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 M A N C U N I E N S I S 
 
 OB, 
 
 .AN HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ColDut of ilTaucfjcsttt, 
 
 AXD WHAT IS 
 
 MOST MEMORABLE CONCERNING IT. 
 
 BY R. HOLLINGWORTH. 
 
 MANCHESTER: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM WILLIS, HANGING-DITCH: 
 
 AND SOLD BV JOSEPH LILLY, AND 
 
 EDWARD LUMLEY, LONDON. 
 
 MDCCCXXXIX.
 
 WOBTHAM, PRIMTER, MANCHESTER. 

 
 TO 
 
 FENTON ROBINSON ATKINSON, 
 
 OF OAK HOUSE, ESQ., PEKDLETON, 
 THIS EDITION OF 
 
 IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED; ' 
 
 AS A SMALL TOKEN OF THE HIGH ESTEEM BORNE FOR HIS 
 
 PROFOLND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, 
 
 AND REGARD FOR THE RIGHT OF THE COMMON PEOPLE TO 
 
 ELECT THEIR OWN GOVERNORS, 
 
 WHICH, WHILST IT REMAINED IN FORCE, 
 
 MADE THIS COUNTRY 
 
 AT ONCE THE FREEST AND HAPPIEST IN THE WORLD : 
 
 AND, ALSO, AS A TESTIMONY OF VENERATION 
 
 FOR HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES ; 
 
 BY HIS HUMBLE AND OBLIGED SERVANT, 
 
 WILLIAM WILLIS. 
 
 Miinchestcr, Novenihcr 1839.
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE. 
 
 The Arms in the four comers of the engraved 
 title, are those -of the successive Lords of Man- 
 chester, viz., DE GRELLE, 1st. Baron, in jure 
 uxoris; Temp. K. 
 
 Gules, three Beiidlets enhanced Or. 
 
 DE LA WARRE, 7th Baron, in jure uxoris. 
 
 Gules, crusuly bottony Jitchee, a Lion Rampant 
 
 Argent. 
 
 DE WEST, 12th Baron, in jure uxoris, 
 
 Argent, a /esse Dancette Sable. 
 
 (The Manor was held about serenteen years by 
 
 John Lacy, by purchase.) 
 
 MOSLEY, Lord of Manchester, by purchase. 
 
 Quarterly, 1st. and 4th. Sable a Cheveron between three 
 
 Mill-picks (or Hammers) Argent; 2nd. and 3rd. 
 
 Or, a /esse between three Eagles displayed Sable. 
 
 The Arms in the centre, on the Sinister, are those 
 
 of Humphrey Chetham, viz. 
 Quarterly Isf. Argent, a Griffin Segreant Gules, 
 within a Bordure, Sable Bezantee, being the 
 Arms of Trafford of Chaddcrton ; 2d. Argent,
 
 6 DESCRIPTION OF THE "ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE. 
 
 « Cheveron Gules between three Fleams Sable, 
 for Chclham; 3rd. Gules, a Cross-potent crossed 
 Or, for Chadderton; 4th. as the first. A 
 Crescent for difference. 
 On the dexter the Arms of CHRIST'S COLLEGE, 
 viz. Azure, a book expanded pp, on the leaves 
 of which are these words: " Lucerna pedibus 
 meis, verbum tuum et Lumen, semitis meis. 
 Ps. cxix. ;" in chief a Candlestick or with a 
 Candle enflamed pp. the whole encircled 
 with this inscription, " SIGILLUM COL- 
 LEGIJ CHRISTI IN MANCHESTER 
 A REGE CAROLO 1635 FUNTDATL" 
 In the centre between West's and Mosley's, 
 are the Arms of RANULPH DE BLUNDE- 
 VILLE, Earl of Chester, who in the reign of 
 King- Henry III. granted a Charter constituting 
 Salford a free borough, viz. 
 
 Azure, three Garbs Or. 
 These Arms have been taken within the last 
 few years. The same are now used as the seal of 
 the Borough, round which is inscribed, " SIGIL- 
 LUM COMMUNE BURGI DE SALFORD, 
 MDCCCXXX."
 
 PREFATORY NOTICE. 
 
 Richard Hollingvvorth, the Author of this an- 
 cient History of Manchester, was a Fellow of 
 Christ College, Manchester. I have not been 
 able to ascertain whether he was a native of Man- 
 chester. But I find he died, 1656, November 11th, 
 in Manchester, after being imprisoned and de- 
 prived of the income arising from his fellowship, 
 in consequence of the breaking-up of the Col- 
 legiate Body, by Colonel Thomas Birch, of Birch 
 Hall, near Manchester, who, acting under the 
 command of the Committee of Sequestration, 
 seized forcibly the Revenues and Charter Chest of 
 the College ; at which time, unfortunately, the 
 splendid j^ainted glass windows of the Church, fell 
 a sacrifice to the fanatical spirit which influenced 
 the soldiery under his command.
 
 8 yUEFATOUY NOTICE. 
 
 - Besides this Chronicle, the original of which lies 
 in Cheatham's Library, I find Hollingworth wrote 
 the following works : 
 
 " The Main-points of Church Government and 
 Discipline, Plainly and Modestly Handled, by way 
 of Question and Answer." — " Certain Queries 
 Modestly Propounded, &c. &c. Especially to 
 Master Samuel Eaton." — " A Rejoinder to Master 
 Samuel Eaton, &c. &c. Especially to his Dearly 
 Beloved, and Longed for, the Inhabitants in and 
 neere Manchester, in Lancashire." 
 
 In conclusion allow me to state : — I have pub- 
 lished this edition of Holling worth's Ancient 
 History of Manchester, from a wish to preserve 
 and make public the Chronicles relating to the 
 ancient condition and state of my native town.
 
 M A N C U N I E N S I S ; 
 
 OR, 
 
 AN HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 t!rotunc of |ltanc!|cster. 
 
 The ancient inhabitants of Yorkshire, 
 Lancashire, Westmerland, Cimiherland, and 
 Durham were the Biigantes, then* cliiefe 
 city was Yorke, sometimes called Brigan- 
 timn. 
 
 Laucasliii-e is a county bordeiing on tlie 
 Irish seas, the figiu'e whereof is oblong, 
 the ail" generally wholesome, the earth 
 h-uitfull especially for breeding cattle of 
 large bodyes, and goodly heads and homes, 
 and in some parts it abounds with corne, 
 it is well funiislicd with fish, flesh and 
 fowles for food, >\ith coals and turfes for
 
 10 hollingxvorth's histoky 
 
 fuel, with mines, brookes aiicl spiiiigs, and 
 other conveniences : it is divided into six 
 hiinch'eds (besydes Foumesse-fells and 
 Lancaster's liberty) \iz. Salford, Derby, 
 Blackburn, Leyland, Anioundernes, and 
 Lonsdale. 
 
 Manchester is a town scituated in the 
 South East part of tliis County, in the 
 hundi'ed of Salford, (wliicli anciently when 
 Lancasliire was di\ided into tithe shires, 
 was called Salford-sliire, and in some an- 
 cient deedes the Wapentake of Salford,) 
 where the pole is elevated 53 degrees and 
 24 minutes 
 
 It is washed, yea, alhnost surrounded 
 ■with Rivers, ^dz. IrTce on the north and 
 partly on the East ; Irwell on the West ; 
 Medloch on the South ; about thi'ee miles 
 from it the River Mersey is the boundary 
 both of the paiish of Manchester and of the 
 said county on that syde, Leiland speaketh
 
 OF MANCHESTER. H 
 
 of Corneicater, but Hollinsheacl saitli, hee 
 kiio^vs nothing of its course, probably it is 
 that which wee call Cornebrooke, a brooke 
 that suddenly swells to bee a gTeate Avater, 
 in which very many (before the bridge and 
 the wav were ravsed,) were chowned, and 
 suddenly falls againe to bee a little rindle, 
 yea, almost diy land. 
 
 It is not now fortifved vAih. a Castle or 
 honored with a coi-poration, nor was it ever 
 acconmiodated mth a na\-igable river, 
 (though hee that made the mapps in Mr. 
 Selden's booke, called Manclausmn seeme 
 to account it a maritime towne) nor so 
 pleasantly or fruitfully scituated as some 
 other towns, yet Mr. Camden sayth, itfarre 
 excelleth the townes about it for the beauti- 
 ful shew it carrieth, and for resort to it, 
 yea it is the fairest, largest, and most popu- 
 lous town in all the County. It is a iowiie 
 of right great antiquity, receiving its name 
 from Maim, wliich (as we find by the
 
 12 HOLLINGWORTIl's HISTORY 
 
 glossaries of the Brittish tongue) signifies a 
 rocke or stone, because it is seated on a 
 rocke or stony hill. It is questioned by 
 that Reverend and learned Antiquarie, 
 Archbishoppe Ussher, whether Cair Maun- 
 (/uid, or, as another calls it, Cair Maner- 
 gurd (mentioned in most ancient copies of 
 Ninius his catalogue of the cities of Bri- 
 taine to be one of the twenty-eight cities 
 of Brittaine) bee meant of this towne, or 
 of Mancestcr in Warmcksliire, hard by 
 Watling-streete, the liigh-way made by the 
 Romans ; and though the sayd Archbi- 
 shoppe and Mr. Camden allso incline ano- 
 ther way, yet Mr. Camden confesseth 
 that Mancester is but a very small village, 
 containing scarce fourteen dwelling-houses, 
 and these but Htle ones ; and that it 
 hath no monument of antiquity to shew 
 saving an ancient mount which they call 
 Oldbury, and it is evident that it hath not 
 such honorable mencion in Antiquityes as 
 this toAMie hath. The Romans called it
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 13 
 
 Mancimiiiin or Manucium according to the 
 variety of tlie copies mencioned by Antoni- 
 nus the Emperor who lived about one 
 hundred and twenty years after Cluist. 
 The thorough-fares ascribed to him are 
 from Eboracum Yorlxe to Calearia Tadcas- 
 ter then to Cambodunum, a place now 
 niined, neere Almondhury in Yorkshire, 
 then to Mammuncio or Manucio 3Ian- 
 chester then to Condate Congleton in 
 Cheshii-e. And againe from Coccium 
 Ilihhlechester to Mancunio Manchester and 
 then to Condate. 
 
 Tlie Original of this towne, (as Speed 
 allso sa\ih Yorke) cannot bee fetcht from 
 the Romanes, for it was a station and fort 
 of the Romans : now the stations of the 
 Roman Colonies were the seede plotts of 
 our cities and principall toTvnes, before 
 whose coming the Brittaines had no other 
 cities or townes then woodes fenced with 
 Trenches and Rampiers, which were places 
 s
 
 14 holt.ingworth's history 
 
 of reti'eate to avoide incursion of the 
 Borderers. 
 
 In Vespasian's time, Pelitius Carealic 
 strooke a teiTor into the whole land by 
 invachng upon his first entry the Brigantes, 
 the most populous of the whole provinces, 
 many battailes, and four bloudy ones were 
 fought, and the gi'eatest part of the Biig- 
 antes were either conquered or wasted. 
 
 In Aldport there is a plot and ground- 
 worke of an ancient fortresse, where allso 
 sundry Roman coines have bin digged up, 
 builded foiu' square, commonly called Man- 
 castle or Mam-castle builded, as it may be 
 presumed, by Virius Lupus Propraetor and 
 Lieuetenant of Britaine (as Vlpian the civill 
 lawyer calls him), who strengthened these 
 northerne parts with forts and castles. 
 From tliis Ancient Fortresse the place was 
 afterward called Aldport : Aide for ould. 
 Port in Teutonick (from whence and not
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 15 
 
 from the French wee anciently have it) was 
 sometimes used for a city, walled towne, or 
 fenced place, as the chiefe Magistrate of 
 London hefore it had a maior was called 
 Portgreve. 
 
 Of any other Castle or fort neere Man- 
 chester there is no memorial, save that in or 
 neere to the confines of the parish toward 
 Prestwich, there is a feeld called Fo-castle 
 feeld and a lane called Fo-castle lane. Mr. 
 Camhden visiting these parts saw at the 
 fort of Alparke vppon a long stone tliis 
 inscription : 
 
 ■NMn 
 
 CANDIDI 
 FIDES ?^X 
 
 nn 
 
 and John Dec, then warden of Manchester, 
 copyed out tliis other for liim :
 
 16 HOLI.INGWORTH's HISTtiRV 
 
 COHO 
 
 1 FRJSIN 
 
 3 MASAVONIS 
 
 P 
 
 XXI 1 1 
 
 These two inscriptions, it seemeth, were for 
 the preservation of the memory of two 
 Centmions, that had so many years faith- 
 Mly and worthyly served the Romans there. 
 In the year 1612, vnder the roote of an 
 oake in Medlock neere Knott-mill, was 
 found a stone tlu'ee quarters long, 1 5 inches 
 broad, 11 inches thicke, with the lettered 
 side downwai'd, wliich Mr. Cambden saw 
 not, or at least, not before the finishing of 
 his Britannia, but is now to bee scene in the 
 Garden at Holme, with tliis Inscription :
 
 OF MANCHESTER. \J 
 
 FORTVN/E. 
 
 CONSERVA 
 TRICI€SE 
 
 NECfANlVS 
 MARTJVS 
 
 a LECVl 
 VICT. 
 
 y 
 
 Tliis seemeth to be an Altar dedicated to 
 Fortune, by L. Senecianius Martins the 3rd 
 Governor or comander in the sixth legion, 
 Avliich remained in Yorke in the time of 
 Severus, liis being there after he had 
 vanquished Albinus, General of the Brit- 
 tains, and reduced tlieii' state under liis 
 obedience, it was suniamed Victrix, and is 
 placed by Dio in lower Britaine, and the 
 20tli legion, surnamcd allso Victrix, remain- 
 
 B 3
 
 |g hollingwouth's history 
 
 eJ at Chester wliicli liee placeth in liiglior 
 Britaiiie. This division it seemeth was 
 made by the sayd Severus. In the Hep- 
 tarchy this towne and the country about it, 
 there being then no division into counties, 
 was di^dded in litle regions called Hydes ; 
 and was parcel of the kingdome of Northiun- 
 berland, which kingdome begunne about 
 Anno Clnisti 540, and after the death of 
 Edwin it was subchvided into two lesser 
 Kingdomes or Provinces, Deira and Ber- 
 iiicia, tliis was parcel of Deu'a. Tliis 
 mindes mee of Poj)e Gregory, who in the 
 time of his Predecessor Pelagius, seeing 
 some Enghsh children brought to bee sould 
 in Rome, to bee fail* and beautihill, and 
 understanding tliev were Heatliens of the 
 Province of Deii-a, alluding thereunto hee 
 sayd, These people are to be delivered de 
 Dei ira from Gods wrath, and therevppon 
 when hee Avas Pope lice sent Augustine to 
 convert the English.
 
