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estate." A branch of the Holland family was seated 

 at Newhall in Pendleton." 



In 1423 Robert Orrell and Margaret his wife made 

 a settlement of their estate in Salford, Pendleton, and 

 Pendlebury.'' 



LITTLE BOLTON, held by William de Bolton in 

 1 200, was assessed as six oxgangs of land, and held of 



the king in chief in fee farm by a rent of 1 8/." The 

 Boltons were about 1 350 succeeded by the Gawen 

 family, who continued to hold the whole or part for 

 about two centuries." The more recent history is un- 

 certain. The Valentines of BentcliiFe acquired two- 

 thirds ; " and the Goodens or Gooldens, a recusant 

 family, were seated here in the 1 6th and 1 7th centuries.** 



Act of Resumptioa of 1464, a ^10 annuity 

 was secured to Thomas Langlejr, granted 

 by letters patent on farms in Pendleton 

 and pastures called Brindlache and Win- 

 dlehey ; Rolls of Pari, v, 247. 



In 1539 Henry VIII gave a lease of 

 Brindlache and Windkhey to Robert 

 Langley at 421. rent, but six years after- 

 wards he sold the land for ^42 ; Agecroft 

 D. no. m, 112, 116, 1 17. For a com- 

 plaint against Robert Langley in 1546 

 respecting this land see Duchy Plead, (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 2x4, 



** By settlements of 1561 Brindlache 

 and Windlehey, with a slight exception, 

 were to descend to Anne daughter of 

 I Robert Langley of Agecroft, with remain- 

 der to another daughter, Margaret wife 

 of John Reddish ; Agecroft D. no. 132, 

 129. 



In 1623 it was found that William 

 Dauntesey of Agecroft held Windlehey of 

 the king by a rent of i zd. ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.}, iii, 



3+9- 



'5 The origin of this branch of the Hol- 

 land family is unknown. 



In 1534 the Prior of St. Thomas's 

 leased to Otho son of George Holland of 

 Eccles land in Pendleton ; the term was 

 eighty years, but renewable up to 240 

 years ; Clowes D. (recited in a deed of 

 17 19). Otho Holland contributed, *for 

 goods,' to the subsidy of 1541 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 141. In 

 1597 Otho Holland of Newhall was con- 

 tracted to marry Katherine daughter of 

 George Linne of Southwick, Notts. ; 

 Clowes D. 



Otho Holland died in 1620 seised of 

 Garthall Houses in Pendleton, with land 

 attached, held of the king as of his manor 

 of Salford by a rent of ^d. His heir was 

 his son George, not quite of age ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii. 



In. 1699 Sir Edward Coke of Langford 

 leased Drinkwater's tenement in Pendle- 

 ton to Otho Holland, wlio agreed, among 

 other things, ' to plant yearly during the 

 term in some part of the premises four 

 good plants of oak, ash, or elm, and eight 

 more boughs of poplar, and to do his best 

 to preserve them from spoil' ; Manch. 

 Free Lib. D. no. 109. Alice widow and 

 executrix of Otho Holland was party to a 

 deed in 17 15 providing for the issue of his 

 daughters — Mary wife of Robert Cooke ; 

 Elizabeth wife of John Fletcher ; and 

 Alice wife of Robert Philips ; ibid. no. 

 III. 



In later times what was called the Old 

 Hall was a residence built about 1760, 

 and in the possession of the Barrow 

 family ; while the New Hall, pulled down 

 in 1872, was a farm-house, built in 164.0 

 on the site, as it is supposed, of an older 

 house. 



w Final Cone, iii, 89. 



•7 King John while Count of Mortain 

 made a grant of this estate to William son 

 of Adam, and confirmed it in 120X, after 

 he had come to the throne ; Chart* R, 

 90A ; Lanes. Pipe R, 132. In 1212 Wil- 

 liam de Bolton was dead, and his heir was 



in ward of the king ; the estate is called 

 one oxgang only 5 Lanes, Inq. and Extents^ 

 iy 71. The wardship was granted to Adam 

 de Pendlebury in 1216 ; Rot. Lit. Glaus. 

 (Rec. Com.), 251. To the canons of 

 Cockersand William son of Adam de Bol- 

 ton granted the Tanner's assart in Little 

 Bolton, the bounds being Bindley (? Brad- 

 ley) syke, the carr, Croshaw oak, Brandale 

 clough, Brendoak clough, Rushylache, the 

 ditch, and Bradley syke ; common rights, 

 including quittance of pannage for sixty 

 pigs, were also allowed ; Coekersand Chart. 



",703- 



Richard son of William de Bolton oc- 

 curs in 124.1 ; Final Cone, i, 80. In 1324 

 another Richard de Bolton held Little 

 Bolton in thegnage by the service of l%s. 

 a year; Dods. MSS, cxxxi, fol. 37^, 

 About the same time Richard de Bolton 

 granted to his son Henry a messuage 

 which Richard the Miller had held, to- 

 gether with half of the grantor's lands in 

 the hamlet of Bolton in the vill of Pen- 

 dleton, his capital messuage and an acre 

 near the Pool bridge being excepted ; 

 Vawdrey D. In 1326 Richard released 

 to his son Henry all his right in the ham- 

 let of Little Bolton ; ibid. 



In 1332 Henry son of Richard de 

 Bolton was plaintiff in a suit respecting 

 four messuages and 30 acres in Pendleton, 

 Thurstan son of Margaret de Worsley 

 being defendant ; De Banco R. 288, m. 

