MANOR

CHAPTER XVI.

NEWCASTLE.-WILLIAM DE HANLEY

OF HANLEY, A FIEF OF ANCIENT LORD.-SIR THOMAS COLCLOUGH IN 1615.-ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF COLCLOUGH.-THEIR PEDIGREE. PECULIARITIES OF THIS MANOR. DISQUISITION RESPECTING MANORIAL RIGHTS.-OWNERSHIP OF THE MINES.-FAMILY OF BAGNALL AFTERWARDS LORDS. THEIR

PEDIGREE. ANCIENT CONDITION OF HANLEY. LEASES BY THE LORDS OF WASTE LANDS.-FREEHOLD AND COPYHOLD PROPERTIES.BUILDING OF THE FIRST CHAPEL.-MR. JOHN BOURNE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTOR.-REV. JOHN MIDDLETON FIRST INCUMBENT.-HIS BIOGRAPHY.-ACT FOR ERECTING THE PRESENT CHURCH.-REGISTERS AND MONUMENTS. -PURCHASE OF

Hanley.

PARSONAGE-HOUSE.

INCUMBENCY.-RISE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MARKET.-ORIGINAL MARKET HALL.-SUBSEQUENT IMPROVEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MARKET.-REPAIRS OF THE HIGHWAYS.

PRESENT

THE MANOR, or lordship of HANLEY,* is a dependency of Newcastle, not being held in capite, (i. e. in chief,) but as a subordinate fief by grand serjeanty, as shewn by the extracts from the Testa de Neville given in a preceding chapter, and by the presentment at the Court of Survey of the Manor of Newcastle in 1615.†

The first mention of Hanley occurs in Testa de Neville, when the Vill was holden by William de Hanley in feefarm, at the rent of six shillings, payable at the New Castle, and by the service of Castle guard; the same

* The etymology of the place is extremely simple, "Hean," (high,) and " Ley," (a pasture,) answering very correctly to its situation in reference to Shelton, with which we suppose it to have been associated in Domesday.

† Appendix, No. XXII., p. xliv.

individual likewise held three virgates* of land in Hanley, and paid for the same yearly seven shillings of ancient right; i. e. from the Conquest of England, as the preceding entry expresses.†

In 1615, the lordship of Hanley was holden by Sir Thomas Colclough, Knight, under the honour of the duchy of Lancaster, at the rent of twelve shillings and four pence, so that we must either suppose the service of castle-guard, when no longer required, to have been commuted for the advanced rent of six shillings and fourpence, or that the two ancient rents of six shillings and seven shillings had been consolidated, and an abatement of eight pence made for some cause.

We are unable to trace the title of the Manor down from William de Hanley to Sir Thomas Colclough, but deem it probable that it had been for a long period holden by the ancestors of Sir Thomas, who were seated in the neighbouring parish of Wolstanton as far back, at least, as the reign of Edward the Third, and had large possessions there. The spot from which they took their name was in Oldcott as we have before intimated;‡ and, as appears by the Survey of 1615, Sir Thomas held a Copyhold estate in Wolstanton, consisting of three Messuages and seventy-six customary acres, equal to 228 statute acres, and comprising nearly a third of the whole Town-ship, lying immediately under the village, commencing at Fowley-bridge on the highway leading to Shelton, extending along the brook-course which divides the parish of Wolstanton from Stoke and Burslem, as far, probably, as Longbridge, (now Longport,) and westwardly up to Wolstanton Marsh and the High-Fields; for which property, being the largest then holden by any individual

* A virgate or Yard-land was the fourth of a carucate, or about 30

acres.

+ See Chap. XIV., pp. 304, 305.

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copyholder, the ancient customary rent was £2 8s. 11 d. only, or about seven pence the customary acre. Of Sir Thomas's property in Hanley we have no particular account, but as three virgates of land were held in fee-farm in ancient time, this and the subsequently appropriated wastes probably constituted the Lord's proper demesne. The situation of the Manor-house is still preserved in the name of the Old Hall, which adheres to a manufactory erected near its site, now the property of Charles Meigh, Esq., adjoining the Bucknall Road. The father of Sir Thomas Colclough was Sir Anthony, who settled in Ireland in the reign of Henry VIII., and obtained from Queen Elizabeth a grant of the site of the dissolved Abbey of Tintern, in the County of Wexford, part of the buildings of which he converted into a family mansion, where his descendants still remain seated. The dignity of a Baronet was conferred on his grandson Sir Adam, in 1628, but expired with his grandson Sir Cæsar, in 1687, for want of male descendants. The Pedigree of the Colcloughs, which follows, has been compiled with great care, and we deem it worthy of being here introduced, from the antiquity, high respectability, and local connexion of the Family. One branch of it remained seated in this County, at Delph-House, in the vicinity of Cheadle, long after the senior line had disposed of their Staffordshire Estates, and become located in Ireland; this branch is traced down to the present time, and is now represented by the three co-heiresses of the late Thomas Swinnerton, Esq., of Butterton Hall.

For the principal materials of the following Pedigree we acknowledge our obligation to Sir William Betham, Ulster King at Arms, in whose office is recorded the ceremonial of Sir Thomas Colclough's funeral, by which it appears he was interred with great heraldic pomp, and was attended to the grave by all the surviving members of his own family, and that of Loftus, to which his first lady belonged, besides many other honourable persons, with their servants and followers.

PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF COLCLOUGH, OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

RICHARD COLCLOUGH,
46 Edw. III.

THE DELPH-HOUSE FAMILY.

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Inn, d. 1662.
barrister of Gray's-
William Colclough, a = Catherine, dau. and co-
as the elder branch, (a canton, gules, for difference :)
Visitation of 1664, (Herald's College,) with Arms same
who are thus registered in Sir William Dugdale's
branches the Colcloughs of Burslem were descended,
John, and Matthew; from one of which younger
Sir Anthony had also three younger sons, Leonard,
heir of Thos. Burslem,

No. 2153, fo. 126).
had three wives, and issue by all of them (Harl. MS.
Anthony, had a second son, Walter (of Endon), who
** N.B.-Richard Colclough, the father of Sir

THE BURSLEM BRANCH.

of Burslem.

Elizabeth, dau. of
Thos. Madeley, of
Denston, Co. Staff.

b

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Thomas Swinnerton, of Butterton, Esq. d. 1836.

Adam Colclough, of Delph House, d. 1695.

=

Anne, dau. of - Blest, of
Eccleshall.

Mary, dau. and heir of Charles Milborne, Esq.

William Swinnerton, of Butterton, Co. Staff. Esq. d. 1790.

Margaret, only child, d. 1757.