Seneraf 3nbe' .

AILWARDEROD family, 496 Baum, the, 321 Ainsworths of Spotland Gate, 516 „ rabbit, 537 „ „ Wicken Hall, 382 Beacon hills, 473, 537 Alcock, Sir Thomas, lord of the manor, 27 Beadelry of , 18 Allerscholes, 456, 457 Beast gaits, 110 Alnager, the Queen's, 40 Beallrowde in Spotland, 331 Anchor Meadow, 335 Bear ward, 39 Ancient road from Rossendale to Sowerby, 81 Beile bridge, 353 Anglo-Saxon settlers, 12 Belfield, area of, 2 Amen Corner, chapel at, 25 1, 523, 5 2 4 Belfield of Clegg Hall, 339 -347 Apprentices in 1620, &c ., 532 „ Cleggswood, 348-350 Arable land converted into pasture, 36 „ Devonshire, 355 Archery in the 17th century, 53 Studham, 354 Archinbutt, 47 Belfield Hall, 339- 347 Area of the parish, 3 Bentleys of Woodhouse Lane, 518, 519 Arms of Chadwick family, 16 Berdeshall family, 71 „ Dearden family, 16 Bernshaw Tower, 109, 479 „ Rachdale [7 Ryshedall] family, 16 Bib Knowl, 357 „ Rochdale Borough, 16 Binns in Butterworth, 119, 121 „ Royds, 511 Birchinley, 295, 367 -370 Arrow heads of flint, 3, 4 Births, &c ., 1583-1883, 64 Ashworths of Cutler Green, 43, 5 1 3 Blackepughall, 9o Aspiwallesiche, 380 Blacklache, 15, 117 Assarts, 66 Blackstone Edge, 3, 43, 104 Assault in Market Place in 1595, 24 „ „ Defoe's journey ( 1 7 24), 9 Assessments in 1595 of Ashton, , „ „ fortifications on, 55 Middleton, and Rochdale, 39 „ groove in centre of Roman Assheton of Clegg Hall, 352, 353 road, theories about, 7, 8 Assize of bread and ale in Butterworth, I T 3 , „ intrenchments on, 7 Assize sermon in 1676, 234 journey across in 1695, 8, 9 „ road over in 1734, 104 BAGDEN, 83, 3 00 ,, „ Roman road, 6-1o „ right of water at, 297 „ „ stone quarries on top of, 8 Bagslate, 47, 91 „ turnpike road over, 8, To „ races, 91 Blackwater Street Chapel, 251 Bailiwick of Rochdale, 20, 21, 23, 25 „ „ „ ministers of, 252-256 Baillie Street Chapel, 259 Blackyate Top, 122 Baitings Inn, 6 Blakeclogh, 76 Baldeston family, 70, 3r7 Blatchinworth and Calderbrook, r04--T96 11 Hall, 317-321 „ area of, 2 Bank House, 429 copyholders, 105 „ Wesley at, 500 Rate Book, 105 Baptist Chapel (West Street), z6, Bleakedgate-cum-Roughbank, „ ministers of, 261, 262 area of, 2 Baptisms in the Roch in 1773, 261 Bloomeries, ancient, 44, 84, 112

PARISH OF ROCHDALE . 556 HISTORY OF THE

Boarsgreave in Brandwood, 513 Butterworth Hall Green, 338 Booksellers in R'dale, r8th century, 212, 529 11 hamlet, 12o-122 Boon services, 418 „ tenants in (1626), 122 Boothhollins, 361 Lay Subsidy (1541), 38 Bottomley, 296, 457-460 oratory, 338 Boundaries of parish, 2, 47 „ Poll Tax in (1381), 35 Boundary stones on Buersill Moorin 1552, 12 „ priests at, 338 Bowdon Church Rectory, 352 „ reputed manor (1996), 120 Bradford family, 331 „ Subsidy Roll (1596), 46 „ Mary's will, 331 „ township, 113-126 Brandwood, 2, 43, 79 -81 Butterworths of Belfield, 342-347 „ coal mines in 17th century, So „ of Birchinley, 368 „ Moor, 3 „ of Coventry, 337 „ suit about lands there (1833), 80 „ of Crook, 433 Brown Wardle, 43 of Goodshaw, 337 Brearley of Norman Hill, 383 of Oakenrod, 494 Brearley's charity, 284 „ of The Holt, 377 Brentwood family, 80 „ of Turnough, 356 Brereley, R., founder of Grindletonians, 535 „ of Windy Bank, 437 Bretton, monks of, 119 Butts, the, 49 Bridle way between Scaitcliffe and Truckley- Byrchenholt, 527 hebble, 44 Byron family, 21 Briefs, collections under, 140, 141 „ lords of the manor, 25-31 Bright, the family, 56, 473 . 474 „ Sir John, suit as to boundary, 72 Brimrod, 66, 67, 330 „ versus Dearden, 28 Britons, early settlers, 5 versus Holt, 22-77 Broad Field, 145 Byron's accounts (1589), 26 Broadhalgh, 477, 500, 503 „ daughter, divorce of (1565), 360 „ Mill, 5°3 „ Lord, letters to J . Dearden, 29, 3 0 Brotherod, 76, 92, 497 Brownhill in Heights Lane, 5 0 5 CALDERBROOK, 2, 105 11 Woodhouse Lane, 5ig Caldermoor, 105 Brown House, 434 Calder, the rise of, 105 Brown Wardle, io2 Canal, Rochdale, 59 „ Hill, 3 Cant Hill, 335 Bryerley, 126 Carrier to , 40 Buckley, 390 -395 Castle in Castleton, 65-67 „ Chapel, 395 Castle near Littleborough, io „ Mill, 393, 414 Castlemere, 323 „ of Buckley, 390 -395 Castleton, 6o „ of Orchard Meadow, 394 „ area of, i „ of Quickwood, 394 „ Hall, 306-311 hamlets in, i Buersill, 1, 3, 71, 73 „ „ Moor, 72 11 Lay Subsidy (1541), 38 „ „ dispute as to, 73 Moor, 71 „ tenants in (1626), 73 Poll Tax (1 377), 34 Burial of dead without coffin, 192 „ Subsidy Roll (1596), 46 Burials in the parish in 16th century, 45 the church of, 31 Burnage, 72 „ township, 65-74 Bury Grammar School, 489 „ village (Blue Pits), 74 Both, the, 67 Catcloghgate, 92 Butterworth, ancient charters, Irs-r19 Catholics, Roman, in 1641, 541 „ area of, 2 Catches, 91 freehold and lordship side, 120 Catley Lane, z, 91, 298, 300 constables in, 123 „ tenants in, (1626) 92 Causeway House, 81 „ gallows in, 113 Celt (polished) found at Wardle, 4 „ Hall, 2, 337, 339 11 11 Ch. Croft superstition, 534 Celtic place names, 5