 0>' MANCHESTER. jp 
 
 GeSrey Chaucer, in his tale of Con- 
 stance, sayth, that in the reign of Alia, 
 King of Northumberland, wliich begmme 
 Anno 559, 
 
 in all tijat lont! Durstrn non Cijvtstrn rout 
 ^l Cfjrtsten folft hin UtH from tije rounttcj? 
 ^Tijrougf) ^apniins tfjat conqurvfa all aljout 
 iTlje ^plagues of ^ortijumljcrlanu tig lanU 
 anU src 
 
 Edv,in, King of tliis Countrv, one nuich 
 loued and honored by his people, Anth his 
 daughter Zanpled and many thousands of 
 the people were converted to Cluistianity 
 and baptized. In liis days there was very 
 great j^eace and safety throughout Nor- 
 tlnunberland; hee caused cupps and basons 
 of iron or brasse to bee fastned to such 
 dcerc wells and fountaines which did runne 
 by the liigh way side, which Basons none 
 chd take away : hee l)egan the Catliodrall 
 Church of Yorkc, named 8t. Peters, and 
 appointed there a BL-^hop's Sea. Paulinus
 
 20 hollingworth's history 
 
 was afterwai'd Archbishop there ; but this 
 blessed light of Clmstian Rehgion was 
 extinguished witliin two yeiires after the 
 death of Edwin, and the baptized Cluis- 
 tians revoulted againe to Paganisme. 
 Afterward came Aidanus, a Scotish man, 
 (King Oswald havmg sent for liim out of 
 Scotland) and hghted the candle againe, 
 and God so blessed his labors, that in 
 seven whole dayes he baptized more then 
 fifteen thousand. It may be hoped that 
 om' Ancestors of tliis towne did, severall 
 of them, at least, receiue Cln'istianity at 
 that time, seeing King Oswald did so much 
 dehght in and reside at Winwicke not fane 
 of. Tliis Oswald finished the Cathedi'all 
 Church of Yorke, begmme by his Prede- 
 cessor. 
 
 Shortly after Manchester and a large 
 compasse of ground neere to it was made a 
 palish, at which time the parish Assheton- 
 Aiider-lyme was within the parish of Man-
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 21 
 
 cliester ; but afterward it became a palish 
 of it selfe and yet was in the donation of 
 the Lord of Manchester. This towne is 
 now called Manchester, fonnerly Mam- 
 cester or Maincester ; the Latines call a 
 fortifyed place or castle Castrum ; the 
 Saxons Caster and the addition of H being 
 very usuall, as, Carolus Charles, Castus 
 Chastus, and" the turning of A into E 
 sweetening the sound, Mancunij Caestrum 
 or Mancaster, might bee easily contracted 
 into Manchester. 
 
 It is said that Sk Tarquine, a stout 
 enemie of King Arthur, kept this castle, 
 and neere to the foard in Medlock, about 
 mab-house hung a bason on a tree on 
 which bason whosoever did strike, Sir Tar- 
 quine, or some of liis company, would come 
 and fight with him, and that Sir Launce- 
 lot du Lake, a Knight of King Arthm-'s 
 round table, chd beate vppon the bason, 
 fought with Tarquine, killed him, pos-
 
 22 hollingworth's history 
 
 sessed himself of tlie castle and loosed the 
 prisoners. Whosoever tliinketh it worth 
 his pains to reade more of it may read the 
 liistorv of King Arthur. It is certaine that 
 about Anno Domini 520, there was such a 
 Prince as King Ai-thur, and it is not 
 incredible that hee or liis Knights might 
 contest about tliis castle when hee was in 
 this County and (as Ninius sayth), hee put 
 the Saxons to fliglit in a memorable battell 
 neere Wigan, about twelve miles off. 
 
 After that Ethelred," King of the 
 Northmnbers was slain, Anno 794 ; there 
 was an Interregnum for tliiity years, in 
 which time tliis whole Province (wherein 
 this towne must needs have its share) was 
 made a prey and laugliing stocke to its 
 neigbors, saith Wilham of Malmesbm-y. 
 It is also sayd, that the Townesmen carried 
 vahantly against the Danes, when about 
 Anno Christi 863 they landed in Northum- 
 berland though it is vtterly vnworthy that
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 23 
 
 tlie inhabitants should unagine, as Mr. 
 Camden pretends they did, in liis time, 
 that IManchester shoukl signify the city of 
 men; and with this light and frothy 
 conceite, implying their own commendation, 
 should at all please themselves j yet it is 
 true, they did cany vahantly and fared the 
 worse for it, for the Danes about ten years 
 after tooke and possessed themselves of the 
 whole region of Northumberland ; they 
 tooke allso the city of Yorke ; they held 
 the country about 00 years. Certamly at 
 that time Manchester was either totally or 
 in a great measm'e ruined, as Chester allso, 
 and other cityes when their destroying 
 feete ti'ampled down the beauty of the land. 
 About Anno 890, ^Elfred or Aku'cd first 
 divided England into Counties sayth 
 Ingulfus of Crowland, and appointed cer- 
 taine cvstodes or keepers of the Kingdome 
 to svppresse outrages in every county. 
 And bee also divided the sayd Counties 
 into centmies or hundreds and certaine
 
 24 HOLLINGWOnXn's HISTORY 
 
 courts were by him or some others after 
 him appointed to bee kept in some towne 
 and place witliin the hundred which some- 
 times was a place of good note, as Salford 
 neere Manchester now is (though I cannot 
 find any ancient name of it or other monu- 
 ment of its antiquity) and sometimes very 
 obscm'e, as Derby in Lancashu-e, Bulkeley 
 in Chesliire, and Nonnans crosse in Hunt- 
 ingtonsliire, where the hundred (saytli 
 Speede) takes its name from a crosse aboue 
 Stilton where in fonner ages they mustered 
 theii' people. Hence allso hundreds or 
 wapentakes are sometimes denominated 
 from beacons, Hills. Manchester ceilainly 
 did not give name to the hundred, whether 
 because.it was then a city (as the story of 
 those times call it), and no cityes, that I 
 know of, doe give names to the Hundi*eds, 
 having (probably) government within 
 themselves, or because it was so sore 
 defaced and allmost ruined, or because the 
 towne of vSalford was then immediatelv in
 
 or MANCHESTER. 25 
 
 the King's liaiuls, as allso it liatli continued 
 till very lately, I leave to the judgment ot 
 the reader. 
 
 About Anno 920 Edward King first of 
 
 the West Saxons, and afterwards of the 
 
 Mercians, sent into the Kingdome of the 
 
 Northiimbers an anny of Mercians that 
 
 they should re-edify, sayth Roger Houden, 
 
 the city of Manchester and place valiant 
 
 soldiers in it ; or, (as Fabian expresseth it) 
 
 fliis noble Piince, about the 20th yeare of 
 
 his reigne, was chosen by the King of 
 
 Scots and Cambreves to bee their Lord and 
 
 Patron ; he repayred the city of Manchester, 
 
 that sore was defaced with the wane of the 
 
 Danes. After which, and other notable 
 
 deeds, bv this Puissant Piince finished, this 
 
 noble man died and was InteiTed in the 
 
 Monastery of St. Swithin in Manchester. 
 
 It was a frontier towne betweene the 
 
 Mercians, Avhicli inhabited Cheshire, Derbi- 
 
 shire, &c., and the Northumbers which in-
 
 20 hollingworth's history 
 
 habited Lancaslike, Yorksliii-e, &c., and in 
 tlieii' waiTes and mutuall incui'sions was 
 sometimes possessed bj the Mercians, 
 sometimes by the Northiunbrians. It was 
 anciently a BuiTough. Now with the 
 Saxons a BuiTough was the same T^dth a 
 city, as Sir Henry Spehnan obsen es in his 
 Glossary, though afterward those piincipall 
 townes which were Episcopal Sees did 
 engrosse the name of cities, and thence 
 were called BmTOughes. Manchester allso 
 found Bm-gesses for the Parliament, as 
 that accmate exact lawyer, Su- Hmnfrey 
 Davenport, Lord cliief Baron of his Ma- 
 jesties Exchequer, and others have asserted; 
 the ancient houses thereof are m ould deeds 
 called Bm-gagia, and the owners of them 
 doe hould in Bm-gage-tenm-e or Soccage- 
 tenm-e within a BuiTough. By what 
 meanes it lost its power and privilege hath 
 bin conjectured by some learned men, but 
 not cleered by any that I know of. Cer- 
 tainly at (if not by) the conquest, and some
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 27 
 
 Iiimcli-eds of years after, it Avas in a servile 
 and low condition of privileges. 
 
 William the Conqueror presently after 
 the conquest gave to Roger of Poy tiers aU 
 that land or province lying between the 
 Rivers of Rible and Mersey, (which land 
 or province, in Domesday booke, is not 
 described vnder the title of Lancaster but 
 either T\ith Yorkeshire or Cheshire) con- 
 cerning which there is an ould Prophesy. 
 
 Wif)tn aU 3;nglant)i is aloft, 
 Wittl arc tijei? tijat arc in Ciirist's dtvofu 
 attU tofjcrc Bijua ©fjrisfs Croft he, 
 But tcttocntc ^ihhlc anti Iterate. 
 
 This Roger of Poytiers was the first Lord 
 of the honor of Lancaster, but hee by liis 
 perfidious disloyalty lost it shortly after it 
 was given to him, and the Lordship of 
 Manchester came to the Gredley's which 
 came in with the Conqueror.
 
 28 HULLlN(i worth's HISTOKY 
 
 One writeth that About Anno 1 1 20, (a 
 mistake for 1520 about 12 H. 8.) there 
 were three famous clothiers living in the 
 North Countrey viz. Cutbert of Kendal 
 Hodykins of Halifax and Martin Brian, 
 some say Byrom of Manchester. Every 
 one of these kept a greate numb^' of ser- 
 vants at worke, Spinners, Carders, Weavers, 
 Fullers, Dyers, Shearemen, &c. to tlie 
 greate admii'ation of all that came uilo 
 their houses to beehould them : he saveth 
 allso, that the sayd Martin gave much 
 money towards the biiikhng of a free 
 schoole in Manchester, wliich, if true, the 
 money Avas lost or some way or other 
 wickedly ahenated, (wliich in time of the 
 civil AvaiTes miglit easily be done) for no 
 free schoole was built of about 400 yeares 
 after : but that Manchester as well as 
 Kendal and Halifax was a greate clothing 
 towne then it is more then probable. 
 
 Anno 1282. Inquisition Avas made
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 29 
 
 couceruing the Extent of the Manor of 
 Manchester by the oathes of John cle Bii'on, 
 Gefffej Bratebiigge, Knights Jeffrey de 
 Challiyrton, David de Hulton, Alexander 
 de Pilkington, Thomas de Eston, Robert 
 de Sorisworth, Ellis de Levii*, Richard de 
 RadcHue, Robert Unton, Adam jde Cun- 
 chue, Adam Son of John de Levii-. In 
 which mencion -is made de perqiiisitis 
 Cmiee Burgi de Manchester and de placitis 
 et perqiiisitis Ciirise Baron Manerii — and 
 that the Rectory of Manchester was then 
 worth two hundred markes. 
 
 Doomesday booke mencions a chiu'ch 
 called St. Maries in Manchester, and a 
 chm'ch called St. Michaels, (tho of tliis latter 
 I find not the least memoriall probably these 
 two chm'ches stood in one churchyard as 
 Pauls and Gregories in London) wliicli had 
 imam caiiicam quietam ab omni consiietu- 
 dine praeter Geldum. Albertus de Gredley 
 gave to the chiuch of Manchester fourc 
 
 c 3
 
 30 hollingworth's histoky 
 
 bovata or oxgaiiges of land in Frank 
 almoine of his owne demesne. 
 
 Didsbury cbappell, the first chappell that 
 was buikled in this parish was (as is 
 supposed) erected about this time. 
 
 In oukl evidence I find that, Anno 
 1235, J Decan de Manucestre. Jurdan 
 Capelkin ejusdem villas. 
 
 About Anno 1294, lived Hugo de 
 Mancestria, a Dominican Frier, provinciall 
 of the Preachers in England, embassadoiu' 
 to Philip, King of the Franks, deane to 
 Edward tlie 1st and Eleanor, liee WTitt 
 against a most impudent impostor conjurer 
 and deceiuer, which by many enchantments, 
 had brought his mother to madnesse ; his 
 bookes left behind him were Phanaticorum 
 Delicta, Compendium Theologite, and many 
 others.
 
 OF iMANCHESTER. 31 
 
 Anno 1299, Otto de Grandisone, hy 
 John Griffin of Grandison, and at the pre- 
 sentation of the King, was made Rector of 
 Manchester. 
 
 Anno le301, Galfridus de Stoke suc- 
 ceeded hun, at the presentation of Thomas 
 Grelle. 
 
 Thomas Grelle granted to the Burgesses 
 of Manchester, that it should bee liber 
 bm'gus, and enjoy certaine priuiledges 
 saving to liimselfe and liis heu"es, rationabili 
 tallagio, a reasonable taxe, when the King 
 shall lay a tallagium or taxe on his free 
 Burroughs throughout England, Witnesses 
 John Byron and Richard Byron, Knights, 
 Henry of Trafford, &c. See more in the 
 Charter. It was confinned by King James, 
 
 Anno 1313, John de la Warre, Knight, 
 true patron, presented Jolm Deeverden, 
 Presbyterian, to bee Rector of Manchester,
 
 32 hollingwouth's history 
 
 who got a tlispensatiou that hce might 
 absent hunselfe from liis chm'ch at the 
 iustance of William Herle Knight. 
 
 A sm'\'ey taken in his time sayth, The 
 church of Manchester worth yearly 200 
 markes, is at the presentation of the Lord 
 John de la Wan'e. Past presented John 
 Deeverden, who possesseth the endowment 
 of the sayd chm-ch, consisting of eight 
 Burgages in Manchester, and the villages 
 of Newton, and Kmnoneshulme, (it shoidd 
 bee Kirkmanshidme), with parkes, woods, 
 pastures. It mencions allso the mannor 
 contauiing witliin the precinct tAvo acres of 
 land, and a place of pastm'e A\ithout the 
 gate, between the waters of Irke and 
 Irwell; allso the wood of Alport, which 
 might bee inclosed and made a parke at the 
 will of the Lord. It joyned to the Rectory 
 of Manchester, saving that a place called 
 Blenorchard or Wallegreenes was between 
 them.
 
 OF MAN'CHESTEK. 33 
 
 The Manor house stood in or ncere to 
 the place where the Colledge now stands, 
 and was called Bai'ons Court or Baions 
 Yerde, and place was called Barons Hull, 
 as the neigboring banke now called Hunts 
 banke was then called Hunts Hull ; and 
 the Parsonage house was ncere to a field 
 called the Parsonage, in or neere the sti-eet 
 called the Deanesgate. 
 
 It mencions allso Avoods and moors of 
 tui-bary, belonging to Manchester, which 
 were so many and so large that they were 
 not measm-ed but esteemed according to the 
 custome. Allso the milne of Manchester, 
 uppon the water of Irke, valued at £10 per 
 annum, at which all the Bm-gesses and 
 tennants of IManchester, Tvith the Hamells 
 and Ard\dckes Pensham (forte Openshaw,) 
 Carmeshall, Moston, Notehurst Getlies- 
 wyke, et Ancoates, ought to grinde paying 
 the 16 graine, besides the Lord of Moston,
 
 34 hollingworth's history 
 
 ^Y]ncll was liopp free, yeelding the 20tli 
 graiiie. 
 
 Allso a common bakehouse, worth 6s. 
 viijd at which the Burgesses ought to hake 
 by the custome, allso a mihie for the Diens 
 uppon the baukes of the same river, valued 
 tlieii at xiijs. iiijd. per anniun. 
 
 Robert de Gredly, Lord of Manchester, 
 gave to God and the blessed vu-gme, to the 
 Abbot of Whalley, and to theii- chappell of 
 St. Mary den, (now called Deane chm'ch) 
 all that land lying neere to the sayd 
 chappell. Tliis land is now in the tenm'e 
 of Mr. John Filsley, minister there. 
 
 Edward the 2nd gave and gramited, or 
 rather confiiined the Hermitage of Kershall 
 (wliicli had bm given and graunted by his 
 predecessor), to the monkes of Lenton in 
 Nottinghamshne, to have and to hould it 
 in puram et pei'j>etuam eleemosynam, as
 
 OF MANCHESTER 35 
 
 freely peaceably quietly and honorably as 
 Hugo de Bui'un (^wlio gave certaine lands 
 to that Monastery and became a monke^ 
 had held the same. Monastery Angl . 
 
