Date

Reference

TETLOW: Tettelagh 1302 LI, Tettelowe 1312 LI, de Tettlawe 1323 LI, de Tettelowe 1346 FA. The elements of the name are O.E. Tetta oers. n. and O.E. hlaw "hill". 

[Placenames of Lancashire]

TETLOW: A Manor to the north of Manchester in Broughton and Cheetham. Early spellings (from the V.C.H, vol iv.) are Tottelawe, Tettelagh, 1302, Tetlawe, 1368. In R., vol xlii., of the dates 1616-1617, we find Tettlow, Tettlowe, Tetlow.  

[A handbook of Lancashire placenames]

TETLOW was an estate partly in Broughton and partly in Cheetham, held in the 14th century by a family using the local surname, the service due being the fortieth (later, sixteenth) part of a knight's fee and a rent of 6s. 8d. It passed by marriage to the Langleys of Agecroft, and then descended with the Reddish to the Cokes. The name Tetlow has long been disused, but is preserved in Tetlow Lane. 

[Victoria County History of Lancashire]

Chamber Hall was held by Richard de Tetlow in the reign of Edward II. Robert, son of Adam de Oldham having granted to Richard, son of Adam de Tetlow, lands in Wernith juxta Oldham, bt Deed dated in the 14th Edward II. His grandfather, Adam de Tetlow, (according to a Deed quoted in the year 1639, in a dispute respecting the Commons of Oldham, with Sir John Byron,) having married Eva, daughter of William, son of Adam de Oldham, obtained her lands in Wernith and Oldham. The family remained here in good repute, and lineal descent, until Jane, sole heiress of Robert Tetlow Esq. conveyed the Estate in marriage to George Wood Gent. who sold it in the year 1646, to Mr. henry Wrigley, a Linen Draper in Salford, whose grand-daughter, Martha daughter and heiress of Henry Wrigley Esq. having about the year 1680, married Joseph Gregge Esq. the Estate was devised to him. His grandson, Edward Gregge Hopwood of Hopwood Esq. settled it upon his younger children in the year 1786. 

[Deanery of Manchester]

[FARRAR MSS]

Edw I. Adam de Tetlow in Tetlow. 

[Vol 27: Lay Subsidies]

[Vol 95: Lancashire Inquisitions]

For more details of the Langley line of descent follow this link: prestwichguide.fsnet.co.uk

Jordan de Tetlow, wife Alice Wolveley. 

[Vol 39: Lancashire Fines, part 1, 1196 - 1307]

Knights fee, Adame Tetlow, holding of the Earl of Lancaster. 

[Vol 48: Lancs Inquests, part I, 1205-1307]

Provisional Pedigree. The family takes its name of course from Tetlow, an estate on the boundary of Broughton and Cheetham where the other branch can be traced back to 1302 at length. 

[MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY ARCHIVES]

Adam Tetlow- 1 oxgang of land in Crompton & Boreshaw. 

[ANNALS OF OLDHAM, by GILES SHAW]

Birshaw Hall, Crompton, SD9409. Tetlow family were in residence in the 14th century. Then passed to the Langley of Agecroft. 

[Country Houses of Greater Manchester]

Broughton: Adam Tetlow holds ten acres of land which was that of Jordan de Crompton in Burghton by homage and service, for the 16th part of one knights fee. 

[Vol 58: The Birch Feodary 1307-1327]

Crompton: Adam Tetlow holds on oxgang of land in Crompton by the service of 6 sch and 8d yearly. Vol 58: 

[The Birch Feodary 1307-1327]

Alice, wife of Jordan and their children, Joan, Robert and Thurstan. 

[Vol 46: Lancs Fines, part II, 1308-1377]

Adam Tettlow and Richard de Chetham owned lands in Crompton. 

[ANNALS OF OLDHAM, by GILES SHAW]

Crompton: 1311. Tenants were Adam de Tetlow; Ric de Langley; and John de Cheetham. (from Charter Rolls, Testa de Neville). 

[History of Oldham, E. Butterworth]

Adam de Tetlow holds of the Earl of Lancaster, 1/40 fee in Tettelowe. (also in vol 48). 

[Lancs Inquest, vol 54]

Knights fee, Adam Tetlow, 1/40. 

