East Cheshire PAST AND PRESENT, IN TWO VOLUMES.— VOLUME II. East Cheshire: PAST AND PRESENT; O R A HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED MACCLESFIELD, IN THE COUNTY PALATINE CHESTER. from ©ngmal 3^crori»s. B Y J. P. E A R W A K E R, M. A., F. S. A. ( OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD. ) ffV TIFO VOLUMES^ VOLUME fJ. "IF ANY THERE BE WHICH ARE DESIROUS TO BE STRANGERS IN THEIRE OWNE SOILE AND FORRAINERS IH THEIR OWNE CITIE, THEY MAY SO CONTINUE, AND THEREIN FLATTER THEMSELVES ; FOR SUCH LIKE I HAVE NOT WRITTEN THESE LINES, NOR TAKEN THESE PAINES."— Camden. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, MDCCCLXXX. LONDON : WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STKEE'i', lincoln's-inn fields, W.C, TO JOHN EARWAKER, Esquire, OF BROCKLANDS, ALDERLEY EDGE, CHESHIRE, IN WHICH HE HAS EVER TAKEN THE GREATEST INTEREST, ARE MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS ELDEST SON. VOL. II. ADDITIONAL LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. {Received since the Publication of Volume I. ) Andrew, Ely, Esq., Mere Bank, Ashton-under-Lyne Antiquaries, the Society of, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Ashton, J. T., Esq., Wellington Road South, Stockport B Bagshaw, T. H., Esq., 122, Eccles New Road, Salford Bailey, A., Esq., Breightmet, BoIton-le-Moors Baker, Miss, Springfield, Edgeley, near Stockport Beard, Henry, Esq., Chestergate, Macclesfield Bools, William Ed Ward, Esq., ^, Cornhill, London Boyle, Edmund H., Esq., 14, Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London, W. Bridgeman, Rev. G. T. O., Wigan Hall, Wigan Brough- Watson, Mrs., SwaiJand Manor, East Yorkshire Brooker, William, Esq., St. Helens, Lancashire Brown, Mrs., Pantavon, i, Cadogan Road, Surbiton, Surrey Buckley, Nathaniel, Esq., Carr Hill, Mossley, near Man chester Casson, Edward, Esq., Wilmslow, Cheshire Chadwyck-Healey, C. E. tt., Esq., Lincoln's-Inn, London Clarke, David, Esq., Park House, Macclesfield Clarke, Matthew, Esq., Cumberland Street, Macclesfield Clegg, James, Esq., The Hurst, Alderley Edge Cliffe, George, Esq., Halton, Runcorn • Close, Thomas, Esq., F.S.A., Nottingham Cornish, J. "E., Esq., 33, Piccadilly, Manchester, an extra copy Covernton, a. H., Esq., 21, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London Cummins, Charles, Esq., Norman Place, Altrincham D Dalton, John, Esq., Rose Bank, HollingworthJ Cheshire Dana, B., Esq., Berkeley Square, Boston, U.S.A. Davenport, W. Bromley, Esq., M.P., Capesthorne, Cheshire Davenport, Henry D., Esq., The Grange, Ealing, Middlesex Davies, Richard, Esq., Fairfield, Victoria Park, Manchester Dawson, William, Esq., Almora House, The Mall, Chiswick, London Dawson, Messrs. A. & W., 23, Farringdon Street, London, E.G. Dodgson, Joseph, Esq. , Leeds, two copies DORRINGTON, John, Esq., South Sherwood Street, Nottingham Feather, the Rev. George, Glazebury Vicarage, Leigh, Lancashire Fisher, G. F., Esq., Brook Lodge, Schools Hill, Cheadle Fletcher, Shepherd, Esq., M.D., Hope House, Pendleton, Manchester Fryer, Alfred, Esq., Elmhurst, Fulshaw, Wilmslow Fryer, E. A., Esq., Store Street, Manchester Galloway, Charles J., Esq., J. P., Whalley Range, Man chester Gemmell, W. R., Esq., Wilmslow Park, Wilmslow Gleave, j. j., Esq., Whalley Range, Manchester Greaves, R. H., Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Greenall, Col., Lingholm, Keswick H Hall, Henry, Esq., Boothdale, Ashton-under-Lyne Hayes, Thomas, Esq., Cross Street, Manchester Herford, Rev. P. M., Gatley, Cheadle, Cheshire Hayward, Thomas, 31, Oxford Street, Manchester Hibbert- Ware, T., Esq., Bell Place, Bowdon, Cheshire HiGSON, T. B., Esq., Alderley Edge, Cheshire Holdsworth, Charles J., Esq., Sunny Lea, Wilmslow Holt, Robert, Prestwich, Manchester HoVENDEN, Robert, Esq., Heathcote, Park Hill Road, Croydon, Surrey Howorth, Daniel F., Esq., Stamford Terrace, Ashton-under- Lyne vni EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT Hudson, John P., Esq., Grappenhall, Warrington Hughes, Thomas, Esq., F.S.A., The Groves, Chester Hulley, Holland, Esq., The One House, Macclesfield. J Jackson, F. J., Esq., Alderley Edge, Cheshire Joynt, Thomas, Esq., Canterbury, New Zealand L Law, William, Esq., Littleborough, Manchester Lee, John S., Esq., Cherson House, Wood Green, near London Lingard, T. D., Esq., lo. Booth Street, Piccadilly Lingard-Monk, J. B. M., Esq., Alderley Edge, Cheshire Liverpool Library, the, Liverpool Long, W. W., Esq., Alderley Edge, Cheshire Lowe, Capt. A. E. Lawson, F.S.A., Highfield, Nottingham Loxham, Rev. R., Great Lever, Bolton-le-Moors 'M Magdalen College Library, Oxford Mark, John, Esq., Greystoke, Didsbury Marsland, Mrs. Charles, Brookfield House, Stockport Massey, Richard, Esq., Knowles House, Handforth Mayer, Joseph, Esq., F.S.A., Pennant House, Bebington, Cheshire MacIver, Colin, Esq., Lymm, Cheshire Medd, Charles S., Esq., 12, Harewood Square, London, N.W. Middleton, Walter, Esq., The Beeches, Cheadle Mills, Alex. W., Esq., Newbie, Bowdon, Cheshire Moore, Alfred, Esq., Alderley Edge, Cheshire Morant, a. W., Esq., F.S.A., Leeds Morrell, F. J., Esq., Headington, Oxford N Newton, William, Esq., 11, Mitre Court Chambers, The Temple, London Parsons, Albert, Esq., Femside, Canterbury, New Zealand Platt, Mrs., Werneth Park, Oldham Potter, Rupert, Esq., 2, Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, London Potts, John, Esq., Thorn Tree House, Macclesfield QUARITCH, Bernard, Esq., 15, Piccadilly, London, two copies R Raines, the Rev. Canon, M.A., F.S.A. (the late), Milnrow, Rochdale Ridgway, Lt. Col. Alexander, Sheplegh Court, Blackawton, South Devon Riley, Kate E., Miss, School Lane, Heaton Chapel, Stockport Robinson, George, Esq., 3, Raymond Buildings, Gray's-Inn, London Roscoe, Maxwell, Esq., Bowdon, Cheshire Schuster, Frederick Leo, Esq., 12, Sackville Street, Portland Street, Manchester Schuster, Louis, Esq., Fulshaw, Wilmslow Skiers, Richard, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, u second copy Short, George, Esq., Oatlands Wood, near Weybridge, Surrey Slack, Robert, Esq., 114, Spotland Road, Rochdale Smith, George J., Esq., Ivy Cottage, Alderley Edge Smith, Mrs., Warren Chase, Fallowfield, Manchester Summers, William, Esq., M.P., Sunnyside, Ashton-under- Lyne Sutton, Charles, W., Esq., The Free Library, Manchester Sykes, Arthur H., Esq., Edgeley Mount, Stockport , Sykes, Edmund H., Esq., Edgeley Fold, Stockport W Walker, Sir Andrew, Gateacre Grange, Liverpool Warrington, F. W., Esq., M.D., Congleton Whalley, Thomas, Esq., Woodville, Bowdon White, J. W., Esq., Byron's Lane, Macclesfield Whitehead, James, Esq.. M.D., 87, Mosley Street, Man chester Whitley, John, Esq. (the late), Wilderspool, Warrington Wigan Free Library, the, Wigan Wilson, Henry, Esq., Bruntwood, Cheadle Wilson, John, Esq., Hutton House, Birmingham Wilson, William, Esq., Savings' Bank, Stockport Wood, R. J., Esq., The Walmsleys, Leigh, Lancashire Woods, Sir Albert W., Garter King of Arms, Heralds' College, London, E. C. Woods, G. W., Esq., Warrington Worrall, James, Esq., J.P., Whalley Range, near Manchester Wrigley, Thomas, Esq. (the late), Timberhurst, Bury Wynne, W. W. E., Esq., F.S.A., Peniarth, Towyn, Merioneth Yorkshire Arch^ological and Topographical Associa tion, the, Huddersfield TABLE OF CONTENTS. Title ... ... ... ... ... Dedication Additional List of Subscribers Table of Contents List of Illustrations, with Blazon of the Arms Preface 6mtral M^tOV^ ot tbt ^nVliiVt'a (continued from Vol. I.) ... List of those from Macclesfield Hundred present at the battle of Blore Heath in 1459 The Office of Serj'eant of the Peace of Macclesfield Hundred Macclesfield Forest, its Extent and Boundaries ... ,, ,, List of Foresters and their Privileges ^m&f) of ^tOtk^OVt (continued from Vol. I.) Dukinfield Township ... Dukinfield of Dukinfield Pedigree Astley of Dukinfield Pedigree The Nonconformist Chapel, Dukinfield The Life and Works of Samuel Eaton, of Dukinfield ... Brinnington Township... Hyde Township ... Hyde of Hyde and Norbury Pedigree Marple Township Hibbert of Marple Pedigree Marple Church : the Monumental Inscriptions, the List of the Incumbents, &c. Marple Hall : the Bradshawe Family Bradshawe and Isherwood of Marple Pedigree ... Life of John Bradshawe ... RoMiLLY Township Chadkirk Chapel : the List of the Incumbents, Inscriptions, &c. Disley Township... Sherd of Sherd and Disley Pedigree Disley Church: the Monumental Inscriptions, &c., the List of the Incumbents Page iii V vii, viii ix-xiv xv-xviii xix-xxiv 1-8 3. 4 4-8 6, 8 9-1 10 9-38 18-22 24 27-3828-3538-39 40-4744-4748-78 55 54-59 61-78 65-67 69-77 78-84 79-84 84-101 87-88 91-101 VOL. II. EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. Norbury Township Norbury Church : the List of the Incumbents, &c. Torkington Township ... Offerton Township Winnington of Offerton Pedigree . . . Werneth Township Stockport Etchells Township ^arisi]^ of ilottram m ^CungtrenUalt ... The Church The Old Monuments, &c. The Bells The Monumental Inscriptions The Rectors and Vicars ... The Registers The Charities The Grammar School Hollingworth Township Hollingworth of Hollingworth Hall Pedigree Hollingworth of the Old Hall Hollingworth Pedigree Bret land of Thorncliff Pedigree ... Hollingworth during the Civil War Hattersley Township ... Matley Township Godley Township Newton Township Newton of Newton in Longdendale Pedigree Stayley Township ... ... «... Staveley of Staveley or Stayley Pedigree . . . Stalybridge ... Tintwistle Township Woodhead Chapel : the List of Incumbents, &c. ^ariisft of presstfiurp Prestbury Township The Church Lists of Vestments and Ornaments The Bells The Norman Chapel, in the Churchyard.. The Chantries and Altars ... The Heraldic Glass and Old Monuments The Monumental Inscriptions The Charities The Vicars and Curates ... '^age loi- -105 ... 103- -105 ... 105- -107 ... 107- -109 108 ... 109, no no III- -175 ... 118- -138 ... 119- ¦121 121 122- -124 ... 125- 133 ... 134- 136 ... 137- 138 ... 139- 141 ... 142- 152 ... 143- 144 ... 145- 146 ... 148- 149 ... 150- 152 ... 152- 154 ••• 155- 156 ... 156- 161 ... 161- 164 ... 163, 164 ... 165- 170 ... 167 ... 168- 170 ... 170- 175 ... 171- 172 ... 177- 525 ... 178- 231 ... 180- 231 ... 183- 185 188 ... 188- ¦191 ... 191- -192 ... 193- -197 ... 197- -203 ... 203- -205 ... 206- -212 TABLE OF CONTENTS. XI The Parish Registers The Churchwardens' Accounts ... Adlington Township Legh of A dlington Pedigree BuTLEY Township Dtmcalf of Foxwist Pedigree Life of Thomas Newton, of Butley Newton Township ... Newton of Newton Pedigree Woodford Township Poynton Township Poynton Chapel : List of Incumbents, &c Warren of Poynton Pedigree Worth Township Lyme Handley Township Legh of Lyme Pedigree Legh of Bothoms Pedigree ... Legh of B rue he Pedigree ... Lyme Park and Hall Pott Shrigley Township Downes of Shrigley and Worth Pedigree. Shrigley of Beristowe Pedigree Pott of Pott Pedigree The Church The Stained Glass, the Bells The Monumental Inscriptions, the List of Incumbents, &c. BoLLINGTON ToWNSHIP Titherington Township... Worth of Titherington Pedigree . . . Upton Township ... Stapleton of Upton Pedigree Fallibroome Township ... Mottram St. Andrew Township Wright of Offerton and Mottram St. Andrew Pedigree Birtles Township Birtles of Birtles Pedigree ... Chelford Township Parker of Astle Pedigree ... Dixon of Astle Pedigree ... Smallwood of Chelford Pedigree . . . Chelford Chapel : the Monumental Inscriptions, List of Incum bents, &c. Page 212-217217-231 232-253 249-253254-262 258 260-262 263-267 267 268-273 274-289 282-285286-289 290 291-314 303-306 304 305 307-314 315-332 319-321 323 324 325-332 327-329 329-332 333 334-340 339-340 341-346 344 346, 347 347-357 353. 354 357-360 358 360-370 363-364 365.-,66 567-370 c 2 xii EAST CHESHIRE : PAST AND PRESENT. Old Withington Township Page 371-374 Baskervyle of Old Withington Pedigree ZT^-'ilA Glegg of Old Withington Pedigree ... ... 3 74 Lower Withington Township ' ... 375-378 Davenport of Wheltrough Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... 37 7 > 37^ Marton Township ... ... 378-396 Davenport of Davenport and Marton Pedigree ... ... ... ... 385-388 Marton Chapel : the List of Incumbents, &c 389-396 SiDDiNGTON Township ... ... ... ... 397-406 Henshaw of Henshaw Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... ... 399, 400 Thorny croft of Thornycroft Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... 40 1 , 402 Siddington Chapel : the List of Incumbents, &c. ... ... ... 403-406 Capesthorne Township ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 406-414 Ward of Capesthorne Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... ... 408, 409 Ward of Monksheath Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... ... 408, 409 Davenport of Woodford and Capesthorne Pedigree ... ... ... 411 -4 13 Henbury Township ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 414-424 Davenport of Henbury Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... ... 41 7-4 1 8 Meredith of Ashley and Henbury Pedigree ... ... ... ... 421 Brocklehurst of Kettleshulme, Macclesfield, and Henbury Pedigree ... 423-424 North Rode Township ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 425, 426 BosLEY Township... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 426-431 Bosley Church : List of Incumbents, &c. ... ... ... ... 429-431 WiNCLE TowNSPiip ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 432-437 Wincle Church : List of Incumbents, &c. ... ... ... ... 436,437 Wildboarclough Township ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 437 Macclesfield Forest Township ... 437-439 Forest Chapel : List of Incumbents 438,439 Sutton or Sutton Downes Town.ship 439-453 Sutton of Sutton Pedigree ... 443,444 Davenport of Sutton Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... ... 444 Sir Richard Sutton, Knt., Founder of Brasenose College, Oxford ... 445, 446 Ridge 447-449 Legh of Ridge Pedigree 450-45 1 Hurdsfield Township ... ... 454 Rainow^ Township 455-457 Rainow Church : List of Incumbents, &c. ... ... 456 Saltersford or Jenkin Chapel : List of Incumbents, &c. ... ... 