 Anno 1327, Adam de Suthwike, pre- 
 sented to bee Rector of Manchester by John 
 la Warre, undoubted patron. Anno 1327, 
 John de Claydon, presented to the same 
 Rectory by the same pati'on. 
 
 About 1330, Hved Thomas Langford, 
 the famous Historian, a Dominican Frier, 
 of Chelmesford in Essex, who is supposed 
 to bee one of the Langfords of the Hough. 
 
 Anno 1342, Robert de Chalomber 
 passed ceitaine lands in the Deanesgate in 
 the Parsonage of Manchester to John, Son 
 of John de Strangwayes, for 20d. yearely 
 to be payd to the Rector. Witnesses John 
 Wakerley John de Hulton — Richard of the 
 Milnegate chaplaine.
 
 IK) hoi.i.incavokth's history 
 
 About this tiiiic allso wee read that 
 Richard Brayhoii, Adam Longliolt, Robert 
 Bibby, and John de Battersby, Avere chap- 
 lames. 
 
 Anno 1351. After the death of the 
 sayd John of Clay don, Thomas de Wyke 
 or Thomas AYyke, was presented to the 
 Rectory by Joane, Avhich was the wife of 
 Jolm de la Warre, Lord of Manchester. 
 
 Anno 1352, Coniniission was granted 
 ]>y the Bishop of Lichfeeld for the dedica- 
 tion of the chappell yard of Didsbury, 
 wiiliin the parish of Manchester, for the 
 buiiall of such as died of the Pestilence in 
 that hamlet, and in neigboring hamlets, in 
 the chappell-yard there, because of their 
 distance from the parish church of Man- 
 clicstc]'. 
 
 Anno 1359. Uppon some difference 
 between Roger la WaiTc and the Bayliffes
 
 OF MAXCHESTKR. 37 
 
 of the Duke of Lancaster, wliicli bayliffes 
 did as liee, in his petition the sayd Duke, 
 alledged amercy and gather amerciaments 
 uppon the inhabitants of the town and 
 manor of Manchester, to the dammage and 
 prejudice of the sayd Roger. The sayd 
 Duke caused an inquisition to bee made 
 at Preston before Tliomas de 8eton and 
 other his Justices by the oathes of John 
 Radcliffe, Gates Halsal, Roger de Brad- 
 shagh, Henry Son of Sunon de Bickerstath, 
 Robert de Trafford, Adam de Hopwood, 
 Roger de Barlow, John del Hoidt, Robert 
 de Huhne, John de Chetham, Thomas de 
 Strangewayes, and John de Scholefield, 
 which brought in uppon their oathes, That 
 the sayd Ro^er and his Ancestors time out 
 of minde held the towiie of Manchester, not 
 as a burrough, but as market towne, in- 
 joying some privdedges as Ingfangthiefe 
 
 j&C. 
 
 Then Thomas la WaiTe was presented
 
 38 hollingworth's history 
 
 and admitted Rector, and had a licence 
 granted hiin to bee Non-resident ; hee was 
 the h\st parson. 
 
 The Rectory was then vahied at 250 
 Markes per annimi. Shortly after hee 
 being the next heir, and indeede, the only 
 heir male of that family, came by the inher- 
 itance to bee Lord de la Warre, his bearing 
 peculiar to a priest and the Eldest of an 
 honorable house (^iz. tAVO of the neerest 
 coates the first of them on the cliiefe and 
 the second on the laste) is yet to bee scene 
 in the ^indowes, as Mr. Leigh obsemeth. 
 
 Tins Thomas de la Warre, was the last 
 heire, male of that family, and smmnoned 
 to the Parliament amongst the Lords 
 temprall by the name of Mr. Thomas de la 
 Warre, for hee descended from the GreUeyes 
 who were ancient Lords of this towne, and 
 by Joane, sister of the sayd Thomas, it came 
 to West Lord de la Warre.
 
 OF MANCHESTER 39 
 
 This Thomas being Lord of the maiinor 
 and parson of the church, as well as Patron, 
 considering that the Parish was lai'ge and 
 populous, and that the foiiner Rectors, some 
 neuer, did reside, bethoughte liimself as well 
 for the gi'eater honor of the place, as the 
 better edification of the people, to erect a 
 Collegiate church in Manchester : to that 
 purpose hee procured licence from Henry 
 the 5tli, dated Anno reg. 9, May 22, vnder 
 the scale of the Dutchy for appropriation of 
 the Rectory and foundation of the Colledge, 
 for which 200 markes were payd into the 
 Hanaper or Exchequer of the Chancery. 
 Then the Parishioners, viz.
 
 40 
 
 HOLLIKGWORTH » HTSTORY 
 
 Church wardens. 
 
 Knights. 
 
 LAWRENCE HULME, 
 HENRY BULKELEY, 
 
 JOHN LE BYRON, 
 
 J OHANNES DE RADCLIFFE 
 
 EDMUND TRAFFORD, 
 JOHN DE BOOTH, 
 RADULPH LONGFORD, 
 THURSTAN DE HOLLAND, 
 JACOB STRANGE W A YES, 
 ROBERT DE HYDE, 
 ROBERT DE BOOTH, 
 OTHO DE REDDICH. 
 JOHANNES DE BARLOW, 
 RADULPH DE PRESTWICH 
 PETRUS DE WORKESLIE, 
 JACOB DE HULME, 
 JOANNES DE HULTON, 
 WILLIAM DE BIRCHES, 
 JOHN BAMFORD, 
 LAURENTIUS DE BARLOW 
 GALFRIDUS HOPWOOD, 
 GALFRIDUS DE HILTON, 
 WILLIAM DE HIGHFEELD^j 
 
 and all and every Parishioners gathered 
 together at the sound of the hell, and the 
 community and university of the sayd 
 
 Gentlemett.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 41 
 
 palish, so faiTe as tliis might any way coii- 
 cerae them, did for themselves, thek heires 
 and successors, give their free assent and 
 consent therv nto, and draw up a writing to 
 that purpose, sealed Avith the deeds of the 
 Deane of Manchester and aboue twenty 
 other scales. 
 
 Then the sayd Thomas de la WaiTe 
 made a deed of gift and feoffinent of his 
 lands and Rectory of Manchester to Thomas 
 Bishop of Durham, (^who was allso chaunce- 
 lor of England, and amongst other his good 
 workes founded two schools at Place-greene, 
 one of Grammer, and the other of MusickeJ 
 John Heneye, Richard Lombard, Parson of 
 Holtham church, and Richard Firth. 
 
 This Thomas, Bishop of Dm'ham, &c. 
 founded a Collegiate Church ; consisting of 
 one Keeper or Master, eight fellowes chap- 
 laines, fom'c clerkes, and sixe choristers, in 
 honor of St. Mary fto whom this Parish 
 
 D 3
 
 ,10 HOLLINGWORTH S HISTORY 
 
 cliiircli was formerly dedicated, and of St. 
 Dyonyse, Patron St. of France, and St. 
 George, Patron St. of England, ftlie sayd 
 Thomas de la Warre being partly a French- 
 man and partly an Enghsli-manJ ; and 
 having first resigned hy Proxy, made to 
 William Brinkley, cannon of Litchfeeld, 
 and to Thomas Gierke, Chaplaine. 
 
 Tills was allso confinned first, by 
 Richard Crosby, Piior of the convent of 
 of Coventry, and Henry Hallsall, Arch- 
 deacon of Chester, and then by William, 
 Bishop, and Thomas Strelton, Deane, and 
 the chapter, at Litchfeeld. 
 
 ' Then Thomas de la WaiTe presented to 
 William, Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, 
 John Hmitingdon to bee the Master or 
 Keeper of the sayd Colledge ; and the sayd 
 Thomas, Bishop of Durham, &c., did give, 
 grant, and confirmed vnto the sayd John 
 Huntingdon five Messuages and ten Acres
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 43 
 
 of land, wliicli were parcells of the manor of 
 Ivlanchester, one Messnage ^nlli tlie appiu*- 
 tenauces with one acre and twenty fonre 
 Pearches, called BaiTons hnll and Barrens 
 yerde ; eight acres of land in Neder 
 Aldport ; one messuage in Gorton gi-eene, 
 of eleven pearches ; another in Heaton, of 
 eleven pearches.' 
 
 This John Huntingdon, Batchelor in 
 Degrees, and Rector of Assheton, vnder- 
 lyme, was warden neere foily years, a man 
 learned in the learning of those times, very 
 devout and magnificent, hee built the 
 Chancel or Quire, in the midst whereof and 
 iust before the high altar, as then it stood, 
 hee lyes buried with the suitable inscription, 
 Domine dilexi decorem domus tuss. His 
 Rebus or name-devyse (a, custome borrowed 
 from the FrenchJ, is to bee scene on either 
 syde of the Middle arch, as it looketh East- 
 ward : on the Syde is an Huntsman with 
 dogges whereby hee thought to expressc the
 
 44 hollingworth's history 
 
 two fomier sillables of liis name ; Hunting ; 
 on the other syde, a vessell called a Tonne, 
 which being ioined together makes Hunt- 
 ington ; which is as good or better than 
 Morton, A. B. of Canterbury, a man of a 
 pmdent and publique Spirit, was content to 
 use, viz. Mor uppon a tonne, and sometimef 
 a mulbery Tree, called in Latine, Morus 
 coming out of a tonne, to expresse his 
 name of Morton. 
 
 About tliis time, or not long before, for 
 ought appeares ended, the present large 
 and stately stone biiildinge, which wee call 
 the Church, being formerly a vast wooden 
 building not much Milike (save that probab- 
 ly it was more adorned) to the Boothes 
 where the Court Leete, Court Bai'on, of the 
 Lord, and the quarter Sessions, are now 
 kept. Credible tradition saytli the one part 
 of the sayd woodden building was removed 
 to Oardsall, anotlier part to Clayton ; but 
 the maine body was remoo> cd to Trafford,
 
 Of MANCHESTER. 45 
 
 which is standing to this day, and now 
 called the gi'eate Bame. Who did most in 
 the hnilding of it is not certainly known, 
 but the names and aimes of the Stanleys 
 Wests, RadcliiFes of Radchtfe (some re- 
 mainder of the Alabaster Statues (as it is 
 sayd) of tw'oo of them are yet on the North 
 Syde of the Quu'e) Bp'ons, Radcliffes of 
 Oardsall, and others now or lately in the 
 "windowes, doe T^-itnesse their assistance : 
 onely one Richard Bex^^-ick did many 
 workes of piety and charity towards the 
 Master and fellowes, and for the decent and 
 honorable reparation and amenchnent of the 
 sayd Quii'e and body of the sayd church ; 
 and other Parisliioners doubtless did fieelv 
 contribute thereunto ; hence is that vulgar 
 mistake that Didsbury chm'cli is more 
 ancient than Manchester, which ammounts 
 to no more truth (if so much) tlian that the 
 present stiaictm'e of Didsbmy chappell is 
 more ancient tlian the present stnicture of 
 Manchester church, as allso their Font was
 
 40 hollingworth's history 
 
 mud I bigger, because Avhen dipping of 
 cliildren and baptizing of Heathens grew 
 most out of Tse, then the Baptisteries were 
 lesse or lesse. 
 
 The windowes were riclily painted, tlie 
 east ^\indow of the South Isle liad Michael 
 and his Angells ; the nine orders of Angells 
 fighting -with the Dragon and his Angells : 
 the East window of the North Isle had St. 
 Austen and St. Ambrose singing Te Deirni 
 laudamus, and the other windowes repre- 
 sented some- canonical or Ecclesiasticall 
 story. In the middle vStanchion evrj 
 window, especially in the twenty-four vpper- 
 most windowes, was the picture of the 
 Virgine IMary. But at the uppmost end of 
 the Outmost North ally, neere to Strange- 
 waies chappell, was a very rich window, 
 whereby was described our Saviors arreigne- 
 ment and crucifixion, with some pictures of 
 the Trinity -with these verses :
 
 OF MAXCHESTER. ^ij 
 
 ^0ti tijat 59 cf mtgl)t» most 
 iFatJur ana ^on anU i^olw €Jo6t 
 
 ^nffgr^ 
 
 ^nD fecepe tljagr scults ottt of fjcll 
 ST^at matJc tijws U)mtBo as mc mai? sc 
 lit toorsljtjjpe of iljr STrntitt. 
 
 lijuf goDr rntJingc 
 
 t J?s townSo gaff mw i^mQc. 
 
 Ill tiiis corner viider this window, its 
 probable there stood an altai-, and that it 
 was a place of much devotion, it is sayd it 
 was for the coiintrey. 
 
 Ill the chappell, where moniing sermons 
 were wont to bee preached, called St. 
 George liis chappell, belonging- now to John 
 Radchffe, of Oardsall, Esquire, was the 
 Statue of St. George on horseback, hanged 
 up; his horse was lately in the Sadlers 
 shop. The Statues of the Vii-gin Maiy, 
 and St. Dyonyse, the other Patron Saints, 
 
 * Forte, give them grace to do well. 
 t Forte, give them. 
 : Forte, That to.
 
 48 hollingworth's history 
 
 were uppon the tAvo highest pillars next to 
 the Quire, vnto them men did bow at their 
 coming into ilie church. 
 
 Anno 1465, Ralph Langley, Rector of 
 Prestwich, was, at the presentation of 
 Richard Hatfeeld and Nicholas Stathome, 
 whom Richard West, Kt, Lord de la War, 
 had made Patrons for tliis time only, ad- 
 mitted Master and Keeper of the sayd 
 CoUedge. 
 
 James Abbot of Abendon, the Nuncio 
 and commissary generall of vSixtus the 4th, 
 the contentious, if not allso vitious, Pope, to 
 the Kingdome of England, to Wales and 
 Ireland, with the Collector of the revenues 
 of the Apostolicke chamber, were at Man- 
 chester, and for money payd (as was pre- 
 tended) for the maintenance of Christians 
 againste the Turke, granted plenary In- 
 dulgences, as if on a day of Jubilee they 
 had visited personally at Rome.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 49 
 
 In the Rentall of Thomas West, Lord 
 de la AvaiTe, occasional mencion is made of 
 John Raueald, Hugh Wiightington, 
 Tliomas Whitehead, Jacob Barchsley, 
 Nicolas Raueald, chaplaines, and fellowes 
 of the CoUedge of the wardens then hould- 
 ing of the Lord of the Manor, the Parke 
 called Nether Alport, and fisliing in the 
 river of Irke, for a certaine rent ; and of the 
 guild or company of the Blessed Vii'giu 
 Mary, in Manchester, houlding some 
 bm'gages of liim of one Richard Hill, vrhich 
 liad the Comemill for £6 per annmn : allso 
 Jolm Trafford, Kt, houlding one parcel of 
 Wast lying in Manchester, neere to the 
 Boothes, uppon which parcel of land, only 
 one shop was then lately huilded ; so that 
 it seemes the rest were huilded since. Wee 
 reede allso of one Roger de Parker and 
 WiUiam Walker, chaplaines, about that 
 time. 
 
 Tliere was likewise Jolni Browne a 
 
 £
 
 50 HOLLINGWORTHS HISTORY 
 
 fellow wliicli deliglited in a large pitt iippoii 
 or iieere to the high knowles and causing a 
 double hedge, and walkes and seates to bee 
 made about it, (possibly for his meditation) 
 gave it thee name it hath to tliis day, Sir 
 John Browne's pitt. 
 
 Anno 1481, July 27, Ralph Longley 
 resigned the keepership or mastership of 
 the CoUedge to James Stanley, Dr. of 
 Divinity and Archdeacon of Richmond. 
 
