WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



up to Oxford in 1722,' and was elected to Parliament 

 soon after coming of age, serving for Wigan in 1727, 

 and for the county from 1736 to 1 741 and from 

 1750 to 1760.' He died in 1762, leaving six 

 daughters.' The eldest, Anna Maria, succeeded to 

 Bold and his other estates, and dying unmarried in 

 181 3, aged eighty-one,* was succeeded by Peter son 

 of Thomas Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington, by 

 Dorothea his wife, younger sister of Anna Maria 

 Bold. Peter, upon succeeding to the family estates 

 in 1814, took the surname of Bold. He served in 

 Parliament for various constituencies, and on his 

 death in 1 8 1 9,' left four daughters as coheirs. Of 

 these Mary, the eldest, succeeded to Bold. She 

 married at Florence, and afterwards at Farnworth, 

 Prince Sapieha of Poland, but died in 1824 without 

 issue. Bold then passed to her sister Dorothea, who 

 married Henry Hoghton, afterwards baronet ; he 

 subsequently assumed the name of Bold in addition to 

 his own surname.' Their son, Henry Bold-Hoghton, 

 sold the Bold estates in 1858 and later, and in 1862 

 discontinued the use of Bold as part of his sur- 

 name. The purchaser of Bold Hall, William Whitacre 

 Tipping,' died intestate in March, 1889, the estate 

 passing to the next of kin, Mrs. Wyatt, then of 

 Hawley Parsonage, Hampshire. About ten years 

 later, after various attempts had been made to dispose 

 of the estate, it was purchased by a syndicate, regis- 



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tered under the style of the Bold Hall Estate, Limited; 

 the hall, much dilapidated, was taken down, and a 

 colliery opened. 



The mansion was thus described in i860: 'The 

 hall stands on a gende elevation commanding ex- 

 tensive scenery to the south, extending over a fine 

 expanse of park to the distant hills of Cheshire ; to 

 the north and east it overlooks the pleasure grounds 

 and the finely timbered north park with its groves of 

 unrivalled oaks. It is a handsome, uniform, and very 

 substantial edifice, adorned with fine stone columns 

 and corresponding decorative dressings, designed and 

 erected about 1732 under the superintendence of the 

 eminent Italian architect Leoni.' * 



QUICK,^ now forgotten, was sometimes styled a 

 vill. About the reign of Henry II Tuger the Elder, 

 as lord of Bold, gave half a plough-land to Albert, 

 which was held by Albert's son Henry in 1212 

 by an annual service of ^s. dd}" This estate is identi- 

 fied as being in the Whike, because Henry son 

 of Albert was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey," 

 and their lands lay in the ' Quickfield.' A charter 

 of about 1270 shows that part of the Whike had 

 been recovered by the lord of Bold.'' Another portion 

 was held by the Rixton family." More than a century 

 later the messuage called the Whike was held of the 

 Bolds by Nicholas Penketh for a rent of [^\ 6s. id}* 



A local family took surname from it." 



^ Foster, Alumni Oxon.^ matriculated 

 at Brasenose, 2 Feb. 1721-2, aged sixteen. 

 The age must have been understated. 

 According to the Leeds parish registers 

 there was an elder brother Richard, born 

 13 June, 1700, at the house of Richard 

 Ashton of Gle'adow. 



^ Pink and Beavan, op. cit. ; he was a 

 Tory. For a settlement in 1725 see 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 296, 

 m. 56. 'Elizabeth Bold, widow,' is men- 

 tioned. 



^ Monument In Farnworth church. 

 He died in Great Russell Street, Blooms- 

 bury ; Gent. Mag. 1762. 



* Monument in Farnworth church. 

 She was the chief contributor in Bold to 

 the land tax of 1785, paying ^^6 out of 

 £6S levied. 



^ Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 

 184-6. There is a monument to Peter 

 Patten Bold in Farnworth church. 



* Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iii, 716. 

 Bold was prefixed to Hoghton by royal 

 licence in 1825 ; Burke, Peerage, Sec. 



1 Baines, Lanes, (ed. Croston), v, 23. 

 He was a Wigan cotton-spinner, and is 

 said to have paid ^^120,000 for the hall 

 and some farms. The following account 

 of him is from a local newspaper : ' Tip- 

 ping was unmarried ; he lived in about 

 four rooms, and generally neglected the 

 whole place. He was an eccentric 

 character, rough in manners and in dress, 

 uneducated, and without taste. Like 

 Bold-Hoghton before him, who kept five 

 hundred fighting cocks, Tipping's chief 

 pleasures lay in the barbarous sport of 

 cock-fighting, in card-playing, and in 

 visits to the Tipping Arms on the War- 

 rington road. He preserved the hall, 

 however, in which there were two Van- 

 dyck full-length portraits of Charles I and 

 his queen, a royal gift to one of the Bold 

 family ; two Claudes, and a Holy Family 

 by Rubens. The stories of Tipping's eccen- 

 tricities are legion. He appeared to hoard 

 up money in the shape of buckets of 

 sovereigns which got discoloured and mil- 



B. 