457 Kettleshulme Township 457 Macclesfield Township 458-525 The Town of Macclesfield 459-525 Charters granted to the Town 459-462 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Xlll List of Mayors of Macclesfield, 1 330-1880 Page List of High Stewards, Recorders, and Town Clerks The Plague in 1603, the Ancient Records, Mayors' Accounts, &c. The Young Pretender in Macclesfield ... The Punishments, the Gaol, the Fairs, the Guild Hall, &c Old Halls in the Town, &c. Old Families connected with the Town The Macclesfield Family ... The Savage Family The Blacklach Family Rowe of Macclesfield Pedigree Stapleton of Macclesfield Pedigree Trade of the Town List of Members of Parliament since 1 8^2 Public Buildings, Stone Pillars now in the Park, &c. The Church of Macclesfield The Bells The Chantries and Altars The Heraldic Glass and Old Monuments The Monumental Inscriptions The Charities The Ministers and Curates Christ Church, Macclesfield : List of Incumbents, &c. Other Churches in the Town ; the Nonconformists ; the Quakers, &c. The Grammar Schooi-, Macclesfield Sir John Percivale's Will ... Letters Patent of King Edward VI. Acts of Parliament : New Scheme, &c. List of Head Masters and Ushers |0an'sfft of Ca);al Taxal Township ... Downes of Downes and Taxal Pedigree Yeardsley-cum-Whaley Township fodrell of Yeardsley Pedigree The Church The Bells The Monumental Inscriptions The Charities The List of Rectors pans:]^ of (gaiodtoort]^ Gawsworth Township Orreby of Gawsworth Pedigree 463-467 467, 468 468-473 473 473-476 476, 477 478-484 478,479 479-481 482 482, 483484485485 485, 486 487-508 490 490, 491 491-499499-501 501,502 50.3-508 509, 510 511 511-525 512, 513 514, 515 516, 517 518-525 526-548526-533 530, 531 533-540 538-540 541-548 541 542, 543 543. 544 544-548 549-593 549-593 564 xiv EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. ¦ee Fitton of Gawsworth Pedigree Gerard, Earls of Macclesfield Pedigree Samuel Johnson alias Lord Flame The Church The Wall Paintings The Old Heraldic Glass, Monuments, &c Monumental Inscriptions, &c. The Rectors The Charities |3aris;l) of ^Itinltj) Over Alderley Township Stanley of Alderley Pedigree Alderley Edge ; its Legend, Copper-Mines, &c Nether Alderley Township Hollinshead of Heywood Pedigree Fallowes of Fallowes Pedigree Wyche of Davenham and Alderley Pedign The Church Arms now in the Church ... The Chantries and Altars ... The Vestments, &c., in 1549 Heraldic Glass and Old Monuments The Monumental Inscriptions The Rectors The Charities Great Warford Township parisi) of Eostfterne (Part of) Snelson Township pan'si) of asitfturp (Part of) Somerford Booths Township Swetenham of Somerford Booths Pedigree Eaton Township ... Antrobus of Eaton Pedigree Additions and Corrections, Vol. I. Vol.11. Index Page 564-566 567 .•• 570, 571 ••• 572-593 •.• 573-575 ••• 575-585 ... 585. 586 ... 587-593 593 ... 594-642 ... 595-611 ... 602-605 609-6 1 1 612-640 617 619 622-623 ... 624-640 625, 626 ... 626, 627 627 ... 628,629 ... 629,630 ... 631-639 640 ... 641, 642 643643 ... 644-650 ... 644-649 ... 646-648 ... 649-650 650 ... 651-658 ... 658-664 ... 665-704 Hist of plates anir Hlustrattons, tottj tilt filajon of tt\t ^j^irttrs of arms; S^t. I. The Norman Chapel, Prestbury. (Plate) 2. Seal of Macclesfield Forest Court ... 3. Autograph of Colonel Robert Duckenfield 4, Arms and Crest of Dukinfield of Dukinfield 5. Arms and Crest of Astley of Dukinfield ... 6. View of Dukinfield Hall as it formerly appeared 7. Arms and Crest of Hyde of Hyde and Norbury 8. The Stables at Marple Hall, dated 1669 ... 9. Arms and Crest of Hibbert of Marple 10. View of Marple Hall. (Plate)... II. Arms and Crest of Bradshawe of Marple ... 12. Autograph of John Bradshawe 13. View of Chadkirk Chapel. (Plate) 14. Arms and Crest of Sherd of Disley 15. View of Disley Church 16. Arms and Crest of Winnington of Offerton 17. View of Mottram Church. (Plate) 18. Effigies in the South Chapel, Mottram Church 19. Early Font at Mottram Church 20. Arms and Crest of Hollingworth of Hollingworth Hall 21. Arms and Crest of Hollingworth ofthe Old Hall, Hollingworth 22. Arms of Bretland of Thorncliff 23. Arms of Newton of Newton, in Longdendale 24. View of Stayley Hall 25. Arms of Staveley of Staveley, or Stayley ... 26. Sun-dial,' near Mottram Church 27. Arms and Crest of Legh of Lyme. (Blazoned on p. 303) 28. Arms and Crest of Warren of Poynton. (Blazoned on p. 286) 29. Arms and Crest of Legh of Adlington. (Blazoned on p. 250) 30. Arms of Legh of Ridge. (Blazoned on p. 450) ... 31. Arms of Downes of Shrigley. (Blazoned on p. 319) 32. Arms of Worth of Titherington. (Blazoned on p. 339) ... ' Unless stated to the contrary the shields will be found blazoned in the text, To face To face (Frontispiece) 8 15 18 2425 44 48 55 61 65 76 83 8791 108118 119 120 143 145 148163165 167175 176 176176176 176 176 To face xvi EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. 33. Arms and Crest of Davenport of Marton. (Blazoned on p. 385) ... Page x*] 6 34. Arms and Crest of Davenport of Henbury (Blazoned on p. 417) 176 35. Arms and Crest of Davenport of Woodford. (Blazoned on p. 411) 176 36. View of Prestbury Church. (Plate) ... ... To face p. 185 37. Window in South Aisle, Prestbury Church ... ... ... ... ... 186 38. The Norman Chapel at Prestbury in 1592... ... ... ... ... ... 188 39. Incised Monuments in Prestbury Church. (Plate)... ... To face p. 193 40. Incised Monument in the South Chapel, Prestbury Church ... ... ... 194 41. Old House at Prestbury ... ... ... 205 42. Arms of Venables. (Azure, two bars Argent) ... ... ... ... ... 232 43. Arms and Crest of Legh of Adlington. (Blazoned on p. 250) ... ... ... 232 44. Arms of De Corona. (Azure, a chevron between three crowns. Or) ... ... 232 45. Tomb OF Lady Mary Egerton. (Plate) ... ... ... To face p. 240 46. Arms of Venables ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 249 47. Arms of De Corona ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 249 48. Arms and Crest of Legh of Adlington ... ... ... ... ... ... 250 49. Arms, formerly in window of Prestbury Church, Legh impaling Brereton ... 251 (For blazon, see p. 196 ; for Arderne and Handforth, see Vol. I., pp. 473, 250.) 50. Arms of Duncalf of Foxwist ... ... ... ... ... ... . 2c;8 51. Autograph of Thomas Newton of Butley ... ... ... ... ... ... 261 52. Arms and Crest of Newton of Newton ... ... ... ... ... ... 267 53. The Old Hall, Woodford 268 54. Doorway of New Hall, Woodford ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 272 SS. The New Hall, Woodford ... ... ... ... o7-> ^o ^ ^ ... ... ... ... _/j 56. Incised Monument to Sir Edward Warren of Poynton, Knt. ... ... ... 278 57. The Bow Stone at Lyme ... ... ... ... ... ... _ ...28s 58. Arms and Crest of Warren of Poynton ... ... ... ... ._ _ ogg 59. Arms and Crest of Legh of Lyme. (Semee of mullets) ... ... ... ... 297 60. Arms and Crest of Legh of Lyme. (Semee of estoiles) ... ... ... ... --q^ 61. Lyme Hall, f. 1600, the north front ... ... ... ... .,Qg 62. Ancient Crosses found at Disley (now at Lyme Hall). (Plate) To face p. -'i 63. Lyme Cage ... 64. Monument to Robert de Downes, 1495 ... ... ... _ _ _ .,jg 65. Arms of Downes of Shrigley and Worth ... 66. Arms of Shrigley of Beristowe 67. Arms and Crest of Pott of Pott ^^f, 68. View OF Pott Shrigley Church. (Plate) To face p. -28 69. Arms of Worth of Titherington , ^^^ 70. Arms of Stapleton of Upton 71. Arms and Crest of Calveley of Lea and Mottram St. Andrew (Argent a fesse Gules between three calves' trippant Sable ; Crest a calf's head Azure out of a ducal coronet Or.) 0-331319 344 349 LIST OF PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. xvu 72.73- 74-75- 76. 77- 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83- 84. ' 85. 86.^7-88. 89. 90. 91,92. 93- 94^ 95-96.97- 98. 99. 100, lOI. 102. 103. 104. 105.106.107.108. 109.no.III. I 12. Arms and Crest of Wright of Offerton and Mottram St. Andrew Arms of Mottram used by Mottershead . Arms and Crest of Birtles of Birtles Arms and Crest of Swettenham of Birtles Arms and Crest of Dixon of Astle Arms of Smallwood of Chelford ... Effigies at Marton Church ... Arms and Crest of Baskervyle of Old Withington Arms and Crest of Glegg of Gayton and Old Withington Arms and Crest of Davenport of Wheltrough Arms and Crest of Davenport of Davenport and Marton View of Marton Hall _ View of Marton Church (built of timber and plaster). (Plate) Original window in Marton Church Open benches formerly in Marton Church Old oak at Marton Arms and Crest of Hensha.w of Henshaw Arms and Crest of Thornycroft of Thornycroft ... Siddington Church ... Arms of \\'ard of Capesthorne, Monksheath, &c. Arms and Crest of Davenport of Woodford and Capesthorne Arms and Crest of Davenport of Henbury Arms and Crest of Meredith of Ashley and Henbury ... Arms and Crest of Brocklehurst of Kettleshulme, Macclesfield, Bosley Church Wincle Grange Clulow Cross, near Wincle Ancient Arms of Sutton (quarterly) Arms and Crest of Sutton of Sutton Brass of Roger Legh of Ridge. Arms of Legh of Ridge Arms and Crest of Hollinshead of Sutton, &c. Charter of Prince Edward to the Town (Plate) To face and Henbury To Page face OF Macclesfield. (Plate) To face p Scolds' Bridle at Macclesfield Market Cross, Macclesfield Arms of the Family of Macclesfield Arms of Danyers, borne by Savage Arms and Crest of Savage ' Arms and Crest of Rowe of Macclesfield Arms of Stapleton of Macclesfield Stone Pillars in the Public Park, Macclesfield VOL. II. -> r ', ODO 356 358 359 365366370372 374377385 389 391391 392 396 399 401403 408 411 417 421 423429432 435 443444447 450 452 460 474475 478 479480 482 484486 d xvm EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. 113-114.115- 116. 117. 118. 119. 120.121.122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129.130.131-132. 133-134. 135- 136. 137-138. 139- 140.141. 142. 143- 144. 145- (Plate) Effigy of Sir John Savage, Knt., 1492 St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield, Effigy of Sir John Savage, Knt, 1527 Tomb of Sir John Savage, Knt., 1495. (Plate) Tomb of Sir John Savage, Knt., 1528 (Plate)... Effigy on the North side of the Chancel of Macclesfield Macclesfield Old Grammar-School and Seal Arms of Downes of Downes and Taxal Saltersford or Jenkin Chapel Arms and Crest of Jodrell of Yeardsley Taxal Church Arms of Orreby of Gawsworth Arms of Fitton of Gawsworth Tomb of Francis Fitton, Esq. Arms of Orreby of Gawsworth Arms of Fitton of Gawsworth View of Gawsworth Church. Tomb of Sir Edward Fitton, Tomb of Lady Alice Fitton. Tomb of Sir Edward Fitton, Bart., 1643. (Plate) The Old Hall, Alderley, before the Fire in 1779 ... Arms and Crest of Stanley of Alderley ... Arms and Crest of Hollinshead of Heywood Arms claimed by Fallowes of Fallowes in Nether Alderley View of Soss Moss Hall in Nether Alderley Arms and Crest of Wyche of Davenham and Nether Alderley View of Alderley Church (before the Restoration). (Plate) Old Font, Alderley Church Arms claimed by the Grastie Family in 1664 Base of Cross at Alderley ... Arms said to belong to the Snelson family Arms and Crest of Swetenham of Somerford Booths Arms and Crest of Antrobus of Eaton (Plate) (Plate) Bart., 1619 (Plate) (Plate) To face p To face p ... Page 487 To face p. 488 491493495 502 518 530537538541 550551 To face p. 553564564572575 582 583 601 602 617 619 621622 To face p. 624626641642643646650 To face p To face p To face p To face p PREFACE. N the Preface to the First Volume of this History I explained the general principles upon which the work had been written and the chief classes of " Original Records " consulted in its compilation. It is therefore not necessary for me to allude to these again, but I think I may venture to say that the some what bold " experiment " Avhich was there commented upon, has been, as far as I am in a position to judge, very fairly successful. The first volume was very well received, both by my Subscribers and the Press ; and the fact that, in addition to the long list of subscribers whose names were there given, nearly 120 fresh names appear in this one, shows that there is no falling off in the general interest, which the book has excited. And in order to justify this feeling and to spare no pains to make the work as complete as possible, I have not hesitated to increase the second volume to its present size, in order that it should not be said that one portion of the history was more thorough and exhaustive than any other. The consequent delay in the completion and publication of the book which this entailed upon me, together with the necessarily increased cost of printing, &c., are both very serious items, yet I tru.st that this volume will be equally as well received as its predecessor, and that the increased interest which will be taken in the work, now that it is completed, will compensate me for the extra expense, to which I have been put. But although this volume extends to over 700 pages, that is, nearly 200 more than Volume I., still I am fully aware that there are many details, which I have been forced to omit, and much which I had hoped to have printed in full, which has had to appear in a condensed form. Thus, for example, having examined all the Parish Registers in the Hundred and made copious extracts from them,, I had fully intended printing a series of the more interesting entries under each parish, but as stated in the text I have been obliged to omit printing any extracts from those of Macclesfield, Taxal, Gawsworth, and Alderley. This I much regret, particularly in the case of Macclesfield, where there were many entries of very general interest. The Churchwardens' Accounts for Alderley I have also had to leave, but this is perhaps of minor importance, as extracts from those of Wilmslow and Prestbury have been given at some length. Under Macclesfield Grammar School, the list of Governors, with the dates of their respective d 2 XX EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. appointments, w^ould have been of much local interest; and in connection with the learned Thomas Newton of Butley, a complete bibliography of his works, which I had been at considerable trouble to draw up, had also to be omitted. Many more pedigrees might have been given had space permitted, but at the same time the pedigree of every family in the Hundred, which entered at any of the four Cheshire Visitations will be found in these volumes. The General History of the Hundred of Macclesfield has had to be much cut down, the lists of itinerant judges, the names of those nominated on important commissions, &c., &c., having had to be left out. The account of Macclesfield Forest might easily have been extended from the materials at my disposal, and from the fine series of Court Rolls still preserved, much might have been extracted relating to families, holding lands in that wide area. And lastly, but by no means the least important, there are the Subsidy Rolls, containing the names of those who, throughout the Hundred, were assessed from time to time in order to furnish money to the King, as Earl of Chester, for very various purposes. These lists of names, extending from the 14th to the 17th century, are of the greatest value, but to make them readily available they would have required to have been carefully annotated. A good series of these Rolls is in the Record Office, and I have transcripts of several in private hands, and it was with very great regret that I found my space too limited to allow of their being printed. And in thus referring