[Vol 54: Lancs Inquests, part II, 1310-1333]

Adam of Tetlow arrested for death of John, son of Ralph de Bykerstath at Wolfal. Adam denies all force, felony, homicide etc. The jury declare him not guilty. freed. (Coram Rege Roll #254).  

[CHETHAM SOCIETY - NEW SERIES]

Amabel Radclyffe married Adam de Tetlow. Annabella Radclyffe married Jordan de Tetlow, their son Jordan married Alice, daughter of Thomas Prestwich and had a daughter and heiress Joan who married to Richard Langley C1347-1365. Edmund Radclyffe married Anne, eldest of three daughters of Edmund Tetlow of Coldhurst.

[Book of the Radclyffes, by Charles P. Hampson]

Adam Tetlow married Amabel Radcliffe, 2nd daughter of John Radcliffe. 

[Radclyffe's Mediaeval Legacy]

Reference to the 1315 rebellion in Lancashire and it's sequel in 1333 & 1345.  

[see Lancs inquests & feudal aids, "record society, vol 54"]

The Middle Ages down to the Reformation.

Another family vendetta, probably political in origin and a sequel to the 1315 Rebellion and the assassination of Sir William Bradshaigh in 1333, resulted in the murder of Richard Tetlow in 1336 (See Appendix IV). Richard was the eldest son of Adam de Tetlow, the progenitor of the Tetlows of Chamber Hall. On Sunday May 3rd, the Sunday after the Feast of Holy Cross, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Richard was walking with his wife Alice in "a certain lane which goes to the Church of All Saints in Oldum eastwards, and to a certain bridge which is called Anneisbrigge in the same vill westward" (probably a stone bridge spanning the Irk below Chadderton Fold). Richard had apparently incurred the enmity of Geoffrey de Trafford, son of William lord of the manor of Chadderton. The Tetlows of Chamber and the Traffords seem to have carried on a feud about right of commons for over two hundred years. On this fateful Sunday afternoon, Geoffrey with eight confederates was lying in wait for Richard as he passed along the lane leading from Oldham to Chadderton. Geoffrey, "with a certain bow in his left hand, and with a certain arrow placed in the same bow", stopped Richard "so that he could not fly anyway or escape." Among the eight conferderates was Robert of Rossindal (Rossendale), third son of Adam of Rossendale, lord of the Manor of Hulme, who held ten messuages and 100 acres of land in Oldham. Robert, "witha certain bow bent and a certain arrow shot from the same bow" pierced Richard through the middle of the body and gave him a mortal wound from which he died almost instantaneoudly in the arms of his wife Alice.

Immediately Geoffrey and his eight confederates fled and Alice pursued them with hue and cry from township to township. The nine were summoned to appear at Nottingham on September 29th. Geoffrey appeared but Robert and the others did not appear and therefore were outlawed. Robert was for eight days concealed by his brother John of Withington. This same John had in 1332 paid 3s. to the King for land in Oldham.

The story of the murder of Richard Tetlow is valiable for the circumstantial detail with which it is related. We crave the reader's indulgence while we tell the sequel. The twenty years following the murder of Richard form a dismal record of perpetual litigation among the Tetlowfamily. When Richard died his estate was already burdened by the payment of widow's dower to his mother Amabel: and the year following his murder his wife Alice claimed one-third of her husband's estate from Amabel. Alice's claimwas successful and accordingly Richard's brother Hugh in 1340 settled on his mother certain land in Coppedhurst (Copster) and Fairhalghes (probably Failsworth) for life.

Early in the thirteenth century, Roger de Montbegon made extensive gifts of land to the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, including plots of Glodwick, Crompton and Whitefield and the whole of the extensive Horsedge Estate. These lands remained in their possession until dissolution of the Order in the reigh of Henry VIII. The Rental Rolls of the Hospital of St. John record a payment, just before the Dissolution, of 10½d. by John Taylor for one messuage called Horsege. The Taylors lived at Horsedge Hall and a footpath led from the Hall to a cluster of cottages standing where the ancient highway from Manchester into Yorkshire dipped into a hollow, at the point now called Bow Street. 

[Hartley Bateson]

APPENDIX IV.

The 1315 Rebellion in Lancashire and its sequel in 1333 and 1345.

A. (See "Lancs. Inquests and Feudal Aids," Record Society Vol. 54).

1322. Under the names of those who are distrained to make homage to the king according to the tenour of the King's writ: "Henry de Trafford who holds in Chathirton 2 ploughlands of the 6th part of a knight's fee."

