The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester, from 1552 to 1686, and from 1731 to 1846, PR. Under the Superintendence of a Comm. Appointed by the Municipal Council of the City of Manchester (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...daughter of John Fitton, of Gawsworth, co. Chester, Esq. He married for his first wife Jane, daughter of John Carrington, of Carrington, co. Chester, Esq., by whom he had Richard (his son and heir), Edward, and John, and five daughters. He married secondly Cicely, daughter of Sir Edmund Trafford, of Trafford, Knt., the widow of Sir Robert Langley, of Agecroft, Knt. His Inquisition post mortem recites that he died seised of the manors of Denton, Kenion, and Lawton, and lands there and in Wordeley, Heyton-super-Faghefeld, Bolton-le-Moors, Harwood, Sharples, Barton-on-Irwell, Manchester, and Pemberton. 2 Sir Richard Brercton, of Tatton, co. Chester, Knt. (the second son of Sir Randle Brereton, of Malpas, co. Chester, Knt.), married Jane, daughter and heir of William Stanley, of Tatton, Esq. (descended from the Stanleys of the Holt), by Jane, daughter and heir of Sir Geoffrey Mascy, of Tatton, Knt. Lady Jane Brereton survived her husband, and is the lady named in the text. Her eldest son, Richard Brereton, Esq., died s p., and the second son Geoffrey Brereton, Esq., married Alice, daughter of Piers Leycester, of Tabley, co. Chester, Esq., and had a son and heir, Richard Brereton, Esq., named in the text. Sir Geoffrey Mascy, Knt., founded one of the Chantries in Eccles church, and Richard Brereton, Esq., was buried there in 1598, a handsome monument, still existing, being raised to his memory in 1600 by his widow. 3 Probably an iron grid to carry the water from the Hanging Ditch to the IrwelL The Jure doothe order John marler gen?1 shall so kepe a certayne place of grounde in the deanesgate wch commonly is vsed to leay donge on in suche sorte that hyt be not hurtefull vnto the neighboures ther ner vnto the passers by sub pena v."factum est. The Jurye doothe...