SALFORD HUNDRED 



ECCLES 



was one of four daughters and co-heirs, and by her 

 first husband, known as Augustine de Barton,'^ she 

 had a son John, who died young, and a daughter 

 Cecily, who married William, a son of Gilbert de 

 Notton by a former wife," and carried to him the 

 manor of Barton, and also in right of her father that 

 of Breightmet. 



Gilbert, the eldest son of William and Cecily, was 

 a minor in 1220 at the death of his grandmother 



Edith, but had livery of his lands two years later ; " 

 he adopted Barton as a surname, and was made a 

 knight. He fell into the hands of Aaron, the Jew of 

 York,'' and parted with large portions of his lands," 

 and finally sold his great lordship to Robert Grelley 

 his feudal superior." This sale was confirmed by his 

 son John." Gilbert retained or regained the manor 

 of Barton, but this was given to his daughter Agnes,^" 

 perhaps in view of her marriage with a Grelley ,'' and 



" Lana. Inj. and Extents, i, 137, 301. 

 He was also known as Augustine de 

 Breightmet, which place in iziz was held 

 by William de Notton ; ibid. 71. See 

 Ormerod, CAes. (ed. Helsby), i, 422, citing 

 the Mobberley charters, 



"ff^ialliy Couch, ii, 521 ; Edith, lady 

 of Barton, with the assent of her husband 

 Gilbert de Notton, for their salvation and 

 that of her son John and her daughter, 

 wife of William de Notton, granted half 

 of Cadishead to Stanlaw Abbey. Edith 

 and her husband were in other ways bene- 

 factors of this abbey ; ibid, i, 46, &c. 

 The son John had seisin of a moiety of 

 Mobberley as heir to his father j Ormerod, 

 Cha. i, 411. William de Notton and 

 Cecily his wife about izoo confirmed a 

 ^ant to Mobberley which had been made 

 by Cecily's uncle Patrick with the assent 

 of her father ; ibid, i, 422, 



** In October 1220 the sheriff was 

 directed to put Robert Grelley in seisin 

 of the fee of one knight and a half in 

 Barton, because the heir of Edith, formerly 

 wife of Gilbert de Notton, viz. the son of 

 Edith's daughter, was under age, and his 

 wardship belonged to Robert ; Rot. Lit. 

 Clam. (Rec. Com.], 438. 



In 1222 Gilbert, described as nepos et 

 Acres of Edith de Barton, had livery of 32 

 oxgangs of land in Barton and Worsley 

 and the members ; Fine R. 6 Hen. Ill, 

 m. 7. 



* He sold the advowson of Eccles before 

 1234 to John de Lacy, because of an 

 acquittance to Aaron the Jew of York 

 which Lacy had made ; Whalley Couch, i, 

 41. Aaron son of Joseus the Jew of 

 York refeoffed Sir Gilbert de Barton of 

 the manor of Barton, with remainder to 

 John son of Sir Gilbert, and to Agnes the 

 daughter ; Dods. MSS. dxix, fol. 154*. 

 Geoffrey de Chetham assigned to Sir 

 Thomas Grelley the land and rent de- 

 mised to him by Aaron, to hold until 205 

 marks should be paid to Sir Thomas, 

 either by the grantor or by Gilbert de 

 Barton ; ibid. fol. 153^. 



W To Thomas Grelley he sold at diffe- 

 rent times all his right in Westwood, 3 

 oigangs of land held by Agnes widow of 

 Geoffrey de Worsley and by Adam de 

 Bowdon, 3 oxgangs of land held by Adam 

 and Thomas de Hulme, 20 oxgangs of 

 land held by Adam son of Wronow de 

 Wardley, an orchard called the Imp Yard, 

 and other lands ; De Trafford D. no. 188- 

 97. To one of these deeds (194) is 

 appended the seal of Gilbert de Notton, 

 showing a pile ; to another (195) Gilbert 

 de Barton's own seal, paly of four. 



Gilbert de Barton in 1235 granted to 

 Richard de Bracebridge } oxgangs of land 

 in Brinsop in return for a release of all 

 claims on the Barton fee ; Final Cone. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.) i, 62. In 

 1Z41 for a similar release he sold 4 ox- 

 gangs of land in Heaton to Richard son of 

 Christiana de AUerton — probably Richard 

 de Hulton ; ibid, i, 88. 



^ In 1242 Gilbert de Barton held a 

 knight's fee and a half of Thomas Grelley, 



and Thomas held of the Earl of Ferrers, 

 and he in chief of the king ; Lanes. Inq, 

 and Extents, i, 153. In 1246 Thomas 

 Grelley claimed from Gilbert de Barton the 

 customs and services due in respect of the 

 fee of a knight and also in respect of 1 3 ox- 

 gangs of land where 17 oxgangs made 

 half a knight's fee ; that he should do suit 

 at the court of Manchester from three 

 weeks to three weeks, and render 141. %d. 

 a year as sake fee and castle ward. Gil- 

 bert undertook to do this, and promised 

 not to grant, sell, mortgage or alienate 

 the said tenement in Barton in the future 

 without the licence of Thomas Grelley 

 or his heirs ; Final Cone, i, 93. 



It is evident from several facts— e.g. 

 that the Abbot of Cockersand held West- 

 houghton as one oxgang by the service of 

 the fortieth part of a knight's fee — that 

 the original fee of Barton was of eighty ox- 

 gangs or ten plough-lands. Of this a fourth 

 part had been alienated before X212 ; 

 possibly, as above suggested, one plough- 

 land in AspuU, one in Turton and half in 

 Brockholes. Of the remainder three ox- 

 gangs may have been given in alms, so 

 that seventeen oxgangs were responsible 

 for the service of half a knight's fee, in- 

 stead of the original twenty. Of these 

 seventeen, four must have been sold, so 

 that Gilbert de Barton was liable only for 

 the service from thirteen. 