 Anno 1485, vppon the death of the 
 sayd James Stanley, another James Stan- 
 ley was made maistre or keeper of the 
 Colledge. Hee was brother to the Earle 
 of Derby. Hee was sometime Bishop of 
 Ely ; one more voluptuous than \irtuous. 
 Hee usually spent the summer at Sum- 
 merham, a faii-e dwelling, within three 
 miles of St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, 
 which E. Brithnot gave to Ely church, and 
 enlarged it ^\ith new buildings, rather for
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 01 
 
 satisfying of his lust (for ibi mulierciilam 
 alebat ne dicam concubinam, &c). then for 
 any devotion to preserve or amend the 
 houses belonging to his sea ; for hee be- 
 stow^ed little or nothing, either on Ely 
 church, or anv other house belono^ins; to it. 
 In the A^nter hee H\'ed ^\dth* his brother 
 in Derby sliii-e : (possibly Derby hundi'ed, 
 which in ould bookes was called Derbishire, 
 as allso wee reade of Salfordshu-e, Blackburne- 
 shire,) wherever hee Hved, hee was Miwor- 
 thy of the family hee descended from, and 
 of the honors hee did enjoy ; yet, it may in 
 charity be judged, that hee repented of his 
 wicked life, or else his monumentall in- 
 scription is unsuitable to liim, though it 
 may bee seasonable for us. Hee built the 
 large chappell on the north syde of the 
 chm"ch in the honor of Jesus Christ and 
 John the Baptist, and lyes inteiTcd in the 
 inner chappell vnder a faii'e tombe, which 
 after the inscription hath these homely but 
 lionest verses.
 
 52 hollingworth's history 
 
 Ftbe SCO grattts toto muntio tumulatus, 
 Cvimittc muuBatus semper transtve paratufs. 
 
 and tliis liolesom advice in prose, wliicli 
 Cluysostome saytli, if hee had a voice like 
 thunder, and a mighty mountaine for his 
 pulpit, and all the men of the world for his 
 aucUtory, he woidd chuse for his text to 
 preach on. 
 
 Filii hominum usque quo gravi corde 
 vt quid (hligitis vanitatem et quoeritis men- 
 dacimn. Vtinam saperent et navissima 
 prouiderent. And vppon the inscription in 
 brasse on the doore, Vanitas vanitatum et 
 via vanitatis; and all the mndowcs full of 
 memorate no^dssima. 
 
 Anno 1605, care was taken for the re- 
 paration of the chappell standing on Salford 
 bridge ; built, as it is sayd, by Thomas dell 
 Booth, in Edward the Tliird's time. He 
 certainely gave tliirty pounds towards the 
 ])uilding of Salford bridge, and it was very
 
 OF MANCHESTER. §3 
 
 vsuall ou greate bridges to build diappells, 
 ill which they (Ud pray for the soules of tlieu- 
 founders. This chappell is now converted 
 to a prison for Manchester and Salford. 
 
 1506, this James Stanley, master or 
 keeper of the Colledge, Sir John Bamford, 
 William Bradford, John Lording, Richard 
 Massy, Ralph "Mody, Henry Siddall, and 
 John Bexwick, priests, fellowes, parsons or 
 rectors, and proprietaries of the chmxh 
 granted certaine priviledges to Jesus chap- 
 pell, on the south, built by the sayd 
 Richard, son of Roger Bexwick, of Man- 
 chester; and to the chaplaines of the Guild, 
 (the first or cliiefe of wliicli was Sii* Oliver 
 Thornelev) that thev should not onelv offi- 
 ciate there, but sliould allso receive all 
 giiifts, oblations, obventions, &c. given for 
 the service of Jesus Christ, and in the 
 
 This chappell was, 4th Elizabethae, by 
 honor of tlic naine Jesus.
 
 54 hollingworth's history 
 
 Isabel Beck, widow, sole heir of the sayd 
 Richard Bexwicke, given to Francis Pen- 
 dleton and Cecyly liis wife, daughter of the 
 sayd Isabell, whose successor now lately 
 sould it or gave it (being very ruinous, and 
 the roofe fallen down, and the lead sould or 
 stoUen) to the to^vne of Manchester to bee 
 an English library. The sayd Isabel Becke 
 did allso build the Conduit in Manchester. 
 
 The next cliappell to it, commonly 
 called Trafford chappeU, Thomas del Booth, 
 son and heire of Thomas Booth, knight, 
 the founder of it, gave to Hugh vScoales, 
 chaplaine, a certaine place in Bexwick, 
 together mth the advowson of the chauntry 
 of St. Nicolas, m St. Marie's church, in 
 Manchester; and the sayd Hugh Scoales 
 gave the sayd premises to John Trafford, 
 Knight. 
 
 The lowest cliappell, on the south side, 
 was, sayth a monmnent in the midst of it.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 55 
 
 bilded by William Galley, simitiiue mar- 
 cliaimt of Manchester, and Elizabeth, liis 
 Avife, and Nicolas, his broder and executor 
 on thys their costs: hee died Anno 1508. 
 It is now possessed by Richard RadcUffe, 
 Esq. 
 
 The highest clia2)pell was probably 
 builded by the Byrons ; it now belongs to 
 George Gheethain, of Clayton, Esq. 
 
 Strangewayes chappell was probably 
 builded by one of the Strangewaies : it now 
 belongs to John Hartley, of Strangewayes, 
 Esq. In it there is a pardon vnder the 
 pictm-e of the ResiuTection of Christ from 
 the sepulchre. The pardon for five Pater- 
 noster, five aves and a creede, is xx^j. 
 thousand, and xxvj. dayes of pardon. 
 
 Anno 1500, Robert CUife, Batchelor in 
 Decrees, was warden or master of the Col- 
 ledge ; to whom, and to the chaplcines his
 
 50 IIOM.INGWOKTH S HISTORY 
 
 felloAves, the trust of the Schoole and the 
 lands thereof were committed. 
 
 Anno 1518, George West, a kmsman 
 of West, then Lord de la Warre, was mas- 
 ter or keeper of the CoUedge. Both these 
 were wardens before the death of the sayd 
 James Stanley. 
 
 Anno 1519, Hugli Oldham, D.D. and 
 Bishop of Exeter, died, who out of the good 
 mind hee bare to the county of Lancaster, 
 being, I believe, his native county, perceiv- 
 ing that the cliildren thereof having preg- 
 nant wits, were for the most part brought 
 up rudely and icUely ; that Ivnowle ledge 
 miglit be ad\anced, (tlie art of grammer 
 being the ground and fouiitaine of all the 
 liberall arts and sciences) and that cliildren 
 might bee occupyed in good learning, and 
 better taught to love, honor, and (bead God 
 and his lawes, founded the free schoole iu 
 Manchester. Hee was cliapleine to tlie 
 
 >
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 57 
 
 renowned Lady Margaret, Countesse of 
 Richmond, and by her meanes prefen'ed to 
 the Bishoprique of Exeter, Anno 1504. 
 Hee gave lands to mamtaine a common 
 table for the vicars tof the sayd chm*ch. 
 Hee was a zealous defender of the liberties 
 of his church, and had a tedious suite with 
 the Abbot of Tavistock about them. Hee 
 pers waded Bishop Fox to found Coi-pus 
 Chiisti CoUedge, in Oxon, and in that 
 worke fmiiished liim mtli much money; 
 himselfe builded the cloysters of the sayd 
 colledge. In their statutes hee is stiled 
 piimaiius benefactor. Hee had in liis 
 minde to endow Exeter Colledge, but uppon 
 distast given him in regard his letters, in 
 behalfe of one Atkins for a fellowship in 
 that colledge, did not succeede, hee diverted 
 liis bounty to Corpus Christi Colledge. 
 Hee bought the lands on which the Schoole- 
 house in Manchester stands, and tooke the 
 milne there in lease of the Lord de la 
 WaiTe, for sixty y cares. Aftenvard, Hugh
 
 5^ IIOLLINGWOKTHS HISTORY 
 
 Bex^^ick, priest, and Joane his sister, 
 Anddow, with tlie sayd Bishop's money, 
 purchased of the sayd West (Lord de la 
 War,) his land in the Ancoates, and the 
 milnes seated vppon Irke, and free fishing 
 from Ashley -lane to Irwell, with poAver to 
 sett downe stakes, and fence in the sayd 
 river, or on etther syde; and left all in 
 feoffinent to the sayd schoole for ever. 
 The sayd Bishop, it is sayd, was pietate 
 laudatior quani doctrinam, somewhat rude 
 in speech, but in deede and action friendly 
 and bouutifull. It is evident hee was a 
 favorer and promoter of learning. His 
 effigies is in Coi-pus Christi Colledge, 
 quadi'angle with the effigies of their founder, 
 Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, who 
 was Lord Piivy Seale, and a man of great 
 account in Henry the Seventh's reigne. 
 It was aUso at the end of the schoole ; but 
 being newly painted and adorned before 
 the parliament, was the more eyed by soul- 
 diers, who had a zeale not according to
 
 OF MAXCHESTKR. ^g 
 
 knowledge, and was by them pulled downe : 
 these men were more Ukelj to pull down 
 the schoole-house alLso, then to miitate limi 
 in biiilchng such another. The Pope 
 favoring the Abbot of Tavistock in the 
 above-mencioned suite, and finding not the 
 Bishop so pliable to the court of Rome as 
 hee expected, did excommunicate bun; 
 vnder wliich censme hee died, and might 
 not be bmied till his absolution was pro- 
 cured from Rome. Hee lyes inteiTed in a 
 little chajjpell east out of the vppmost end 
 of the south wall of the Cathe(h-al church 
 of Exeter j which chappell was built by 
 hunselfe in his Hfetime, and adorned with 
 emious worke and rich windowes, having 
 onely tliis inscription on a fail- monument : 
 Hie jacet Hugo Ouldam, anno 1519. 
 John Voysie, who was allso Lord President 
 of Wales, succeeded hun in the Bishop- 
 rique, and M. Parker, A.B., of Canterbury, 
 and Alexander NoAvel, Deane of Panic's, 
 in founding schooles in Lancashire — the
 
 60 holungworth's history 
 
 one at Ratclidal, tlie otlier at Mldletoii. 
 The first feoffees nominated by tlie sayd 
 Bisliop for the sayd free schoole, in Man- 
 chester, were Lewis Pollard, knight, An- 
 thony Fitzherhert, kniglit justice, William 
 Courteney, knight, Thomas Davis, kniglit, 
 Alexander Radcliffe, knight, John Biron, 
 Edmund Trafford, Richard Assheton, 
 Thurstan Tildsley, Robert Langley, Ri- 
 chard Holland, John Reddich, Esquii-es. 
 Anno 1535. George Collier was warden 
 or master of the Colledge. 
 
 Anno 1540, Henry the Eighth founded 
 the Bishoprique of Chester: it was made 
 up of two Archdeaconiies of Chester and 
 Richmond; it was first ordained to bee 
 within the pro\dnce of Canterbury by the 
 letters patents of the foundation, but the 
 king shortly after, by act of parliament, 
 annexed it to the province of Yorke ; and 
 because the clers^y of Lancashire, Cheshu'e, 
 and some other places, were nuich eased of
 
 or MANCHESTER. Q\ 
 
 theii* long joimiies, and the bisliopiique 
 liad but small revenues, moi-tuaries were 
 allowed to tlie bishop, from the clergy, at 
 the death of every mcmnbent respectively ; 
 viz., the best horse apparell, booke, signet, 
 &c. John Bird, Bishop of Bangor, was 
 prefeiTed to bee Bishop of Chester for his 
 preaching against the Pope's supremacy. 
 
 The towne of Manchester having- bin 
 anciently a sanctuary, was one of the seven 
 of all the cathech-alls, collegiate parish 
 chm'ches, hospitalls, or chappells, which 
 were allowed and taken to bee places ol 
 priviledge and tuition for terme of life, for 
 all and smgular offendors and malefactors ; 
 except ^\ilfull murther, rape, bm-giary, rob- 
 bery, by the highway or in houses, felonious 
 burning of houses and theii- abettors. Sta- 
 tute anno thirty-second Hemy VIII. 
 
 But ^^•itllin a veare or twoo, the sane- 
 tuary l^eing found prejudicial to the wealth,
 
 62 hollingworth's history 
 
 credit greate occupyings and good order of 
 the said to^vne ; in which towne, sayth the 
 statute, it is expedient that honest, true and 
 credible persons, and not any manner of 
 light person or persons should inhabit,) by 
 occasioning idlenesse, vnlawfulle games, 
 vnthriftinesse, and other enormityes in the 
 laborers, servants, and others of the said 
 towne ; and because divers thefts, and rob- 
 beries, and felonies were committed, and 
 the towne not walled, nor had any Maior, 
 Sheriffe, Bayliffe, or other head officer then 
 the Steward of the Lord of the Manor, nor 
 any prison or gaole. The sayd act of 
 parliament was annulled, and the sanctuary 
 remooued to West Chester, which had no 
 such trade of merchandize, and had a 
 strong gaole. A Maior, Bayliflfes, &c. 
 Statute anno thirty-third Henry VIII. 
 
 By A'u'tue or presence of an act of par- 
 liament, in the first yeare of Edward the 
 Sixth, the CoUedge of Manchester was dis-
 
 OP MANCHESTER. 63 
 
 solved, and the lauds and revenues belong- 
 ing lo it were taken into the king's hands, 
 and were by him demysed to Edward, 
 Earle of Derby ; and the house called the 
 CoUedge, and some lands in Aldport were 
 then or soone after (as it is sayd) sould to 
 the sayd Earle, who was carefuU, as our 
 fathers have tould us, to provide very well 
 for three or fom'e ministers officiating in the 
 chm'ch. 
 
 Anno 1572, by inquisition vppon oath 
 it was allso found, that the Earle of Derby 
 had purchased of the Prince, Over, AU- 
 port, and three burgages in the Milnegate 
 and Fenelstreete, being chauntry lands ; 
 and, indeede, severall chauntries belonged 
 to the parish chm'ch of Manchester, which 
 had their severall endowments ; one wherein 
 Sir William TrafFord was last inciunbent, 
 another called Cheetam's chauntry, wherein 
 Sir James was last incumbent, besydes 
 others.
 
 64 hollingworth's history 
 
 Tlie towiie in that age was of greate 
 account, saytli Mr. Cambden, for certaine 
 woollen clothes there A\Tought, and in great 
 request, commonly called Manchester cot- 
 tons. Concerning which, it was enacted, 
 that all and every cottons called Manches- 
 ter, Lancashii'e, and Cheshire cottons, 
 shalbee (being full TVTOught to the sale) in 
 length twenty-two yards, and conteine, in 
 breadth, three quarters of a yard in the 
 water, and shall weigh thu'ty pounds the 
 piece at the least. And that all clothes 
 called Manchester rugges, or Manchester 
 frizes shalbee thirty-six yards long, three- 
 quarters broad, coming out of the water, 
 and shall not bee stretched on the tenture 
 or otherwise above a nayle of a yard in 
 breadth, and being so fully and well dryed 
 shall weigh, every piece, fourty-eight 
 pounds at the least. Statute anno 5 et 6to 
 Edward VI. 
 
 Though it is like that many gentlemen
 
 OF MAXCHESTER, 65 
 
 of the parisli of Manchester had biu higli 
 sheiiifes of the county before, yet I coukl 
 find no record ancienter then Edward the 
 Sixth, in whose first yeare Sir Alexander 
 RadcHife, of Oardsall, Knight, was liigh 
 Sheriife. 
 
 Queene Mary refounded the Colledge, 
 restored alhnost all the lands, (the Earle of 
 Derby still keeping the Collegiate house, 
 and some other small tilings), appointed 
 one master or keeper, eight fellowes chap- 
 laines, foiu-e clerkes, and sixe choiisters, 
 and did allso confirme and reestabhsh the 
 statutes of the first foundation, and placed 
 George Collier in liis wardenship againe. 
 This George Collier came along with Dr. 
 Pendleton to Mr. Bradford to dispute with 
 him, anno 1555. 
 
