A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



WEJSTE, i.e. the Waste, is mentioned in the year 

 1570." 



Humphrey Booth of Salford," Roger Downes of 

 Wardley," and Richard Pendleton," held lands in the 

 township in the time of Charles I. In 1784 the 

 principal landowners were John FitzGerald, John Gore 

 Booth, and Thomas Butterworth Bayley ; Miss Byrom, 

 Thomas Chorlton of Weaste, — Valentine, — Cal- 

 vert, and many others had smaller shares.*' 



The Duchy of Lancaster has an estate in Pendleton ; 

 the rents in 1858 amounted to over ^^ 1,000." 



In 1444 there was a serious affray at Pendleton, 

 several men being killed." 



A chantry chapel was founded in Pendleton about 

 1220, but nothing further seems known of it.'' 



A considerable number of churches have been 

 erected in modem times, to accommodate the growing 

 population. In connexion with the Established 

 Church the first St. Thomas's, at Brindle Heath, was 

 acquired in 1776 and the second was built on the 

 present site in 1831 ;" the old building is used as 

 a chapel of ease, and called St. Anne's ; the Vicar of 

 Eccles is patron of this. The Crown and the Bishop 

 of Manchester present alternately to St. Paul's, Pad- 

 dington, built in 1856.'° St. George's, Charlestown, 

 was built in 1858 ;" St. James's, Hope, in 1861 ;" 

 St. Luke's, Weaste, in 1865 ;" St. Barnabas's and 

 St. Ambrose's, both in 1887. The Bishop of Man- 

 chester collates to St. George's and St. Barnabas's ; 

 St. James's and St. Luke's are in the gift of trustees. 



The Wesleyans are said to have been the first 

 possessors of old St. Thomas's, built about 1760 ; they 

 now have a church dating from 1814, and four others 

 more recently built; The United Free Methodists 

 have three churches, the Primitive Methodists and the 

 New Connexion two each, and the Independent 

 Methodists one. 



The Congregationalists had a preaching station at 

 Irlams-o'-th'-Height about 1825, but no permanent 

 church followed at that time. At Charlestown a 

 Sunday school was begun in 1829, and next year 

 public services were held, a church being formed in 

 1836 ; a place of worship in Broad Street was built 

 in 1847-9. At Charlestown itself a church was 

 built in 1 864, and a school chapel at Seedley ten 

 years later." At Weaste is the Lightbowne memorial 

 church. 



The Baptists have a chapel here. The Society of 

 Friends have also a meeting-place. 



At Seedley Grove is a place of worship of the 

 Presbyterian Church of England, founded in 1 871. 



The Swedenborgians have a temple called New 

 Jerusalem in Broad Street. 



The Roman Catholic Church of the Mother of God 

 and St. James, Seedley, was built in 1875 ; the mission 

 began in 1858. AU Souls', Weaste, was opened in 

 1892. In 1898 the Dominicans took over the 

 struggling mission of St. Charles in the north of the 

 township, and have built the church of St. Sebas- 

 tian. 



died seised of various lands in Little 

 Bolton held of the king as of his manor 

 of Salford in socage by a rent of 35. 4^/. ; 

 also of lands in Monton and Winton ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. {Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 209. Edmund his son and heir, 

 then twenty-two years of age, died a year 

 after his father, leaving as heir his daughter 

 Ellen, eighteen months old ; his widow 

 Ellen was living at Little Bolton ; ibid, 

 ii, 242. By virtue of a settlement recited 

 in the inquisition the estate passed to 

 Thomas Gooden, younger brother of Ed- 

 mund, with remainders to Richard, John, 

 and Peter Gooden. Thomas Gooden 

 contributed as a landowner to the subsidy 

 of 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.], i, 154. In 1631 he paid ,^10 as 

 composition for declining knighthood ; 

 ibid, i, 215. 



Thomas Gooden, a recusant and delin- 

 quent, was in 1651 suspected of having 

 borne arms for the king, and his estate 

 was sequestrated by the Parliament ; 

 whereupon he petitioned. His brother 

 John had been wounded by some of Prince 

 Rupert's men. Another man altogether, 

 Lieut. Gooden, had taken part in the de- 

 fence of Lathom house ; Cat. of Com. for 

 Compounding, iv, 2723, 3160; Royalist 

 Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 iii, 81, 86. Thomas Gooden of Little 

 Bolton, Edmund his son (of TrafFord), and 

 Thomas Gooden of Pendlebury occur in 

 a deed of 1664. Richard Gooden of Pen- 

 dlebury, as a 'papist,' registered an es- 

 tate in Manchester in 1717 ; Estcourt 

 and Payne, Engl. Cath. Nonjurors, 153. 