At Easter 1250 the complaint was re- 

 newed, but with respect to the thirteen 

 oxgangs only — the rest may have been 

 sold — and 41. id. for sake fee ; but 

 Thomas Grelley further alleged that Gil- 

 bert had granted to his daughter, then 

 only eight years of age, -a moiety of the 

 tenement. Gilbert was adjudged in the 

 wrong; Cur. Reg. R. 139, m. 9; 140, 

 m. 7 ; Final Cone, i, 117. 



■rhere seems to be no record of Gilbert's 

 sale of the lordship, which is inferred from 

 the later history. 



Gilbert de Barton was a benefactor of 

 Stanlaw ; Whally Couch, i, 50. 



He died in or before 1275, when in- 

 quiry was made if he had held four 

 messuages and certain lands, (ts. %d. rent, 

 and two parts of a mill in Barton, then in 

 the possession of Robert Grelley ; a fine 

 was made by which Robert's right was 

 acknowledged and he granted certain lands 

 to Gilbert's son John de Barton and his 

 heirs; Assize R. 1235, m, 11. This 

 grant included Salteye, half of Boysnope 

 and land between the Irwell and Chat 

 Moss ; Copped Greave, Deep Lache, Der- 

 boch, and the Hay are mentioned among 

 the bounds, 



*> Whalley Coueh.m, 881. John de Bar- 

 ton in this as in other deeds is described 

 as ' son and heir ' of Sir Gilbert, though 

 Agnes is called ' daughter and heir.' The 

 Barton fee released to Robert Grelley 

 (who died in 1282) comprised, in addition 

 to Barton proper, the whole or parts of 

 AspuU, Brinsop, Westhoughton, Hul- 

 ton, Halliwell, Breightmet, Farnworth, 

 Northdene, Eccles, Monton, Worsley, 

 Westwood, Winton, Newham, Irlam, 



Bromyhurst, Davyhulme, Dumplington, 

 Whit tie 8 wick, and Crompton with Bele- 

 moor. These were held by various ten- 

 ures ; the knight's fee and a half held of 

 the barony of Manchester is supposed to 

 have been originally constituted as follows: 

 Barton, Eccles, Dumplington, Farnworth, 

 Westhoughton, Brinsop, AspuU, and 

 Heaton under Horwich — one fee j and 

 Irlam, Davyhulme, Bromyhurst, Newham, 

 Winton, Monton, and Whittlcswick — 

 half a fee ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 54 ; 

 Mamecestre, li, 379, where eight oxgangs 

 of land in the last-named hamlets and in 

 Barton are said to have rendered the 

 service for the half-fee in 1322. 



By another charter John son and heir 

 of Sir Gilbert de Barton granted to Robert 

 Grelley the services of David de Hulton, 

 Roger de Pcndlebury, Richard de Urms- 

 ton, Robert de Hulton, Germain de 

 Newham, Richard de Winton, Roger de 

 Eccles (chaplain), William de Eccles 

 (clerk), larfrid de Barton, Ellis de Barton, 

 William son of Stephen de Barton, 

 Thomas son of Adam de Hulme, Adam 

 son of Thomas de Hulme, Alexander the 

 Mey, Robert de Birches, John son of 

 Ralph the Ferryman, Adam son of Henry 

 de Irlam and John de Bromyhurst ; De 

 Trafford D. no. 201. In the same col- 

 lection (202-205) are the charter cited 

 above from the ff^balley Couch, and others 

 connected with the transfer. In 1302 

 John de Barton released to Thomas 

 Grelley all his claim arising from the 

 withdrawal, after the death of Sir Robert 

 Grelley, of a robe of the suit of his es- 

 quires and of maintenance for a groom 

 and horse ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 151. 



Sir Gilbert had a brother William, who 

 died without issue ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 6, m, 2d. (Sept. 1357); yet 

 two years earlier (1355) John de Barton 

 had claimed a messuage and lands against 

 Richard son of William de Barton ; ibid, 

 R. 4^ m. 5. 



2^ Sir Gilbert de Barton granted to 

 Agnes, his 'daughter and heir,' for her 

 marriage a moiety of the vill of Barton 

 in homages and services, of Dumplington 

 and Hulme in demesnes and services, of 

 Irlam, &c., in services ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, 

 fol. 150. He granted her wardship to 

 Sir John de Blackburn, and she was to 

 be married to his eldest son and heir ; 

 ibid. 150 ^. Sir John, however, released 

 to Sir Thomas Grelley the said wardship 

 and marriage ; ibid. 



There was another daughter Alice, who 

 made grants of land near Boysnope ; De 

 Trafford D. no. 206-09 i ^^^° ^ daughter 

 Amery ; Assize R, 408, m. 16. 



^^ It appears that Agnes was married to 

 John Grelley, whose place in the Grelley 

 pedigree is unknown ; for Loretta, daugh- 

 ter of John Grelley, was in 1292 a 

 plaintiff in a Barton case ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 4 d. Agnes, as daughter of Gilbert de 

 Barton, was plaintiff from 1275 onwards 

 in various suits respecting the manor. 

 Against Peter Grelley, uncle of Robert, 

 she sought half the manor in 1275, ^^^ 



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