A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



cruelly ill-treated the adherents to Parliament ; yet 

 he was sequestered only as a recusant, and he under- 

 valued his estate, which was worth j^ 1,500 a year.'^° 

 His lands in the counties of Stafford, Lancaster, 

 Chester, Derby, and Flint were declared forfeit and 

 sold for the benefit of the Navy.^^ As in other cases, 

 however, they were recovered,^^ and he was succeeded 

 by his sons Walter and William. The latter, the 

 last male representative of the family, died in 1717. 

 By his first will, dated 17 12, he left his estates to his 

 niece Katherine, wife of John Betham, who took the 

 name of Fowler, and as a * papist ' registered his estate 

 in 1717, Pendleton being included.^^ He left as heir 

 an only daughter Katherine, who in 1726 married 

 Thomas Belasyse, fourth Viscount Fauconberg.^* 



William Fowler had, however, secretly made a 

 second will in 1715, by which a nephew, Thomas 

 Grove, son of the testator's elder sister Dorothy, be- 

 came entitled to a moiety of the estate. This will 

 was at first overlooked,^* but brought forward in 1729, 

 and, after a suit in Chancery, and an appeal to the 

 House of Lords, was established ; Rebecca, the 



daughter and heir of Thomas Grove, being in 1733 

 declared co-heir." She had married Richard Fitz- 

 Gerald, an Irish barrister.''^ * Dying sine prole, he 

 bequeathed the manor of Pendleton . . . and certain 

 other Fowler estates in Staffordshire, to his relatives 

 the FitzGeralds, who still retain possession.' '^ The 

 present representative of the family is Mr, Gerald 

 Purcell FitzGerald, of the Island, Waterford, who 

 owns a considerable estate in the township. 



The HOPE in Pendleton appears to be the estate 

 of two oxgangs of land held by Ellis de Pendlebury 

 in 1 2 1 2 of lorwerth de Hulton by a rent of 4/.^* It 

 was afterwards held by the Radcliffes, who succeeded 

 the Hultons at Ordsall, but by the greatly increased 

 service of ^4 2/,^" It seems to have been acquired 

 by a branch of the Bradshaw family." In the i8th 

 century it was purchased by Daniel Bayley of Man- 

 chester, whose son succeeded him ; but it was again 

 sold on the latter's death in 1802.^^ 



BRINDLACHEj a name represented by Brindle 

 Heath, was leased and then purchased by the Lang- 

 leys of Agecroft.^^ Windlehey descended with this 



^ CaU of Com. for Compounding, iii, 

 1891— 6. AJnong other complaints against 

 him was one that he, * being admitted 

 tenant to his own estate, put the tenants 

 to rack rents **to screw up the fifths." ' 

 la 1654 there was granted the discharge 

 from sequestration of lands in Pendleton 

 Pool, Eccles Parish, bought by John 

 Wildman. 



In 1 65 1 Constance wife of Walter 

 Fowler had been allowed her fifth of 

 her husband's sequestrated estate j ibid. 

 V, 3289. 



^ Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 30. 



^A pedigree was recorded in 1663; 

 Staffi. Coll. (Wm. Salt Soc.),v(2), 134-7. 

 Walter Fowler died in 1684, and his son 

 Walter about 1695. 



23 Estcourt and Payne, Engl, Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 115. Katherine, who died in 

 1725, was the daughter of William 

 Fowler's younger sister Magdalen, whose 

 husband's name was Cassey. 



** In a fine of 1733, after the decision 

 of the lawsuit narrated in the text, the 

 deforciants of the manor of Pendleton 

 alias Pendleton Pool, and lands there, 

 were Thomas, Viscount Fauconberg, and 

 Katherine his wife ; Pal. of Lane, Feet 

 of F. bdle. 307, m. 130. 



^^ The will remained in the custody of 

 the lawyer who drew it up, Christopher 

 Ward of Stafford. After his death it was 

 discovered by his son Edward, who com- 

 municated with Lord Aston, the principal 

 Fowler trustee, and he in turn laid it be- 

 fore Richard FitzGerald, who saw that 

 Rebecca Grove would be entitled to a 

 moiety of the estate at her father's death, 

 and married her; Gillow, op. cit. 73, 

 quoting Clifford's Par. of Tixall, 39, 



^ The father had died during the pro- 

 gress of the suit. 



It is said to have been disgust at the 

 result of the suit that led Lord Fauconberg 

 to sell his Lancashire estates and renounce 

 his religion ; but SmithiUs had been sold 

 earlier ; he conformed to the Established 

 Church in 1737, being rewarded with an 

 earldom. He is said to have returned to 

 the Roman communion on his death-bed, 



J774- 



^•7 He was the eldest son of Colonel 

 Nicholas FitzGerald, who was slain at the 

 battle of the Eoyne, fighting for Jas. II, 



In a fine relating to the moiety of 



Pendleton in 1734, Richard FitzGerald 

 and Rebecca his wife were deforciants ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle, 321, m, 72, 



28 Gillow, op, cit. 156. 



2^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 65, See 

 also Pipe R. 5 Hen. Ill, m. 4d. 