 See also Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. 

 iv, no. 



In 1738 Thomas Gooden had lands in 

 Pendleton in the Old Hall (now the New 

 Hall) and Walness ; he was the grand- 

 nephew of Thomas Gooden of Pendleton; 

 Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 262, from 

 Roll 12 of Geo. II at Preston. At the 



expiry of a lease of the Old Hall in 1774 

 the tenant was of the same name ; Manch. 

 Guardian N. and Q.no. 1 1 2 3 . Three years 

 later Little Bolton Hall was sold by 

 Dorothy sister and heir of Thomas 

 Gooden and wife of Albert Hodshon of 

 Leighton, to Thomas Worsley ; Dorothy 

 had two daughters — Mary wife of Ralph 

 Standish of Standish, and Anne ; the for- 

 mer had a portion of ,^2,000 ; ibid, iii, 

 342, 344, from Roll 15 of Geo. II. In 

 the same volume (p. 236) is the will of 

 Richard Gooden of Pendlebury, 1728 ; 

 he had lands in Barton, Tottington, 

 Pendlebury, and Stretford ; Richard and 

 other sons are named. 



In 1 74 1 Thomas Starky of Preston 

 sold to Thomas Worsley the capital mes- 

 suage called Little Bolton Hall ; ibid, iii, 

 344, from Roll 15 of Geo. II. Samuel 

 Worsley paid a rent of 91. iid. to the 

 duchy for Little Bolton in 1779 ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Rentals, 14/25. 



■*^ John Gawen of Worsley and Robert 

 Barlow of Little Bolton were under bond 

 in 1570 to allow Thomas Tyldesley and 

 Margery his wife to occupy the mansion- 

 house called the Waste in Little Bolton 

 lately held by Ralph Malbon, former hus- 

 band of Margery ; John Gawen, however, 

 repudiated his liability ; Vawdrey D. 



Kuerden (iii, P 3) has preserved a grant 

 by William Benastre to Roger del Wood 

 and Isabel his wife, of Salefield under 

 Pendleton and adjoining Little Bolton. 



^2 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, 44 ; 

 messuages and lands in Pendleton, Pendle- 

 bury, Little Bolton, Sec, held of the king 

 as of his manor of Salford. 



*" Ibid, xxvii, 54. 



■" Ibid, xxix, 52 ; 4 acres held of the 

 king as of his manor of Salford in socage. 



*' Land Tax Returns at Preston. 



*^ House of Commons Return, 5, 6. 

 The report also gives particulars of a 

 number of sales of land. 



^7 Margaret widow of Ralph Oldham 

 said that on the Monday after Low Sun- 

 day, 1444, Thomas Booth of Barton, 

 Nicholas and Henry his sons, William 

 Gawen of Swinton and many others way- 

 laid and wounded her husband, so that he 

 died in the following July, The jury 

 acquitted most of the accused ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 8, m. 20. It was further 

 presented that Heniy son of Sir Thomas 

 Booth, with others, had shot at John 

 RadclifFe of Ordsall and killed him ; and 

 had inflicted a mortal wound on Nicholas 

 Johnson. In this case also there was an 

 acquittal; ibid. R. 9, m. 31^. At a 

 later assize, however, Henry and Nicholas 

 Booth were outlawed ; ibid. R. 1 1, m. 

 324. 



■" IFhalley Couch, i, 54 ; Richard de 

 Hulton would appoint the chaplain, who 

 was, however, to be approved by the 

 monks of Stanlaw. No injury was to be 

 done to the rights or dues of the parish 

 church. It was further provided that no 

 religious man should celebrate in the 

 chapel ; but secular priests, staying for a 

 short time as guests in the lord's house, 

 might celebrate during their visit. 



^ Sentence of consecration was passed 

 26 July 1776 ; Church P. at Chester. 

 James Pedley, M.A., of St Edmund Hall, 

 Oxford, was incumbent for forty-nine 

 years, dying in 1825. For over forty 

 years he was also an assistant master of 

 Manchester Grammar School, ' No man 

 could exceed him in attachment to the 

 constitution as established in church and 

 state'; Gent's Mag. July 1825. For 

 district see Lond. Gass. S Aug. 1865. 



'" The district was formed in 1 846 ; 

 Lond. Gax. 17 Jan. 



'1 For district ibid. 10 Mar. i860. 



'2 Ibid. 25 Mar. 1866. 



«» Ibid. 6 Feb, 1866, 



" Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf.y, 224-9. 



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