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GENERAL INDEX. 557

Celtic torque found at Mowroad, 5 Clegg Hall, 350 1 -355 Centenarians, 483, 539 „ boggart, 354 Centre Hill (Todmorden), 493 „ hamlet, 122-124 Chadewykford, 485 • Little, 389 Chadwick, 90-91 „ of Clegg, 319, 350 „ area of, 2 „ of Steanor Bottom, 452-454 association, 505 • of Stonehouse, 455-456 n family, arms of, 16 Cleggswood, 348-350 „ freeholders in 1626, 91 Clitheroe Castle, 31 of Chadwick, 485, 488 Cloth, action about sale of in 1568, 40 of Ellenrod, 496, 497 Cloth Hall, the, 538 of Fernhill, 505 Cloth house, a, 41 of Hades, 43 2 Clothiers in the 17th century, 5r „ of Healey, 483-485 Coughs of Brotherod, 498 „ Sir Andrew, of London, 505 Clough Foot School (Todmorden), 28o „ Spotland Gate, 515, S16 „ Hall Mill, 112 „ of Tonge End, 532 „ House, 435 Chadworth duel, 28 Coal mines, action about in 157 6, 43 Chantry lands at , 204 'in 15 8 5, 24 Chapel Croft, Milnrow, tradition about, 534 „ in 1623, 102 Charities-Butterworth, Alexander, 279, 283 ; in Butterworth, 122 . Brearley, John, 284 ; Cheetham, Elizabeth, 11 in Cheesden, 25 285 ; Clegg, Rev. Richard, 278 ; Fielden, „ in 17th century, 8o. John, 280 ; Fildes, Jonathan, 276, 285 ; „ under manor lands, 29 Gartside, Josiah, 281 ; Gartside, Mary, Coal Pits near Cronkeyshaw in 1581, 43 281 ; Granthan, Mrs . 282 ; Guest, Thomas, Cock Fighting on Shrove Tuesday, 537 284 ; Halliwell, Theophilus, 277 ; Hard- Coldgreave, 122 a man, Jane, 275 ; Hardman, John, 275 ; Coldwale-shutte [Coldwall Brow], 9o Holt, Dorothy, 282 ; Hill, John, 281 ; Collinge of Birchinley, 370 n Jacques, Robert, 276 ; Kenion, John, 283 ; Communicants in r561, 45 Lea, John, 276 ; Shepherd, Mary, 284 ; Commissioners of Rochdale, 62 Starkey, James, 2 77 ; Taylor, Ann, 276 ; Compoti df Earl of Lincoln, 18 Watson, Thomas, 215 ; Whitworth, Betty ; Constables in 1607, 123 276 ; Woolfenden, James, 283 11 of Rochdale (1591), 24 Charm against witchcraft, 534, 535 Coptrod, 299, 486, 49 8, 499 Charterers and freeholders in 1585, 23 Copyholders in Wolstenholme, 93

t Cheesden Brook, 526 Corn grown in the parish in 1340, 33 Cheesden and Wolstenholme, 3, 48, 93 „ mill in Brandwood, 1626, 8o 1 „ coal mines in, 25 „ mill on the Beal in 13th century, 122 Chelburn, 406 Cottons, action about, 41, 42 Cheetham's charity, 285 Cottons-coatings, 39, 40 „ of Castleton Hall, 309 Cotton Mill, the first, in Rochdale, 56 Christenings in the Parish Church in the „ spinning and weaving, 17th cent ., 56 sixteenth century, 45 „ yarns spun in 1828, 109 Church and parsonage of R'dale in 1751, 57 County Court established, 30 Churches built since 1850, 222 held by the King, 22 Church living (Parish Church) in 1523, 229 „ of Request established, 3o „ steps, the, 48 „ Leet of Spotland, 77, 78 „ the Parish, advowson, 17 records, 27 I [See Parish Church.] Crowclough, 12 Churchwarden's accounts, 48, 138 Cow Heys, 3 Civil War, 55 Cowpe, 47 „ and the Byrons, 27 Cowpe Head, 79 Clapgate, 512 Cracknell Friday, 537 Clay Lane, 2, 91 Cratford, Christopher, lord of the manor, 28 Claytons of Schofield Hall, 361 Crofthead, 315 Clegg, 2, 120 Cronkeyshaw, 5, 23, 100, 297, 300 „ family -f Spotland, 453 Crook, 300, 433 -435 „ freehoh ers in, 123 11 dispute as to water at, 434

