A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the tenant. Afterwards Sweyn had it, and in 1212 

 it was held in thegnage by Gilbert de Notion, in right 

 of his wife Edith de Barton, by a rent of 4;." In 

 1222 there were two under-tenants, Geoffrey de 

 Dutton and Alexander de Cadishead, each apparently 

 paying 2/. yearly." Before this date Edith de Barton 

 had granted to the monks of Stanlaw the land which 

 Alexander held of her, they paying the king the 

 customary rent of 2/.'^ Afterwards 'the land of 

 Cadishead ' was granted to the monks by William de 

 Ferrers, with the assent of Agnes his wife, at a rent 

 of 6s, %d, a year ; " this rent he released about 1240, 

 after the death of his son's wife Sibyl, and the monks 

 held in frankalmoign.®^ In the sheriffs compotus of 

 1348 the 4J. thegnage rent was still found charged 

 against the Abbot of Whalley, but on the abbot's 

 producing the second charter of William de Ferrers, 

 showing that he held in alms, the 4/. was deleted. 

 fVOOLDEN appears as Vulueden in 1299. In 1331 



John son of John de Woolden made an agreement 

 with Adam son of Thomas de Holcroft respecting 

 land by the Glazebrook.®* On the suppression of the 

 abbey, Cadishead, with Great and Little Woolden, 

 was granted to Sir Thomas Holcroft," but appears to 

 have been transferred by him to the Holcrofts of 

 Holcroft. Like Holcroft Hall it was in 1619 in the 

 possession of Ralph Calveley of Saighton, near Ches- 

 ter, being held of the king in chief by the fortieth 

 part of a knight's fee.*^ In the i8th century it was 

 held by the Poole family,®' and was afterwards sold 

 to the Bridgewater Trustees. 



DJFTHULME^''^ was a portion of the original 

 Barton fee. It gave the surname of Hulme to a 

 family, or probably two distinct families, who held 

 lands of the Bartons and their successors in title, the 

 lords of Manchester. ^"^ But little is known of them, 

 though they continued to hold lands here till the 

 I 8th century.**** Inquisitions were taken in 1600 and 



'^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 66. The 

 jury did not know how the land had been 

 alienated from the king's service. The 

 land is called * one oxgang.* Edwin the 

 carpenter had held it * by the service of 

 making carpentry in the king's castle of 

 West Derby' ; ibid. 133. If Sweynwas 

 the son of Leysing (see above) the King 

 Henry who granted Cadishead to Edwin 

 was probably Henry I. 



^'^ Ibid, i, 133. That each paid zj. is 

 inferred from the rent of 4J. due from 

 the whole of Cadishead (ibid. 137), and 

 from Edith de Barton's charter to Stan- 

 law, in which it is stated that Alexander 

 held a moiety. 



98 Whalley Couch, ii, ^21. 



w Ibid. 519. The 6s. $d. would include 

 the 25. due from the moiety the monks 

 already held ; how they acquired the 

 other moiety is not apparent, unless it 

 had in some way escheated to William de 

 Ferrers, who thereupon granted it to them 

 at an increased rent. 



9* Ibid. 520. William de Ferrers died 

 in 1247 ; his son William had by Mar- 

 garet, his second wife, a son Robert, born 

 in 1241, so that Sibyl, the first wife, must 

 have died earlier than that year. 



At Cadishead in 1291 the monks were 

 said to hold two plough-lands worth40j. a 

 year j they had 40J. also from the profits 

 of the store cattle ; ibid, i, 335. About 

 1540 the tenants at will, nine in number, 

 paid ^j OS, yd. a year ; ibid, iv, 1240. 



96 Kuerden MSS. iv, G. 5. 



97 Pat. 3 1 Hen. VIII, pt, 5 ; Lanes, and 

 Chcs, Rec, (Ree. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ii, 382. For subsequent disputes see 

 Ducatus Lane, iii, 95, 129, &c. 



98 Lanes, Inq. p,m, (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 a>nd Ches.), ii, 260. He seems to have 

 held it as trustee of Dame Alice Fitton, 

 the daughter and heir of Sir John Hol- 

 croft of Holcroft. His son John suc- 

 ceeded him, and was tenant at his death 

 in 1634, when Charles I granted Great 

 and Little Woolden and Cadishead to Sir 

 Kenelm Digby; Pat. 9 Chas. I, pt, 5; 

 CaL S.P. Dom. 1631-3, p. 41. The jury 

 in 1634 found that John Calveley was a 

 bastard 5 Lanes, and Ches, Rec. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches,), ii, 346. 



Edward Calveley died in 1636 possessed 

 of the Cadishead lands j his son and heir 

 John was then seventeen years of age ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, 75, 

 John Calveley's lands were sequestered by 

 the Parliamentary authorities, but the 

 Holcrofts appear about 1652 to have tried 



to regain possession ; Exch, Deps. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 28, 129, 35 ; 

 Cal. Exch. Pleas, C. 4. In the reference 

 last given Cadishead is called a manor. 

 The Holcrofts retained or recovered part 

 of their estate, as Woolden is named in 

 1652 and 1680 as part of their property ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 152, m. 

 jj ; bdle. 204, m, II, 35, In 1700 it 

 was owned by Richard Calveley, who sold 

 Great Woolden to — Poole of Warring- 

 ton ; Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1868), i, 595. 