to the omissions which have been unavoidable, I do so for two reasons ; first, lest it should be thought that I was unaware of their importance ; and secondly, to suggest the possibility of something being done in the future to make these deficiencies good. The idea of a Supplementary Volume has been from time to time suggested, but whether such a book will ever appear will depend upon the leisure at my disposal and the interest with which it would be received. If a sufficient number of subscribers came forward, the work might be undertaken ; but whether such a Supplementary Volume ever appears or not, these two volumes will, 1 hope, be found to give as complete an account of the past history of " East Cheshire " as could possibly be demanded by the most exacting of critics. With regard to the title of this book, a few remarks may here be offered, as it appears to have been in some cases misunderstood. \Mien I adopted the title of " East Cheshire : Past and Present," I had no intention of entering into details of the modern history of the district generally, and especially of such towns as Stockport and Macclesfield, which, whilst interesting only to a few, w^ould have very unduly enlarged the accounts of those places at the expense of others. The growth of all modern towns, the substitution of new buildings for old ones, the erection of Non conformist places of worship, &c., &c., is one which is continually goino- on, and these details are always duly chronicled in the local newspapers and in the various directories which from time to time appear. They also find a fitting record in any works, purportino- to be separate histories of these towns, but are obviously out of place in a county history in which special prominence must of necessity be given to the history of the past and to accounts of the chief families, which were formerly resident in the district. My only PREFACE. xxi object in making use of the word " Present " was to place on record what remains of the past are to be met with at the present time, either in the details of the architecture of the various buildings, &c., or in the shape of monuments of more or less historical importance, such as crosses, tombs, camps, &c. With that object I have made myself thoroughly acquainted with the present aspect of the district, the history of which is here narrated, and I trust that I have overlooked nothing which has any claim to antiquity. In only too many cases it has been found, here as elsewhere, that much of historical importance, which was in existence a few years ago, has since disappeared ; and, as this process of destruction is continually going on, it becomes of increasing importance each year to describe the few remains, which still exist in any particular district and to illustrate them carefully. Even since these volumes have been in the press many changes have taken place. The fine old mansion of Bramhall Hall has been stripped of its furniture, and at one time there appeared a chance of its entire destruction. Northenden Church has, with the exception of the tower, been entirely rebuilt ; Cheadle Church has been restored ; and Prestbury Church is now undergoing that process. How valuable would it have been to us now, if we could have had full descriptions and accurate drawings of the appearance of the churches, old halls, monuments, &c., as they were in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, since which time so many of them have entirely disappeared, whilst others have been altered and "restored" almost beyond recognition ! Hence it has ever been an object which I have kept prominently before me, to gather up all the fragments of descriptions of the past condition of these buildings and monuments, and to place them on record, and at the same time to describe and illustrate the characteristic features of such as still remain. It is now my pleasing task to return thanks to those, by whose kindness I have been enabled to add so many interesting particulars to this volume. To some it might perhaps appear that the acknowledgments, which were made in the Preface to the first volume, would cover the ground for both, and whilst they certainly do so to a large extent, still there are many persons whose names are not to be found there, whose assistance I cannot forbear to mention. Foremost in this list I must place the Right Hon. Lord de Tabley, who, in the kindest manner, allowed me the freest possible access to the voluminous manuscript collections of Sir Peter Leycester, the historian of Bucklow Hundred, now preserved at Tabley House, near Knutsford. It was particularly interesting to me to be able to follow the careful and painstaking method, in which Sir Peter Leycester pursued his labours, more than 200 years ago, whilst collecting materials for his book, and there cannot be the slightest doubt, that whenever the History of Bucklow Hundred comes to be written anew, these collections will be invaluable. To W. Bromley Davenport of Capesthorne, Esq., M.P., my thanks are also specially due, not only for allowing me to examine the splendid collection of Davenport and other deeds, which are now preserved there, but also for entrusting some of the volumes and deeds to my care, so that I might examine them thoroughly at my leisure. Were these deeds only chronologically arranged and catalogued, they would form one of the finest collections relating to any one family to be found in England. By the kindness of xxii EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. W. J. Legh, of Lyme, Esq., M.P., I was allowed full access to his very extensive collection of Lancashire and Cheshire deeds, now preserved at Newton-le- Willows under the charge of Mr. J. E. Pardey, his steward, who furthered the objects of my searches in the most considerate manner and without regard to the trouble which they entailed upon himself. My labours were also greatly facilitated by having many of these documents lent me for examination at home. To T. J. Philips Jodrell, Esq., I am indebted for the loan ofa volume, containing transcripts of a large number of early deeds, &c., relating to the Jodrells, w^hich have thrown much light upon the history of that family. To Miss Philips (his sister) I am also much obliged for information relative to that family, in whose history she takes the greatest possible interest. George Dixon, Esq., of Astle Park, Chelford, entrusted to my care a number of documents connected with his estates, which afforded much new information concerning the various families, formerly owning lands in that neigh bourhood. J. M. Toler, Esq., of Saltersford Hall, Holmes Chapel, also lent me a number of deeds and papers, most of which, however, related to portions of the county outside of East Cheshire, but which I was none the less glad to have the opportunity of examining. From Henry Froggatt, Esq., of Macclesfield, I received a number of very early charters, relating to that town and neighbourhood, from which I derived much useful information. Jasper Hulley, Esq., of the One House, Rainow, also sent me some large bundles of deeds, &c., which were of considerable interest, throwing light upon the history of many old families connected with Macclesfield. From T. U. Brocklehurst, Esq., of Henbury, I received permission to examine the deeds relating to that estate, and by other members of that family I was allowed to see the deeds relating to their several estates in the neighbourhood of Macclesfield. Most of these deeds, &c., were preserved in the office of Messrs. Brocklehurst, Wright, and Mair, solicitors of that town, who most courteously afforded me every facility for the examination of any documents I wished to see. Through William Newton, Esq., of the Temple, London, I have had the loan of a very interesting MS., known as the Newton Chartulary, which relates to the early history of the family of Newton of Newton and Pownall. A series of letters and papers relating to Lord President Bradshawe and his brother, Col. Henry Bradshawe of Marple, were placed in my hands by the kindness of T. D. Lingard, Esq., and afforded me much information of value. In the Preface to the first volume I stated that I hoped to be able to examine all the Parish Registers throughout the Hundred of Macclesfield, before completing my work. This I am pleased to be able to say I have accomplished, and I have also examined the Registers of all the smaller chapelries, &c., in the same district, as well as those of some of the Parishes adjacent to, but outside of, the Hundred. Although this neces sarily took up much time, still the information which they afforded was most useful. It also gives me very great pleasure to testify to the courtesy and kindness, which I received from the Clergy, throughout the district, many of whom were only too anxious to do everything in their power to facilitate my labours. In no single case was there the PREFACE. XXlll slightest difficulty thrown in my way, and I was allowed to make as copious extracts from the Registers as I liked. In the multifarious details connected with the history of the Town of Macclesfield, I have to express my best thanks to the Rev. Oswald Browne, who placed his father's collections most freely at my disposal, and so enabled me to give quotations from documents, which cannot now be found. These papers have proved of very great service to me ; and, at the same time I have received much valuable assistance in various ways from William Bullock, Esq., J. P., Robert Thorp, Esq., J. P., John May, Esq., and Arthur F. Herford, Esq., all of whom are resident in or near Maccles field. In the general work of the volume I am indebted to J. Paul Rylands, Esq., F.S.A., for many notes on matters heraldic ; whilst Col. J. L. Chester, LL.D., William Beamont, Esq., J. E. Bailey, Esq., F.S.A., and James Croston, Esq., F.S.A., have always given me the benefit of their special knowledge and skill. The laborious, but absolutely essential, task of making the Index, which, as explained in the Preface to Volume I., had been undertaken for that volume by W. Harry Rylands, Esq., F.S.A., has also been voluntarily undertaken for this volume by the same gentleman ; and I can only say that the best thanks of all those, who may do me the honour to consult this book, are due to him, for the very thorough manner in which he has carried it out. As might be expected, from the increased size of this volume, the Index is considerably larger than that to Volume I. ; and I think it is only right to add, that I do not know of any other county history in which the task has been so efficiently performed. It is believed that there is not a single name in these two volumes which will not be found in its proper place in the respective Indices. Whilst engaged upon this History, I have endeavoured to consult all the publi cations which in any way bore upon the subject, from the fine volumes of Dr. Ormerod's " History of Cheshire" down to the smallest pamphlet on any local question. In all cases I have, as far as possible, verified or corrected the statements which I have there met with ; and in cases where it was not possible for me to do so, I have given references to the volumes, from which I have quoted. I should also not be doing justice to a very distinguished historian, did I not here (at the conclusion of my labours) express my indebtedness to Dr. Ormerod's magnificent " History of Cheshire," which, considering the date when it was written (now more than sixty years ago), is a work which is entitled to take the highest rank amongst county histories. Although by no means faultless (as its author was himself only too fully aware), still, as a rule, the general outlines of the parochial and local history are remarkably accurate ; and the greater ease with which the Cheshire Records can now be consulted has enabled the details to be more carefully investigated than was previously possible. It must, however, never be forgotten that this is the case, so that those who are interested in any portion of the history of the county must not rely entirely upon what they find in Dr. Ormerod's History, but must search and investigate for themselves. The original Inquisitions post mortem, the Cheshire Plea and Recognizance Rolls, now all arranged and calendared in the Record Office, the Lichfield and Chester Episcopal Registers, and the local parish Registers and xxiv EAST CHESHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT. family muniments, will all help to add to and to correct the " History of Cheshire" in three of its most Important departments, — the manorial and family history, the lists of the parochial clergy, and the pedigrees of the county families. It is also a very unfor tunate circumstance, that the collections, which Dr. Ormerod was at the pains of making during the fifty years, which elapsed between the appearance of his History and his death, should not have been so far utilized in any way ; for there can be but little doubt that their publication would have reflected further lustre upon that painstaking and industrious antiquary. As it is, the so-called " new edition ' of his " History of Cheshire," which is now appearing, is one obviously so only in name, and is lamentably deficient in those corrections and additions, which could only be supplied by the author himself from the fulness of his local knowledge. It will ever be a loss to literature that Dr. Ormerod did not himself complete his work by publishing a revised edition of his History before his death. As was the case in the previous volume, all the Illustrations are the work of my wife. Her chief aim has always been to depict the special characteristics of the various buildings, &c., as accurately as possible, and, as already explained, fidelity of repre sentation has been preferred to mere artistic effect. The finished sketches have been carefully compared with the objects themselves ; and the illustrations, which appear in the book, are exdiCt facsimiles of her drawings. The heraldic illustrations are also by her, and it is hoped that they, as well as the others, will give as much satisfaction as those in the first volume. A few of the full-plate illustrations, however, were made some years ago, and bear the initials of her maiden name. In the printing of this volume Messrs. Wyman & Sons have taken equal trouble to that which ensured them so muc'n approval in the first, and I trust with proportionate success. In conclusion, I can only add, that whilst I am deeply sensible of the many short comings which these volumes contain, I shall be only too grateful to those who will be at the trouble of sending me any corrections or additions tending to make the work more complete. At the same time those who have it in their power to aid me by the loan of documents relating to the past history of