558 HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCIIDALE.

Crompton, manor of, 7z Eland family, 16, z9-2i Crossfield, 325, 329 Eland chapel, 212 Cross at Stubley (near Portsmouth), 423 Elisclough, 5oo Crosses, old roadside, 537 Ellenrod, 496 Crossleys of Scaiteliffe, 475-479 Edning, 88, 229 „ of Smallshaw, 50 8 Engines, steam, in the parish, 1832 and 1867, Cross used at baptism, 232 6o, 61 Crownest, 494 Entwisle of Foxholes, 408-413 11 Lower, 373, 374 Equitable Pioneers' Society, 61, 62 Crow Knoll, 3 Extent of parish, 3 Crye, the, toe Eyfield, dispute as to road in 1562, 593 Culvert Clough, 3 Cumba, the great, 82 FACrr, 44, 54, 6o, 84, 300, 508 Cutgate, 92 „ dispute as to lands there (1566), 85 Cut Lane, 293, 331 Factory, at Clough in Walsden, 56 Cutler's Green, 44 Fairwell (in Brandwood), 513 Cutlers in 1588, 24 Fairs in Rochdale, 21 „ in Rochdale, 16th century, 43 „ at Todmorden, 1og Cutlery from Flanders, 43 Fairy Chapel in Healey, 88 Falinge family, 88, 89 DANEGELD, 14 „ freeholders in 1626, 89 Davit, John, farmer of the manor, 23 „ walk mill, 89 Danish place names, 12 Falingesik, 87 „ settlers, 12 Female constables, 124 Dawsons of Turnough, 357 Fernhill, 504 Deane, De la, family, ro7 Fielden, 316 Deans Greave Tradition, 538 Fieldens of Bottomley, 457-460 A Dean Head, ro5 „ of Hades, 431 Dearden family, 449-452 „ of Inchfield, 466 „ monuments, 149, 157 „ of Todmorden Hall, 471 „ of Handle Hall, 449-452 „ of Warland, 454, 455 monument in Trinity Chapel, 148, „ versus Bates ( 1 585), 458 1 49 Fiennes, Celia, description of Rochdale in „ versus Maden, re Brandwood, 8o 1695, 257 Dearnley, 422 Fisherfield, 505 Deeplish Hill, 250 Fishing in Marland mere, 6o, 71 Deer and game in Rochdale in 14th cent'y, 34 Fitherteame, 300 Deer in parts of Rochdale, 17 Flagpughill, 119 Defoe's account of Rochdale, 57 Flash House, 324 „ journey over Blackstone Edge, 9 Flemish emigrants did not settle in R'dale, 33 Dearnley (in Townhouse), 197 Fletcher=an arrow maker, 53 Dernylegh family, 422 Flint arrow heads, &c ., 3, 4 Dinge, the great, 93, 300 „ implements on hill tops, 3, 4 Division of Parish, i „ thumbstones, 4 Dogwallclough, 503 „ workers, 3 Domesday Book, 14 Flood, great, in r838, 536 Doldrum, 5 Flower Scar Hill, 3 Dreuetclough, 76 Football playing in the streets, 536 Drutherrode, 117 Foot races in 1576, 44, 45 Duke of Lancaster, lord of the manor, 21 Foxholes, 4o8-413 Dunishbooth, 76, 129, 509 Foxton Edge, 3 Dunyngesbotherodes, 509 Freeholders in Spotland (1626), 78 Dyehouse Holme, 335 Free School at Rochdale, 314 Dyers in 17th century, 52 Freeholders versus Barcrofte, 25 Freemen of R'dale, Grant of De Lascy to, 16 EAGLE CRAGG, 479 Fulebachope (Bacup), 79 Ealees, 440 Fulling mills in 17th century, 53 Education in 1807, 242 Fustian manufacture, 56