1324. Roger de Chaderton paid 3s.2d. for the moiety of Bele More. The receiver of the forfeited Holland estate rendered account of 2s.8d. as the issue of 2/3 of a messuage and ploughland, the land of Roger, son and heir of John de Chadderton, who was in ward.

1322. Rental of lands of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and of Robert de Holland in Co. Lancaster (List of lands which passed to the Crown by the attainer of Earl Thomas and his powerful favourite Robert de Holland): "John de Chetham holds one oxgang of land in Crompton and renders yearly 3s.2d.; Adam de Tettlowe one oxgang of land 6s.8d.; Robert de Assheton 2 oxgang of land in Glodwick 3s.11d.; Richard son of Richard de Oldom 1 oxg. of land 6s.6d.; Adam de Tettlelowe 1 oxg. of land in Burshou 10d.; John de Asshton 1 oxg. of land 10d.

John de Chetham holds the moiety of Belemore and one oxgang of land in Crompton which were William de Weston's by the service of 3s.2d. yearly at the four terms for all; Roger de Chadyton holds the other moiety of Belmore and one oxgang of land in Crompton by the services of 3s.2d. yearly at the four terms for all.

Roger de Assheton holds as of right of his wife 2 oxgangs of land in Sholler of the heir of Gilbert de Hulme by the service of 3s.2d. yearly at the 4 terms for all; Hugh de Athyrton holds 2 oxgangs of land in Glodyke by the service of 3s.2d. yearly at the 4 terms for all; Adam de Tetlowe holds one oxgang of land in Crompton by the service of 6s.8d. yearly at the 4 terms for all; Richard son of Richard de Oldome holds on oxgang of land which was Adam de Eccles in Wyrnith and Oldom by the service of 6s.6d. yearley at the for terms for all; Adam de Tetlowe holds one oxgang of land which was Richard de Burshagh's in Burshagh by the service of 11d. at the four terms for all; Josh de Assheton holds one oxgang of land in Alt by the service of 11d. yearly at the four terms for all."

B.

During the 30 years from 1315 to 1345 the County from end to end was simmering with rebellion and agitated with periodic outbursts of outrage and assassination. There is some ground for suspecting that the murder of Richard Tetlow in 1336 was an episode in the political disturbance of these 30 years.

In 1315 a party of the insurgents had slain Henry de Bury in his Manor House of Bury. The rebel leader Sir William de Bradshaigh was accused of having knowingly received the murderers after the felony was committed. Henry de Bury's wife or paramour was Margery de Radcliffe and thus Bradshaigh incurred the implacablt hatred of the powerful Radcliffe family, including John de Radcliffe parson of Bury. Largely owing to the hostility of Sir Robert de Holland, Bradshaigh was outlawed until 1322. Soon afterwards Holland, who had incurred the hatred of the Earl's brother Henry by deserting Earl Thomas in battle, was slain by the follwers of Earl Henry, and Bradshaw was suspected of being an accomplice.

In 1333 Sir William was mysteriously murdered at Newton-in-Makerfield. At a court held at Wigan in 1334 Dame Mabel widow of Sir William appeared and charged 45 men with the murder, including John Radcliffe parson of Bury, six other Radcliffes, and Richard and Jordan de Tetlow.

In 1336 Richard de Tetlow was murdered. Among those accused of complicity in the murder were Thomas, Robert, Henry, Richard and Nicholas de Trafford. (In 1325 Henry de Trafford had settled his manors of Trafford and Stretford uponm Henry son of John and his heirs; the remainder after Henry the grandsonm were to the elder Henry's sons, Richard, Robert, Thomas, Nicholas, Geoffrey and Henry. It is clear that these were the men implicated in the murder of Richard de Tetlow.)

In 1338 the Township of Clifton was fined 40s. for the goods of Henry sone of Henry de Trafford, a fugitive 

[Coram Rege Rolls]

The above Traffords had been outlawed in 1336.

In 1345 occurred a series of disturbances at Liverpool between partisans of the King (Edward III) and partisans of Earl Henry. A number of men from Manchester district were involved. They entered the town in arms with banners unfurled as in war, forced their way into Court where the King's justices were in session, and several men were slain, including Adam de Levr, Geoffrey son of Sir Henry de Trafford, Richard brother of Henry de Trafford, Richard, John and Robert sons of Sir John Trafford. John de Radcliffe arson of Bury was accused of complicity in the murder of Adam de Lever.