the County generally, will confer a great favour upon me hy letting me have the opportunity of examining them. J. P. EARWAKER. Withington, near Manchester, May, 1880. GENERAL HISTORY of the HUNDRED OF MACCLESFIELD. (Continued from Volume I.) N addition to the account of the General History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, which has already been given in the first volume (pages 1-40), there are several matters which can be better treated of under this general heading, rather than under any of the separate parishes or townships. As already explained in the Preface, I had at one time hoped to have been able to have printed here. If not a complete set, at any rate some of the best of the lists of names relating to the Hundred, contained in the Cheshire Subsidy Rolls now in the Record Office, but the amount of space which I found they would take up has obliged me, although very reluctantly, to omit them. In these few pages, therefore, I shall confine myself to three subjects relating to the General History of the Hundred : First, a list of some of those In the Hundred who fought and fell at the Battle of Blore Heath, fought in 1459; secondly, an account of the Grand Serjeantcy of the Hundred of Macclesfield, held by the Davenports of Davenport and Marton ; and, lastly, an account of the Forest OF Macclesfield, which occupied a very large portion of the Hundred. The Battle of Blore Heath, a place in the parish of Drayton in Hales, or Market Drayton, co. Stafford, was fought on St. Tecla's Day, Sunday, September 23, 1459, between the Lancastrians under James Touchet, Lord Audley, and the Yorkists under Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. The latter was marching from Yorkshire in order to effect a junction with his son, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Lord Audley had been sent by Queen Margaret of Anjou and her son Edward, the youthful Prince of Wales, wdth an army of about 10,000 men, raised principally in Cheshire and Shropshire, to intercept him. The Lancastrians were strongly posted, with a small stream with steep banks between them and their adversaries, but the Earl of Salisbury, by feigning a retreat, drew them across the stream, and then falling upon them whilst they were in a state of ^ VOL. II. B 2 HUNDRED OF MACCLESFIELD. disorder, completely routed them, killing Lord Audley and 2,400 of his forces. In addi tion to Lord Audley, the following persons are stated on good authority to have perished in this engagement : — Sir Hugh Venables, of Kinderton ; Sir Thomas Dutton, of Dutton ; Sir William Troutbeck, of . . . . ; Sir John Legh, of Booths ; Sir John Done, of Utkinton ; and Sir John Egerton, of Egerton, Knights, all Cheshire men ; Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sefton, co. Lancaster, and Richard Done, of Croton, and John Dutton, Esquires, with many others. The slaughter amongst the Cheshire men was particularly great, many of them fighting against their own relations and kindred, as thus narrated by Drayton in his " Polyolbion " : — "There Dutton, Dutton kills, a Done doth kill a O! Cheshire, wer't thou mad? of thine own native gore Done, So much until this day thou never shed'st before ! A Booth, a Booth, and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown ; Above two thousand men upon the earth were thrown, A Venables against a Venables doth stand, Of which the greatest part were naturally thine own. A Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck, hand to hand ; The stout Lord Audley slain, with many a captain There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die, there, And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth try. To Salisbury it sorts the Palm away to bear.'' The Prince of Wales had sent for the King's and his own tenants in Wirrall Hundred, as well as " in Maxfeld Hundred in Cheshire," and by a deed dated April 29, 1460, some six months after the battle, and enrolled on the Cheshire Recognizance Rolls, the King, Henry VI., granted a general pardon to the following persons in consideration of the good service which Sir Thomas Fitton, of Gawsworth, Knt., and his adherents had done at the battle of " Bloreheth." The names of those, who are called " late " of their respec tive lands, are obviously those who had fallen in the battle. For the sake of distinction those who fell are here printed in small capitals, those who survived in italics. 1460, April 29. — Grant of a general pardon, in consideration of the good service done at the battle of Bloreheth, to Sir Thomas Fyton, of Gawseworth, Knt. ; Richard Fyton, late of Gawseworth [his brother] , John Fyton, late of Pounall [Pownall], and John Fyton, his son ; William Fyton, son of Sir Laurence Fyton, Knt., late of Gawseworth ; Edward Fyton, brother of Sir Thomas Fyton, late of Gawsworth ; Roger Davenport, late of Bromall [Bramhall] ; Edward Warde, late of Capesthorne ; Richard [Mascy ?], late of Podyngton ; John Sutton, son of John Sutton, late of Sutton ; Ro[bert or Roger] Maynwaryng, late of Modburley [Mobberley] ; Hugh Henshawe, late of Sydington ; . . . . Stafford, late of Bothummes [Bothoms, CO. Derby] ; John Sutton, junior, late of Sutton ; Thomas Rode, late of Rode ; Ralph Maynwaryng, of Modburley ; Edward Fiton, of Pevere ; Roger Smalwode, late of Rode, near Gawseworth ; Reginald Archer, late of Sutton, near Macclesfield ; John Stede, late of Sutton ; Thomas Fytok, son of John Fyton, late of Pownall ; Ralph Maynwaryng, son of Hugh Maynwaryng, of Modburley ; James Maymvaryng, brother of the said Ralph ; Hugh Pownall, late of Pownall ; Richard Mascy, late of Gawseworth ; Richard Bosdon, junior ; Roger Hasilhurst, John Chaunteler, Matthew Bosdon, Richard Westbrooke, John Thornycroft, Thomas Passe, Thomas Stubbes, John Kelsall, junior ; WiUiam Aynesworth, Thomas Ley, Hemy Johnson Thojias Johnson, late of Gawseworth ; Thomas Kelsall, Lawrence Passe, Robert Hamond, Roger Shirw all, John Hchrode John Staneland, James Whiteacres, Laitrence Westbroke, coke [cook] ; John, son of Richard de Kyngesley, other wise called John Meson ; Robert Fyton, late of Gawseworth; Thomas Bosdon, late of Gawseworth; John Henshawe, late of Gawseworth ; Hugh Bosdon ; William Lyon, late of Gawseworth ; Henry Passe late of Gawseworth ; Hugh Stubbes, late of Gawseworth ; John Grey, late of Rode ; John Leghes, late of Rode; William Pernyll, late of Rode; Laurence Stubbes ; Henry Bothe, late of Yaton [Eaton]; Laurence Cashe, late of Gawseworth ; Thomas Cashe, late of Gawseworth ; Edmund Hordron, late of Bosley ; Richard Passe, of ^o&Q ; James Pernyll, of Rode ; John Greves, of Rode ; Richard Neuton, of Rode ; Stephen Waynwri^'ht of Rode ; and Richard Shinvall, of Gawseworth. GENERAL HISTORY. 3 Of the sixty-six persons named in the above list, who are those who accompanied Sir Thomas Fitton, of Gawsworth, to the field, no less than thirty-one were slain, a fact which bears witness to the severity of the fighting. The earliest document in connection with the office of Chief Serjeant of the Peace within the Hundred of Macclesfield, subsequent to the grant of that office to Vivian de Davenport, c. 1220, printed on p. 379, is an Inquisition without date, but probably taken c. 1250, before Sir Geoffrey de Dutton, Knt., Sir Robert de Mascy, Knt., Thomas de Orreby, Robert Pigot, and many others. They say that Vivian de Davenport, against his will, exchanged "the park and vivary of Macclesfeld" with Randle [Blundeville], Earl of Chester [1181-1232], for his serjeanty of Macclesfeld, with the puture to the said serjeanty belonging, which he was accustomed to take throughout the whole Hundred of Macclesfeld, except the vill of Mottram in Longdendale and the land of Richard Fitton in the vill of Bolyn. But Earl John [i 233-1 237], nephew of the said Earl Randle, by his deed, against the will of the said Vivian, quit-claimed to the said Richard Fitton, his said puture ; and also quit-claimed, against the will of the said Vivian, the land of Richard de Mottram [? in Mottram in Longdendale], where Vivian used to have puture. And also they say that the said Vivian received in the separate times of the said Earls Randle and John 24s. from the Exchequer of the said Earls of Chester, at two terms, to wit, at the nativity of our Lord, 12s. ; and at the feast of St. John the Baptist, I2S. ; and all the aforesaid serjeanty, with the aforesaid puture, as the aforesaid Earl Randle had enfeoffed him in exchange for the park and vivary of Macclesfeld." By another Inquisition taken in the 16 Edward I. [1287] it was returned that Roger de Davenport held his serjeanty in the Hundred of Macclesfeld, &c., and was to find 8 Serjeants and one horseman to keep the peace ; and that these should come at the summons of the King or Earl of Chester, at their own costs in the county, but at the King's or Earl's cost out of the county.'' On 20 June, 26 Edward III. [1352] another Inquisition was taken before Thomas de Ferrars, Justiciary of Chester, in which it was returned that Adam de Sutton had held the serjeanty and had received 24s. for finding mantles for his under-serjeants ; and that Vivian de Davenport and his heirs, from the time of the exchange of the said bailiwick for the land of Wylwick [in Macclesfield park], annually received the said 24s., and had an allowance of the same ; and that the mill and the manor [? of Macclesfield] were part of the land so exchanged. To this Inquisition, as stated in an old copy at Capesthorne, " there is annexed a very ancient long roll of the master robbers who were beheaded in the time of Vivian de Davenport, Roger de Davenport, and Thomas de Davenport, and also of their companions ; and an account of the fees paid to them on account of their serjeanty, by which it appears that the fee for a master robber was 2s. and one salmon, and for his companions i2d. each. And there is also an account of the several master robbers and their companions, who were slain by the Serjeant, and the fees paid on account of the serjeanty. Note. — The » From an abstract of this Inquisition, preserved at Capes- of finding 8 Serjeants, &c., had not been named in the original thorne. grant, and so could not be claimed, and the Court decided In ^ In 1602 John Davenport, Esq., in a suit tried at the Pala- his favour. (See p. 383, note r.) tinate Court of Chester, in that year, pleaded that the service B 2 4 HUNDRED OF MACCLESFIELD. numbers are great ; and, though the roll is very ancient and much defaced, yet several of the names appear." This interesting roll Is still preserved at Capesthorne." As shown on pp. 380-383, this office of Serjeant of the Peace is duly returned in the Inquisitions post mortem of the family of Davenport, of Davenport and Marton, and a few documents at Capesthorne show the character of the duties to be performed. On receipt of the writs they had to arrest persons within the Hundred, and to bring them to the castle of Chester; and in the 37 Henry VI. [1458-9], over 120 persons are named in one writ to be arrested as outlaws. In the year 1500 a Quo Warranto was brought at the instance of Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Earl of Chester, against Ralph Davenport, Esq., for the latter to show what he claimed as belonging to his office of Serjeant of the Peace within the Hundred of Macclesfield, the lands in Mottram in Longdendale, and in le Bolyn only excepted, and by what right he so claimed it. After tracing the grant of the said office as above narrated and Its descent from father to son, Ralph Davenport stated that the rights and perquisites he claimed were as follows : — " The said Ralph claimed to have within the fee of the Hundred of Macclesfield, all goods and chattels of felons, whatsoever, and of fugitives condemned and to be condemned, and all goods of such sort in pelf, to wit, pots, pans, sheets, blankets, coverlets, and all other such like things, and all manner of growing produce within the fee aforesaid, paying to the lord the rent of the land where the produce was growing, bulls, boars, and entire horses, carts and wheels and pots bound with iron, being excepted, such belonging to the Prince as Earl of Chester. That he, the said Ralph, should make proclamation in the time of fairs within the Hundred, that all persons coming to those fairs should keep the King's peace, and that none during these fairs should carry any defensible arms in the same. And that for this proclamation he shall receive for him and his Serjeants, for each fair, from the toll collected there 6d. And by the word ' puture ' he claims to have for him and his heirs 18 marks [13s. 4d.]'i annually, to be paid to him and his heirs bythe hand of the Prince's tenants of the Hundred of Macclesfield. And he further says that the Prince holds to himself and his heirs the park of Macclesfield and other lands and tenements in the county of Chester, worth x^ifi per annum, in exchange for the inheritance of the said Ralph, by the payment of the said 18 marks, as appears by divers evidences under the seals ofthe Earls of Chester." In addition to the above, the Davenports claimed the goods of those who had committed suicide, and also claimed as "deodands " such articles as had caused the death of any person within the Hundred. As might be expected, the enforcement of these claims brought them into frequent disputes with their neighbours, who asserted that their rights as lords of their respective manors were being interfered with. Many of the papers at Capesthorne relate to these claims, some of which are very quaint. A bell at Prest bury which had killed a man, two gravestones which had killed a man at Butley, and part of a cart-wheel which had killed a man at Adlington, were all paid for as " deodands." Since about 1735 these rights and perquisites appear not to have been claimed and so gradually fell into disuse, just as with a more organized system of county government, the duties of the Davenports as Serjeants of the Peace in this extensive Hundred also fell into abeyance. The Manor and Forest of Macclesfield, as it was called, comprised about a ' The roll is a narrow one of considerable length. A trans- are described as "several ancient puture rolls containing an lation of it, which Mr. Bromley-Davenport had made some years account of what each township in the Hundred of Maccles- ago, appears to be now mislaid. field paid to the Master Serjeant thereof for Puture or Kelk ¦i In other documents the yearly value of the " puture or money." For a definition of puture see vol. I. p. 43, note "¦. kelk " is set down as £12. l6s. 8d. At Capesthorne are what ' '^" GENERAL HISTORY. 