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GENERAL INDEX. 559

GALLOWS in Butterworth, 113 Hasponwalsiche, 129 Garnet the Thane, 14 Haslem, of Falinge, 510 Games unlawful, 39 Hathershaw Moor, boundary stones on in Gank, The, 48 1552, 72 Gartside, rr8, 380-382 Hat trade in 16th century, 44 „ Brass, 156 Haugh, area of, 2 „ Charity, 281, 282 Hebriches, 123 q „ Hey, riot at, 381 Heape of Hartley, 3 26-329 „ of Balderstone, 318, 319 „ of Lower Place, zz6 • Oakenrod, 49 Healey, 87, 88 • Denshaw, 494 „ area of, z Gauxholme, fro Church, 221, 222 Glebe, the, estate (r755), 57 „ family, 87 Glebe lands, 128 „ Hall, 482-485 Good Samaritan Society, 285 „ of Spotland, 501, 502 Gooselane, 3z1-323 „ Stones, 88 „ reputed grange at, 321 Heath, Sir Robert, Survey of the Manor, 26 Gorsichelache, 79, 83 Heley Deyne, 75, 299 Grain in the parish in 1535, 133 11 family, 482, 483 Grammar School, 48, 270, 272 Heleyhalghes, 87 „ „ head master, 272 Helpit Edge, 3, 48 Greave family of Fernhil), 504, 272 Henshaws, Schofields of, 361 , Heybrook Bridge, 398 11 the, 490. 503, 504 Grantham's Charity, 282 Heyley versus Heywood, re sale of cloth in Gravestones formerly in Parish Church, 432 1568, 40 Great House, the, 49, 523, 524 Heywards, of Fisherfield, 505 Greenbank, birthplace of John Bright, 56, 473 „ of Hill House, 498 Greennooth, 92 Heywood, Oliver, in Rochdale, 251 Greens in Brandwood, 43, 520 High Constable, 62 Grimshaw versus Holt, 377 High Sheriffs (Rochdale), 17 r. Grindletonians, the, 535 Hill House, 498 Grymenesleysik, 75 Hill, of Hollingworth, 367 Guest's Charity, 284 Hill Tops, the abodes of neolithic race, 3 Higher Town House, 443 Hokeside, 490 HADES, 81, 431, 432-456 Holdens of Stubbylee, 514 11 Hill, 3, 29, 456 Half Acre, 53 Holland family, 374 Hall Fold Chapel, 264 Hollingworth, 120, 367, 429 „ „ ministers, 264-865 „ hamlet, 124-r26 Halliwell, of Pike House, 440-442 (in Walsden), 110 Hallsteds, in Whitworth, 20, 82, 409 Lake, 126 „ School, z81 Hamer, 395-407 Hamers, of Brownhill, 5o6 Holmes of Brownhill, 5o6 „ of Chelburn, 406 Holt family, 375-377 • of Hamer, 395, 401-404 11 The, 25, 375-378 „ of Liverpool, 405, 406 Holt's Charity, 282 „ of The Rood, 335 „ of Aston, 375 „ 0 Names, of Wuerdle, 405 of Balderstone, 316-321 Hanapol, Prioress of, 313 „ of Brimrod, 330 „ Handle Hall, 449-452 of Castleton Hall, pedigree, 306-30g Hanging Lees, rzr „ of Lower Place, 323-326 „ Road factory, 56 • of Mosside, 330-332 Hardmans, of Greens, 520 „ of Naden, 510-518 „ of Marcrofte Gate, 520 • of Stubbylee, 513 „ of Rochdale, 275 „ of Stubley, 423-429 Harewy,hens, 83 Hope Chapel, 263 Harsenden, 509 Hopwood Hall, 30 Harstande, oft, 508 Hopwoods of Spotland Gate, 513-518

56o HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCHDALE.

Hopwoods of Woodhouse, 518 Lacy, Henry de, Inquisition of, ig Horscroft, 301, 522 Ladyhouse, 379-3 80 Horsfalenge, 114 Lancashire Classis, Rochdale Members, 250 Horsham, 111 Lancashire, Josiah, Diary, 59 Howarth, 413-419 Lancashires of Marled Earth, 430 „ formerly of Howarth, 413 - 419 Lane Bottom School (Walsden), 280 Howroyde, 454 Leavengreave, 86, 297, 409 Hoyles of Fairwell, 513 Lee of Birchenley, 367 Hud Clough, 87 Lees Hall (Oldham), 334 Hundersfield, 94-111 Leland Brow, 335 „ area of, 2 Lenches, 434 11 Hamlets in, 2 Le Scoute, 226 11 Lay Subsidy (1541), 38 Leventhorpe, 461 ,1 Poll Tax (1377) 35 Le Yate, 509 11 Subsidy Roll (1596), 46 Library, Free Public, 61 „ tenants ('626), 96 11 Subscription, the, 6o „ War Tax (1694), 97, 99 Lightowlers, 437, 440 Hunger Hill, 31, 300, 500 „ of Brindle, 439 „ of Lightowlers, 437 NCHFIELD, II0, III, 460-467 Windy Bank, 439 IncorporationI of Rochdale, 63 Littleborough, 54, 60 Independents in Todmorden, 260 „ not a Roman Station, To Infirmary and Dispensary, 285, Littleborough Church, 36, 189-201 ; bells Inghams of Cleggswood, 350 in, (x553) rgo ; bequest to, rgo ; chapel Intrenchments on Blackstone Edge, 7 reves, rgo ; church goods, go ; church- Iref ford, 90, 485 wardens' accounts in 1621, 192 ; curates, Iron furnaces, ancient, 44 195, 201 ; east window, 194 ; gravestones Iron smelting in 14th century, 84 in yard, 1gg-too ; monuments in, 194 ; Iron stone worked at Tunshill, 122 re-built in 1820, 193 ; seats in (1556), rgo, i9' ; size of (in 1556) 191 JACOBITE Club, 533 Little Chadwick, go A Jowker, 518 Little Howarth, 417, 419, 422 Jowkin's Well, 47 Little Wardle, 102 Justices of the Peace, returns (1620), 532, 533 Lomax of Bernshaw, 480 July flood, the, 536 Longacres, 87, 297, 508 Jump holes, 47, Longden End Moor, 3 Longering, 75 KEMP Stone, 540 Long Clough, 1o6 Kenion's Charity, 283 Longfield, 491 Kershaws of Mawroad, 452 11 riot at (r543), 491, 492 „ of Town House, 443 Lortburn, the, 49, 451, 524 Kilwardecroft, 68 Low House, 374-375 King's Arms Inn, 49 area of, 2 Kitbooth, 508 Lower Hey, 323 right of way at, 296 Lower Gates, 251, 525 I Knights of St . John of Jerusalem, 338, 339 Lower Lane, 74 Knowl Hill, 3 „ area of, I „ House, 441 Lower Moor, 3 „ Moor, 527 Lowerplace, 73, 323 „ „ pasture, 298 Lydgate, 6, ,o8 „ road at, 44 „ Top, 455 M AGGOTHOLME, 459 Kor lake, the (near Prickshaw), 5o8 Manor Court Records, 285-303 Kotgreaves, 82 „ Rolls, 25, 33, 39, 285-293, 2 95 - 3 00 ADIES' Charity, the, 285 Manor of Spotland, 22 LLache, 227 „ of R'dale, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 285-303 „ lands enfranchised, 30 Lacy, de, family, ,6-21, 31 e