P. A. 



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1278, 



dewed with age, but he also had a fancy 

 for going down to the Tipping Arms with 

 a thousand pounds or so in his pockets.' 



^ From the sale catalogue. There is a 

 view of it in Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iii. 

 In the corridor was an 

 inscription commemorating 

 Peter and Anne Bold. 



^ Lawyke, 1 2 1 2 ; La Quyke, 

 and usually ; Whike, 1485. 



^*' Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 1 8. In this 

 place Albert is feminine, in the Cockersand 

 Chartul. it is masculine. 



11 Coekersand Chartul. (Chet. Sec), ii, 

 612, 613. The marginal note is ' Quike : 

 Bold.' There are only two charters. By 

 the first Henry son of Albert de la Quike 

 granted land between Caldwell carr and a 

 ' land ' called the Hustude, in free alms, 

 with common of pasture, and other liber- 

 ties in Bold. In 145 1 Henry Bold was 

 tenant; ibid, iv, 1244-51. 



12 Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 193 seqq. n. 3. 

 By another charter William son of Henry 

 de Pilothalgh, in selling ' lands ' in Whike 

 to Henry son of Richard the Mercer, 

 states that he had purchased them from 

 Thomas son of Adam del Quike, and that 

 Henry de Penketh had held them ; n. 177. 

 From Henry the Mercer they soon passed 

 to William de Bold ; ibid. n. 17. 



It would appear that other members of 

 the Mercer family had interests here, for 

 Agnes, daughter of Richard de Alvandley 

 of Bold, enfeoffed certain trustees of her 

 lands in Bold, the rent of the chief lords 

 being 4J. — that named in the survey of 

 J2I2 quoted above. The facts stated 

 in the subsequent note are not quite in 

 accordance with the identification of 

 Agnes's lands with the Whike ; Raines 

 MSS. xxxviii, 283. 



Richard de Alvandley, the father, was 

 a prominent man in the district for many 

 years, and is often called Richard de Bold, 

 leading to a confusion with the lord of 

 the manor ; Alvandley was the name of 

 a part of his lands ; ibid. He was the 

 son of Robert son of Robert the Mercer 



407 



of Bold; Towneley MS. GG. n. 2134. 

 His first appearance is in 1313-14 against 

 Henry son of Robert Bellamy, the series 

 of disputes lasting many years ; Assize 

 R. 424, m. 10 ; De Banc. R. 278, m. 55. 

 He had another suit with Gilbert de 

 Meols with regard to certain lands in 

 Sutton ; De Banc. R. 348, m. 404 ; 353, 

 m. 231 ; Towneley MS. GG. n. 2134. 

 Richard de Alvandley was at one time 

 coroner ; Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 74. He 

 died about 1350, for his daughter Agnes 

 was plaintiff in the following year ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. i, m. 5 ; and 

 3, m. ijd. She was still living in 1393, 

 and several deeds relating to the dis- 

 position of her inheritance are preserved 

 among the Lyme muniments ; Raines 

 MSS. xxxviii, 283. The lands appear 

 to have been sold m 1393 to Gilbert 

 son of John de Haydock. See also the 

 account of Woolton. 



1^ In June, 1 3 19, John son of Robert 

 le Norreys transferred to Henry de Rix- 

 ton all the lands and tenements in Bold 

 which John had received from his uncle 

 Robert de Upton, to wit, the land called 

 the Whike ; Dods. loc. cit. n. 25. After- 

 wards, in 1362, Henry and his son Richard 

 joined in granting to Richard de Bold 

 all their lands in Bold, Henry and his 

 wife Ellen receiving a grant of the Whike 

 for their lives ; ibid. n. 37, 38. 



" Ibid. n. 106 ; the date is 1485. 



1* William son of John de Quike in 

 1278 ; Henry de Quike in 1288 and 

 later ; John son of William de Quike in 

 1291 ; Henry's wife was named Mabel, 

 and his son Alan ; Juliana de Quike 

 occurs about the same time, and Nicholas 

 de Quike and his wife Lettice in 1 302 ; 

 see Assize R. 1238, m. 33 d. ; 420, m. 3, 

 &c. These suits concern land in Bold ; 

 some of them were complaints against 

 the lords of Bold, and others against 

 Robert de la Ford and his family. 



In the charters Henry and Robert de 

 Quikefield occur ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 

 1 93 A, &c. A close called Quickfield and 