5 third of the whole Hundred of Macclesfield, including the following townships, Sutton- Downes, Wincle, Rainow, Hurdsfield, Bollington, Pott Shrigley, Kettleshulme, Lyme Handley, Macclesfield Forest, Wildboarclough, Titherington, Upton, and Macclesfield in Prestbury parish, together with Disley-Stanley, Marple, and Offerton in Stockport parish, and Taxal and Yeardsley-cum-Whaley in Taxal parish. Of this the greater part was anciently a royal forest, originally belonging to the Earl of Chester, and on the extinction of the local earldom, in 1237, it passed to the Crown. The oldest known boundary, occurring " on an ancient parchment " among the Fitton deeds, is preserved in Harl. MSS., 2038, f. 8 ; but the boundaries there given are made more clear by the following perambulation of the Forest, which is contained in one of the Court Rolls ofthe Manor and Forest, and was taken in July, 1619, as follows :" — They say, that the circuit of the said Forest of Macclesfield begins at a certain bridge now called Otters- poole Bridge,f and formerly called Rohehoundesbrigg, and so ascending the water of Mersey as far as the water of Guyte [Goyt] and ascending the water of Guyte as far as certain mosses [or moors] lying between the water of Guyte and the water of Dane Mosse. And so across these mosses as far as Dane-head, and thence descending the water of Dane as far as Crumwell s and from Crumwell as far as Bramall-hill s and from Bramall-hill as far as Rode Greene and thence [along] the Churchgate as far as the village of Gawsworth, the whole of which is in the Forest except the Hall and the church. And so from Gawsworth by the highway {pro strata via) as far as the village of Prestbury, and from Prestbury by the high way as far as a certain hill, formerly called Norbury Low, lying beyond a house called Bullock Smithy and on the western side of the said road, and from Norbury Low by the high way beyond the house of Robert Hanford, leaving that house within the said Forest, as far as the rivulet of Bosdon, and descending the rivulet of Bosdon to the corner of a certain meadow called Barlie Meadow, and thence to a certain little bridge called a Platt, and anciently called Saltersbrigge, and lying within the said meadow called Barlie Meadow and a certain meadow called Reddish Meadow, and from the little bridge aforesaid by the high way as far as the said bridge called Otterspoole." By the word Forest (Lat. Foresta) must not be understood, as is now the case, an extensive wood, but rather an open moorland, the greater part of which was probably quite devoid of trees and much in the same condition as the lands between Macclesfield and Taxal now are, only not cultivated at all. Over this moorland herds of deer ranged at will, and Dr. Ormerod states that immediately prior to the Civil War, in 1642, about 200 head were kept there for the use of the King. Subsequent to the Restoration these forest lands were granted away and enclosed, and the Forest, as such, had no longer any existence. Prior to the granting away of the whole Forest, " a Swainmote court was kept at Macclesfield for the Forest, at which were yearly elected all officers and ministers belonging to such Courts ; presentments of offenders against the Forest laws were constantly made, and offenders for misdemeanours were committed to the gaol at Maccles field, as well from this Court as from that for the Leet for the Forest and Hundred. It appears by the records of these Courts, which have been regularly held since the time of Edward II. [1307-1327], that the same were held for some centuries before the Justice of Chester, who sat as Justice in eyre at Macclesfield, and frequently before the Justice's deputy, after his iter [or circuit] was over, sometimes also before commissioners of oyer and terminer by special commission, and at other times before the King's steward or his • Printed by Dr. Ormerod, vol. iii. p. 281 (old edition), and furnished him by Mr. David Browne, of Macclesfield. ' Near Marple Hall. (See p. 84.) f Crumwell, or Crombwell, is in North Rode township (see p. 426), as also is Bramall Hill. 6 HUNDRED OF MACCLESFIELD. deputy or before the King's bailiff But in process of time the Justice discontinuing such method of proceeding, it appears that the subsequent courts were constantly held before the King's steward or his deputy."'' The chief officers who had the custody of the Forest of Macclesfield were a Master Forester and eight subordinate Foresters, whose office was hereditary. The Master Forestership was conferred, about the year 1166, by Hugh Kyvelioc, Earl of Chester, upon Richard de Davenport, an ancestor of the Davenports of Davenport and Marton, and it remained in this family for many generations. It is probable, that, after the extinction of the local Earldom of Chester, this office gradually fell into disuse, and was superseded by that of the King's Steward, who was appointed and removed at the King's pleasure. The names of many of these Stewards can be collected from the Cheshire records, now in the Record Office, London, and for some time this office was held by the Stanleys until 1462, when, by Letters Patent dated the 1 1 January in that year, Edward IV. granted to Thomas Lord Stanley, "the office of Master Forester of the Forest of Macclesfeld and of the Master Forester, Supervisor and Rider (supervisoris et cquitatoris) of our Forest of Mara and Mondrem, together with the office of Steward of Macclesfeld," to hold to him and his heirs male, either by himself or themselves, or by their deputies duly appointed, in as full a manner as Thomas Lord Stanley, his father, had held it.' This office is duly noticed in all the subsequent Stanley Inquisitions post mortem, and has remained in this family ever since, excepting during the Civil War and Commonwealth, when the office of Steward of Macclesfield was held by Sir William Brereton of Handforth, Bart.,'' the celebrated Parliamentarian General. The eight subordinate Foresters held their offices by grants from the Earls of Chester of certain lands, which were to be held by the performance of their duties as Foresters. These offices were hereditary and descended from father to son, as will be found duly noticed in the accounts of the various estates in this Hundred which were held by Forest service. They were sometimes also sold or passed by an heiress to other families. These Foresters also enjoyed certain privileges within the Forest, and were bound to follow the Earl to war with the same arms with which they kept their office. The following is an early list of the names of the Foresters, probably of about the end of the thirteenth century .k Sir Richard de Vernon holdeth Merpull and Wiburskgh in the name of Forestry, by deed of Earl Randle, in fee and inheritance by the [service of] finding one Forester. Robert del Downes holdeth le Downes and Taxall in fee and inheritance, as of ancient tenure, by [the service of] finding one Forester. '¦ Dr. Ormerod's "History of Cheshire,'' vol. iii. p. 280 (old edition), from the information furnished him by Mr. David Browne, of Macclesfield. I am not at present aware of any of these Swainmote Court Rolls being in existence, unless they are mixed up with those of the Halmote Courts. There were evi dently a great many existing in the early part of this century. ' From the Patent Roll. — From Letters Patent, dated 16 Charles I. [1640-1], it appears that on a payment of ^200 to the King by William, Earl of Derby, he had these offices confirmed to him. By Letters Patent dated 29 April, 1452, Thomas, Lord Stanley, who died in 1458, had a grant of the lands of Saltersford, Harrop, Wildboreclough, &c., as see on p. 456. J It is noteworthy that in 1655, and probably other years, the Halmote Courts w-ere held before /()/«« .SrmMOTy,?, Esq., deputy steward under Sir William Brereton. ^ This list occurs in many Cheshire MSS. either in Latin or EngUsh. A Latin version from the Cotton. MSS. in the British Museum, Cleopatra D. vi., has been printed by Dr. Ormerod, vol. iii. p. 280 (old edition), but there appear to be some mis prints of importance. GENERAL HISTORY. Thomas de Orreby holdeth his Forestiy, as of ancient tenure, by homage and fealty and without any other service. John de Sutton holdeth his land of Stitton and Distelegh, as of ancient tenure, in fee and inheritance in the name of Forestry. Gryii de Stanlegh holdeth Stanley, as of ancient tenure, in the name of Forestry. Henry de Worth holdeth lands which were Ormes (?)i by deed of Earle Randle in the name of Forestry. Richard de Heghlegh"' holdeth le Heghlegh^ by deed of Earl Randle in the name of Forestry. Adam, son of Alan de Sutton, holdeth his lands of Sutton, by deed of Earl Hugh, in the name of Forestry. Jordan de Distilegh holdeth his lands in Distilegh, by deed of Earl Randle, in the name of Forestry. These Fore.sterships will be found duly referred to under the townships, in which the lands were situated, and, as far as possible, the history of each has been traced in detail. The quaint rights and privileges enjoyed by the Foresters were as follows :°— These be the liberties w* the said fforestarers have and have had in all the tyme of the Earle and Kinge. That they may take foxes, hares, squirrells, weesels, otters, pikes,P muschetts i and eagles, and all vermyn of the fforreste, wtt" greyhounds or doggs not expeditatis ;i' [that they may have] ffishinge and ffowlinge throughout all the said fforrestarie, [that they are permitted] the ffishes and fFowles so taken to have \i.e. to retain] ; [but] of a beaste taken in the fforrest they shall have one shoulder, that is to witt, the right shoulder ; of a beast found dead, the fovver [? fore] quarters must be sent to Macclesfeld, the fforestarers shall have the rest. Also the fforrestarers shall have croppinge of woode for theire owne beasts w"'in their bounds, and through all the said fforrest. And when the lord of the land selleth his croppes out of the bounds, they shall have croppes in their owne woode to feed theire owne beasts ; also when the lord selleth ffodder through the fforrest, the fforrestarers shall have ffodder to \i.e. for] theire owne beasts. Also they shall have w"'in their demises or bounds [what they require] of the woodes, to inclose and build and to burne without deliverance \i.e. hindrance] of any man. And also the said fforestarers shall have barke of all okes [oaks] caste downe, given or soulde. jVlso they shall have mylne stones [mill stones] if any shalbe found in the fforrest. Also they shall be free of \i.e. from] pannage or maste through all the whole fforrest for all theire swyne and lyke[wise] theire tenants. xA.lso they shall have in common the best swyne of the whole pannage of the lord. And every fforrestarer shall have one penny for everie day whiles the pannage endureth. Also they shall have crokes and baxstones through all the whole fforreste, and they shall have merciaments of all trespassers through the said fforrest. These be contained under the name of Pelf.^ All tame beasts of every kind, of oxen, kyne, bullocks, heyfers, swyne, goats and sheepe, one of the beste. And if of the same beasts they shall have but one. Also all small beasts as cocks, hennes, geese, ducks, and such lyke, and all clothes tayled and colored [collared ?]. And all malt w"'in one quarter \i.e. not to exceed one quarter]. And all corne not winnowed w*in one quarter. Et de quolibet tasse grunstallu cum uno cursu propinqinore.' And all leade excepte the forneys and treen \i.e. earthen] vessels, towels, hand napkyns, and all woolen and linen beddes and weynes not bounden w"* iron, and all carts w*'' their appurtenances. Much might be written about Macclesfield Forest, its foresters, and other officers, ' This word is very puzzling. Dr. Ormerod gives it Orme Rata'ii, and translates it subsequently as if it was Orme, the wheelwright, and suggests that a place called Ratonsfield in Upton may have derived its name from him, which is at the least very fanciful. In one English MS. of this list this word is given as Horin Kator, and in another simply Horiit. " This word is clearly Heghlegh, and not Hoghlegh, as printed by Dr. Ormerod, who conjectured that the name Hulley might have been derived from this latter name, as noticed on p. 663 in this volume. " This is also Heghlegh, and subsequently passed to the Savages in 1398, and from them to the Leghs of Lyme, by a deed dated 26 July, 1411, and still preserved among the Lyme deeds. (See also Cheshire Recognizance Rolls, Record Office.) ° From an English version, of sixteenth century date, collated with another copy. A Latin version from Cleopatra D. vi. is printed by Dr. Ormerod, but it is apparently not very reliable, and some of the words are not easy to understand. p These words are given in the English versions as "evtrees," and "loceros," or rather "loceres." Prof. Skeat writes me that the former is probably "eutres," or "outres," the plural ofthe old Frenchform of theAnglo-Saxon/'otter." "Loceres" is possibly derived from the Latin "lucius," a pilie. The mean ing ofthe sentence is that whatever destroys game, whether beast- destroyers, fish-destroyers, or bird-destroyers, might be taken by the foresters, and that dogs could be used where necessary. '1 Musket was an old word for a hawk. ' That is dogs which had not had the ball of the fore-feet cut off, as was the custom under the old forest laws. ' This was another perquisite which the Foresters claimed. ' This is evidently a passage which the writer could not translate from the original Latin, and it is not easy to see what is really intended. HUNDRED OF MACCLESFIELD. the boundaries of the various townships within the forest, the services in the Coumbes, &c., &c., did space only permit. The office of Bailiff ofthe Manor and Forest and Collector of the Rents, &c., &c., was held by the family of Mottram, who inherited it (together with the custody of the gaol of Macclesfield) from John le Gaoler, whose daughter, Ellen, Adam de Mottram had married." This office, by deed dated 3 Richard II. [1380], was conveyed by William de Mottram to Sir John Savage, Knt., and it remained with the Savages, and is mentioned in their Inquisitions, &c., and descended, with their lands» to the Cholmondeleys, but all its privileges are now obsolete. A court for the Forest, known as the Halmote Court, was held monthly in the court-house at Macclesfield, before the Earl of Derby (as the King's steward) or his deputy. This was really the Court Baron for the manor, being held for admitting copy hold tenants, passing surrenders, and suffering recoveries of the customary or copy hold lands throuo-hout the forest. It has time out of mind been held on Monday, every four weeks, and Is adjourned for convenience from Monday to Monday, and it is still held ; P. P. Brocklehurst, Esq., of Macclesfield, being the Earl of Derby's deputy steward, and John May, Esq., also of Macclesfield, the clerk of the court. Copies of the surrenders, &c., were issued to the parties