 The sayd Dr. Pendleton was, in King 
 
 Henries dayes, a Papist ; in King Ed- 
 
 \vard's dayes, hee recanted in Manchester, 
 
 1 3
 
 QQ HDLUNGWOKTh's HlSTOllY 
 
 (being one of tlie preachers tliere, main- 
 teined out of tlie revenues of the then 
 dissolved colledge) and became an earnest 
 assertor and preacher of the gospel! : in 
 Queene Maries dayes, meeting with Mr. 
 Saunders in the country, (about Coventry 
 it's hke, where Mr. Saunders lived, and 
 Dr. Pendleton went that very way to 
 London), and discoursing of the persecu- 
 tions then arising, Saunders complaining 
 that though liis spirit was ready to 
 suffer, his flesh was weake, and loth 
 to tast of that bitter cup. Pendleton 
 being a fat bigg man, ouer-selfe-confi- 
 dently sayd, I will see the vtmost dropp of 
 this grease of mine molten away, and the 
 last gobbet of this flesh consumed to asshes, 
 before I mil forsake God and his truth, 
 but the issue prooued otherwise when they 
 came to London. Saunders bouldly 
 preached Christ, opposed antichrist, and 
 sealed his doctrine with his bloud at Co- 
 ventry. Pendleton, sayth Mr. Fox,
 
 OF MANCHESTER. (57 
 
 diaiiged liis tippet, preached popery, and, 
 being learned, was a greate dispiiter for it 
 above ; and was sent, or of his owne accord 
 came do^me to Manchester and other places 
 to recant his recantation, and to preach vp 
 popery, which occasioned Mr. Bradford to 
 admonish his christian friends and comitry- 
 men to 1)eware of him. This Mr. Bradford 
 was borne and brought up in Manchester, 
 and then became a servant to Su" John 
 Harrington; thence hee went to Cani- 
 biidge,' Avhere his extraordinary ihHgence 
 and proficiency in learning made him 
 Master of Art the first yeare, and presently 
 after. Fellow of Pembroke hall. Bishop 
 Ridley prefeiTed him to bee a prebend in 
 St. Paul's church, in London. Martin 
 Bucer encouraged him (behig very modest, 
 and much complaining of his insufficiency) 
 to bestow his talent in preaching, saying to 
 him. If thou have not fine Manchet bread, 
 yet give the poore people barley bread, or 
 whatsoeuer the Lord hatli comittod vnto
 
 QS iioj.li.\(jwouth's iiistuuy 
 
 thee ; wliereviDpon he was ordeined presby- 
 ter, and became an eloquent preacher, 
 fervent m prayer, an able disputant, a wise 
 comforter of afflicted soules, preaching, 
 praying, -vmting, meditating, was his whole 
 life ; liee w^as more vnwilling to spend 
 time then money; hee ate usually but one 
 meale a day, and that hee often mixed with 
 weeping, yet sometimes hee was mcny in 
 the Lord. As Crammer ^,vas for his place 
 the most eminent of the martyrs, so Dr. 
 nidley vras accounted the most learned, 
 and Mr. Bradford the most pious. Mr. 
 Fox more usually calleth'him then any of 
 the other holy martyr. Parsons, the Jesu- 
 ite can object against Imn nothing, but that 
 hee was a minister made of a ser^ ingman 
 and a puritan in those dayes. The first of 
 wdiich is an unjust accusation, as appears by 
 his greate learning and orderly entrance, 
 by ordination, into the ministry. The 
 later, I thinke, is grounded rppon his 
 opinion, that the scripture knew no tUffer-
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 69 
 
 ence betweene Bishops and Presbyters, 
 ■which then was not onelv the current 
 opinion of the Protestants, but of Dr. 
 Hai-pesfeeld, Archdeacon, who asserted the 
 same thinff in his conference with Mr. 
 Bradford. Dr. Taylor rejoiced, and blessed 
 God that had sent liiin into that prison, 
 where bee found such an angell of God to 
 comfort him (meaning Mr. Bradford). 
 Bishop Ridley, ■WTiting to ]\Ir. Cheeke, 
 King Edward's tutor, rejoiceth that hee had 
 procm-ed such able preachers of God's word 
 in London diocesse, and hee nameth Mr. 
 Grindall (which afterwards in Queene Ma- 
 ries dayes was in exile, and in Queene 
 Ehzabeth dayes was Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury,) and Mr. Bradford, by whom, as I, 
 sayth hee, God hath and doth worke 
 wonders in setting forth his word, Sec. 
 
 Hee writt severall tracts and letters, be- 
 sydes these mencioned by Mr. Fox. 8ome 
 are printed, some are not.
 
 70 nOlLINGWORTHS HISTORT 
 
 His meditations and prayers. 
 
 A meditation and instruction of the Pro-*'* 
 dence of God to me J. B. 
 
 A meditation of tlie presence of God, 
 
 A meditation of tlie flesh and spirit ; or, a 
 declaration how those words, flesh and 
 spuit, are to bee understood in Scrij^ture. 
 
 A sermon of Repentance. 
 
 A sermon of the Lord's Supper, in which 
 ai'e nine reasons against trans ubstantia- 
 tion. In the end of it is more practical, 
 and hath a word of satisfaction to a poore 
 sinner that thiiikes liimselfe vnworthy. 
 
 A treatise of Election and Free Will, oi 
 which nature there is allso another letter 
 to certaine men not rightly persuaded in
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 71 
 
 the doctrine of God's election and pre- 
 destination. 
 
 A meditation of Death, out of Ludovicus 
 Vivos. 
 
 A meditation for tlie true exercise of Mor- 
 tification. 
 
 A meditation vppon the Passion of our 
 Saviour Jesus Cluist, and a most earaest 
 prayer vppon the sayd passion. 
 
 A meditation vppon the Ten Command- ' 
 ments and the Lord's Prayer, while hee 
 was imprisoned. 
 
 A meditation vppon the Sacraments. 
 
 Sundry other prayers. 
 
 A letter of his owne hand, beginnmg Jesus 
 Iimnanuel to my dearest sister m the
 
 'j'2 hollingworth's history 
 
 Lord, Joice Hales, J. Bradford ^\isheth 
 all encrease of godlinesse in Cluist. The 
 siimine of it is to explaiue that place in 
 Rom. yiii. 19, 20, 21, that it is to bee 
 vnderstood of the renovation of the world, 
 and of the better condicion of all crea- 
 tures. This discourse he styleth Cvgnea 
 Cantio : it was not long before his suffer- 
 ings. 
 
 A letter to Mr. Philpot about Vnity. 
 
 A letter to Mr. Coker, in Maiden, in Essex, 
 entreating him to harbor one John 
 Searchfeeld, a bookebinder, who, in 
 Queene Maries dayes, did wander to 
 keepe a good conscience. 
 
 A letter to Dr. Ridley, subscribed by liim- 
 selfe, Mr. Pliilpot and others, in which is 
 this expression — All here (God therefore 
 bee praysed) prepare to pledge theii'
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 73 
 
 captaine Cluist, even when hee will, and 
 how hee will. 
 
 A letter ^mtten from the Countre, in the 
 Poultry, to Mr. Shalcrosse and his wife, 
 dw elhng in Lancashu-e, exliorting to con- 
 stancy and perseverance in keeping 
 themselves undefiled in God's service in 
 fighting the good fight: hee desii-es to 
 be commended to Sir William Cliorlton, 
 who, sayth hee, I trust hath kept liim- 
 selfe free fi'om idolatry; God gTant hee 
 may so continue : and to Thomas Ridle- 
 stone, though, I feare, sayth hee, hee 
 hath defiled himselfe in this false service. 
 Hee mencions allso, a booke, which 
 James Bradshaw had of his ; possibly it 
 is the same good man that wiitt to 
 George Marsh, another of om- Lancashire 
 martyrs. 
 
 Tliere is allso in the MS. of Immanuel 
 Colledge, a letter from Elizabeth Longslio
 
 74 HOLLINGWOHTH's UlSTOKT 
 
 to Mr. Bradford, incudoning liis preaching 
 in Lancashire, and blessing God for it ; 
 and the benefit and comfort shee received 
 by it; and in the postscript shee desires 
 hun to have remembrance of a maide of the 
 parish of Prestige, (a woman's spelUng for 
 Prestwich) whose name is Alice Seddon, 
 which doth not cease to pray for you night 
 and day. 
 
 This Mr. Bradford came downe, in 
 King Edward's dayes, into the countrey, 
 preached the Avord of God (as Dr. Pendle- 
 ton then allso did) in Manchester; and allso 
 at Eccles, Prestwich, Midleton, Radcliffe, 
 Assheton vnderlyme, Stopport, Mottrime, 
 Wimsley, Boulton, Bmy, Wigan, Liver- 
 pool, and the city of Westchester. And 
 God gave good successe to the ministry of 
 the word ; and both raysed vp to himselfe, 
 and preserved a faithful people in Lanca- 
 shire, especially in and about Manchester 
 and Bolton, some names of whom wee find
 
 OF MANCHESTEK. 75 
 
 ill Mr. Fox, his acts and monuiiienls, and 
 in the' afore-recited catalogue of liis workes. 
 Their minister, I conceive, was father 
 Travers ; in King Edward's dayes, the 
 minister of Blakeley, and outed in Queene 
 Maries dayes, and Sir Thomas Hall, who 
 lived neere unto, and much counselled Mr. 
 Bradford's motlier. 
 
 It is coimnonly and credibly reported, 
 that one Rider, of Smedley, was imprisoned 
 for, that hee, in King Edward's dayes, was 
 one that pulled a Popish Priest out of the 
 pulpit, that a preacher might goe vp. 
 
 It is reported and beheved, that John 
 Bradford, preaching ui Manchester, in King 
 Edward's dayes, tould the people, as it 
 were, by a prophetical spirit, that because 
 they did not reachly embrace the Word of 
 God, the Masse should bee sayd againe in 
 that church, and the play of Robin Hood
 
 76 hollingvvorth's history 
 
 acted there, Avliicli accordingly came to 
 passe in Qiieene Maries reigue. 
 
 The imprisoument of the sayd Mr. 
 Bradford, tlie conferences hee had, the 
 examination of liim, and liis being burned 
 for the reformed rehgion at London, 
 (though it was at first intended hee should 
 have bin biu'ned at Manchester), and how 
 Woodroffe, the Sheriffe of London, strucke 
 Roger Bexwick, liis brother-in-law, then 
 living in Manchester, as hee was speaking 
 with Mr. Bradford, and the hand of God 
 vppon the sayd Woodroffe, and many other 
 things are fuUy related by Mr. Fox, to 
 whom I referre the reader. 
 
 Lam'ence Vaux, B.D. and chaplaine to 
 James Brookes, Bishop of Glocester, who, 
 with one John Coppage, were the onely 
 fellowes nominated in the foundation of 
 Pliilip and Mary, was, according to the 
 said foundation, achnitted and canonicallv
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 77 
 
 instituted and inducted, ad cmam, et regi- 
 men animarum, to the care and govern- 
 ment of soules in tlie office of being, 
 master and keeper of St. Maries colledge, 
 in Manchester. Hee was laborious, 
 learned, and in his way, devout and 
 and conscientious. 
 
 In Queene Maries short reigne, Man- 
 chester parish furnished the county \rith 
 one High Sheriffe, Sir Edmund Trafford, 
 of Trafford, Kniglit, anno 3rd and 4 th 
 P. et M. 
 
 God did wonderfully hyde his people in 
 Lancasliii'e, in the time of Queen Mary; 
 some, indeed, went beyond sea, as Thomas 
 Leuer, chosen Minister of the English 
 chm'ch at Zurich ; from whence hee writ 
 to Mr. Bradford, then prisoner in the 
 Tower, exhorting liun to patience and con- 
 stancy, vsing tliis motive. Your cause is 
 good, and your friends bee in favor, and 
 g3
 
 78 hollingworth's history 
 
 yom* enemies in displeasure with Almighty 
 God your heavenly father. James Pilkin- 
 ton, which retmiiing from exile, was made 
 the Queen's Divinity Professor, in Cam- 
 bridge : hee preached at the Restitution of 
 M. Bucer and Paulus Phagius' bones, 
 vppon Psalm cxii. 1.; Blesseth is the man 
 that feai'eth God, &c. Hee was afterward 
 Bishop of Dm'ham. Goodman, Files, and 
 others. Yet sundry Protestants stayd at 
 home, who were not much molested by the 
 Bishops ; for John Bu'd, Bishop of Chester, 
 was deprived, first Marie, for being maried, 
 and George Coles was not preferred to the 
 Bishoprique till the third of Queen Mary, who 
 sate but a Httle while after hee had bm'ned 
 at Chester, George Marsh, of the parish of 
 Deane, neere Boulton, and then Cuthbert 
 Scot, D.D., who had bin imprisoned in the 
 Fleete, and had escaped to Lovaine, was 
 returned and made Bishop in his roome, 
 and hee was so busy in the visitation of the 
 famous vniuersity of Cambridge, which
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 79 
 
 tliave away suiicliy Protestants out the 
 vniuersity, four and twenty out of one 
 Colledge, and in taking vp Martin Bucer 
 and Paulus Phagius' bones, that hee did 
 litle in liis owTie diocesse. Towards the 
 later end of Queen Mary, hee held a 
 visitation, and caused sundry in and about 
 Manchester to bee imprisoned in the Col- 
 ledge, wliich, at the death of Queen Mary 
 were released : their names, as tradition 
 sayth, were Ridlestones, Whannbies, &c. 
 Then Bishop Scot fled againe to Lovaine, 
 where hee died. 
 
 Anno 1560, in the second of Queen 
 Elizabeth, WilUam Birch, M.A., a younger 
 brother of Birch-hall, who was ordeined by 
 by Bishop Ridley, the Martyr, and whose 
 Ucence to preach was signed by King 
 Edward the Sixth, his owne hand, had a 
 presentation directed to the Deane and 
 Chapter of Yorke, and the Keeper of the 
 SpiriluaUtyes there, (the Archbishoprickc of
 
 80 hollingworth's history 
 
 Yorke and Bishoprique of Chester being 
 then both vacant) that hee should bee 
 Warden and Keeper of the CoUedge m the 
 in the roome of Laiu'ence Vaux ; but 
 whetlier hee Avas admitted and installed into 
 the said wardenship, I know not ; for very 
 shortly after Thomas Herle was admitted 
 warden, Laurence Vaux fled out of Eng- 
 land into Ireland, where hee fell among 
 theeves, which robbed him, and slew many 
 of his fellow-traveUers ; but himself escaped 
 to Lovaine, and was a monke of the order 
 of St. Dyonise, hee writ a booke de 
 Ceremonus Ecclesise * * * * 
 (N.B. About a line of the Manuscript is 
 illegible), and became schoolemaster of the 
 Enghsh schoole there. Hee writ allso an 
 English Catecliisme, or summe of Christian 
 doctrine necessaiy for children and ignorant 
 people, which was then a bould attempt. 
 The French King and some Popish Doc- 
 tors did approove it, others did dislike it. 
 Hee was a man well beloved and highly
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 81 
 
 honored by many in Manchester ; yea, by 
 the generality, and this was one reason 
 why many thereabouts were lother to bee 
 reclaymed from Popery then about Ratcli- 
 dale; especially because Thomas Herle, a 
 selfish man, succeeded Imn, who, if he was 
 indeed a Protestant, (having allway changed 
 mtli the princes m those changeable tunes) 
 was not so wise or zealous in his generation 
 as Vaux was in liis ; and hee Avould for ever 
 have blemished the name of Herle in these 
 parts, notwithstanding liis honorable des- 
 cent, had not Charles Herle, liis kinsman, 
 Rector of Winwick, a learned, ingenious, 
 pious, and laborious minister and moderator 
 (after the death of Reverend Dr. T^visse,) 
 of the Assembly of Divines, at Westmin- 
 ster, by ordinance of pai'hament recouered 
 the crecHt thereof. Tliis Thomas Herle 
 and his fellowes-chaplaines, viz., Stephen 
 Townesend, Nicolas Daniel, Richard Hall, 
 Edward Holt, possessed the coUedge lands 
 and revenues, made long leases of tlie
 
 82 hollingwouth's history 
 
 tytlies, and some of the lands, whereby the 
 coUedge was much prejudiced and impouer- 
 ished, though m the judgement of learned 
 lawyers. The Colledge hemg an Ecclesi- 
 astical society, newly restored since the 
 death of King Edward, was suppressed by 
 the Act of first EHzabeth, and conse- 
 quently, the said Thomas Herle and those 
 that ioined with him were not legally 
 warden and fellowes. 
 