Among those who were pardoned at the request of Earl Henry were:-

Geoffrey sone of Roger de Chadderton.

Roger brother of Hugh de Tetlow.

Hugh de Tetlow.

Robert son of Jordan de Tetlow.

Thus the following Tetlows were involved in the outrages of 1333 and 1345: Richard, Roger, Hugh, Jordanm and Robert son of Jordan.

The following references establish the fact that Richard Tetlow of Oldham had brothers named Roger, Hugh and Jordan and that Jordan had a son named Robert:-

1340. Hugh son of Adam de Tetlow gave lands in Coppedhurst (Copster) and Payrelalgus (Failsworth?) to his mother Anabil for life with remainder to his brother Roger (Raines MSS).

1348. Robert and Thurstan, sons of Jordan de Tetlow, mentioned in law-suit (De Banco Rolls).

1351. Re disputed tenement, it is stated to have been the property of Hugh de Tetlow, and on his death to have descended to Joan de Langley as daughter of Jordan eldest brother of Hugh.

1358. Richard son of Richard de Tetlow laid claim to the Tetlow estate in Crompton and Broughton, alleging that Joan wife of Richard de Langley was a bastard. It was however decided that Joan was the lawful daughter of Jordan de Tetlow and Alice his wife, which Jordan (brother of Richard de Tetlow father of the claimant) had held Tetlow. The mother of Jordan was named Amabil. She survived Jordan. 

[Assize Rolls]

In 1316 one of the Tetlow's, kinsmen of Sir Robert Holland, Killed a chaplain of Manchester in the churchyard. (Coram Rege R. 254 mm 10, 20.) In the former reference the name of the culprit is given as Adam de Tetlow, but later as Hugh de Tetlow. (The County Feuds 1315-23). 

[CHETHAM SOCIETY - NEW SERIES]

Adam de Tetlow killed William, son of Alan de Manchester, chaplain, in the churchyard. Letters of pardon from Earl of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland. 

[CHETHAM SOCIETY - NEW SERIES]

Witness: Adam Tetlow, Denton. 

[DDHu/12/5]

Concerning those who were at Rossendale, after the king had forbidden any assembly being held to the disturbance of the peace. Hugh de Tetlow, Adam de Tetlow and Jordan his son. 

[CHETHAM SOCIETY - NEW SERIES]

Adam Tetlawe holds one oxgang of land in "Boreshaw" at the rental of 10d. 

[ANNALS OF OLDHAM, by GILES SHAW]

14th Edward (1320). Deeds granting Chamber to Richard, grandson of Adam de Tetlow. Chamber had a historical record of over six hundred years, one Adam de Tetlow, near Manchester, having married Eva, the grand daughter of Adam de Oldham de Eccles sometimes in the 13th century. The deeds granting Chamber to Richard, the grandson of Adam de Tetlow, bears date 14 Edward II (1320). The Tetlows lived at Chamber for over 3 hundred years in good repute and lineal descent. There is a pedigree of the Tetlow family compiled by Percival, of Royton Hall, which though not complete, enables us to trace the history of the homestead. 33 Henry VIII (1542). Among the taxpayers of this period was John Tetlow of Chamber, who paid on an income of £24 derived from goods, probably woolen goods of some kind. We get a peep into the interior of the old homestead in the year 1611, when an inventory was taken of the goods and chattels of Richard Tetlow. Among other things, besides white "yarn", and flax, and spinning wheels, we find mention of a caliver, two great bills, a yew bow, and a quiver, a crossbow, arms which in the old times were for use as well as ornament. A pedigree of the Prestwiches was cited, showing the owner in 1206, and how, by their heiress Alice, the estates passed to the de Wolveley, and through their daughter, Alice to Jordan de Tetlawe, from his daughter Johanna to the Langleys of Agecroft, whose heiress married William Dauntesey, of West Lavington, Wilts. 

[Vol VIII, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society]

Chamber Hall was held by Richard de Tetlow in the reign of Edward II. Robert, son of Adam de Oldham having granted to Richard, so of Adam de Tetlow, lands in Wernith juxta Oldham, by deed dated in the 14th Edward II. His Grandfather, Adam de Tetlow, (according to a deed quoted in the year 1639, in a dispute respecting the commons of Oldham, with John Byron), having married Eva, dau of William, son of Adam de Oldham, obtained her lands in Wernith and Oldham.  