under the official seal of the Earl of Derby as steward, an illustration of which seal, from a deed dated 1532,' is given in the annexed illustration. This seal is undoubtedly a very early one, and not improbably is the one adopted when the office of steward was permanently conveyed to Lord Stanley In 1462. It represents the three legs of Man (as they are called), the feet being encased in very pointed '"^s^ewIrd of the halmo-^ shoes, and. In addition, it has the three eagle's claws, which were the portions of the Stanley arms, often used to indicate that family (see vol. I. 245, for the arms of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, &c.) The inscription round the seal is sigillu thome comit' de derbei senescall de MACCLESFELD. In later times a much smaller seal, bearing the three legs of Man on a shield, was used. The old Court Rolls of the Macclesfield Halmote Court extend back to the time of Edward III., and are in a very fair state of preservation. They are full of the most valuable information relative to families and lands within the extensive area comprised by the Manor and Forest, and it is now proposed to have them properly arranged and calendared, so as to make them generally available for historical and genealogical purposes. COURT OF MACCLESFIELD. (Size of the original.) " In 1332 a Quo JVarranlo was brought against Adam de Mot tram to show on what grounds he claimed the office of Gaoler of Macclesfield, &c., the answers to which are very interesting. " Kindly lent me, with a number of other deeds and papers, by Holland Hulley, Esq., of the One House, Macclesfield. It is the most perfect specimen of this curious seal which I have met with, for, as a rule, they are generally broken or illegible. During the Civil War and Commonwealth periods Sir William Brereton used quite a different seal, on a cap of maintenance, a dragon statant, wings elevated (see volume I. pp. 260 and 484), and this inscription— SIGIL: WILL: liRERETON: 11 SEN: DE MAC: PARISH OF STOCKPORT, (Continued from Volume I.) ©ufemfleli Cotonsjtjp- HERE is no reference to this township in the Domesday Survey, taken about 1086, and the earliest mention of it that has occurred is towards the middle ofthe 12th century, when "Dokenfeld," together with Bromale [Bramhall], was granted by Hamo de Masci, the second Baron of Dunham Massey, to Matthew de Bromale, as see under Bramhall (Vol. I. p. 423), where the charter is given in full. This manor was subsequently held under the lords of Bramhall by a family who bore the local name, one of the earliest members of which (whose name has come down to us) being Hamo de Dokenfeld, who occurs as a witness in the Bramhall deeds before the year 1 300, and who, together with his wife Sybil, is mentioned in the Cheshire Plea Rolls in the Record Office, 24 Edward I., 1296. Some few years later, in the I Edward III. [1327], a fine was levied between Robert de Dokenfeld and William, the son of William de Stokport, chaplain, concerning the manors of Dokenfeld and Brynyn- ton,'' whereby the said manors were settled upon the said Robert for his life, with remainder to his heirs; then to Robert, son of Ellen Banastre; then to John, brother of Robert, remainder to Joan, sister of John ; with final remainder to Alexander Dokenfeld and his heirs.'' John de Dokenfeld, the son of the above-named Robert, was living and of age in 1359, when his name occurs in the Cheshire Recognizance Rolls. He died in 1401, when the following Inquisition post ni07'tem was taken. "^ Inq. p. m. taken at Chester before Richard de Manley, Escheator, the Wednesday next after the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula [Aug. i], 2 Henry IV. [1401], by the oaths of Robert de Assheton, Roger de Mulynton, John le Boidell of Lymme, Richard Starky of Stretton, John de Littelore, Nicholas de Croxton, William le Warde, Peter de Whitlegh, John le Warde de Capestorn, William Wilot, Thomas Nicolas, Roger de Berneshagh, and William de Mascy of Knottesford, Jurors, who say that John de Dokenfeld, senior, died, seised conjointly infeoffed with Agnes his wife, ol the manors of Dokenfeld and Brynynton, of the gift and feoffment of William de Cheshire Plea Rolls.- VOL. II. -Record Office. '' Dr. Ormerod's "History of Cheshire," old edition, vol. iii. p. 396. ' Cheshire Inquisitions post mortem. — Record Office. C 10 STOCKPORT PARISH. Bagelegh, chaplain, so that after the decease of the said John and Agnes, they are to remain to Robert, the son of Thurstan de Dokenfeld, and the heirs male of his body, and the said manor of Dokenfeld is held of Alice, the wife of John de Ardern, as of the manor of Bromale, by knight's service, and is worth per annum £16. 13s. 4d., and the manor of Brynynton is worth j^io per annum. And they say that the said John de Dokenfeld, senior, died the Saturday next after the feast of St. John the Baptist [June 24], and that Robert, the son of Thurstan de Dokenfeld, is next of kin and next heir, viz., the son of Thurstan, the son of the said John de Dokenfeld, senior, and is 22 years of age. In January, 1403-4, this Robert de Dokenfeld was appointed a Commissioner, together with. Sir Robert de Legh, Knt., Sir Lawrence Fyton, Knt, Ralph de Daven port, Reginald del Dounes, John de Ardern, of Stockport, Robert de Davenport, and Richard de Mascy, of Honford, to enquire by a Jury of the Hundred of Macclesfield touching those who spread false rumours to the disquiet of the people of the county of Chester, and to array all the men capable of bearing arms in the said Hundred. "^ In 1416 he was a Commissioner to collect a subsidy granted to the King, and again in 1430 he was appointed to the same office." He was living in 1437, when he is mentioned together with his son John de Dokenfeld, but appears to have died some time before 1454. John de Dokenfeld was appointed a collector of a subsidy in Macclesfield Hundred in 1465 ; in 1468 he had an exemption, perhaps on account of his age, from serving on juries, and in October, 1473, a writ was issued to enquire of what lands he had died seised 1*^ but the return to this writ is not now in the Record Office. His son Robert Dokenfeld, who succeeded him, is called " senior" in 1481, and either he or his son of the same name was living in 1497 and 1507.° His grandson John Dokenfeld, of Dokenfeld, Esq., died before 1528, leaving Robert his son and heir, and several other children. More than usual difficulty attaches to these descents, owing to the fact that no Inquisitions post mortem relating to this period are extant, and no early Dukinfield deeds have been met with. Robert Dockenfeld, Esq., who Is called the son and heir of John Dockenfeld in 1529, died before 1549, when the following Inquisition post mortem was taken ¦} — Lnq. p. m. taken at Chester, 21 May, 3 Edward VI. [1549], before Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, Sir Philip Egerton, Sir Richard Egerton, Knts., and Richard Hassall, Esq., Commissioners, by the oaths of Sir Thomas Delves, Knt., Robert Corbett, Esq., Robert Ley of Ley, Philip Wetenhall, gent., John Brayne of Aston, Hugh Aston of Aston, Richard Wilbraham of Bryndley, Thomas Cheswys of Mykley, Roger Crebett (?) of Wystaston, Thomas Gamell (?) of Overton, .William Allen of Bryndley, John F)'lkyn of Tatenhall, Hugh Hauks of Churton, Robert Massy of Edgeley, John of Teyrton, John Trevers of Horton, John Bulkeley of Bykerton, Thomas Bothe and Randle Dodde of Broxon, Jurors, who say that Robert Dokenfeld, Esq., died seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Dokenfeld, and of 39 messuages, 200 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood and underwood, and 200 acres of moor and marsh in Dokenfeld, and also of the manor of Brynnynton, alias Portwode, with a park and a water-mill there, and also of land and tenements there, all being held of the King, in capite, by knight's service, and a payment of 2S. 8d. per annum. And the manor of Dokenfeld is worth ^16 per annum, and the messuages and lands there ;^i3. 6s. 8d., and the manor of Brynnynton, alias Portwode, with the mill there, ^13. 6s. 8d., and the messuages and lands there ;^ii. 4s. id. Also they say that the said Robert died seised in his demesne as of fee of 12 messuages, 20 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, and 2 acres of wood in Stopport, held of the King by knight's service, " Cheshire Recognizance Rolls. = Ibid. ' Ibid. Dicon Gee, and had issue Robert Gee, who had issue Alex- e About this time, in 1494, there is mention in the Recog- ander Gee."— It is not clear how these Dokenfelds were con- nizance Rolls of "John, son of Robert, son of Alexander de nected with the main line; Dokynfeld, who had issue a daughter, Marion, who married f Cheshire Inquisitions post mortem.— Record Office. DUKINFIELD TOWNSHIP. 11 worth £(i. 6s. And the said Robert also died seised of half a cottage in Baguley, and messtiages and lands in Edgeley, and he did not hold any other lands, because Richard Assheton of Myddylton, Esq., Robert Longley of Agecroft, Esq., and others, feoffees of John Dokenfeld of Portwode, Esq., were seised of certain lands in Dokenfeld in the tenures of various tenants (named), and by an indenture dated 6 Sept., 21 Henry VIII. [1529], and in fulfilment of the last will of the said John Dokenfeld, by their charter demised the said lands to Alice Dokenfeld, daughter of the said John Dokenfeld, for the term of her life, with remainder to Robert Dokenfeld, son and heir of the said John, and his heirs male. And the same feoffees granted certain other lands by their several charters, dated 14 Oct., 22 Henry VIII. [1530], to Edmund Trafford, son of Edmund Trafford, Esq., and others, in trust for Ralph Dokenfeld, Edmund Dokenfeld, and Thurstan Dokenfeld, sons of the said John Dokenfeld, with remainder to the said Robert Dokenfeld and his heirs. And they say that William Dokenfeld is son and next heir of the said Robert, and is 14 years of age, and that Edmund Trafford and others had received the rents, &c., of these lands, from the death of the said Robert Dokenfeld until now. Robert Dokenfeld's will, dated 23 March, 1546-7, has been printed by the Chetham Society.' He desires to be buried " in the quire of the church of All Hallowes of Stockport,"-" mentions his son and heir not of age, his daughters Ellen, Jane, and Margaret, and Rauff Dokenfeld, his younger son. Among the bequests are : " Item I geve unto William Dokenfeld, my sonne and heire, my greit two edged sword and my lesse two edged sword, which I do weare myself, with my grete new buckler and my short armyng sword with my dagar, which is garnished with silver, and also my batell axe with all other harnishe belongyng to my bodie." He mentions the Hall at Portwood, " with ye orchards, gardens and dere parke," and appoints his "trustie and welbeloved cosens. Sir Edmunde Treford [Trafford], Knyght, John Ardern of Hawarden, and Charles Manwaryng of Croxton, Esquires," his executors."" William Dockenfield, who was only fourteen years of age at his father's death in 1 549, is styled " one of the Groomes ofthe King's Privie Chamber" in 1551, in the will of John Arderne, of Harden, Esq., to whose daughter Jane he was at that time already married." Little appears to be on record concerning his life, but his first wife Jane, by whom he had nine children, predeceased him, and he married for his second wife, Margaret, the daughter of Edward Holland, of Denton, co. Lane, Esq., by whom he had three sons." He was buried at Stockport, June 21, 1592, but neither his will nor his Inquisition post mortem is on record. His son and heir, William Dockenfield of Portwood, Esq., as he is called, had predeceased his father, being buried at Stockport, Aug. 6, 1590, leaving no issue. The second son, Robert Dockenfield, Esq., succeeded his father, and married, c. 1593, Jane, one of the daughters and coheiresses of Richard Holland, of Denton, Esq., by whom he had numerous issue. He was buried at Stockport, 29 December, 1621, his Inquisition post mortem, taken in the following year, being as follows :" — ' "Lancashire and Cheshire Wills,'' part ii. p. 24. ' of John Booth, of Barton, co. Lane, and appears to have lived j Stockport Church is dedicated to St. Mary, so that it is at Eccles. Francis Duckenfield married for his first wife Anne, strange to find it here styled "the Church of All Hallows of the daughter and heiress of John Bamford, of Bamford, co. Stockport." Lane, Esq., and widow of George Birch, Esq.— Her Inq. p. m. " He does not mention his wife, but, according to the pedi- was taken at Bolton, 22 April, 1620. He married, secondly, grees, she survived him, and re-married WiUiam Mere, of Elizabeth, the dau. of . . . . Lever, of Little Lever, co . Lane. Sutton. Richard Duckenfield appears to have lived at Ormskirk, and "East Cheshire," vol. I. p. 469. died there in 1662, leaving two daughters coheiresses, one "¦ These three sons were Edward, Francis, and Richard. married to John Ashurst, the other to Gerard Markland. Edward Duckenfield marxieA Dorothy, daughter and coheiress " Cheshire Inquisitions post mortem. —Record Office. C 2 12 STOCKPORT PARISH. lnq. p.m. taken at Knuttesford, 9 September, 20 James [1622], before Hugh Maynwaring, Escheator, and Peter Danyell, Feodary, by the oaths of George Hollinworth of HoUinworth, gent., Thomas Baskerville of Withington, gent., Richard Wych of Nether Alderley, gent., John Birtles of Birtles, gent., Lea Henshawe of Henshawe, gent., Philip Downes of Toft, gent., John Grantham of Hale, gent., Ralph Reddish of Mottram in Longdendale, gent, John Tarvyn of Baguley, gent, John Brookshawe of Bredbury, gent, Ralph CoUyerof Bredbury, gent., William Higham of Werneth, gent., William Sydebothome of Romeley, gent., and John Shepley of Hyde, gent., Jurors, who say that Robert Dokenfield, Esq., was seised of and in the manor of Dokenfield, and certain messuages and lands there, and also of the manor of Brynington, alias Portwood, and one watermill and ¦other lands therp, and messuages and lands in Stopport and Edgeley. And the manors and other premises of Dokenfield and Brynington are held of Sir William Davenport of Bramhall, Knt., in socage, by fealty only and the rent of one pair of white gloves of the price of id., and the said manor is worth £(i. 13s. 4d. per annum. And the messuages, &c. in Stopport are held of Edward Warren, Esq., as of his manor of Stopport, in free burgage, by fealty and a rent of 8s. 2|d., and the lands in Edgeley are held of Richard Bulkeley, Esq., as of his manor of Cheadle, in socage, by fealty and a rent of 2S. 8d., and are worth 20s. per annum. And the said Robert Dokenfield died at Dokenfield, the 29th December last," and Robert Dokenfield, Esq., is son and heir of the said Robert and is aged 24 years and more. Robert Dockenfield's will, which