 Anno 1565. There was a sore sick- 
 nesse in Manchester and about it, of which 
 very many cUed. 
 
 There was allso an act of parhament 
 concerning the Aulnegers' fees, and that 
 hee should have deputies witliin the seueral 
 townes of Manchester, Boulton, Blackburne, 
 Bmy. 
 
 Injunctions and orders concerning the 
 Colledge church of Manchester, were given
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 83 
 
 to the Master or Wai'den ; and tlie rest, 
 some by the Archbishop of Yorke, and 
 other the Queene Majesties commissioners, 
 for causes ecclesiastical, witliin the province 
 of Yorke, anno 1573, about residence of 
 the warden and fellowes, dihgent and con- 
 stant preacliing every Sunday in the chm'ch 
 of Manchester, or in one of the chappells of 
 Stretford, Chorlton, Diddesbmy, Gorton, 
 Denton, Newton, and Blakeley. 
 
 Anno 1574. The common of Coly- 
 hurst was inclosed, and allso the same was 
 put downe in the night, the same summer 
 Wilham West, Baron of Grissley, Lord de 
 la Warre, and Gateloupe, cheefe Lord of 
 Manchester, and did let Colilim'st to all 
 such as would take the same for iiijs. the 
 aker by yeares, and twenty sliillings fine 
 aforehand. 
 
 Anno 1577. Crosford, or Crosfery 
 bridge was begunne to be taken care of that
 
 g4 hollingworth's history 
 
 it might bee reedifyed and built of stone. 
 The inhabitants of Mancliester petitioned 
 the Queen's most Honorable Councell, and 
 thereuppon, Ralph Sadler, chauncelor of 
 the Dutchy of Lancaster, Mr. Justice 
 Meade, Mr. Gilbert GeiTard, Attimiey 
 Generall, and Mr. Bromley, Atturney of 
 the Dutchy of Lancaster, wrote to the 
 Justices of Peace in Lancasliire, to view 
 and cause the same to be reedifyed; and 
 they assessed the county in the summe of 
 two hundred pounds, and the inhabitants of 
 the towne of Manchester did, of their owne 
 benevolence, bestowe fourty pounds ouer 
 and above, so that the bridge was builded 
 in that manner that now it is. The yeare 
 following, 
 
 Anno 1578, there was a difference 
 betweene the lord and the towne about 
 choice of the Burrough-reeve : the steward 
 chose John Gee, but the towne chose 
 Robert Langley.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 85 
 
 Tliis yeare allso, the churchwardens 
 taxed the parish in allmost the snm of nine 
 pounds for desti'0}4ng of Crowes. About 
 tliis tinie, the Bishop of Chester erected, 
 and liis successors encoiuaged a publicke 
 exercise to bee held at Manchester, the 
 second Thursday in every month, and 
 nominated some grave, godly, learned 
 ministers to bee moderators, and to preach 
 in their courses in the aftenioone ; and 
 connnanded all parsons, vicars, curates, 
 readers, schoolemasters, within the Deanery 
 of Manchester, to bee present at the sayd 
 exercise, and to bee ready in the aftenioone 
 to bee more privately confeiTed with, exam- 
 ined, instructed, and directed by the sayd 
 nominated moderators ; and to obey and 
 observe their orders and dii'ections vppon 
 peine of censm-e. The names of the mo- 
 derators were Mr. Shaw, of Bmy; Mr. 
 Cai-ter, of Manchester ; Mr. Assheton, of 
 Midleton ; Mr. WilUamson, of Manchester; 
 Mr. Langley, of PrestA\ick. 
 
 H
 
 gg hollingwouth's history 
 
 Anno 1578. Queen Elizabeth vntler- 
 standing that the Colleclge had either an 
 vncertaine foundation, or none at all, did 
 refound or reestablish it by the name of 
 Christ's Colledge, in Manchester, founded 
 by Queene Ehzabeth, of one warden, a 
 presbyter, and at the least, Batchelor in 
 Divinity, and foure fellowes, godly, honest, 
 and learned men, at least Batchelors in 
 Arts, able to teach the people. Shee 
 ordeined allso, that there should bee twoo 
 chaplaines, foure singing men, foure choris- 
 ters, skilfull in musick. By which founda- 
 tion, Thomas Herle, having aUready done 
 too much hann, was outed ; onely hee had 
 a pension of twenty pounds per annum, 
 and John Wulton, B. D. was made warden 
 in his stead : hee was a pious, painfull, 
 sldlfidl divine ; he continued scarce two 
 yeares in his wardenship, and then hee was 
 made Bishop of Exeter, where he sate 
 alhnost fourteen yeares : hee lyeth bmied on 
 the southside of the Presbytery, neere the
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 87 
 
 place where there is a monument of free- 
 stone erected to the memory of liim. 
 
 The fellowes nominated in the sayd 
 foundation, were, Jolui Mullins, who being 
 an exile in Queene Maries dayes, was first 
 a student of Zmick, and afterward a noted 
 member of the 'Enghsh church of Frank- 
 ford ; Alexander Nowel, an exile allso, and 
 one of the sayd Enghsh clim'ch, and being 
 returned, was made fellow of the sayd 
 coUedge, and afterwards Deane of St. 
 Paul's London ; hee wiitt many sohd and 
 learned treatises, was a bountifuU benefac- 
 tor to Brasen-nose Colledge, founder and 
 endower of Midleton Schoole, and for tliirty 
 yeares together hee preached the first and 
 last sermons in Lent, before Queen Eliza- 
 beth ; the tliird was Oliver Carter, a learned 
 man, who wriit a booke in answer to 
 Bristowe's motives : hee preached soHdly, 
 but succinctly ; hee fell sicke in the pulpit 
 as hee was preacliing of God's prouiding a
 
 88 hollingworth's history 
 
 succession of godly ministers, on Matt. 
 28 verse ; and Mr. William Burne (of 
 whom more hereafter) went vp unmediately 
 into the pulpit, and God assisting him, 
 preached on the same text — a visible and 
 present proofe of Mr. Carter's doctrine. 
 This Mr. Carter's sonnes did walk in the 
 godly wayes of their father, and one of them 
 was prefeiTed to a Bishoprique in Ireland ; 
 the fomth was Thomas Williamson, after- 
 wards D.D. 
 
 Anno 1579. In theii* times, Hemy 
 Earle of Derby; Henry, Eai'le of Hunting- 
 ton ; Wilham, Lord Bishop of Chester, and 
 other her Majesties High Commissioners, 
 being assembled at Manchester, gave forth 
 good orders and injunctions against pipers 
 and minstrells playing, makuig and fre- 
 quenting; also bearebayting and buUbayt- 
 ing on the sabbath dayes, or vppon any 
 other dayes in time of divine service or 
 seimons ; allso against superfluous and su-
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 89 
 
 perstitious ringing; wakes and conunon 
 feasts, continuing in alehouses, di'unken- 
 nesse, &c. William Cliadderton, a parish- 
 ioner borne, D.D., Master of Queene's 
 Colledge, and Regius Professor of Divinity 
 in Cambridge, tooke the Wardensliip of 
 Manchester in commendam : hee was also 
 Bishop of Chester; a learned man, and 
 liberal, given to hospitality, and a more 
 frequent preacher and baptizer then 
 other bishops of liis tune ; hee was resident 
 in Manchester till the dayly janings be- 
 tweene his attendants and some inhabitants 
 of the towne, occasioned, probably, by pride 
 and stifFenesse on one or both paits, occa- 
 sioned liim to remoue liis habitation to 
 Chester. Hee was aften\ard prefeiTed to 
 the Bishoprique of Lincolne, where hee 
 died. 
 
 In liis 'tune the Lord Treasurer Bur- 
 leigh and Secretary Walsingham made 
 choice of the Earle of Derbv, Sir Richard 
 h3
 
 90 hollingworth's history 
 
 Slierbui-ne, Sii- John Radcliffe, Sir Edward 
 Fitton, Knights, with advice of the sayd 
 bishop, to j^rocure an augmentation of the 
 revenues of the coUedge from such as had 
 large leases, but their endevom-s had no 
 Sood successe. 
 
 Anno 1585. Tlie Enghsh Benedictins 
 beyond the sea's began to bestin-e them- 
 selues for continuation of their order, Abbot 
 Fecknam being dead, and there being but 
 one left; viz., Father Sigebert Buckley, 
 and therefore, before Ms deatli, provision 
 was made of others to succeede. Nine 
 were chosen : five in Valladolid, in Spaine, 
 and foure in Rome; of wliich foure, one 
 Father Ansehne, of Manchester, was one. 
 Fuller Eccles. Hist, out of Reineiius, Apost, 
 Benedict., p. 180. 
 
 Anno 1586, there was a gi'eate dearth 
 in this country, insomuch that in Man- 
 chester, a peny white loafe weighed but six
 
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 01* eight ounces, one peny boiilted bread teu 
 or eleven ounces, ryebread ten ounces, 
 bro^vne bread, about foureteene ounces ; and 
 tlie Bisliop of Chester and others pitying 
 the condicion of the poore, did order that 
 the -peny wliite bread should weigh nine 
 ounces of ti'oy weight ; boulted bread, ten ; 
 broAVTie bread, fifteene ; jannocke, tliirteene ; 
 oate cake, fifteene ounces. That euery 
 baker haue liis marke, according to the 
 statute ; that theii' bread bee wholesome and 
 wel baked j that they sell but onely tw elve 
 to tlie dozen ; that no loaves bee made, but 
 either of jd., ijd., or iiijd., at the farthest ; 
 that these orders bee duely observed, both 
 by inhabitants and forreiners. 
 
 Anno 1588, there died of the parisliion- 
 ers, in one monetli of Apiill, neere seuenty 
 persons. 
 
 The same ycare there was a pannick 
 luarc \ ppon the Lord Bishop, then Warden,
 
 92 hollingwokth's history 
 
 and the other inhabitants of the towne, that 
 they caused the flesh shambles to bee 
 remooued to Salford bridge, and betooke 
 themsehies to snch annes as they had, vppon 
 some flying report (if there were so much 
 as a report) that a potent army was witliin 
 a few miles of the towne, vi)pon Swinton 
 moore. Sometimes the wisdome of the 
 ■wisest men is but stai'ke folly, there being 
 then but litle probabihty, either that there 
 was any such anny so neere, except, 
 possibly, of the Lancaslure Papists, or that 
 such an anny could by these meanes be 
 resisted. 
 
 1589. Robert Asmal, of Gorton, slaine 
 with a bull at a stake. 
 
 Campion, the Jesuite sayth, that one 
 James Laborne, a noble layman for the 
 profession of the Catholique faith, and allso 
 because hee denyed the female papacy of 
 Queene Elizabeth, and denyed obedience to
 
 or MANCHESTER. 93 
 
 bee due to her, because shee was, sayth the 
 Jesuite, both MilawMly begotten, and law- 
 fully deposed from her pretended right, by 
 Pope Pius Quintus, cUd most meekely and 
 willingly shed his bloud in Manchester. 
 Probably hee meanes Lancaster, though, 
 indeede, hee and other prisoners were car- 
 ried to Lancaster at the townes charge, and 
 after their execution, their heads were 
 brought to Manchester, and sett vppon the 
 steeple anno L585. AUso that one James 
 Bell priest, was prisoner in Manchester, 
 sometimes in an obscure and lionid lake, 
 (hee meanes, for ought I can learne, a 
 gentleman's house, in or neere to the Mar- 
 ketstedlane, called Mr. Radcliffe's of the 
 Poole), sometimes in another place called 
 the Newe Fleete, of wliich one Worsley, of 
 the Boothes, was governor or keeper. Also 
 that one Donna Alana, widdow of the brother 
 of Cardinal Allen, who was borne in tliis 
 county, was, by Sir Edmund Trafford, of 
 Trafford, troubled very much^ hee com-
 
 94 hollingworth's history 
 
 l^laiues of the sayd Sir Eclmimd TiafFord as 
 a most bitter enemy of the Catholickes of 
 Asshetoii : of Chadderton, as a zealous 
 heretick — of Holland, of Denton, as a rigid 
 Puritan — of the Bishop, as a Calvinist, a 
 false and cruel Bishoj) — of the inhabitants, 
 and specially of the ministers, and by name 
 of Oliver Carter, as one that boasted much 
 of his learning-, and labored to winne them. 
 This is certaine that because Lancaster and 
 most other places in the county were in- 
 cHned to popery, the Queene and her coun- 
 cel appointed Manchester to bee the place 
 wherein to imprison and confine such 
 papists as they thought meete, and to traine 
 vp their children in the Protestant reHgion, 
 whether, because of the residence of the 
 Bishop there, to whom some cliildren borne 
 of popish parents, as the Worthingtons 
 were comitted, or because of the zeal, or 
 supposed zeale for the reformed rehgion, 
 wliicli then was in the gentry, ministry.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 95 
 
 and people, or for some other reason I have 
 not to say. 
 
 Anno 1592. Richai'd, son of Robert 
 Birch, died, bemg foiu'escore yeares yonger 
 then his father. 
 
 Anno 1592, jvas borne in Manchester, 
 William, the son of Simon Malloone, a 
 yong man of pregnant witt; hee was 
 tempted by some Irish merchants (with 
 whom the tovrae then and long after till the 
 Rebellion broke out, anno 1649, did driue 
 a greate and a gainefiill trade) to goe 
 beyond sea, seduced from the refonned to 
 the Romish religion, of which hee became 
 one of the most earnest and able asseilors ; 
 hee made the reply to Archbishop Vssher's 
 answer to the Jesuites' challenge, but hee 
 was oueiinatched, liis adversarie being more 
 eminently learned, and having e^idence of 
 truth on liis syde. Malloune caused his 
 reply to bee dispersed in Manchester ; hee
 
 90 hollingworth's history 
 
 afterward went to Rome, and was Master 
 of the Irish CoUedge there. Dr. Hoylc 
 rejoined to his reply. 
 
 Anno 1 594, the sicknesse was in Fay- 
 lesworth, at Clough-house. 
 