GENERAL INDEX . 561

Manor leased to Byron (1585), 23 Monuments in Littleboro' Chapel, 194, 195 „ stewards of, 21 „ in Todmorden „ 18o, 187 „ Survey (x626), 26 Moorgate farmhouse, 72 „ Marcroft Gate, 93, 299, 520, 521 Mosiley, 486 Market and Fair, Charter for, 17, 18, 19 Moss School, the, 275 „ Company, the, 63 Moterode, 114 „ Cross, 49 Mowroad in Calderbrook, Torque found „ day, 59 there, 5, 109 „ in Rochdale, 31 „ of Rochdale (1568), 39 N ADEN HEAD, 20, 75, 510 Marland, 69-71 „ 11 Manor House, 510 „ area of, 1 National School (Rochdale), 276 family, 311, 312 Neolithic floor, 3 „ grange, 69, 437 Neolithic men on hill tops, 3 „ mere, 69 Newbold, 7 1 , 74, 33 1 Marled Earth in Wardle, 42, 4 2 9, 431 Anchoress of, 74 Marriage of infants, 348, 352, 483 area of, 1 Mawroad, 452 family, 313-316 Mayors of Rochdale, 63, 64 Hall, 313-317 Meadowcroft, 377 „ tenants of (in 1616), 74 Meadowcrofts of Woodhouse Lane, 5r9 New Burial Ground, 146 Members of Parliament for Rochdale, 63 Newgate, 524 Mereredeyott, 118 New Hey, 122 Methodist New Connexion Chapel, 264 Newstead, 26 Methrocschagheuiet, 5o8 Newall of Town House, 444-448 Methodism in Todmorden, 259-260 Nickroad, 102 11 rise of, in Rochdale, 257 -259 Nonconformity in Rochdale, 250-269 Middle Hill, 3, 29, 431 11 11 rise of, 250 Military stationed at Rochdale, 538 Norden (Blackpits), 6o, 93 Militia Club (r796), 531 Norman Hill, 383 Mill on the Beal, 117 Milne House, 49, 100 OAK Boss, formerly in Trinity Chapel, 163 Milne of Burnage, 388, 505 Oakenrod Hall, 490-496 „ of Hades, 432 11 mill, 49, 53, 492, 494 „ of Ladyhouse, 379, 380 Oats grown in the parish, 58 „ of Milnrow, 386-388 Ogden, 118, r19, 122 Milnrow, 54, 6o, 122 „ brook, 114, 117 Milnrow Church, 36, 202-215 ; augmenta- „ Captain, 334 tion of living, 205 ; bell, inscription on, „ Chapel, 263 206 ; chapel (in 1658), 205 ; curates, „ Edge, 48 207-215 ; curates' wages, 204 ; dispute „ Lower, 384 about, 203-205 ; dispute as to road (1564), „ School, 281 204 ; foundation of, 202 ; goods of (in Okinrod family, 490 1552), 203 ; Goseholme, 202, 203 ; high- Old Halls, 16th and 17th centuries, 305 ways to church in 16th century, 2 04 ; Old Sink Slack, 79 oratory at Butterworth Hall, 2o2 ; Raines' Orchard, the, 525 monument, 206 ; repaired (1798), 205 ; Ordsall, Radcliffe of, 491, 492 registers, 206 ; riot at (in 1564), 204, 205 ; Organ in Churches, 136 sun dial, 206 Orrell, H., versus R. Clegg, 44 Milnrow, Presbyterians in (1717), 251 Owen, Josiah, Works of, 254 „ riot at, 387 „ School, 279 PACKER, the, 48 Milton Congregational Church, 259 Packhorse drivers, 48 Mock Corporation, 533 „ road, 7 Molesworth, Dr. J . E. N ., Works of, 2 47 - 249 Parish Church, 127-163 ; altar money paid Monstonedge, 23, 44, 102, 300 on, 133 ; alms dishes, 451 ; arms on yeo- Monstone, the, 538 manry seats, 145 ; baptistry, 144, 150 ; Monuments in Parish Church, 154-163 bells, 139, 140 ; bequests to, 131, 136 ; 71

562 HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCHDALE.

PARISH CHURCH (eontinued)- PEDIGREES (continued)- brass in, 156 ; briefs (1661-1678), 140 ; Dearden of Handle Hall, 449-452 chapels in, 130 ; church goods in 1552, Dernylegh of Dernylegh, 422 136 ; clock, 138 ; dangerous condition of Entwisle of Foxholes, 410-413 in 1814, 14$ ; dedication of, 127, 129 ; Fielden of Todmorden, 461-494 capital of pillar, 136 defaced ; dispute as 11 Warland, 454-455 to seats (1473), 131 ; endowments, 129 ; Fishwick-Howarth, 419 galleries, 138 ; glebe, 128, 145 ; grave- Gartside of Oakenrod, 495 stones formerly in, 157-163 ; in Saxon Halliwell of Pike House, 440-442 times, 127 ; lacrymatory found, 127 ; lay Hamer of Hamer, 395-4 04 for Wuerdle in 1664, &c ., 138 ; Mary „ of Liverpool, 405, 406 Bradford's gift, 143 ; monuments, 154, 163, of The Wood, 335 239 ; music in the seventeenth century, Healey of Spotland, 501-502 234 ; ordination in 1330, 131 ; organ, 136, Heape of Hartley, 326, 328-329 139 ; perpendicular features introduced, „ of Lowerplace, 327 131 ; pews, 137, 141, 316 ; pews, sale of Holt of Balderstone, 318-321 in 1813, 135 ; plate, 142 ; pulpit in 1702, of Castleton Hall, 306-309 141 ; rebuilding, sixteenth century, 136 ; of Lower Hey and Lowerplace, registers, 137 ; rectory, 128 ; repairs in 323-326 fifteenth century, 131 ; repairs 1815, 146 ; of Mosside (Brimrod), 332 repairs in 1854-5, 15o ; repairs in 1738, 11 of Stubley, 427, 428 141 ; repairs in 1873, 151 ; repairs in Hopwood of Spotland Gate, 517 1884-5, 151, 152 ; rood loft, 147 ; rushes, Howarth of Howarth, 420-421