Is dated 17 Oct., 162 1, and was proved at Chester 3 Feb., 1 62 1 -2, is as follows ¦? — " In the name of God Amen. 17 Oct, 162 1. I, Robert Dockenfield of Dokenfield, Esq. My body to the ¦earth, referring the manner of my Buriall unto my Executors hereafter herein named, nevertheless wishing that the same may be without anie charge of Blacks or unnecessarie Expences. To my son and heir Robert Dokenfield, all my bruinge vessells att and in my house called Dokenfield, my best horse, gelding or mare, all my armour and weapons and the bedd with the fifurniture standing in the chamber over the hall at Doken field. To every one of my children 20s. and to every one that I am grandfather to 6s. 8d. To ffrancis Dockenfield alias He)r\vood £^ ; to every one of my servants that have served me 5 years, one half year's wages ¦over and besides their due. To my son William ;^ioo; to my son Richard ;^ioo; to my daughter Frances ;^ioo ; to my daughter Alice ;^ioo; and the residue of my goods equally between them." Mentions, "my son in law Laurence Downes of Worth, co. Chester, Esq.," and "my son in law John Tempest, now under the age of 2 1 years." " My son Richard Dockenfield to have one bed and the ffurniture thereunto belonging standing in my chamber at my house called Gorses." Appoints his sons Robert Dockenfield and William Dockenfield, and his "beloved friend Henry ffairffaxe, Rector of the church of Ashton under Lyne, co. Lane," his executors, and desires his " verie good ffriend Sr. George Booth, Knight and Baronet, and Sr. Peter Legh, Knt., to be overseers." Robert Duckenfield, Esq., who succeeded his father in 1622, had married at Cartmel Church, North Lancashire, on August 23, 1618, Frances, the daughter of George Preston, of Holker near Cartmel, Esq. He died in 1630, at the early age of 33, and was buried at Stockport, August 30th, in that year.'' His Inquisition post mortem, which was taken 11 October, 1630,' recites that he held the same lands as those described in his father's Inquisition, refers to his marriage settlement dated 21 September, 1618, and states that Robert Duckenfield was his son and heir, and aged 11 years on the 28th of September [ ? August] last. In his will, dated 18 August, 1630, and proved at Chester, " Robert Dockenfield's funeral certificate is in Harl. MSS. 2180, f. 31. The information it contains will be found in the pedigree (see p. 12). p Wills at Chester. 1 His funeral certificate is in Harl. MSS. 2180, f. 69 b. ' This Inquisition was taken at Knottesford, ii Oct., 6 Charles, 1630, before Roger Downes, Esq., Christopher Ban- nester, Esq., Hugh Mainwaring, Esq., Escheators, by the oaths of Paul Wynington of Birches, gent., Hugh Wirrall of Falli- hroome, gent., Philip Downes of Toft, gent.. Lea Henshawe of Henshawe, gent., Thomas Titherington of Titherington, gent., Robert Holford of Fields, gent., Anthony Furnivall of Milnehouse, gent., Edward Harper of High Leigh, gent., Alexander Duncalf of Mobberley, gent., John Eaton of Blackden, gent., John Kinsey of Blackden, gent., Richard Steele of Reddishe, gent., John Birtles of the Hill, gent., Thomas Grastie of Warford, gent., Ralph Collyer of Bred bury, gent., Francis Acton of Over Alderley, gent., and Ralph Blease of Shipbrooke, gent.. Jurors. DUKINFIELD TOWNSHIP. 13 8 September, 1630,' he desires to be buried "in the parish church of Stockport, in the place of my ancestors," and leaves to his well-beloved wife Frances one-third of all his land, rents, " milnes, colepits," &c., together with " my decenster house commonly called Portwood Hall" for her life. He mentions his son and heir Robert, and his younger sons William, James, Thomas, and John, and his daughters Margaret and Elizabeth, and that to William Duckenfield he had given for his life " a tenement commonly called Gorses. in Dukinfield," and to James one called Bould's tenement. He desires his wife to educate his younger children with the advice of Sir William Brereton [of Handforth], Baronet, Mr. Alexander Horrux, Preacher at Deane Church in Lancashire, Robert Ashton of Shepley [near Ashton-under-Lyne], and Godfrey Heron of Stockport, or any two of them, as she shall think best. Robert Duckenfield, Esq., who was only 11 years old at the time of his father's death, became subsequently very well known, and as Lieutenant-Colonel Ducken field, played a very important part on the side of the Parliament during the Civil War. He appears to have joined Sir William Brereton's party immediately on the outbreak of the Civil War, and in 1643, although only 24 years of age, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for Cheshire for sequestrating the estates of the delinquents and for raising money for the Parliament. In February, 1643-4, ^^ attacked and took Wythenshawe Hall,' and on May 25, 1644, he, together with Colonel Henry Mainwaring, commanded the forces sent to guard Stockport and to prevent Prince Rupert's march into Lancashire." From a letter preserved amongst the Egerton MSS. in the British Museum,'' and written by him from Dukinfield, April 5, 1645, it appears that in the previous winter he and his troops had served at the siege of Beeston Castle and in Wirrell, and that he was much pressed for money to pay his men. In December, 1647, Colonel Duckenfield occurs among those to whom Fairfax wrote respecting the disbanding of certain regiments on the side of the Parliament to which arrears of pay were due,'" and in the proceedings of the House of Commons, May 24, 1648, it is mentioned that he had held a meeting with the gentlemen of Cheshire, and had promised to raise three regiments of foot and one of horse.^ In 1649 he was High Sheriff of Cheshire, and in 1650 he was appointed Governor of Chester, and in that capacity was directed by the Parliament to summon the court- martial for the trial of the Earl of Derby, Captain John Benbow, and Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh at Chester, in September, 165 1.'' The court-martial was held on the 29th of September, and the whole circumstances attending the trial and execution of the ill-fated Earl have been well told by Canon Raines in his Memoirs of James, Seventh Earl of Derby, published by the Chetham Society." In the spring of the following Wills at Chester. The Inventory which accompanies this " Rushworth's "Historical Collections," vol. vii. p. 946. will is a very long and interesting document, but unfortunately " Ibid. ibid. vol. vii. p. 1 127. too long to quote here. >¦ State Papers, Domestic series. ' For a full account ofthe siege of Wythenshawe Hall, see '^ Chetham ' Society, vol. Ixvi. — Col. Henry Bradshaw, of "East Cheshire," vol. I. pp. 314-15. Marple, and Col. Dukinfield, both sat on the Earl's court- " See "East Cheshire," vol. I. p. 351. martial; and amongst the other officers present were Lieut-Col. Egerton MSS. 787, vol. iii. f. 48 ; printed in Barlow's Alexander Newton, of Newton in Longdendale, Capt. John "Historical and Literary Associations of Cheshire," 1855, Downes, Capt. Edward Alcock, Capt. Ralph Pownall, and T)p. 128-9. Capt. James Stopford, all East Cheshire names. It is stated 14 STOCKPORT PARISH. year Col. Duckenfield proceeded to the Isle of Man, and by the aid of treachery succeeded in reducing the island and taking the Countess of Derby and her children prisoners, for which he and Col. Birch received the thanks of Parliament." In 1653 he was returned as one of the Members of Parliament for Cheshire, and was placed on Cromwell's Council in July in that year. In the subsequent years he seems to have been living at Dukinfield, and in Noble's "Regicides" (vol. ii. p. 194) is printed a very characteristic letter of his addressed to the Protector Cromwell, and written from Dukinfield, March 23, 1654-5. Some years later, in 1659, he was associated with General Lambert in suppressing Sir George Booth's " Cheshire Rising," but after the Restoration he was tried as one of the court-martial of the Earl of Derby ; and it is stated that he was imprisoned in the country on some charge of being concerned with others in a plot to seize the King and restore the Parliament.^ His eldest son, Robert Duckenfield, was created a Baronet by Charles II. on June 16, 1665, but litde is known of the later years of Col. Duckenfield's life. He appears to have resided at Dukinfield Hall, and as a staunch Puritan was one of the leaders of the Nonconformists in the district. He died on September 18, 1689, at the age of 70, and was buried at Denton, in Lancashire.' A tombstone bearing the following inscription is now placed on the south side of Dukinfield (Nonconformist) Chapel : — • " Colonel Robert Dukinfield of Dukinfield, Esquire, who died Sep^- 18*, 1689, aged about 80 Years, "i and was buried at Denton Chapel. And here lye the remains of Judith, his Relict, who died February 2-^^'^, 1738-9, aged 86, and Also the remains of John Dukinfield, their son, who died October 25, 1762, aged 76." Colonel Duckenfield was twice married,' his first wife being Martha, the daughter of Sir Miles Fleetwood, of Hesketh, co. Lane, Knt., Receiver of the Court of Wards, to whom he was married c. 1640, and by whom he had four sons and four daughters. She died October 2, 1669, and on August 20, 1678, he married for his second wife Judith, the daughter of Nathaniel Bottomley, of Cawthorne, co. York, by whom he had four sons and two daughters.' She survived her husband, and, as shown in the inscription quoted above, died on February 23, 1738-9, aged 86 years, and was buried at Dukin field Nonconformist Chapel. that a pardon was granted to the Earl of Derby and entrusted to Col. Duckenfield, who so arranged that it should reach Bolton too late; but there is little or no reason for believing this story. » In a very interesting letter written by the Earl of Derby, from Chester, shortly before his death, and addressed to his wife, then in the Isle of Man, he advises her to make the best conditions she can "with Colonel Duckenfield, who, being so much a gentleman born, will doubtless for his own honour deal fairly with you." (Seacome's "House of Stanley," 1767, p. 116.) •> Mr. Watson's MSS., quoted by Dr. Ormerod, "Histoiyof Cheshire," vol. iii. p. 397, old edition. = "1689, Sept. 18, Col. Robert Dukinfield died, and was buried, Sept. 21, at Denton. His first wife died October 2, 1669." — (Dukinfield Nonconformist Register.) '' This is a mistake for 70 years, as he was baptized at Stock port 28 August, 1619. ' He is frequently stated to have been three times married, but no evidence of any other marriage has occurred, and it is not probable. ' These were — Richard, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Martha, and Judith. Richard, apparently the eldest, would be born about the year 1680, and his death is recorded in the Dukinfield Chapel Registers in the year 1700. — " Mr. Richard Dukinfield dyed July 28, being Lord's day . " Joseph Dttckmfield, who was born c. 1681, became a Noncon formist minister at Whitby, co. York, but afterwards conformed to the Church of England, and was appointed Vicar of Felixkirk, CO. York, where he died, 5 April, 1739, aged 58, as recorded on a small brass still in the chancel of the church. He was the author of a little book, now very scarce, entitled, "The Great Work of the Gospel Ministry, Explain'd, Conform'd, and Im- prov'd, from II. Cor., ch. ii. v. 16., 'And who is sufficient for these things.' London : printed for Nevill Simmons, Book seller in Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1707," sm. 8vo., Epistle dedica tory, 2 leaves ; Advertisement, I leaf, "The Great Work," &c., 48 pages. It is dedicated "to Sir Robert Duckenfeild, at Duckenfeild, in Cheshire, Baronet [his half brother], and to James Duckenfeild, at Atherton Lodge, iri Lancashire, Esq.'' [his uncle, and then an old man, over 80 years of age], and is signed "Joseph Duckenfeild, from my study at Whitby, Feb. DUKINFIELD TOWNSHIP. 1-5 ler. m ac A portrait of Colonel Duckenfield ^ is now in the possession of Dr. Shepherd Fletche of Manchester. A facsimile of his auto graph is here appended. Sir Robert Dukinfield, Bart., his eldest son by his first wife, was born c. 1642, and on June 16, 1665, was- created a Baronet by Charles II., when he was only 23 years of age and whilst his father was alive. He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1675. His first wife, to whom he was married about 1665, if not earlier, was Jane, the daughter of Sir Thomas Estcourt, of Cheristock Pinkney, co. Wilts, by whom he had six sons and three daughters. She died 19 August, 1678, and on 7 August, 1683, he married, at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Middlesex, Susanna, the daughter of Robert Thomson, Esq., of Culpho, CO. Suffolk, one of the Governors of the old East-India Company.'' By her he had five sons and nine daughters, all of whom lived to mature age.' She survived her husband, and died 7 July, 1742, aged 83, and was buried at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester. Sir Robert died 6 November, 1729, aged 87, and was buried in the Chapel attached to Dukinfield Hall, where his gravestone is still to be seen. His will is dated Sept. 6, 1725. Considering his large family, it is a somewhat remarkable fact that at the present time there should be no male descendants of any of Sir Robert's sons, although most of them married and had issue. Sir Robert's eldest surviving son, Robert, died in 1680, many years before his father, and he was therefore succeeded by his next son. Sir Charles Dukinfield, the second Baronet, who resided many years at Macclesfield, and married on September 29, 1698, Mary, one ofthe daughters and coheiresses of Mr. John Hollinshead, of that town. She was buried at Macclesfield, March 21, 171 7-18. Her five children died young. Sir Charles married secondly, Sarah, the daughter and heiress of Hewitt Parker, of Mobberley, co. Chester, Esq., and niece of Sir Samuel Daniel, of Tabley, Knt. He added largely to his estates by the purchase of the manor of Newton, in Mottram-in- Longdendale, which closely adjoins Dukinfield. He died 23 February, 1 741-2, and was succeeded by his only surviving son William, who took the name of D.\niel by Act of Parliament in 1 746, on succeeding to the estates of his great-uncle. Sir Samuel Daniel, of Tabley, Knt. Sir William Dukinfield-Daniel, the third Baronet, was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1 75 1, and died 12 January, 1758. His wife, Penelope, the daughter of Henry Vernon, of Hilton, CO. Stafford, Esq., survived her husband, and on 7 December, 1759, married 14, 1705-6." a copy of this rare little book has been kindly lent me by Thomas Baker, Esq., of Old Trafford.