 Anno 1595. John Dee, Doctor of 
 Pliysick, having a grant from the Queene 
 of the Chauncelorship of St. Paul's^ 
 London, and that not falling voide, hee 
 was offered and did accept of the Warden- 
 sliip of Manchester CoUedge, and had it by 
 patent, vnder the greate scale, and was 
 installed Feb. 20, 1596 : a very learned 
 man, and perfect maister of mathematical 
 studies; many arts enmnerated in his 
 preface to EucHde's Elements, were, by him 
 wholly invented, by name, definition, pro- 
 priety, and use, more then either the 
 Grecian or Roman mathematicians have 
 left to om' knowledge, mth diners annota- 
 tions and inventions mathematical, added
 
 OF AIAXCHESTER. 97 
 
 ill simdi'v places of the savd booke . 
 together with seuerall pieces of Navigation, 
 Perspective, and otlier rare mathematical 
 workes of his in MS. His epistle to John 
 Feelds, Ephemerides, anno 1557, de vsu 
 globi coelestis, and de niibimn solis lunaj et 
 reliquorum planetanim, &c. distantiis, both 
 dedicated to Edward the Sixth. Astrono- 
 mical and logistical canons to calculate the 
 Ephemerides by his tract, de stella admi- 
 randum, in Cassiopca Asterismo. An 
 adAdce and discourse about the Refonnatiou 
 of the Vulgar Yeare, speake lum a learned 
 astronomer. Bookes in other kinds of 
 learning, as History, Heralchy, &c. were 
 wiit by liim before the yeare 1583. Hee 
 was a Master of chuers secrets in vulsar 
 Chymistry; amongst others, he reuealed to 
 one Roger Cooke, the greate secret of the 
 Elixir, as hee called it, of the salt of 
 mettalls, the projection whereof was one 
 vppon an himth-ed. It is reported, that 
 hee and Sir Edward Kellev, cannon of 
 
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 98 holling\vorth's history 
 
 Bridlington, his intimate friend and long 
 companion, did find a \evy large quantity 
 of the Elixir in some part of the mines of 
 Glasteubury Abbey, which was so incredibly 
 rich in virtue, being one vppon 272,330, 
 that they lost much in making projection by 
 way of tryall, before they found out the true 
 height of the medicine — a piece of a warm- 
 ing-pan, without Su' Edward Kelley's 
 touching it, or melting the mettall, onely 
 wanning it in the fire, the Elixii* being put 
 theron, transmuted it into pure gould, 
 wliich, togetlier ^vith the waniiing-pan, was 
 sent to Queen Elizabeth by the Lord 
 Willowby, that by fitting the piece to the 
 place, it might exactly appeare to have bin 
 part of that warming-pan. Hee was gene- 
 rally, by the common people and by some 
 others, reputed a conjurer, and thereby was 
 forced often, seriously and fervently, to 
 apologize for himselfe : hee was often dis- 
 quieted in liis studies ; hee was glad to goe 
 beyond sea's, and his library was seised on
 
 01' MANCHESTER. 99 
 
 in which were 4,000 bookes, and 700 of 
 them MSS. ; but the Queen Avrit letters to 
 hun, wherevppon hee returned from Fre- 
 bona, 1589, and was fauorably received by 
 the Queen, at Richmond : sometmies shee 
 sent him 100 markes, or 200 angells to 
 keepe Cluistmas with. Hee writt allso, 
 three hundred astrological aphoiismes, (some 
 aphorisms hee dedicated to GeiTard Merca- 
 tor, a famous man), one hundred and 
 tAventy aphorismes, de perstantioribus qui- 
 busdam naturae virtutibus, Monas Hiero- 
 gi^^hicae speculum \Tiitatis, being an 
 apology for Frier Bacon ; Cabulse Hebraicoe 
 Compendiosa Tabula, and other pieces 
 Doubtlesse, as hee was a man, as Mr. 
 Selden calls hun, doctrmam mutijugi, so 
 hee was too much addicted to some oner 
 curious and iiicertaine arts, as astrology or 
 the like. Yet it is writt of liim, that when 
 seuen persons in Lancashne were beleeued 
 to bee possessed by evill spirits, (one of 
 A\]iich was Margaret Byrom, of Salford,
 
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 and sixe others at Cliiwortli), the sayd Dr. 
 Dee ahsokitely refused, by any vnlawfiiU 
 way, to assay to cast them out, and advised 
 to procure some godly ministers to seeke to 
 God, by prayer and fasting ; hunselfe joined 
 
 with Mr. S to procme some ministers 
 
 out of Northamptonsliii'e to joine with others 
 in tliis county: hee straitly examined and 
 shai'pely rebuked one Hartley, a conjurer, 
 for his vnlawfull art; hee was very sober, 
 just, temperate in liis carriage, studious, 
 yea, an observer of publicke and private 
 devotions, yet my author, whom I follow in 
 this relation, sayth, that hee had the unhap- 
 pinesse to bee much vexed vnth the tmbu- 
 lent fellowes of that colledge. 
 
 John Wliite, D.D. and Vicar of Eccles, 
 was made fellow of the Colledge ; a learned 
 and laborious preacher, and assertor of the 
 refonned reUgion : hee writt diuers treatises, 
 as the way to the true church, &c., which 
 being excepted against by some popish
 
 OF MANCHESTER IQl 
 
 piiests, Avere vindicated by liis eminent and 
 learned brother, Dr. Francis White, Bishop 
 of Ely. 
 
 About this time florished Sir Nicolas 
 Moseley, anno 1600, Lord Maior of 
 London, whom, from a small and low 
 estate, God rayspd up to riches and honor. 
 Hee bought the Lordships of the manor of 
 Manchester, and of the Hough, and built 
 the house called the Hough-end in the 
 place where liis father's tenement stood, 
 wliich, Avith other large estate, he left to 
 RoAvland, his eldest son ; his second sonne, 
 Edward, was a counselor. Knight and 
 Attumey of the Dutcliy, both whose estates 
 descended on Edward Moseley, Baronet. 
 
 Allso, LaAvrence Chadderton, D.D., 
 who, when hee AAent first to Cambridge, 
 Avas a papist, but Avas (God being mercifuU 
 to liun) conveiicd both in to the pathes of 
 truth and holinesse : then his fatlier sent 
 
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 1Q2 - hollingwouth's history 
 
 liini a poke to goe a begging with, and a 
 groate in it, telling him that vnlesse hee 
 did returne, it should bee the last money 
 hee should receive from him. But God 
 raysed him vp friends in Cambridge, and 
 hee grew in yeares, grace, and knowledge, 
 and allso in vniuersity degrees, (saue that 
 Mr. Buttler, that eminent physitian, hin- 
 dred for a time, liis degi'ee of doctorship, 
 because hee was a puritan) and, indeed, 
 hee was one of them that held the confer- 
 ence mth the Bishops at Hampton-court, 
 in behalfe of the Nonconformists in the 
 beginning of King James, his reigne, but 
 at the coming of the PaulsgTave to Cam- 
 bridge, hee tooke the degree of Doctor. 
 Allso Sir Walter Mikhnay, chauncelor of 
 the Exchequer, founder of Emanuel Col- 
 ledge, made liim the first master of it, who, 
 Avhen hee was growne oukl, did willingly 
 resigne vp the maistersliip to which the 
 fellowes elected John Preston, Fellow of 
 Queene's Colledge, afterwards D.D. and
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 103 
 
 Chaplaiiie in orcliuaiy to liis Majestye ; but 
 hee retii-ed to a priuate life, and died full of 
 dayes and honor, seeing the death of two of 
 his successors, viz., Dr. Preston and Dr. 
 Sancroft, and his funerall seiinon was 
 preached by the tliii'd, viz. Dr. Holdsworth. 
 
 There were High Sheriffes pricked out 
 of tliis parish by the Queene : Echuund 
 Traiford, anno 7; Edward Holland, anno 
 8; Edmund Tratford, 13; John Bu-on, 14; 
 Richard Holland, 15; Edmund Trafford, 
 anno 22 Elizabeth. 
 
 The afore mencioned Wilham Burne, a 
 Staff ordshu-e man, B.D. of St. John's Col- 
 ledge, in Cambridge, who was sent downe 
 liither by Dr. Chadderton and Whitakers, 
 at the request of the parishioners, who 
 desired that either Mr. Perkins or some 
 other pious and learned minister might bee 
 sent hither, was made fellow; hee was 
 learned in the tongues, sound and oitho-
 
 1Q4 hollingwokth's history 
 
 doxe ill his judgment, zealous against 
 every error, especially against papistry ; 
 seldome or neuer did reascend the pulpit, 
 but hee strucke at some popish doctrine or 
 practise before he came downe ; hee dis- 
 sented litle or nothing from the discipHne 
 vsed m Scotland, but uehemently propugn- 
 ed it, yet in a j)rivate, prudent, and 
 peaceable way, saue that hee held the 
 feasts of the Nativity of Jesus Cluist, of his 
 Circmncision, &c., and other hohdayes 
 might, yea, ought (the lawes of the realme 
 considered) to bee duly kept; hee was 
 much in ordinary and extraordinary duties 
 of piety, prayer, fasting, thanksgiving, &c., 
 both in liis o^vne house and elsewhere. 
 Hee vsually (if not every night) (hd pray 
 in his bed, and sing psalmes allso when 
 hee awaked, when it might bee mthout 
 distm'bance of those that lay in the chamber 
 ^Yi{h liim. His opinion, and suitable there- 
 unto was the practise of his family, was, 
 that the Lord's day beginnes on Saturday
 
 OF MANCHESTER." 105 
 
 at simsett. Hee was a fi'equent preacher ; 
 hee was the first that in a constant course 
 sett vp sennons on the Lord's day in the 
 afternoone, or on Munday morning : his 
 preacliing was plaine, yet profitable to the 
 conversion and edification of many soides, 
 and the refonnation of the towne from 
 seuerall abuses, as prophaiiation of tlie 
 sabbath : hee seldome varied the words of 
 liis prayer before sermon, and as seldome 
 the method of liis preaching, which after 
 explication of his text was, doctiine, proofe 
 of it by scriptm'e by reason, answering one 
 or more objections, and then the vses : — 
 1. Of information. 2. Of confutation of 
 popery in tliis or that. 3. Reprehension. 
 4. Examination. 5. Exhortation. And 
 lastly, consolation. His crecHt and esteeme 
 amongst the people hereabouts, was such, 
 that ipse dixit was sufficient ; this is Mr. 
 Bomne's judgement. Hee labored much, 
 and succeeded well in it, to procure minis- 
 ters to euery chaiipell in the parish; few
 
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 iiiiiiisters were receiiied, but such as were 
 apinooued by liim, Mr. Gee, Mr. Paget, 
 Mr. Ratliband, and the hke, wliich often 
 mett hi a kmd of consultatiue classis; liee 
 was a prudent manager of liis worklly 
 affau'es, of a comely and reuerend counte- 
 nance, quick m speech and pace. Hee was 
 buried ^\dth much honor, and two sennons 
 at liis funerall, m wliich the substance of all 
 these things were spoken by the ministers, 
 Mr. Thomas Johnson, then of Ilhngbrooke, 
 and since rector of Stopford, and Mr. Alex- 
 ander Horrockes, pastor of the church of 
 God, at Deane. 
 
 Anno 1605. The Lord visited the 
 to^vne, as forty yeares before and forty 
 yeares after, with a sore pestilence ; there 
 died about one thousand persons, amongst 
 which was Mr. Kii'ke, chaplaine of the 
 colledge, and liis wife and foure children. 
 All the time of the sicknesse, Mr. Burne 
 preached — in the towne so long as hee
 
 OF MANCHESTKR. 1()7 
 
 durst, by reason of the ymiiliiiesse of 
 infected persons, and want of govermnent, 
 and then hee went and preached in a feeld, 
 neere to Shooters brooke, the to^iiespeople 
 being on one syde him, and the counti'ey 
 people on another. 
 
 Now allso 'lined in good esteeme, 
 Thomas Cogan, High Master of the Free 
 Schoole, Professor of Phvsicke, and the 
 author of the booke calculated for the 
 meridian of Lancashire, especially of Man- 
 chester, called the Hauen of Health. And 
 Walter Balcanquel, B.D. was made fellow; 
 hee was since Doctor of Divinity, Deane of 
 Rochester, and one of the foure English 
 Divines that were sent to the synod of 
 Dort. 
 
 After the death of Dr. Dee, the sayd 
 William Bourne being as was sayd, an 
 approoued divine, and having allso married 
 a kinswoman of the Cecylls, Lords Bm-gley
 
 log iioi,i,txg-\vorth's history 
 
 was ill a faire likelyliood of being warden, 
 and liad a grant for it, but bee was bindred, 
 partly by bis nonconfonnity, (onely a lease 
 of tytlies for tbree lives of about tbirty 
 pounds per annum was given liim), and 
 partly by tbe potency of some Scottisb 
 lords at court, wbicb got tbe Avardensbip 
 for Ricbard MuiTey, D.D,, wbo was like- 
 wise Parson of Stockport, Deane of St. 
 Buriens, in Cornewall, and bad some civill 
 bonors descending to bun by inberitance 
 from bis Scottisb ancestors — one of lionor- 
 able descent, competently learned, zealous 
 for tlie dignity of bis place as w^arden, but 
 not laudable otberwayes. Hee seldome 
 preacbed — onely twise in Mancbester — once 
 in Gen. i. 1.; In tbe beginning, &c. 
 Anotber time in Rev. xxii. 20. ; Come 
 Lord .Jesus, &c. So it was sayd tbat bee 
 in preacbing begunne and ended tbe bible, 
 nor was bee verry skillfull in it. Preacb- 
 ing once before King James vppon Rom. i. 
 16. ; I am not asbamed of tbe gospell of
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 109 
 
 Christ. When hee came to kisse the 
 King's hand, his Majesty saycl, Thou art 
 not ashamed of the gospell of Christ, hut hy 
 
 , the gospell of Cluist may bee 
 
 ashamed of thee ! Hee was a greate Pki- 
 rahst, and yet was a mighty hunter of other 
 Ecclesiasticall dignityes and benefices. 
 Hee was very iealous of being poysoned by 
 his servants, if they were discontented at 
 him : hee make them tast before hee would 
 eate or drinke. When hee was abroad, 
 hee liued very obscm'ely, lodging rarely in 
 the best innes, or two jounieyes together in 
 the same inne ; but, at Manchester hee 
 liued in greater state, accounted liimselfe 
 (as indeed by his place hee was) the best 
 man in the parish. Hee required the 
 fellowes, chaplaines, singing men, choris- 
 ters to goe before him to church, and some 
 gentlemen followed after : hee demaunded 
 his seate from the Bishop of Chester when 
 hee was sett in it, saying. My Lord, that 
 seate belongs to the warden ; and because 
 
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 110 iiollingwohth's history 
 
 hee would not sitt below the bisliop, liee' 
 
 remoouecl in to the body of the church, and 
 
 in the afternoone hee came timely enough 
 
 to take his owne seate, and so the bishop 
 
 was forced to seeke another seate. In his 
 
 time the Quue part of the chm-ch grew very 
 
 ruinous, the revennues of tlie Colledge were 
 
 leased out by liis meanes. Hee pmposely 
 
 abstained from taking the oath mencioned 
 
 in the Queene's letters patents, concerning 
 
 his not receiuing of the Colledge revenues, 
 
 saue for the dayes in which hee did resyde. 
 
 The fellowsliips and other places were 
 
 either not furnished with men, or the men 
 
 with meanes, herevppon many and grieuous 
 
 complaints were made by the parishioners 
 
 against him to King Chai'les, who comitted 
 
 the whole matter to WilUam, Archbishop of 
 
 Canterbury, Thomas Lord Coventry, of 
 
 Alsbrough, Lord Keeper of the Create 
 
 Seale ; Henry, Earle of Manchester, Lord 
 
 Keeper of the Piivy Seale, that they might 
 
 enquire further into the matter. Afterward
 
 OF MANCHESTER." \\\ 
 
 hee comitted it to the examination of Co- 
 missioners, in causes ecclesiasticall, which 
 after mature deliberation and examination, 
 proceeding in due fonne of law, and having 
 smmnoned the sayd Richard Mmi'ey, per- 
 sonally to ansAver for lumselfe, did not onely 
 remooue the sayd warden from his place, 
 but pronounced liim to have bin no warden 
 from the first, and that the colledge had 
 either a weake foundation or none at all. 
 