[Vol XIX, XXI, XXII: Notitia Cestriensis, vol 2]

'And that Jordan de Tetlow cut off Robert del Bothe's thumb and maimed him at Manchester and he is a common evildoer'. 

[CHETHAM SOCIETY - NEW SERIES]

Rolls of Rentals, rectius in Tetlow (Crompton), Adam Tetlow, oxgang of land, 6s 8d. Vol 54: 

[Lancs Inquests, part II, 1310-1333]

Rolls of Rentals, (Richard de Burshagh), Adam Tetlow, oxgang in Burshou, 10d.  

[Vol 54: Lancs Inquests, part II, 1310-1333]

Adam Tetlow holds 40 acres of land which were Jordan de Crompton's in Broughton by homage and the service of the 16th part of one knight's fee.  

[Vol 54: Lancs Inquests, part II, 1310-1333]

Adam de Tetlow, one oxgang of land, 6s, 8d. 

[Lancs Inquest, vol 54]

"One of the Tetlow family (probably already from A-U-L; later of the Bardsley Estate in this manor), Adam or Hugh had killed a chaplain in the churchyard of Manchester, whilst Jordan de Tetlow had maimed Robert del Boothe (Booth) by cutting off his thumb! 

[(page 77). ENGLAND IN ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE by W.M. Bowman]

Adam de Tetlow, for unjust holding of debt against John Euerdoun.  

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow holds 40 acres of land which were Jordan de Crompton's in Broughton. 

[Lancs Inquest, vol 54]

Adam Tetlow, juror. 

[Vol 54: Lancs Inquests, part II, 1310-1333]

Adam de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam Tetlow- Broughton, Crompton. 

[Vol 56. Manchester]

Jordan de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam Tetlow, juror. 

[Vol 70: Inquests, Extents and Feudal Aids, part III, 1313-1355]

Adam de Tetlow, because he did not observe the Lord's day, fined 3d. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow, unjust holding of debt, fined 3d. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow.  

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Adam de Tetlow. 

[Vol 41: Lancashire Fines, 1323-24]

Quitclaim: Hugh Tetlow, Manchester. 

[DDHu/26/8]

Grant. Wit: Hogh of Tetlow. To a grant of Adam Hulton. 

[DDHu/26]

The rebellion in Lancashire and it's sequel in 1333 and 1345. During the thirty years from 1315 to 1345, the county from end to end was simmering with rebellion and agitated with periodic outbursts of outrage and assassination. There is some ground for suspecting that the murder of Richard Tetlow in 1336 was an episode in the political disturbance of these 30 years.

Rebel leader Sir Wm de Bradshaigh murdered in 1333 at Newton-in-Makerfield. Dame Mabel, widow of William, charged 45 men with the murder, including John Radcliffe, parson of Bury, six other Radcliffes, and Richard and Jordan de Tetlow.  

[A History of Oldham, by Hartley Bateson]

Joan Tetlow, daughter of Adam and Amabel (Radclyffe), married Adam Tetlow of Agecroft. 

[Radclyffe's Mediaeval Legacy]

Grant from Thomas, son of Adam de Prestwich, to Richard Tetlow, son of Adam de Tetlow, land in Adam Heye in Northmore. 

[ANNALS OF OLDHAM, by GILES SHAW]

Geoffrey Chadderton along with 8 confederates lay ambush as Richard Tetlow and his wife Alice passed. Richard killed instantly with a long bow. 

[Chadderton Chapter by Michael Lawson]

Alice, who was the wife of Richard Tettelowe heretofore on the octaves of purification of the Blessed Mary (i.e. on Feb 09), last past, appeared on the fourth day of the plea against Geoffrey de Trafford and others, touching the death of the said Richard formerly her husband, wherefore she appeals them. At which day they did not come. Coram Rege Roll 306.  

[Vol 48. Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society]

10 Edw 3. Roger Barlow & Robert de Tetlow (Chorlton). 

[Raines MSS]

Hugh, son of Adam de Tetlow gave lands in Copplehurst (Copster) and Payrehalghus (Failsworth?) to his mother, Anabil, for life with the remainder to his brother Roger. (Baines Mss). 