 55 d. Thurstan is no doubt Thurstan de 

 Holland, ancestor of the Denton family. 

 Richard de Bolton in 1 3 1 g-20 had granted 

 to Thurstan son of Margaret de Shores- 

 worth a part of his land in Bolton In 

 Pendleton ; and Thomas, the grantor's 

 son, quitclaimed Thurstan in 1 3 3 9 ; Harl. 

 MS. 2112, fol. 146/182. Thurstan de 

 Holland in 1324 paid 6s. Zd. a year 

 * foreign rent ' belonging to the manor of 

 Hope ; L.T.R. Enr. Accts, Misc. no. 14, 

 m. 76 d. In the Survey of 1346 appears 

 z8j., the rent of Thurstan de Holland {2 

 or 3 oxgangs), Henry de Bolton (3 ox- 

 gangs), and Ralph de Prestwich (i oxgang), 

 for their tenements in Bolton near Eccles ; 

 Add. MS. 32103, foL 146. Ralph de 

 Prestwich also held 6 acres of the waste, 

 called Bradley, by charter of Sir Robert 

 de Holland at a rent of 3^. 2d. ; ibid. 



Alice widow of Richard son of Henry 

 de Bolton released to Henry the son of 

 Richard all her claim to dower in Litley 

 in Little Bolton 5 Vawdrey D. Henry 

 in 1357 made a settlement of his mes- 

 suage, mill, and land ; Final Cone, il, 153. 

 The remainders were to Henry son of 

 John Gawen the Harper — probably a 

 grandson — and his issue ; in default to 

 Thomas and Richard brothers of Henry 

 de Bolton. 



^ John Gawen or Gowyn, sometimes 

 called the Harper, and Agnes his wife had 

 lands in Davyhulme in 1354; Agecroft 

 D. no, 337. John Gawen in 1357 leased 

 to Adam de Ainsworth land in Little 

 Bolton, between Bolton Brook and Shores- 

 worth Brook, at a rent of 241. and the 

 service of a reaper for one day in the year; 

 Vawdrey D. A grant of 9 acres of the 

 waste of Pendleton at a rent of 4^. was 



395 



made in 1359 to John Gawen and his 

 issue ; Dep. Keepers Rep. xxxii, App. 



340- 



Henry son of John Gawen acquired a 

 messuage and lands from Henry de Mon- 

 ton and Olive his wife in 1358 ; Final 

 Cone, ii, 158. A settlement of lands 

 between Shoresworth Brook and the Mill- 

 brook was made in 1390, in favour of 

 Henry Gawen and Ellen his wife ; Vaw- 

 drey D. Henry died in July 1398, and 

 his widow Kllcn was claiming dower as 

 late as 1430 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, 

 App. 31. 



Richard son of Henry Gawen had a 

 grant of land in the south-west comer of 

 Pendleton from his father in 1390 on his 

 marriage with Emanie daughter of Richard 

 de Holland ; one of the boundaries was 

 Bibbylumn on BentcliiFe Brook ; Vaw- 

 drey D. Richard Gawen made a feoff- 

 ment of certain lands in 1434, and other 

 deeds of his are extant, dated 1441, 1445, 

 and 1447 ; Vawdrey D. In 1445-6 he 

 held Little Bolton in socage, paying a rent 

 of i%s. ; Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees 

 2/20. In the Cockersand rentals of 145 1— 

 1537 various Richard Gawens held the 

 abbey's lands in Pendleton at a rent of 

 l2d.\ Ckartul. iv, 1238-41. 



In a grant of lands in Little Bolton in 

 145 1 the remainders were to Richard 

 Gawen for life, and then to William son 

 and heir of Thurstan Gawen, and to 

 Katherine, Margery, and Elizabeth, sisters 

 of William ; Vawdrey D. Richard Gawen 

 occurs in 1496 ; ibid. Three years after- 

 wards John Legh, son and heir apparent 

 of Margery daughter and one of the heirs 

 of Thurstan Gawen, released his claim to 

 Thurstan's lands in Little Bolton in 

 favour of his mother, then wife of Thomas 

 Smethwiek j ibid. 



8' In the time of Queen Elizabeth 

 Thomas Valentine paid a chief rent of 

 28j. 3^/. for two parts of Gawen's lands, 

 and Adam Hill and Edmund Gooden paid 

 141. zd. for the other part ; Baines, I,<z«ci. 

 (ed. 1870), i, 447. 



<" There is a notice of the family in 

 Gillow, Bill. Diet, of Engl. Cath. ii, 524. 

 Isabel Gooden, widow, and Janet and 

 Jane her daughters had in 1560 a lease of 

 a messuage in Broomhouse Lane, which 

 Janet in 1595, as widow of "Thomas 

 Travers, transferred to her son Edmund 

 Travers, Edmund Gooden being a wit- 

 ness ; Vawdrey D. 



Edmund Gooden of Little Bolton com- 

 plained in 1566 that certain persons had 

 made a great ditch across the way from 

 his house to the church of Eccles, and 

 had stopped up other ways also. His 

 landlord, Thomas Billott, resided in Wales. 

 In defence Robert Barlow and Edmund 

 Parkington said that they had allowed the 

 tenants of Edmund Gooden to pass 

 through their lands to the church and 

 to carry fuel, but when this permission 

 was claimed as a right they withdrew 

 it ; Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. Ixvii, 

 G.4. 



In 1619 Edmund Gooden of Little 

 Bolton purchased lands in Highfield and 

 Pendleton ; Vawdrey D. Next year he 



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