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age." Ralph died about five years afterwards," and 

 was probably succeeded by the Richard Reddish who 

 was tenant in 1445-6."' Three or four years before 

 this Richard Reddish had settled his lands in view of 

 the marriage of his son John with Elizabeth daughter 

 of Thurstan Holland.'^ 



Otes Reddish died 10 Sept. ijzi, holding the 

 manors of Reddish and Heaton Fallowfield, with 

 messuages, burgages, water-mill, lands, and rents in 

 those places and in Heaton Norris, Manchester, and 

 Audcnshaw. The tenure of Reddish is described as 

 of Sir John Byron in socage, by the yearly rent of 

 one pound of cummin ; its clear annual value was 

 £■^6 13J. ^.d." The change of tenure thus recorded 

 for the first time appears to go back to 1262, when 

 Matthew de Reddish granted a moiety of the manor 

 to Geoffrey de Byron at the rent of one pound of 

 cummin or 2i^., and performing to the chief lords of 

 the fee the services due.'* The inquisitions " show 

 the manor to have descended regularly to Sarah 

 daughter and co-heir of Alexander Reddish, who died 

 in 1613.'° She married Clement youngest son of 

 Sir Edward Coke, the famous chief justice," and the 

 manor descended to her son and grandsons." Then 

 it was bequeathed to another branch of the Coke 

 family,^ and descended to Thomas William Coke, the 

 celebrated ' Coke of Holkham,' created Earl of Leices- 

 ter in 1837.'* He sold it, with his other Lancashire 

 estates, about the end of the 1 8th century ; the pur- 

 chaser was James Harrison of Cheadle, whose repre- 



MANCHESTER 



sentative in 1808 sold it to Robert Hyde Greg and 

 John Greg of Manchester." 



Reddish of Reddish. 

 Argent a lion rampant 

 gules collared or. 



CoKK. Per pale gules 

 and azure three eagles 

 displayed argent. 



Reddish Hall was situated on the east side of the 

 township, and was taken down about the year 1780. 

 It was a two-storied timber and plaster house, on a 

 stone base, E-shaped on plan, but said to have been 

 originally quadrangular in form, and surrounded by a 

 moat. The principal front, which had three over- 

 hanging gables, was entirely covered with quatrefoil 

 panelling, giving the building a very rich appearance. 

 The great hall, as well as several of the other rooms, 

 was wainscoted, the upper panels being carved with 

 the collared lion of Reddish. 'Attached to the 

 hall, and approached by a door to the left under 

 the entrance gateway, was the domestic chapel . . . 

 The apartment over the gateway was known as the 

 priest's chamber.' *^ 



" Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 80. 



" Add. MS. 32108, no. 1627 ; writ of 

 Diem dausit extr. after the death of Ralph 

 Reddish, 10 Hen. IV. 



About this time branches off the family 

 of Reddish of Dodleston and Grappenhall 

 in Cheshire ; see Ormerod, Ches. (ed. 

 Helsby), ii, 846—8, and many references 

 in the Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi and zxxvii. 



" Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, 2/20; 

 ' Richard Reddish holds Reddish in socage, 

 rendering ds. yearly ; he says that he holds 

 in mesne of Roger Kirkby, who holds by 

 feoffment.' In a pedigree in Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), ii, izi, Richard is called son 

 of Otes brother of Ralph son of Richard 

 Reddish. Otes Reddish is named in 

 1420 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep, xxxiii, App. 

 23. 



" Harl. MS. 2ii2,fol. 150/186 ; Ellen 

 the mother of Richard was still living. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 48. 



'' Final Cone, i, 1 34 ; if Geoffrey should 

 die without issue the land was to revert 

 to Matthew and his heirs. There is 

 nothing to show how the Byrons of Clay- 

 ton stepped into the place of Matthew de 

 Reddish, while the Reddish family ap- 

 parently succeeded Geoffrey de Byron, 

 perhaps the same noticed in the account 

 of Eccles. Although it is not mentioned 

 in the later inquisitions, the 6s. rent was 

 paid to the Crown by the Reddish family; 

 thus about the end of Elizabeth's reign 

 Alexander Reddish paid I2J. %d. for Red- 

 dish and Heaton, this sum being made 

 up of 6s. for the former and 61. Zd. for the 

 latter; Baines, Lanes, (ed. Hafland), i, 

 447- 



^' John Reddish, the son of Otes, was 

 forty-six years of age at his father's death, 

 but lived on until Sept. 1558, when he 

 was succeeded by his grandson John the 

 son of Otes Reddish, then nineteen years 

 of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 60. 

