. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED ; Ralph died about five years afterwards," and was probably succeeded by the Richard Reddish who was tenant in ;' Three or four years before this Richard Reddish had settled his lands in view of the marriage of his son John with Elizabeth daughter of Thurstan Holland.'^ Otes Reddish died 10 Sept. ijzi, holding the manors of Reddish and Heaton Fallowfield, with messuages, burgages, water-mill, lands, and rents in those places and in Heaton Norris, Manchester, and Audcnshaw. The tenure


. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED ; Ralph died about five years afterwards," and was probably succeeded by the Richard Reddish who was tenant in ;' Three or four years before this Richard Reddish had settled his lands in view of the marriage of his son John with Elizabeth daughter of Thurstan Holland.'^ Otes Reddish died 10 Sept. ijzi, holding the manors of Reddish and Heaton Fallowfield, with messuages, burgages, water-mill, lands, and rents in those places and in Heaton Norris, Manchester, and Audcnshaw. The tenure of Reddish is described as of Sir John Byron in socage, by the yearly rent of one pound of cummin ; its clear annual value was £â ^6 13J. ^.; The change of tenure thus recorded for the first time appears to go back to 1262, when Matthew de Reddish granted a moiety of the manor to Geoffrey de Byron at the rent of one pound of cummin or 2i^., and performing to the chief lords of the fee the services due.'* The inquisitions" show the manor to have descended regularly to Sarah daughter and co-heir of Alexander Reddish, who died in 1613.'° She married Clement youngest son of Sir Edward Coke, the famous chief justice," and the manor descended to her son and ; Then it was bequeathed to another branch of the Coke family,^ and descended to Thomas William Coke, the celebrated ' Coke of Holkham,' created Earl of Leices- ter in 1837.'* He sold it, with his other Lancashire estates, about the end of the 18th century ; the pur- chaser was James Harrison of Cheadle, whose repre- MANCHESTER sentative in 1808 sold it to Robert Hyde Greg and John Greg of ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Farrer, William, 1861-1924, ed; Brownbill, J. , joint ed. London [Co


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