[A History of Oldham, by Hartley Bateson]

Mereland: The mere was at this time well stocked with fish, as appears from the fact that Henry de Barlowe and Hugh de Tetlow were at Lancaster Assiszes of June 1343, indicted for taking 100s worth of fish from the lake. 

[History of Rochdale, Fishwick]

At Liverpool Assizes, June 9 1343, Henry de Barlowe and Hugo de Tetlowe were indicted for coming to the abbot of Whalley's manor of Mereland, on the 26th of March, 1339, and carrying away fish to the value of 100 schilling. 

[Assize Rolls, Lancs, M3, 4-4, m.16.-c.]

Occurred a series of disturbances at Liverpool between partisans of the King (Edward III) and partisans of Earl Henry. Several men were slain, including several de Trafford's. Among those pardoned at the request of Earl Henry were: Geoffrey, son of Roger de Chatterton; Roger, brother of Hugh de Tetlow; Hugh de Tetlow; Robert, son of Jordan de Tetlow. Thus the following Tetlow's were involved in the outrages of 1333 and 1345: Richard, Roger, Hugh, Jordan and Robert, son of Jordan. 

[A History of Oldham, by Hartley Bateson]

Tetlow, Tetlow Fold in Broughton. Robert Tetlow holds in certain plot of land in Tetlow for a 16th part of a knight's fee, rendering yearly at the term 6s 8d. 

[Vol 70: Inquests, Extents and Feudal Aids, part III, 1313-1355]

Birshaw in Crompton, the same Robert Tetlow holds certain tenement called Birchouere in socage, rendering yearly at the terms as above, 10d.  

[Vol 70: Inquests, Extents and Feudal Aids, part III, 1313-1355]

Adam Tetlow, (mainprise). 

[Vol 70: Inquests, Extents and Feudal Aids, part III, 1313-1355]

Robert and Thurstan, sons of Jordan de Tetlow, mentioned in law-suit (De Banco Rolls) 

[A History of Oldham, by Hartley Bateson] 

Landsdowne Feodary - 1349-1351. Crompton and Burghton: Richard de Langley and Joan, his wife, (formerly held Adam Tetlow). 

[Vol 58: The Birch Feodary 1307-1327]

Richard Tetlow and Johanna Longley. (3rd son of Jordan Tetlow and Alice). 

[ANNALS OF OLDHAM, by GILES SHAW]

Property of Hugh de Tetlow on his death to Joan de Langley, daughter of Jordan, eldest brother of Hugh. 

[A History of Oldham, by Hartley Bateson]

Sir John de Assheton, in 1356 he charged John le Hunt, smithy man, and Adam Tetlow and others with cutting down his trees and breaking a close. (Duchy of Lancaster Assize Rolls, 5m8.) (page 130). 

[ENGLAND IN ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE by W.M. Bowman]

Richard, son of Richard de Tetlow, laid claim to the Tetlow estate in Crompton, and Broughton, alledging that Joan, wife of Richard de Langley was a bastard. It was decided she was the lawful daughter of Jordan de Tetlow and Alice, his wife, which Jordan (brother of Richard de Tetlow, father of the claimant) had held Tetlow. The mother of Jordan was named Amabil. She survived Jordan. (Azzize Rolls).  

[A History of Oldham, by Hartley Bateson]

Joan, daughter and ultimately the heiress of Jordan de Tetlow, by his wife Alice, daughter and ultimately heiress of the last Adam de Prestwich, married Richard de Longley, about the year 1360, and so brought the manors of Pendlebury, Prestwich, & Alkrington, and lands in those and adjacent townships, into the Longley family. 

[Vol IV, Lancs & Ches Antiquarian Soc]

Anno 10th 'Ducatus, 26 Edward III'. Grant of a messuage and lands in Salford, which came to the Duke's hands by the death of Richard de Tetlowe, who was a Bastard, and died without Heir. Remainder to Thos. de Strangwas. 

[Edward Baines, vol 1]

Ric 2nd. Longlegh. Richard de Tetlow. 

[Raines MSS]

William son of Richard Pyncharge(?); William le Marschal. Plot in Deansgate with building between burgage of Richard de Tetlow and burgage of William le Marschal. For 100 years rendering rent to Ermelene, daughter of Thomas le Marschal and her heir by Henry Galaye(?). Witnesses: John Strangeways; Richard de Fer(?); William le Roo. 