 He recorded a pedigree in 1533 ; yisit. 



(Chet. Soc), 75. His will is printed in 

 Booker's Didsbury (Chet. Soc.), 204-6. 

 The win of Alice widow of his son Otes 

 is also printed ibid. 206. George, a 

 younger son of Otes, was founder of the 

 family of Reddish of Clifton. 



John Reddish the grandson married 

 Margaret one of the daughters and co- 

 heirs of Sir Robert Langley of Agecroft 

 (see the account of Pendlebury), and dying 

 in Aug. 1569 left a son and heir Alexan- 

 der, five years old, to inherit the aug- 

 mented estates. Three inquisitions were 

 made — Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, 32; 

 xii, 17 ; xiv, 3. As Margaret his widow, 

 afterwards wife of Richard Holland, did 

 not die until 1616 her inheritance does 

 not appear in these inquisitions. The 

 will and inventory of John Reddish are 

 printed in Wills (Chet. Soc. new ser.), i, 

 27-38 ; a number of field names appear 

 — Wingates, Howgate, Glazebrook, Town 

 Eye, Sountehoole (Sandhole), &c. 



A pedigree was recorded in I 567 ; Visit. 

 (Chet. Soc), 12. 



™ Lanes. Inq, p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 252. Alexander had two 

 daughters — Grace, twenty-five years of 

 age, the wife of Sir Robert Darcy, and 

 Sarah, only twelve years old. 



A settlement of the manor by fine was 

 made in 1623, the deforciants being Sir 

 Edward Coke, Katherine Reddish, widow, 

 Grace Darcy, widow, and Clement Coke 

 and Sarah his wife ; Pah of Lane Feet of 

 F. bdle. 104, m. i. 



^ Sarah Coke died 30 Jan. 1623-4, 

 and Clement her husband 23 Mar. 1629- 

 30. Her estate was described as a moiety 

 of a third part of the manor of Reddish, 

 settled on herself and issue, with remain- 

 der to Lady Grace widow of Sir Robert 

 Darcy ; after the death of Katherine, her 

 father's widow, she would have had two 

 other parts of the manor of Reddish, and 

 also the manors of Prestwich, Pendlebury, 



and Tetlow, Her children, Edward (age 

 twelve on 17 Feb. 1629-30), Robert 

 Bridget, and Anne were all living in 1630; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, 53. 



The epitaph of Clement Coke is printed 

 in hoc. Glean. Lanes, and Ches. i, 113. 



22 Edward Coke, the son, seated at 

 Longford in Derbyshire, was created a 

 baronet in 1641 ; he died in 1669, and 

 was succeeded in turn by his sons Robert 

 (died 1688) and Edward (died 1727), the 

 baronetcy then becoming extinct ; G.E.C. 

 Complete Baronetage, ii, 151. 



In 1667 a settlement of the manors of 

 Reddish, Crumpsall, Prestwich, Pendle- 

 bury, and Tetlow was made by Edward 

 Coke and Katherine his wife, and Robert 

 the son and heir apparent ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 179, m. 92. A further 

 one was made by Sir Robert Coke in 

 1685 ; ibid. bdle. 217, m. 20. 



23 Sir Edward Coke bequeathed his 

 estates to a namesake, Edward Coke 

 brother of Thomas, created Lord Lovell 

 and Earl of Leicester, This Edward died 

 in 1733, unmarried, leaving his estates to 

 a younger brother Robert, who died with- 

 out issue. Their sister's son Wenman 

 Roberts became heir 5 he assumed the 

 name of Coke, and was father of Thomas 

 William Coke, vendor of the Reddish 

 estates ; Burke, Cowmoners, i, 5, 6. 



2^ Diet, Nat. Biog. The manors of 

 Reddish, Tetlow, Crumpsall, Prestwich, 

 and Pendlebury were held by Thomas 

 William Coke and Jane his wife In 1776 ; 

 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. 16 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 221. The rent of 6s, was still paid 

 for Reddish in 1779 by T. W. Coke; 

 Duchy of Lane. Rentals, 14/25 m. 



25 Booker, Didsbury, 210 ; they still 

 owned the estate in 1 844, when it amount- 

 ed to rather more than a third of the en- 

 tire township ; ibid. 201. 



26 Ibid. 211, where there Is an illustra- 

 tion of the hall. 



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