       
An extract from Volume IV of 'A
History of Lancashire' edited by William Page, F.S.A., part of 'The
Victoria History of the Counties of England'. The Salford Hundred - pages
218, 219.
TETLOW was an estate partly in Broughton and partly in
Cheetham, held in the 14th century by a family using the local surname,28
the service due being the fortieth (later, the sixteenth) part of a knight’s
fee and a rent of 6s. 8d. It passed by marriage to the Langleys of Agecroft,29
and then descended with Reddish to the Cokes.30
The name Tetlow has long been disused, but is preserved in Tetlow Lane.
28 Adam de Tetlow in 1302 paid 12d. to the aid
for a fortieth part of a fee in Tetlow; Lancs. Inq. and
Extents, I, 314. In 1324 Adam de Tetlow held 10 acres in Broughton,
formerly held by Jordan de Crompton, by homage and the service of a sixteenth
part of a knight’s fee; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 37b.
It thus appears that in Broughton as well as in Crompton Adam succeeded to the
inheritance of others. In 1346 Robert de Tetlow was tenant, paying a rent of 6s.
8d.; Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146b.
29 See the account of Agecroft in Pendlebury.
Several Tetlow families are met with in the Manchester and Rochdale district.
In 1346-55 Richard de Langley and Joan his wife held the
fortieth part of a knight’s fee in Crompton and Broughton, formerly held by
Adam de Tetlow of the Earl of Ferrers; Feud. Aids, iii, 91.
In 1358 Richard son of Richard de Tetlow laid claim to it, 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 Anabil; she survived her son; Assize
R. 438, m.4 d.
The Langleys seem to have granted it to the Strangeways
family, who held it by knight’s service and the rent of 6s. 8d.; Lancs.
Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 24, 50. Afterwards it reverted to the Langleys,
and is named in their inquisitions, though the tenure is variously described;
e.g. ibid. ii, 145, where the estate is described as eight messuages, 40 acres
of land, 4 acres of meadow, and 10 acres of pasture in Tetlow in the vill of
Broughton, held of the king as duke by the fortieth part of a knight’s fee,
and worth 4 marks yearly. In the time of Henry VIII the lands in Tetlow and
Cheetham were said to be held in socage by a rent of 1d., but in 1562 the tenure
was again described as the fortieth part of a knight’s fee; Duchy
of Lanc. Inq. p.m. vi, 7; xi, 16.
Margaret wife of Roger Langley in 1445-6 held the sixteenth
part of a fee in Tetlow, the relief for which was 6s. 3d.; Duchy
of Lanc. Knights’ Fees, 2/20.
30 It is named in fines relating to the share of
John Reddish and his wife in 1567; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of
F. bdle. 28, m. 279; 29, m. 126. Also in the inquisition after the death
of Sarah Coke, taken in 1630; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m.
xxvi, 53. It is included in fines relating to the Cokes’ estate in 1667
and 1685; Pal. Of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 179, m. 92; 217,
m. 20.
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