on the floor, 141 ; seats erected in 1621 11 and Fishwick, 419 and 1635, 137 ; St . Katherine's chapel, Lightowlers of Lightowlers, 438 133 150 ; Sir Geffry Wyatt's report, 146 ; Marland of Marland, 311-312 south porch, 141 ; terrier (1782), 142 ; Milne of Ladyhouse, 379 tithe leases, 134, 135 ; Trinity Chapel, „ of Milnrow, 386-388 132, 147, 149 ; windows in, 152, 153 ; Newall of Town House, 445-448 yeomanry seats, 143, 144 Newbold of Newbold, 313-317 Parish clerks, the, 538, 539 Radcliffe of Todmorden, 467-472 Parish coffin, 192 Royds of Falinge, 511-512 Parish of Rochdale, area of, 3 ; boundaries Schofield of Schofield, 357 -364 of in 1610, 47 ; extent of, 3 Smith of Summercastle, 309, 310 Parish Registers, the, 45, 54 Taylor of The Wood, 334 Parysrod, 75, 503 Walmsley of Gooselane, 321-323 Paslew, last abbot of Whalley, 134 Vavasours of Crossfield, 329, 33 0 Passmans, 93 Penance in Parish Church, 415 Paying by bill in 16th century, 40 Pendle Forest, 79 „ money on the altar, 137 funeral dole, 353 Peanock, 316 Perambulations, 72 Pear's House (Blackwater), 281 Peterloo riot, 244 PEDIGREES-Ainsworth of Wicken Hall, 282 Piethorn, 384 Belfield of Belfield, 339 Pike House, 440-442 of Cleggswood, 348-350 Pinfold, 47 Buckley of Buckley, 391 -397 „ (the Queen's) in 1595, 24 „ of Orchard Meadows, 394 Place names, 12-13 „ of Quickwood, 394 Plague in the parish in 162 3, 54 Butterworth of Belfield, 342-347 Pococke's description of R'dale in 1751, 57 „ of Lowhouse, 374 Poll Tax, 1377, 34, 35 of Wildhouse, 372 Poor Law Union of Todmorden, log Chadwick of Chadwick, 485-488 Poor Rate Book, 168o, 103 „ of Healey, 483-485 Population, growth of, 64 „ of Roughbank, 384 -485 „ of parish in 1 583, 45 „ Clegg of Little Clegg, 386 11 17th century, 54 of Spotland, 453 of townships, 1841-1881, 64 of Steanor Bottoms, 45 2, 453 Presbyterian Chapel (Blackwater), 262 Crossley of Scaitcliffe, 48$-488 11 Meeting House in Eastwood, 477

GENERAL INDEX . 563

Presbyterians, &c ., in Rochdale, 1663, 56 Roman antiquities discovered, 6 Preston Church Organ, 136 Roman coins found at Castlemere, Under- Prickshaw, 5o8 wood and Town House, 11 11 Witch, 508 Roman find at Tunshill, 11, r2 Prickkeschaghsiche, 50 8 Roman occupation near Littleborough, ii Priest's hole at Belfleld Hall, 345 Roman road on Blackstone Edge, 6-ro Printing Press in Rochdale, 60, 529 Roman road through the parish, 5 Protestation, the (1642), 541-552 Round house, 126, 361 Providence Chapel (High Street), 260, 261 Rowkin stone, 47 "Puture" of sub-bailiffs in 1353, 7 0 Royal Oak Inn, 17th century, 235 Royds family, 9o UAKERS in r7r7, 251 „ of Crook, 434 Q „ (See Society of Friends .) „ of Falinge, 5 r 1, 512 Quarries (stone), 61 of Wardle, 430 Royton Hall, 26 RACES, foot, in 1576, 44, 45 Rushbearing, 533 on Bagslate, 91 11 in 1649, 138 Rachdale [? Rvshedall] family, 15 Rushy Hill, 3 Radclitfes of Todmorden, 467-472 Ruskin's, J., description of The Wood, 335 Raghole, 121 Rydings, 435 Railway opened, 61 Ramsay, Robert and Edward, trustees for SACKERY, 525 the manor, 26 Saddleworth ecclesiastically part of R'dale, i Ramsden, 3 „ the forest of, 224 „ Clough, 44 „ tithes, 129 „ wood, 112 St . Alban's Church, 222 Reaps moss, 8o St . Chad's Church (see Parish Church) Rebellion of 1 745, 57 St . Clement's Church, Spotland, 220 Rebels (1745) in the town, 57 St. James's Church, for, 146 Rectory of Rochdale, 128 St. John's Catholic Church, 269 Redbrook, 90, 92 St. John of Jerusalem, knights of, 113 Reddishore, 315 St. John's Church, Smallbridge, 221

