. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED Thomas del Booth of Barton left money for this ; Another, over the Irk, is named in 1381.'° These rivers were noted for their floods, often very ; About 1536 Leland thus described the place: ' Manchester, on the south side of the Irwell River, ftandeth in Salfordshire, and is the fairest, best builded, <juickest, and most populous town of all Lancashire ; yet is in it [but] one parish church, but is a college, and almost throughout double-aisled ex quadrato lap'tde durisslmo, wh
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED Thomas del Booth of Barton left money for this ; Another, over the Irk, is named in 1381.'° These rivers were noted for their floods, often very ; About 1536 Leland thus described the place: ' Manchester, on the south side of the Irwell River, ftandeth in Salfordshire, and is the fairest, best builded, <juickest, and most populous town of all Lancashire ; yet is in it [but] one parish church, but is a college, and almost throughout double-aisled ex quadrato lap'tde durisslmo, whereof a goodly quarry is hard by the town. There be divers stone bridges in the town, but the best, of three arches, is over Irwell. This bridge divideth Manchester from Salford, the which is a large suburb to Manchester. On this bridge is a pretty little chapel. . And almost two flight shots MANCHESTER without the town, beneath on the same side of Irwell, yet be seen the dykes and foundations of Old Man- castel in a ground now inclosed. The stones of the ruins of this castle were translated towards making of bridges for the town.' " The quarry named was that at ; The privilege of sanctuary which had been allowed to the town'" was in 1541 transferred to Chester, having proved injurious to good ; The prosperity of the place was uninterrupted during the religious changes of the 16th ; The endowments of the parish church were confiscated by Edward VI, but restored in great measure by Mary. No resistance was openly offered to any of the changes. The two great families of the parish—the Byrons of Clayton and Radcliffes of Ordsall—though at first. MANCHESTER ^* His will is printed in Baines's Lanes* <i868), i, 283. " Hunt D. no. 52 (Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol, 169) ; see also Mamecestre (Chet. 5oc.), iii, 506. '7 In 1480, in the testimony of the bur- loesses respecting the highway between Manchester and CoUyhurst occurs the st
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