of his college. The dispute as to 

 the patronage was settled at this time, 



^^^ Ibid. 109. He also was master of 

 Stockport School and was curate of New- 

 ton in Manchester ; Earwaker, op. cit. 

 i,4i8. 



110 Booker, op. cit. 109-11, where a 

 list of his works is given ; five of his sons 

 became fellows of colleges at Oxford, and 

 another was master of the Chetham Hos- 

 pital. 



m Afterwards rector of Newton St. 

 Petrock, Devon. 



^^■^ Exchanged with his successor, the 

 latter being rector of Wroot, Lincolnshire. 



"' Land. Ga^. 17 Mar. 1846. 



11^ This church owes its existence to 

 the efforts of the Rev. Richard Greswell, 

 of Worcester College, Oxford, a son of 

 the incumbent of the old chapel ; Booker, 

 Denton, 124-7. 



322 



Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 



^^^ The Wesleyans erected a chapel in 

 1816 ; ibid. 128. 



116 Ibid. 128. Hope Chapel was built 

 in 1837, and quickly enlarged. It was 

 replaced by the present church in 1S77 ; 

 Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. v, 314—16. 



1 Manch. Guard, N. and Q. no 856. 



2 See the account of Denton. Haugh- 

 ton is named among the dependencies of 

 Withington in 1322; Mamecestre (Chet. 

 Soc), ii, 374- 



® Final Cone, (Rec Soc Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 211. 



For pedigrees of the Hydes and Clarkes 

 of Norbury see Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Hels- 

 by), iii, 810, and Earwaker, East Ches. ii, 

 44—7 i also Booker, Denton (Chet. Soc), 

 136. A number of the family charters 

 are preserved in Harl. MS. 21 12, fol. 

 162-8 ; from these it appears that Robert 

 de Hyde (son of Robert son of Matthew) 

 married Margery daughter of Robert son 

 of Robert de Stockport ; ibid. fol. 165, 

 153. The following early deeds relate to 

 Haughton : — 



John son of Agnes de Herdislee, cousin 

 of Thomas de Norbury, released to Robert 

 de Hyde all his claim in Norbury, New- 

 ton, half of Hyde, Haughton, four oxgangs 

 of land in Heaton, and Sakelcross ; fol. 

 165. Of these Hyde and Haughton are 

 not named in the grant by Richard de 

 Norbury to Robert de Hyde (father of the 

 above Robert) ; fol. 164. Thomas son 

 and heir of Richard son of Matthew de 

 Hyde released to John lord of Hyde all 

 his lands in the vill of Haughton ; fol. 

 164. 



William eon of Richard de Baguley 