11 Scout, 105, 456, 540 St . Mary's Chapel, Cheetham-St., 215-220 Redebrok, 486 „ tablets in, 215-216 Redfearns, 5o5 „ yard, gravestones in 217 „ of Redfearn, 505 „ curates, 217-220 Rhodes barn, 121 St. Stephen's Church (Lady Huntingdon's), Right of way in Todmorden, 1597, l08 268-269 Ringloes, 328 Salmon well, 126 Riot Act read in Rochdale, 1795, 242 Salter Rake, 67 Riots in Rochdale in 1650, 55 Savile, John, claims to be chief lord of „ „ r8o8, 6r certain wastes, 24 River Roch, ancient spelling of, 5 Saville family, 15-20 Roads, ancient, through Trough, 81 „ not lords of the manor, 21-23 Road at Knoll Moor, 44 Saxon castle, 13, 31, 65-67 Road, obstruction of (1598), 44 „ church, 13 Road, right of, dispute, 1597 i ,o8 „ thane (Gamel), 14 Roads, ancient, 44 Scaitcliffe, 44, 1o8, 475 - 479 Robin Hood's Bed, 3, 104 „ bridle way at, 44 Rochdale created a borough, 63 Schofield, Cuthbert, crest granted to, 360 „ in 13th century, 31 „ „ divorce of, r56r, 360 „ Press, 529 „ dispute as to entail in 1537, 359 „ town in 080, 54 „ hall, 357 - 364 „ in 1777, 1778, and 1779, 58 Hugh, slain in 1415, 35 8 Rods - clearings, 13 Schofields of Henshaw, 361 Rood loft in Parish Church, 147 „ of Schofield, 357 Roughbank, 121, 384, 385 of Sheepbank, 126 Rough Hill, 3 of Whittaker, 365

564 HISTORY OF TILE PARISH OF ROCHDALE .

Schofields of Tong End, 523 Stewards of manor, 21, 26 Scots and Picts, 12 Stid Fold in Wardle, 44 Sedewalhalnnable, 486 Stidslack, 44 Serjeancy of Rochdale, 17, 20, 23, 77 Stinted common lands on Inchfield Moor, 1 r 1

Serjeant of Rochdale, 496 11 11 Haugh Heys, 122 Session, Petty, of Rochdale, 16, 55 Stocks, the parish, 143, 527 Sharneyford, 47 Stone hammer found at Oakenrod, 13 Shawclough, 87 11 House, 293, 455, 456 Shawfield, 500 Stones (Todmorden), 473 Shawforth, 60 Stone trough as heirloom, 417 11 Shaws," 13 Stoney-heys, 44, 449 Sheepbank, 126 Stonneybek, 120 . Sheep clipping, 25 Stubbylee, 514, 515 Sheep in Brandwood in 14th century, 36 Stubley Hall, 423-429 Shelfield, 91 518 Subsidy Roll ( 1 33 2 ) , 32, 33 Shepherd's Charity, 284 >> ( 1 5 2 3) 36-38 Shepherds of Sidholme, 519 >> (1541), 39 Shore family of Shore, 433 " (1596), 46 Shore Moor in Spotland, 24, 298 Sudden, 65, 66 Shrewsbury, Earl of ; letters to Sir J . Byron, 26 Summercastle, 310, 538 Sidholme, 519 . 520 Sunday school, first, in Rochdale, 259, 345 Simcardres, 117 Superstitions, 534, 535 Sleting cattle, 293 Surnames, local origin of, 305 Smallbridge, 6o, 102 Swainrod, 450 „ Church, 221 Sydall, 409

11 „ incumbents of, 221 Smallshaw, 5o8 TAYLORS, Dr ., of Whitworth, 85, 86 Smiths of Summercastle, 310 „ of Butterworth Hall, 334 Smythecumbesrode, 66 „ of Ogden, 384 Society of Friends, 266-268 „ of The Wood, 334 „ bequests to, 267, 268 Tax on wool and corn, 1340, 33 Someraikis, 82 Tentercroft, 42, 321 Sorowcolde, R., versus Warburton, 41, 42 Theatre in Rochdale, 530, 53 1 Spaw Sunday, 534 „ Toad Lane, 258 Spotland, area of, 2 Thistilirod, 66 „ Courts, said to be held illegally, 'II hrutchley Holme, 1o8 1543, 77, 78 "Tim Bobbin" (John Collier), 122, 163, 280, „ family, 75 235, 279, 344 „ further side and nearer side, 2 Tithe Barn in Butterworth, 122 „ Gate, 515-518 corn, 526 „ Lay Subsidy, 1541, 38 Tithes of Rochdale, 225 Manor, 22 Toad Lane chapel, 258 „ House, 510 „ school, 276 part of Rochdale Manor, 78 Todleach, 297 ~~ Poll Tax, 1377, 34 Todmorden, 54, 6o, zo6 Ij/eputed Manor House, 78 ,, and Walsden, area of, 106 Subsidy Roll, 1596, 46 n area of, 2 „ tenants in, 1626, 78 11 (Old) Church, 36, 177-188 ; „ township history i 75- 93 erected, 177 ; curates of x81- Stage coach, the first, in the parish, 59 188 ; curates' wage, 178 ; dedi- Stanibroc, 15 cation, 181 ; disputes about Stanlawe, abbots of, 31 et passim re-building, 179 ; gravestones „ Monastery founded, 16 et passim in the yard, x8o, 181 ; in 165o Starring, 225 and 1658, 179i in 1753 and Steaners, 47 1770, 178, 179 ; monuments, Steanor Bottom, 45 2-454 180, 187 ; tower, 1 79 „ inscription at, 453 Todmorden fairs, 109 Stenrisiche, 490 11 families in 1658, 178