 Anno 1617, was the faire and large 
 galery in the chm'ch built, wliicli wee 
 comonly call the Loft, at the charges of 
 some private men, especially of Humfrey 
 Booth, of Salford, Gentleman; and the 
 yeare after, seates were leased out to Sir 
 Echnund Trafford, Knight ; Humfrey Da- 
 uenport, of Salford, Esq. ; Oswald Mosley, 
 of the Ancoates, Esq., and others, that were 
 benefactors dining the tciine of thefr 
 naturall Hues respectively.
 
 J 22 noLLINCiWUKTll's JIISTORY 
 
 Anno 1616, was an extraordinary 
 gi-eate floud, called from the day Lambard's 
 Hood, in Avhicli tlie waters suddenly rose 
 — yards plumme aboue the ordinary course, 
 that men stood vppon Sallbrd-bridge, and 
 laded vp water with a litle piggin. It is an 
 easy matter with God to droA^Tie a towne, 
 yea, a world. 
 
 Edward Ridlestone, borne in Manches- 
 ter, Avas vice principall of Brasen-nose 
 Colledge ; a very pious man, much 
 honored by the wliole vniuersity, whose 
 preaching v.as with such life and power, 
 and in such evidences and demonstration of 
 the spii-it, that his hearers were ordinarily 
 struck with feare and reverence, if not witli 
 terror. To whom I will ioin another 
 neighbor, John Smith, M.A., President, or 
 Vice-Master of Magdalen Colledge, in 
 Cambridge, and once Senior Proctor of tlie 
 University : a provident man, and a prudent 
 gouernor of the colledge — a lover of his
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 113 
 
 countiymeii, a boimtifuU benefactor to the 
 colledge — founding new fellowships and 
 schollerships ; and shortly after liis death, 
 John Haworth, B.D., a Manchester man 
 allso, succeeded hun, one eminently learned, 
 and to whom the writer hereof (once his 
 pupill) is much indebted. 
 
 Those witliin the parish of Manchester, 
 wliich were honored with the title of High- 
 Sheriife of the county by King James, 
 were, Edmund Trafford, Knight ; Rowland 
 Mosely, Esq. ; Edmund Trafford, Esq. ; 
 Edward Holland, Esq. 
 
 Manchester gaue honor to, and re- 
 ceiued honor from, Hemy Mountayne, who 
 being before Baron Kimbolton and Vis- 
 count Maundevile, and Lord President of 
 His Majesties Privy Councel, was created 
 Earle of Manchester, Feb. 7, 1625 : bee 
 was afterward Lord Privy Scale. 
 
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 1J4 hoi.lingworth's history 
 
 Anno 1631. The Lord sent his de- 
 stroying angell into an inne in Manchester, 
 on which died Richard Meriot and his wifcj 
 the master and dame of the house, and all 
 that were in it, or went into it, for certaine 
 weekes together, till, at the last, they 
 burned or buried all the goods in the house ; 
 and yet, God in midst of judgement did re- 
 member mercy, for no person else was that 
 yeare touched with the infection. 
 
 About this time, there was a difference 
 in opinion betvveene Mr. William Bourne 
 and Mr. Richard Johnson, two Fellowes of 
 the Colledge, about the Nature of Sin : 
 whether it bee meerely privative, or haue 
 any positivenesse in it. Mr. Burne main- 
 teined the later, and Mr* Johnson the 
 fonner, which was so publikely taken 
 notice of, that a popish priest tooke vppon 
 him to determine tlie controuersy in writing ; 
 and to inveigli against them both, and all 
 Protestants, because of theii* divisions;
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 115 
 
 whereas this very controuersy was first 
 hatched among the Papists, and it and 
 others of faiTe greater importance are still 
 amongst them. The priest's ^vTiting was 
 examined bv R. H . 
 
 Anno 1632. Daniel Baker, M. A. 
 Rector of Assheton, on Mercy -banke, and 
 Fellow of the Colledge,, having, on Good 
 Friday (as it is called) administered the 
 Lord's Supper, and being, as it is feared, 
 somewhat overcharged with diinke, in Sal- 
 ford, was found dead in the morning in the 
 water ATider Salford-bridge : whether hee 
 fell downe of himselfe, being a tall man, 
 and the battlements then but low, or 
 whether hee was cast downe and put oner 
 the bridge, it is not certainly knoAvne to 
 this day. This death of liis, as allso Dr. 
 Butts, the Vice-Chancelor of Cambridge, 
 hanging himselfe on Easter day after, and 
 some other mhiisters and eminent profes- 
 sors coming tliat yeare to an untimely end,
 
 116 HOLLING worth's HISTORY 
 
 as allso tlie above-mentioned difference be- 
 tweene the ministers, seemed to the Papists, 
 especially to those that were then newly 
 revoulted to them, as Sir Cecyl Traiford, of 
 Trafford, Knight, and Francis Downes, of 
 Worldley, Esq., and others — signal evi- 
 dences of God's anger and wi'ath, and 
 presages of the mine of the reformed 
 religion. 
 
 Anno 1633. On New-Yeare's-Day, 
 the Mosse being of a greate breadth, and 
 foure or five yards deepe, rose up out of his 
 place, and ti-auelled towards the house of 
 James Knowles, and environed it about, 
 carried a large stone trough before it, and 
 boar downe trees that stood in the way, but 
 being afterward somewhat broken with a 
 row of trees before the sayd James Knowles' 
 house, it filled the brookes and liners, slew 
 the fish, blackend the water, made some 
 fruitful land barren.
 
 OF MAXCHESTEK. 117 
 
 Aimo 1634. Hiimfrey Bootli, of 8al- 
 ford, laid the foundation of Trinity cliappeU, 
 in Salford, and of his owne cost. (save that 
 about two hundred poimds was giuen by 
 seuerall persons : — Sir Alexander Rad- 
 cKffe, of Oardsall, twenty pounds; Henry 
 Wigley, twenty pounds; Robert Pendle- 
 ton, tw'enty or forty pounds ; Charles Ha- 
 worth, ten pounds ; John Hartley, twelve 
 pounds; John GaskeU, five pounds; George 
 Scholes, ten pounds ; Ralph Bayley, five 
 pounds; and others lesser summes;) did 
 finish it, and endow it with twenty pounds 
 lands per annum : the sayd Hmnfrey Booth, 
 being, by God's blessing on his tracUng, 
 made rich, gaue allso to the poore of 
 ►Salford, the first lands that he bought 
 to the value of twenty pounds per annmn, 
 and payd it duely all his life time. Hee 
 being in greate weakenesse, earnestly de- 
 su'cd that hee might line to see the cliappell 
 finished, which hee did, but immediately 
 after the solemnc dedication of it, bv the
 
 US hollingworth's history 
 
 JBisliop of Chester; liee more apparently 
 weakened, then hee earnestly begged that 
 he might partake of the Lord's supper 
 there, and then hee would not wish to 
 line longer. It pleased God to revive liim 
 in such a measure, as that hee was able 
 to goe to the chappel constantly till hee was 
 partaker of the supper (wliich could not bee 
 done of some moneths after the consecra- 
 tion,) in the chappell, and was neuer able 
 to goe forth after, nor scarce to get home. 
 Hee was a man just in his trading, gene- 
 rous in entertainment of any gentlemen of 
 quality that came to the towne, though 
 meere strangers to him, bountifuU to the 
 church and poore, faithfull to his friend, 
 and we hope, God gaue hun both repent- 
 ance for, and remission of his sinns, in the 
 blood of Jesus. King Charles, in the 
 eleventh yeare of liis reigne, refounded the 
 Colledge by the name of Christ's CoUedge, 
 in Manchester, and appointed Richard 
 Heyiick, warden ; William Bourne, Samuel
 
 OF MANCHESTER, 119 
 
 Boiilinau, Richard Johnson, and Peter 
 Shaw, fellowes. In this foundation (to 
 omitt lesser alterations) the warden's power 
 is lesse then formerly, and the power of the 
 fellowes greater, the priiiiledges of the 
 tenants as well as the power of the colledge 
 straitned, in that leases coidd bee made 
 onely for twenty-one yeares, not for three 
 Hues as formerly. This kindled a spai'ke, 
 which, afterward, with blowing, became a 
 greate flame, and was a meanes to blow vp 
 the colledge. But, in the interim, the 
 warden and fellowes denyed themselves, 
 and caused the fines of the tenants (many 
 of whom were then out of lease) to bee 
 bestowed on the roofe of the Quu*e, and the 
 two syde Isles, which then were taken 
 downe and built vp againe, battled and 
 pinnacled in a seemely, yea, a stately 
 manner. Anno 1638. 
 
 Anno 1639. The Sir Cecvl Traflbrd, 
 of Traflord, Eehnund Assheton, of Chatter-
 
 120 hollingworth's inSTOKY 
 
 ton, Esq., uud otliers, out of zeale to liis 
 Majesties seruice, and suspecting tliat sun- 
 diy in tlie towne did much fauor the Scots, 
 did charge the towne of Manchester with 
 more armes then ever before in the memory 
 of man it had bin charged witli ; wliich 
 warre being composed, they had their anns 
 in theii' oAvne possession.' 
 
 The inhabitants and others of the towne 
 were, by his Majesties Deputy Lieutenants, 
 allowed to trayne and exercise themselues 
 in feates of armes. 
 
 When his Majesty had left the ParHa- 
 ment, the Warden of Manchester, John 
 Bradshaw, of Bradshaw, Esq., and very 
 many gentlemen and others of the towne 
 and countiy resorted to Yorke to petition 
 his Majesty to returne to his parliament, 
 which petition was crossed, by a suggestion 
 at the court, that that petition was not the 
 petition of the county, but of a party, and
 
 or MANCHESTER. J21 
 
 that there would come shortly up auotlier 
 petition. 
 
 1642. The siege of the towne by the 
 Earle of Derby. 
 
 1642. At Midsumer, the Earle of 
 Derbyes coming into Manchester, and 
 hauing a banquet made him. 
 
 1643. The towne was fortified, and 
 strongly ganisond. 
 
 The first Prouincial Assembly was at 
 Preston, November 14, 1648. Mr. Hyel 
 was moderator ; Mr. Gee,^ scribe, as hee 
 hath since continued. 
 
 The second at Preston; Mr. Herle, 
 moderator. 
 
 The county Lancaster was, by autho- 
 rity of Parliament, made a Prouince, and
 
 122 ■ hollingworth's history 
 
 divided into nine classes. The first was 
 called Manchester classis ; the second, 
 Boidtons. 
 
 Diners ministers and others named for 
 Tryers — as Richard Heyrick, John Angier, 
 Richard Hollinworth, John Hanison, &c. ; 
 Robert Hyde, Robert Assheton, Thomas 
 Sti'angewayes, Esq. Enquire of Mr. 
 Heyrick. 
 
 In July 1648. There was a sudden 
 and terrible raine on the Lord's day, which 
 in twoo homes space fiUed the sellers in the 
 Market-place, Hanging-ditch, and there 
 channells ran downe the streetes like greate 
 riuers, in some places able to beare a large 
 vesseU. 
 
 Hamilton's comins; in. 
 
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 1649. The Independents sett vp a 
 meeting in tlie Colledge, November 5th.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 123 
 
 The Chapterhouse door and the Colledge 
 chest were broke open, and the Colledge 
 deedes were seised on by some souldiers, 
 and sent vp to London. 
 
 Feb. 26, 1649. There was seene by 
 hundreds of people in the Market-place and 
 Chiuxh-yard, tlii-'ee parelii, about ten of the 
 clock before noone, wliich vanished away 
 one after another, so that at eleuen of the 
 clocke none were to bee seene. I saw two 
 of them myselfe. 
 
 1650. The ministers and others in the 
 to\vne and parish being assembled to fast 
 and pray, for preuenting of a new waiTe : 
 the towne and country being generally non- 
 engagers were disanued by the gouemor of 
 Liuerpoole. 
 
 Jn Blakeley, neere Manchester, in one 
 John Pendleton's ground, as one was 
 reaping, the corne being cut, seemed to
 
 124 HOLLING worth's HISTORY 
 
 bleede ; (bops fell out of it like to bloud : 
 multitudes of people went to see it, and the 
 strawes thereof, though of a kindly colour 
 without, were mthin redcHsh, and as it were, 
 bloudy. 
 
 1651. The tlistiu'bance by Mr. Flood. 
 (See the Dimnall). 
 
 The King of Scots passing tlu'ough this 
 county. 
 
 The Earle of Derbyes routing at 
 Wigan, by Col. Lilburne. 
 
 Captain Bexwicke pulling in pieces the 
 
 Proclamation against C. S 1 as it was 
 
 in proclayming. 
 
 1652. The to^viie dismantelled — the 
 walls throwne downe — the gates sould or 
 earned away.
 
 OF MANCHESTER. 125 
 
 Sept. 11, 1656. Mr. Richard Heyiick 
 was prisoner at London; and Mr. Herle, 
 Mr. Johnson, ]\Ir. Angier, Mr. Hollmworth, 
 Mr. Hanison, Mr. Gee, Mr. Latham, Mr. 
 Taylor, Mr. Meeke. 
 
 BARLOW, de BARLOW, Esq. 
 
 BIRCH, de BIRCHES, Esq. 
 
 BAGULEY, of BROUGHTON. 
 
 SA. BIRCH, of ARDWICK. 
 
 BECK, of MANCHESTER. 
 
 ROBERT BOOTHE, de SALFORD, Esq. 
 
 BYROM, de SALFORD, Gent. 
 
 THOMAS CHEETHAM, de NUTHURST, Esq. 
 
 HUMFREY CHETHAM, de CLAYTON, Esq., 
 Founder of the Hospital. 
 
 JOHN HARTLEY, de STRANGWAYES, Esq. 
 
 HOUGH, of MOSTON, Gent. 
 
 HAWARTH, of MANCHESTER, Esq. 
 
 HOLLAND, de DENTON, Esq. 
 
 WILLIAM HULME, of MANCHESTER, Gent. 
 
 HYDE, de DENTON, Esq. 
 
 HOLBROOKE, of MANCHESTER. 
 
 .TENKINSON, of NTTTHURST, Gent. 
 
 GILLIAM, of NEWTON. 
 
 .JOHN LIGHTBOUNE, of SALFORD, Esq. 
 
 M
 
 126 hollingworth's history 
 
 EDWARD MOSELF.Y, de HOUGH, Baronet, 
 Lord of Manchester. 
 
 NICOLAS MOSELEY, de ANCOATES, Esq. 
 
 MOSELEY, de COLYHURST, Gent. 
 
 EDWARD PENDLETON, of MANCHESTER, 
 
 Gent. 
 
 ADAM PILKINGTON, of SALFORD, Gent. 
 PRESTWICH, de HFLME, Esq. 
 
 ALEXANDER RADCLIFFE, of RADCLIFFE, 
 
 Knight of the Bath. 
 
 RICHARD RACLIFEE, of MANCHESTER, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 SHACKLOCK, of MOSTON, Gent. 
 STRANGEWAYES, of GORTON, Esq. 
 SYDDAL, of SLADE, Gent. 
 STANLEY, of BROUGHTON, Esq. 
 CECYLL TRAFFORD, of TRAFFORD, Knt 
 WORSLEY, of RUSHULME. 
 
 In this abrupt manner ends the Original MS., 
 the author evidently leaving it unfinished ; and, as 
 he died within two months from the last date given 
 in the MS., it is certain he had little opportunity 
 of makintr a more finished conclusion. 
 
 WORIUAM, PRINTEE, MANCHT, SXrjn.
 
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