[Manchester Library Archives LI/51/8/10 & 11]

Agreement: Richard Tetlow, Denton. 

[DDHu/12/9]

Between Richard de Tetlow; Robert de fuston(?); and Nicholas de Bahmford and wife Cecelia. 2 messuage, 44 acre land, 4 acre meadow, 2 acre of pasture in Manchester and Lythynton. To wife of Bamford, reveision to heir of Cecilia. 

[Lancs & Cheshire Rec Soc, vol 39., 46, 50, 60.]

Between Richard Tetlow and Robert de Fenton and Nicholas de Brumford and Cecilia, his wife.  

[Vol 50: Lancs Fines, part III, 1377]

Richard Tetlow: Custodian of lands 24 Sep 1385. 

[Vol 95: Lancashire Inquisitions]

Thomas de Strangeways of Tetlow. 

[Vol 95: Lancashire Inquisitions]

Richard Tetlow: (John Aynsworth) 30 Oct 1389. 

[Vol 95: Lancashire Inquisitions]

Richard Tetlow confirms to Robert Walker "capellano", a burgage and messuage in the vill of Oldham and Manchester. 

[ANNALS OF OLDHAM, by GILES SHAW]

Two old Deeds of the Tetlows.

We have had for a short time in our possession two old deeds of the Tetlows, of Oldham, which are sufficiently curious for translation, abstract, and record here. The first is a small parchment indenture of the 14th Richard II. (1390), the parchment ten inches wide; and the writing in eleven lines, two inches deep. Appended to the centre foot by a strip of parchment is a large round seal of dull, brick re wax, having in its centre a heater shield, bearing apparently the arms of the Tetlows, of Oldham, viz. Argent a bend engrailed sable, cotised gules. The legend is distinct- "S. RICI DE TETLOW." The following is a translatedabstract of the deed, which has no endorsement:- "This indenture witnesseth that I, Richard de Tettlawe, have given, &c. to Robert le Walker, chaplain, all the burgages, messuages, lands and tenements, rent and service, which I have in the parishes and vills of Oldom and of Mamcestre, with all their buildings and appurtenances. To hav, &c. of the chief lords, of their fees, by the servicetherefor due and of right accustomed. [Warranty, &c.] Witnesses: Roger de Pylkynton, Ranulph de Radcliffe, Knights; Henry de Traffort, Richard de Holond, Thomas de Tyldeslegh, and others. Given at Mamcestre on the Thursdaynext after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross [September 14], in the fourteenth year of the reigh of King Richard the Second after the Conquest." [1390].

There were at least two families of the Tetlows in the neighbourhood of Manchester, some centuries ago. One of them, chiefly yeoman, resided at Tetlow Fold, in Godley; the other, and that which we have now to notice, was of more distinction, and as early as the reigh of Wm. II. they were seated at Chamber Hall, where a mansion bearing that name still stands, on a commanding eminence about a mile S.W. of Oldham, and within that chapelry. It is said that the Tetlows derived this estate from a marriage with the Oldhams, of Oldham. They also had estates at Tetlow Fold, a little W. of Oldham. They were connected with the Langleys, of the subordinate manor of that name near Middleton, and the Tetlows bore a coat of arms, evidentlyderived from that of Radcliffe.-- We have been unable to find any pedigree of these Tetlows, and we must leave their family with these few and brief indications of its status and connections. The grantee is simply described as "Robert le Walker, chaplain"; but whether of Manchester or Oldham, there is nothing to show. And with the looseness of these old grants, there is no setting forth of the sites of the burgagaes and messuages, or even how many were in Manchster and how many of the messuages in Olham. The witnesses to this deed were men of mark. Sir Roger de Pylkynton, Knight, is in all probability of the Pilkington or elder branch of that ancient family, of whom Alexander [living 1261-1279] had a son Sir Roger, living 1295-6, who had issue Sir Roger, lord of Pylkynton, and a second son, Richard, to whom he gave Rivington. The last-named Sir Roger was one of the knights of the shirein 39th Edward III. [1365-6], and he held three parts of a knight's fee in Pilkington, of the barony of Manchester, which Roger de Pilkington [prbably his father] formerly held. We do not find any Sir Ralph de Radcliffe, Knight, of this period in the pedigree of eitherbranch of that family; though it is recorded in the Trafford pedigree that Margery, the widow of Sir Henry Trafford, who died about 1386, married a Sir Ralph Radcliffe. It is curious that the enxt witness in order to this deed, is her son by her first marriage, Henry de Trafford; and that he married Elizabeth, daughter of this same Sir Ralph Radcliffe, and died in 1394, four years after witnessing this deed. The Holland was prabably of the Hollands of Denton. This Thomas de Tyldesley was afterwards sergeant-at-law to Henry IV. This deed was executed at Manchester, in September, 1390.

