. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. West, Lord La Warre. Argent a /esse dancetty sable. Mosley, descendant of Sir Nicholas's younger bro- ther, Anthony Mosley.'" Sir Oswald was succeeded by his two sons, Oswald and John, and on the death of the latter in 1779 the manor went by bequest to a cousin, John Parker Mosley, created a baronet in 1781. Dying in 1798 he was followed by his grandson Sir Oswald, who in 1846 sold the lordship to the Corporation of Manchester for ^^200,000.'' {Pedigree,p. 232.) A grant of free warren in all Thomas Grelley's demesne land
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. West, Lord La Warre. Argent a /esse dancetty sable. Mosley, descendant of Sir Nicholas's younger bro- ther, Anthony Mosley.'" Sir Oswald was succeeded by his two sons, Oswald and John, and on the death of the latter in 1779 the manor went by bequest to a cousin, John Parker Mosley, created a baronet in 1781. Dying in 1798 he was followed by his grandson Sir Oswald, who in 1846 sold the lordship to the Corporation of Manchester for ^^200,000.'' {Pedigree,p. 232.) A grant of free warren in all Thomas Grelley's demesne lands of Manchester was made by the king in 1249.'' The date of BOROUGH boroughâif. Mosley of Manches- ter. Sable a cheveron between three pickaxes ar- gent. the creation of the there was any formal grantâis not known ; in 1282 there were nearly 150 burgesses in the town, which had a borough court.*^ A market every Saturday and an annual fair on the eve, feast, and morrow of St. Mat- thew had been granted by the king in 1227.** The â went by that highway to the lane to Bes- -wick Bridge as far as Shootersbrook, thence to the head of Dogsiield, and by the boundary as far as the lane from An- coats to Manchester, and so to Barlow Cross ; Chan. Inq. 5 Hen, VI, no. 54. The uses for which these and other lands were committed to trustees are not stated. The jury declared John Griffin to be heir general of Thomas La Warre, ignoring the half-sister's issue. A number of notices respecting the lands of Thomas La Warre may be seen in Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App, 337-9, 346 ; ixxiii, App. 27-9. The inquisition after the death of Sir Reginald West in 1450 has some particu- lars of the manor, which included the hamlets of Withington, Denton, Open- flhaw, Clayton, Ardwick, Crumpsall, Most on, Nuthurst, Gotherswick, and Ancoats, as well as a borough commonly called Manchester of which each burgess paid \zd, yearly for a whole burgage and in which there was (or ought to be) a common oven
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