99 The manor of Cadishead and mes- 

 suages, water-mill, lands, &c. in Cadis- 

 head and Glazebrook were in 1723 settled 

 upon Edward Poole and Mary his wife j 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 289, m. 

 73. Cudworth Poole, the son, vicar of 

 Eccles, died at Great Woolden Hall in 

 1768. For the family see Ormerod, 

 Ches. (ed. Helsby), i, 583 j iii, 461. 



Little Woolden was sold by Richard 

 Calveley to — Leach of Warrington, and 

 was owned In 1868 by John Arthur 

 Borron of Warrington ; Baines, Lanes. 

 (ed. 1868), i, 596. 



100 Hulme was the usual name j Dew- 

 hulm, 1313; Defehulme, 1434; Deaf- 

 hulme, 1559: Devyhulme, 1737. 



"^^^ Gilbert de Barton granted to 

 Thomas Grelley, who died in 1262, two 

 oxgangs of land held by Adam de Hulme ; 

 and about 1270 the homages of Thomas 

 son of Adam de Hulme and of Adam 

 son of Thomas de Hulme were named 

 in the grant by John de Barton to Ro- 

 bert Grelley; De Trafford D. no. 190, 

 201. Adam de Hulme was a plaintiff in 

 1276-8, in respect of common of pasture 

 in Barton ; Assize R. 1235, m. 11 j 4^5) 

 m. 4d. 



^*'^ John de Hulme made a grant of part 

 of Whittleswick, apparently before 1217 ; 

 De Trafford D. no. 280, By a deed 

 dated 1222 (* anno regni regis Henrici 

 septimo ') Thomas de Hulme granted to 

 his brother Richard a moiety of his 

 mother's dower, viz. a sixth, part of his 

 land in Hulme with half of his share in 

 Saltey, viz. one acre, which his father 

 John had divided with Eda, lady of Bar- 

 ton ; a rent of zod, was payable ; De 

 Trafford D. no. 250. Robert son of 

 Richard de Hulme in 1295-6 granted a 

 half of his land in Hulme and Saltey to 

 Margaret, daughter of Germain de New- 

 ham, and her heirs by Thomas son of 

 Thomas de Hulme; ibid. no. 251. Richard 

 de Hulme was a witness, and Robert was 

 a clerk. Thomas de Hulme and John his 



372 



brother attested a Barton grant made 

 earlier than 1262 ; ibid. no. 196. 



There were several Adams. In 1278 

 Adam de Hulme complained of disseisin 

 by Robert Grelley in Hulme and Barton ; 

 Assize R. 1238, m. 31. Alice daughter 

 of Gilbert de Barton, widow, granted to 

 Adam son of Simon de Hulme land in 

 Saltey near Boysnope ; Adam * the Earl ' 

 (comes) of Hulme was a witness ; De 

 Trafford D. no. 206, Stephen de Barton 

 granted to Robert son of Simon de 

 Hulme 3 acres in Hulme, lying between 

 the Limme and the street ; W. Farrer 

 D. The estates of Adam the Earl (• le 

 Horl' ; De Trafford D, no. 298) seem 

 to have gone to a Birches family, for 

 Ellen widow of Robert del Birches in 

 1309 released to Robert son of Sir Henry 

 de Trafford all her right in the lands In 

 Hulme formerly belonging to Adam ' le 

 Erie ' by charter of Gilbert de Barton ; 

 and Alexander de Birches did the same ; 

 ibid, no, 252, 253. Joan widow of 

 Alexander and Robert his son, a minor, 

 occur in 1 3 1 1 ; De Banco R, 1 84, m. 113. 

 Robert de Birches made an exchange with 

 Adam de Hulme, including an oxgang of 

 land in * Ruchfinee ' ; C. of Wards, 

 Deeds, and Evidences, box 153, no. 6. 

 There was also in 1324 an Adam son of 

 Adam son of Roger de Hulme ; Assize R. 

 426, m. 9. 



Thomas de Hulme was in 1292 

 acquitted of a share in the death of 

 Alexander de Barlow ; ibid, 408, m. 

 20. He was probably the Thomas son of 

 Adam to whom Agnes de Barton released 

 all claim on lands in Hulme and Barton ; 

 De Trafford D. no. 208, In 1313 he 

 was a plaintiff, John La Warre and Joan 

 his wife being defendants ; while eleven 

 years later there were other disputes 

 between the latter pair and Thomas de 

 Hulme and his wife Ellen ; Assize R. 

 424, m. 1 1 ; 426, m. 9 d, 6, 27. Thomas 

 was living in 1338, when he attempted to 

 recover land in Barton against tJie La 

 Warres ; but the writ was quashed for a 

 grammatical error — * Queatus est nobis 

 Thomas de Hulme et Elena uxor ejus ' ; 

 ibid. 1425, m. 6. His son John in 

 1339 had 'the sixth part of the manor of 

 Barton * settled upon him by his parents, 

 Thomas being here called * the elder * ; 

 Final Cone, ii, III. In the same year 

 Thomas granted to a trustee all his lands 

 in Barton, together with the reversion of 

 the dower of Margery widow of Robert 

 de Hulme. De Trafford D, no. 216. 



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