GENERAL INDEX. 565

Todmorden freeholders, &c ., rob Vicars of Rochdale, the, 224 Hall, 467-473 Vicar of Rochdale's servants assaulted in Independents in, 260 1388, 227 Manor, 107 Volunteers in 1 794, 59-60 rise of Methodism in, 259, 260 Poor Law Union, rog WAIFS and strays, dispute about, 25 Presbyterians in (1717), 251 Walk mills, 89, 91, 460 Quakers in, 25r, 267 Walmsley of Gooselane, 321-323 School, 278 Walsden, 109-112 Town Hall, rog area of, 2 Unitarians in, 256 Church, 222 „ Village, log „ Edge, 47, 451 Tokens of 17th century, 540 factory in, 56 Tonge End, 521-523 freeholders in 1626, 110 „ tenants in (1538), 522 ee Lane Bottom School, 280 „ corn mill at in 1626, 86 11 Local Board, 112 Tooter Hill, 29, 80, 81, 301 War-calfhey, 454 Torque found at Mowroad, 5 Warcock Hill, 449 Town Gate, 524 Waterstall Mill, 460 Town Hall of Rochdale, 61 Waterside Mills (Todmorden), 459 Town House, 442-448 Watlondewod, 75, 129

11 Roman coins found at, r i Wardle, Agricultural Show, 103 Townley of Belfield, 344 - 345 „ and Wuerdle Poor Rate (r68o), 103 Town Meadows, 525 „ area of, 2 Town of Rochdale in 17th and 18th cen- coal mines in 1623, 102 turies, 56, 57 Wardle family, for Trade of Rochdale, rise Of, 304 Wardle village, 103 Travis of Inchfield, 460 Wardleworth, 99, 100 Travis of Whittaker, 366 „ area of, 2 Trespass in the chace of Rochdale, 34 „ family, loo Trinity Chapel, 132, 133, 147-149 . 343 „ freeholders, &c ., in 1626, loo „ monuments in, 148 Warfield, 454 „ oak boss in, 148, 163 Warland, 454, 455 „ windows, 149 Warmhakysholt, 509 Trough Edge, 3 Warmhole, 509 Trough (stone) left as heirloom, 385, 398, War tax, 1694, 97 - 99 399. 504 Wastes and commons (1584), 23 Truckley-hebble, 44 Waste places, tillage of in 1585, 24 Tunneshellfe, 118 Water Works Company, 62 Tunnicliffe, 87, 297 Weddings in the parish in 16th century, 4 Tunshill, 122 Well i' th' lane, 3 „ arm of Roman statue found at, I r, r 2 Wesleyan Chapel, Union Street, 257 Turf House in Wardle, 43o „ ministers of Rochdale, 258 Turnough, 355-357 Wesley, John, in Rochdale, 257 11 family, 355, 356 „ at Bank House, 5oo Turnshaw Hill, 3 „ in Todmorden, 269 . Twofoldhee, 66, 91, 486 Whalley abbey, 31 etpassim ^ „ dissolution, 77 U NDERWOOD, 42 „ abbot of, executed, 77 11 coins found at, r r Whitacre a family name, 365 Ugshut, 299 Whiteheads of Balderstone, 320 Union of Rochdale (Poor Law), 61 „ Birchinley, 369 Unitarian Chapel (Clover Street), 256 White money, 505 „ Church in Todmorden, 256, 257 Whites-faughs, 454 Unitarians in Rochdale, 252 White Slack Gate, 456 Whitfield, 450 VAVASOURS of Crossfield, 329-330 Whittaker, 365-367 Vicarage, the, 48 Whitworth, 54, 6o, 81, 86, 251

5 6 6 HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCHDALE .

Whitworth, area of, 2 Witchcraft, exorcism against, 534 „ and Facit, 81-86 Winterbutlee, 432, 455 Whitworth Church, 164-176 ; bell in, 167 ; Withens, 83 curates, 170-176 ; dispute as to curate, Wolf stone, 47, 528 169 ; enlarged, 167 ; foundation of, 164 ; Wolstenholme and Cheesden, 93 goods in 1552, 197 ; in 1650, 167 ; reader „ „ „ area of, 2 at, 172 ; registers, 16q ; windows in, 16q, „ Hall, 526-528 17o ; value of cure, 168 ; yard, monuments „ family, 526-528 in, 168 „ tenants in 1626, 93 Whitworth, copyhold lands in, 29 Wontowes, 504 „ doctors, 85, 86 Woodhouse, 5r8, 519 „ Free School, 277 11 lane, 92 „ freeholders in 1626, 87 „ „ area of, 2 family, 82, 83 11 11 tenants in 1626, 92 Local Board, 85 Wood, The, 49, 333-336 Presbyterians in, in 1717, 251 Woolfenden's Charity, 283 „ tenants in 1626, 86 Woollen and cotton trades, 18th century, 6o „ wakes, 45 „ drapers in 17th century, 49 Whostones, 102 „ trade, 16th century, 39, 40 Wicken Hall, 382 Wool, price of in 17th century, 52 Wild family, 372 Wool trade in 17th century, 52 „ House, 371 - 373 Wuerdle and Wardle, for-1o4 „ area of, 2 „ „ area of, 2 Wilkinson versus Chadwick, re woollen cloths, freeholders in 1626, 102 40, 41 Wynstolus, 65 Windybank, 6, 10, 436, 437 Wytelegh, 486 Witchcraft, belief in, 534