The other deed is a grant, not indented, of the 34th Henry VI. [1456], and the seal is gone. Like the other, it has no endorsement, and the following is a translated abstract:--" I, Robert de Tetlow, have given, &c. to Robert de Radclyffe de Chadyrton, all the messuages, lands, and tenements which Richard de Tetlow had of the gift and feoffment of Roger de Langley, within the county of Lancaster. To have, &c. to the end [or, for the term] of ten years, of the chief lord of his fee, by service therefor due and of right and custom, &c. Witnesses:--Ed. de Trafforde, Thomas de Pylkyngton, Richard de Barton, and others. Given at Oldom, on the Tuesday next after the Feast of Corpus Christi [May 27], 34th Henry VI" [May 27], 34th Henry VI." [1456.]

Between the first and the second deeds now under notice, there was an interval of 66 years. Three kings had passed away in succession to the tomb, --Richard II, Henry IV. and Henry V. and Henry the Sixth's long reigh was drawing to a close when the above deed was made. In the former deed, Richard de Tetlow conveys certainestates in Manchester and Oldham to a chaplain, probably in trust

for his son; and in the latter we find that a Robert de Tetlow, son or grandson, conveys to Robert de Radclyffe, of Chadderton, all the messuages, lands, and tenements, in the county of Lancaster, which Richard Tetlow, the former garntor, had of the gift and feoffment of Roger de Langley. As we have already stated, there was within the territory of Middleton a subordinate manor named Langley, once the residence of a family of that name, who appear to have parted with the estate to James Radcliffe, (ancestor of the Radcliffes of Milnes Bridge, Yorkshire,) in the reigbn of Edswatd IV. Sir Raphe Langley, then warden of Manchester, and a son of Sir John Langley, of Agecroft Hall rebuilt Oldham church about 20 years after the date of this deed. He died about 1489, and was buried at Prestwich. The first witness was Edmund Trafford, who was the second of that name, and the eldest son of Sir John: he married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Savage, of Clifton, and widow of John Hanford, of Hanford. The Thomas de Pilkinton we cannot find. Richard de Barton, was doubtless, of the old family of that name, whose arms and possessions passed by grant and marriage to the Booths of that place. This deed was executed at Oldham, in May, 1456. 

[Manchester Guardian (date unknown)]

Richard de Tettlawe, confirms to Robert Walker, "Capellino" a burgage and messuage in the vill of Oldham and Manchester. 

[OLDHAM CHAPPELRY, by George Perry-Gore]

14 Ric 2nd (1391). Richard de Tetlow confirm to Robert Walker, capelle, burgage & messuage in villa de Oldham & Manchester. Rog de Pilkington; Ralphe de Radcliffe; Henry de Trafford. 

[Raines MSS]

Alice, widow of Jordan de Tetlow, was daughter of Richard Redford. 

[Victoria History of Lancs]

Roger de Langley of Tetlow.  

[Vol 95: Lancashire Inquisitions]

Alice Tetlow, wife of Jordan de Tetlow. Johanna, dau of above married Richard de Langley 1394 Mar 14. 

[Vol 110: Visitation of Lancashire 1533]

Richard Tetlow: (Henry de Trafford) 01 Jul 1396. 

[Vol 95: Lancashire Inquisitions]

Libi tenent de termo Pentecost. Adam de Tetlawe p Light Birches-12d. (page 71). 

[ENGLAND IN ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE by W.M. Bowman]

Rental liber tenent de dome de Assheton sub lima, Anno Suprado solvend ad six terminos anni &c. Adam de Tetlow, for the Light Birches-1s.0d. 

[ENGLAND IN ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE by W.M. Bowman]

Vol IV: Alexander Tetlow, witness. 

[The Palatine Notebook]