- — (See also Local Gleanings, Lane, and Ches. , vol. i. p. 278.) Of Benjamin Duckenfield, who was bapt. at Dukinfield Chapel, 22 Aug., 1682, I have ho information; he possibly died young. John Duckenfield, born t. l586, died 25 Oct., 1762, aged 76, and was buried at Dukinfield Chapel. Martha Duckenfield was bapt. at Dukinfield Chapel, 24 June, 1684, and buried, probably at Denton, 13 April, 1698. Jtidith Duckenfield, bapt. at Dukinfield Chapel, 12 March, 1689-90 (a posthumous child), married the Rev. William Buckley, minister of the Chapel, and died 2 Sept., 1766, and was there buried. t' Of this portrait 100 copies were lithographed by Mr. W. Ford, of Manchester, in 1824. '' The entry in the parish Register is simply, " 1683, Aug. 7, Robert Duckenfield and Susanna Thomson " married, and yet he had been a Baronet nearly 20 years. ' These children will all be found duly recorded in the pedi gree on p. 22, with their respective marriages, &c. 16 STOCKPORT PARISH. for her second husband John Astley, Esq., a distinguished portrait-painter. Sir William had bequeathed his Dukinfield estates to his only child, Hemdetta Dukinfield- Daniel, and her issue, with remainder to his wife. On the daughter's death, on January 29, 1771,^ these valuable estates would have become the sole property of Lady Daniel, but in consequence of her death, 31 January, 1762, without issue, they passed to her second husband, John Astley, Esq., on whom she had settled them shortly after her marriage. He married again, and, as will subsequently be shown, was the founder of the family of the Astleys of Dukinfield, the present owners of these estates. On the death of Sir William Dukinfield-Daniel, without male issue, the Baronetcy passed to his cousin, Samuel Dukinfield, the son of John Dukinfield, Esq., of Bristol, the only surviving brother of Sir Charles Dukinfield, Bart. Sir Samuel Dukinfield, who thus succeeded, in 1758, 2& fourth Baronet, was the sixth son of his father, his five elder brothers having predeceased him. He appears to have lived at Bloomsbury, near London, and married Elizabeth, the daughter of Poulett Warner, of Badmonlsfield Hall, in Wickhambrook, co. Suffolk, by whom however he had no issue. He died 15 May, 1768, aged 52, and was buried at Bunhill Fields. His younger brother having pre deceased him, the male line of the issue of the first Sir Robert Dukinfield by his first wife became extinct, and the Baronetcy passed to the descendants of Sir Robert by his second wife. Of these, Robert Dukinfield, of Manchester, Esq. (the eldest son), who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1741, was dead, as was also his only surviving son Samuel Dukinfield, a lieutenant in a Dragoon regiment. Sir Robert's second son, Nathaniel Dukinfield, of Utkinton, Esq., was also dead, but had left issue by his second wife, Margaret, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Jolly, of Wigan.'' Accordingly his eldest son, under the tide of Sir Nathaniel Dukinfield, succeeded, in 1768, ^.s fifth Baronet. He was born 13 June, 1746, and married, 27 February, 1783, Katherine, the only daughter and heiress of John Warde, of Squerries, near Westram, co. Kent, Esq., by whom he had issue. He lived at Sulham, near Reading, in Berkshire, and died there, 20 October, 1824, at the age of 78. His eldest son, Samuel George Dukinfield, Esq., a captain in the 7th Lio-ht Dra goons, had predeceased his father, having unfortunately perished at sea (unmarried) in the wreck of the transport Despatch, on the coast of Cornwall, 22 January, 1809. The second brother accordingly succeeded his father in 1824, and as Sir John Lloyd Dukin field, became the sixth Baronet. He was born 3 February, 1785, and died 7 December, 1836, unmarried. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the Rev. Sir Henry Robert Dukinfield, Bart., the seventh and last Baronet. Sir Henry was born at Sulham, I January, 1791, educated at Rugby, Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford, Rector of St. Giles, Reading, 18 16 to 1833, and Vicar of St. Martln-in-the-Fields, London, 1833 to 1848. He married, August 29, 1836, Jane, the daughter of Sir James Craufurd, J She was buried at Rostherne, co. Chester, Feb. 3, 1771. " Hewas married to her at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, She was of unsound mind and under the charge of Samuel on 31 July, 1745. After his death she married for her second Wright, agent to Edward Vernon, Esq., of Hilton, her uncle, husband John Pearson, who settled at "Duckenfield" in who had the custody of her person and estates by order of the North Carolina, in the United States, where she died, without Couit of Chanceiy. issue, in December, 1784, aged 65. DUKINFIELD TOWNSHIP. 17 Bart., and the widow of General Tilson Chowne, by whom he had no issue. He died January 24, 1858, and was buried at Kensal Green. His widow. Lady Dukinfield, is still living in London.' Sir Henry's only surviving brother, the Rev. Charles Egerton Dukinfield, Rector of Edenhall, co. Cumberland, died September 19, 1840, leaving three daughters, having lost his only son, Lloyd Dukinfield, in 1837, at the age of three years. With Sir Henry Dukinfield the male line of this ancient Cheshire family ceased, and the Baronetcy became extinct. By Lady Dukinfield Daniel's marriage with Mr. Astley, the Dukinfield estates became separated from the representatives . of the family, who ceased to have any connection with the place from which they derived their name. In the compilation of the following pedigree, which gives more details than could be stated in the above account, I have been materially assisted by the records in the College of Arms, London, the Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Dukinfield Chapel Registers, &c. &c. I have also to thank Thomas Baker, Esq., of Old Trafford, Manchester, R. Dukinfield Darbishire, Esq., of Manchester, and Col. Chester, of London, for many details of interest. The Astleys of Dukinfield. — As already mentioned. Sir William Dukinfield Daniel, Bart., who died in 1758, left his Dukinfield estates to his only child, Henrietta Dukinfield Daniel, and to her issue, and in default of such issue then to his wife. Lady Penelope Daniel. The former died without issue in 1771, and Lady Daniel having married for her second husband John Astley, Esq., in 1759, and having settled her reversion of these estates upon him, he succeeded to them in 1771, Lady Daniel having predeceased him in 1762. John Astley, of Dukinfield, Esq., was a younger son of Mr. Richard Astley, a surgeon at Wem, co. Salop, where he Avas baptized, April 6, 1724. He became a very distinguished portrait-painter," and is said to have met Lady Daniel at Knutsford, where he was engaged to paint her portrait, and afterwards married her. She was his second wife, his first wife (whose name I have not been able to ascertain) having died young, leaving an only daughter, Sophia Astley.''' By Lady Daniel he had no issue ; and after her death, which took place in 1762, he married about 1780, for his third wife, Mary, the daughter of Mr. William Wagstafife, of Manchester, surgeon, a very celebrated beauty, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. She survived her husband, and remarried in January, 1793, William Robert Hay, Esq., afterwards Vicar of Rochdale, and dying in February, 1832, aged 71, was buried at Ackworth, co. York. ' Lady Dukinfield printed privately, in 1861, "A Memoir of the Rev. Sir Henry Robert Dukinfield, Bart, [a Text]. Printed for Private Circulation. London, 1861." Svo., Portrait, pp. 146. In this the story of his life is told in a very pleasing manner. His tombstone, in Kensal Green Cemetery, states that "he was, at successive periods. Perpetual Curate of Ruscombe, Vicar of Waltham St. Laurence, Rector of St. Giles, Reading (all in the County of Berks), Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, West minster, and Prebendary of Salisbury." " Some particulars of his life will be found in Elmes' " Art and Artists," vol. iii. pp. 252-9, 1825 ; and in Chalmers' "Biog. Diet." See also "The Lounger's Common-place Book," 1838, p. 39. VOL. II. " Sophia Astley's history is a very sad one. She is said to have been very good-looking and to have been much petted by her father. She was, however, induced to elope with George Hyde Clarke, Esq., of Hyde Hall, near Dukinfield, and lived with him for many years, chiefly in the West Indies. She had two sons, the late Capt. Hyde Clarke, of Hyde, and Robert Clarke, alias Astley, of Wem, co. Salop. She afterwards married a Mons. Foucier, a Frenchman, and lived at Wem, where she died, Nov. 7, 1831, leaving a son and a daughter. In her father's will, he leaves her an annuity of ;^loo, which was to cease "if she should at any time live or cohabit with that execrable villain George Hyde Clarke, of the Island of Jamaica, Esquire." D ©ufemffelti of IBufemfieirt* op Arms: Argent a cross voided pointed Sable. Crest: An arm proper issuant from a ducal coronet, grasping a sun with rays Or. Another crest, given on the Vellum Roll of 1612, was On a wreath Argent and Sable, a pelican vulning Or. Robert de Dokenfeld, with whom the old pedigrees begin. I IlAMO DE Dokenfeld. Living 25 Ed. I. 1296. (Ches. Plea Rolls.) Sybil. Living 1296. Richard de Dokenfeld. Henry de Dokenfeld. James de Dokenfeld. (Old pedigrees.) I James de Dokenfeld. Called son of Hamo in the old pedigrees. Robert de Dokenfeld. Living f. 1280, 1311, 1317. I Robert de Dokenfeld. Living 131 7 and 1344. Ellen (?). Said to be living a widow in 1358. John de Dokenfeld, ' ' brother of Robert," 1327. Joan de Dokenfeld, ' ' sister of Robert," 1327. John de Dokenfeld. Living 1366, 1380. Called "senior" in 1401. Died June, 1401. Inq. P.M. 2 Henry IV. 1401. : Agnes or Anne, dau. of Sir John de Arderne, Knt. (? Sir John de Atherton, Knt.) I Ellen de Dokenfeld. Marr. to ... . Banester. Living I Ed. III. 1327. Elizabeth de Dokenfeld. Marr. Sir Rich. Vernon, slain at Shrewsbuiy. (Harl. MSS. 2012, but doubtful.) I Thurstan de Dokenfeld, died before his father, and usually omitted in the old pedigrees. I John de Dokenfeld. Living 1397, 1401, 1414. Margaret de Dokenfeld. Robert de Dokenfeld, =f= heir to his grandfather, and aged 22 years in 1401. Living 1416, 1430, 1437, 1441-2. Jane de Dokenfeld. Marr. to Robert Radclyffe, of Mellor, co. Derby, A Authorities : Cheshire Visitation, 1663. Records in the College of Arms, 1787. Two old vellum pedigrees, one dated 161 2, the other 1622." Pedigrees in JIarl. MSS., 153s and 2012. Piccope's MSS. (Chetham Library). Inqs. P.M. Registers of Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukinfield Chapfel, &c. Wills, &c. &c. Richard de Dokenfeld. Abbot of Basingwerk. Inq. P.M. 30 Edw. III., 1356. I John de Dokenfeld. Living 1437, and then of age. Died in 1473. Inq. P.M. not extant. Katherine, dau. of Sir John de Assheton, cf ^Ashton-under-Lyne, CO. Lane, Knt. (First wife.) = Alice, dau. of (Second wife.) (Old pedigree.) Agnes de Dokenfeld. Marr. to John de Rokeby. Living 1431-2. (Old pedigree.) Margaret de Dokenfeld. Marr. to Ralph de Hyde, of Denton. Marr. sett. 1429. She was living 1479. A Co >3 Robert de Dokenfeld, called "senior" in 1467 and 1481. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Legh, of Adlington, Esq, I John de Dokenfeld, (Old ped,) Thomas de Dokenfeld, (Old ped.) Lucy de Dokenfeld. Marr. to Otho Reddish, son of John Reddish. Ellen de Dokenfeld, Marr, to Richard Vernon, son of Sir Ralph Vernon, Knt. Old pedigrees. Robert Dokenfield, Living 1487-1507, =f= Elizabeth, dau, of Merfield, of co, York, and Isabel his wife. (Old ped.) John Dokenfield, I Katherine Dokenfield. Marr, to Charles Mainwaring, I John Dokenfield, Living 1523 and 1528, Dead before 1529, =j= Jane, dau. of Sir Nicholas Longford, of Longford, CO, Derby, Knt. Remarr Swinnerton, Nicholas Dokenfield. Robert Dokenfield, = of Dokenfield, Esq. Called "son & heir of John " in 1529. Died 3 Sept., 1548. Will made 23 March, 1546-7. Proved at Chester, Inq. P.M. 1549. Ellen, dau. of Sir William Brereton, of Brereton, Knt. Remarr. to William Mere, of Sutton. Jane Dokenfield, Marr, to Laurence Dutton, of Dutton, CO, Chester, Esq., who died in 1526, S,P. I John Dokenfield. ? Died young. Francis Dokenfield, ? Died young. I Ralph Dokenfield. Living_l530. T William Dokenfield. (Old ped,) I I Thurstan Dokenfield, Living 1530. Thomas Dokenfield. Edmund Dokenfield, of Taunton, in Ashton-under-Lyne par, Marr, to Emlyn, widow of Alex, Newton, of Newton, Both living 1580. Marr, in 1588 to Alice, the widow of ... , Cleyden. His will, dated 20 Dec, 1599, proved 27 Jan., 1600. S.P, Isabel Dokenfield. Marr. to Sir Geo. Stanley, Knt. Black Marshall of Ireland. He was bur. Dec, 1570, at Ormskirk. Katherine Dokenfield. Marr. to Robert Hyde, of Norbury, Esq. Dead before 1566, I I I Alice D, Living 1529. Jane D, Dorothy D, John Dokenfield, eldest son and heir-app. Died before his father, S. P, William Dokenfield, ^ Jane, dau, of ^ Margery of Dokenfield, Esq. Born c. 1535. /Et. 14 in 1549. Called " one of the Grooms of the King's Privy Chamber" in 1551. Bur. at Stockport, 21 June, 1592. John Arderne, of Harden, Esq. Marr. in 1551. Dead before 1580. First wife. O to dau. of Edward _ Holland, of Denton, Esq., Marr, before 1580. Second wife. Robert Dokenfield, Edward Dokenfield. Prob. died young, as not ment. in their father's will, 1547. Ralph Dokenfield. Living 1547, "M' Ralph D. of D. senex,'' Bur, at Ashton- under-Lyne, I Nov., 1619, EUen Dokenfield. Living 1547. Marr. to John Dutton, of New Manor, near Daresbury, CO. Chester. I Margaret Dokenfield. Living 1547, ? Marr. to Robert Hyde, of Norbury, Esq. I Jane Dokenfield. Living 1547. Edward Duckenfield, : of Barton-upon-Irwell, Gent. Born before 1580. ? Bur. at Stockport, 13 Dec, 1648. : Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of John Booth, of Barton, co. I-anc, Esq., and widow of John Molyneux, of Sefton. Born 1564. Bur, at Eccles, co. Lane, 9 Jan,, 1624-5. Eliz.ibeth, dau. of Lever, of Little Lever, CO. Lane. Marr. Lie. dated I Aug., 1621. (Second wife.) Francis Duckenfield, of Stockport, Gent. Bom before 1580. Marr. c. 1602. Bur. there, 25 May, 1630. Anne, dau. and heiress of John Bamford, of Bamford, co. Lane, Esq., and widow of George Birch, of Birch, Esq, Inq. P.M. 1620. (First wife.) Richard Duckenfield, =j= Mary, dau of Ormskirk, Gent. Will dated 14 March, 1661-2, Proved 18 July, 1662, of Henry Cooper. I Elizabeth D. Marr. to John Ashhurst, of Ormskirk, Gent. Anne D, Marr. to Gerard Markland, of Ormskirk, Gent. William Duckenfield,son and heir. Bapt. 1598. Joan D, Bur. at Manchester, 20 Dec, 1603, Radcliife Duckenfield. Anne D, Bapt, 1601, I Margaret Duckenfield, BapL 1599. Marr, to Gilbert Haydock, Dorothy Duckenfield, Bapt, 1602, Capt, F'rancis = Duckenfield, of Stockport, (Harl, MSS, 2012, f. 52.) . . , , dau. of = Mary, dau. of Francis Robinson, Edward Frodsham of Stockport, (? of Elton). First wife. Second wife. bb