30 Among the forfeited lands of Sir 

 Robert de Holland in 1324 was the manor 

 of Hope, farmed to Richard de Hulton at 

 62s. 2d. a year ; L.T.R. Enr, Accts. Misc. 

 no. 14, m. 76 d. (2). Richard de Radcliffe 

 of Ordsall, who died in 1380, held in the 

 Hope a messuage and 60 acres of arable 

 land by the service of ^^4 a year ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Chet, Soc), i, 8. The state- 

 ment is repeated later, the service being 

 corrected to £^ zs. ; ibid, i, 148 (the 

 'manor' of Hope); ii, 124, 



A family took a surname from this 

 place. In 1346-8 Henry de Hope was 

 charged with 6d. (? 6s.) for castle ward on 

 account of a meadow in Pendleton held 

 by him; Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146; 

 Sheriff's Compotus, 1348. John Hope 

 of Pendleton occurs in 1448 5 Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 11, m. 26. 



31 A chief rent of 25. 6d. was paid to 

 the Duchy for William Bradshaw's land 

 in Pendleton in the time of Elizabeth ; 

 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1770), i, 447, Law- 

 rence Bradshaw contributed to the subsidy 

 of 1622 as a landowner ; Mise, (Rec. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 154. The family 

 recorded a pedigree in 1665 ; Dugdale, 

 Visit. (Chet. Soc), 53, 



Another Bradshaw family resided at 

 Newhall, Pendleton, George Bradshaw 

 contributed to the above subsidy, *for 

 goods.' Richard Bradshaw of Newhall 

 and Robert his son occur in a deed in 

 1619. In 1633 Anne Bradshaw, widow, 

 had from William Dauntcsey of Agecroft 

 a lease of lands in Pendleton for the lives 

 of Robert, Miles, and Thomas, children 

 of Miles Bradshaw, deceased, Robert 

 Bradshaw was living in 1696, aged 68 ; 

 Agecroft D. no. 225, 



Bradshaws occur as late as 1744 ; 

 Eccles Ch. Notes, 55. 



82 See E. Axon, Bayley Family (1894). 

 James Bayley, a prosperous Whig mer- 

 chant of Manchester, was in 1745 com- 

 pelled by the Young Pretender to raise 

 j^2,5oo as a contribution to his funds. 

 His eldest son Daniel, who purchased and 

 rebuilt Hope Hall, was one of the wor- 



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shippers at Cross Street Chapel, Man- 

 chester, where he is supposed to have been 

 buried. He was an uncle of Robert Clive, 

 afterwards Lord Clive, and sheltered and 

 educated him as his own son. 



This son, Thomas Butterworth Bayley, 

 the only surviving child, was born in 1744, 

 educated at the University of Edinburgh, 

 was a trustee of Cross Street Chapel, but 

 conformed to the Established Church, and 

 became one of the leading men of the dis- 

 trict. He paid a rent of ^^4 41, to the 

 Duchy for Hope in 1779 ; Duchy of Lane, 

 Rentals, bdle. 14, no, 25. He was 

 elected F.R.S, in 1773, and died 24 June 

 1802. He took part in the philanthropic 

 and patriotic efforts of his time, his 

 special interests being agriculture and the 

 improvement of prisons. He published 

 several pamphlets. Of his sons and 

 grandsons several rose to distinction in 

 the service of the state and the Church. 

 See Baker, Mem, Dissenting Chapel, 87 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



^ Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, in 1292 

 granted to Adam de Prestwich a piece of 

 moorland in the waste of Salford, which 

 from the later descent appears to be Brind- 

 lache. The bounds were thus described : 

 From the corner of the ditch of Blackhow 

 riding down to Wodarneley and to Wo- 

 darneford in the Irwell ; by the Irwell up 

 to the beginning of Pendlebury ; up the 

 boundary of Pendlebury to Alvene mere, 

 and so to the ditch of Pendleton ; down 

 to the ditch to the starting-point. The 

 rent was to be 6s. %d. See Lanes, and 

 Ches. Antiq. Soc. v, 251, where a facsimile 

 of the deed (Agecroft collection) is given. 



Alice de Prestwich in 1 3 24 held Brind- 

 lache by the yearly service of 6s. %d. ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 39. Maud widow 

 of Richard de Lynales paid zs. in 1348 

 for 2 acres of land ; while Richard de 

 Windle paid loj. for 10 acres of the waste 

 at Brindlache and near Newhall ; Sheriff's 

 Compotus of 22 Edw, III, 



Robert Langley had in 1437 a lease 

 for twenty years of 20 acres of pasture in 

 Brindlache, previously held by the Prior 

 of St. Thomas, at an increased rent 

 amounting in all to i6j. ; Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep. xl, App. 534. In 1453 another lease 

 of Brindlache and an adjacent parcel called 

 Windleshay was granted to James Langley 

 at 401. rent ; Agecroft D. no. 78. By the 



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