ACA, first incumbent of Saint Matthew's, or Grelle's
Chapel; land gifted to him, and a fair named from
him, 39-40.

Acresfield, also named "The Four Acres," 39.
Advowson of Manchester; a wife presents on the death
of her husband, 105; advowson surrendered to the col-
lege, 170-6, and cause unexplained why it returned to
the lord of the manor, 176.

Alport, why so named, 3; described, 31; wood of, 57.
Nether, land gifted to the college, 170-2.
Appropriation of benefices, how introduced, 55; act en-
forcing performance of parochial duties, 135; secured in
the royal license of foundation in Manchester, 144-5, and
the different parties whose consent to it was required,
149; definition of appropriation from Plowden, 175; at
first a complete one in Manchester, but afterwards in-
complete, 176.

Archdeacon and Archdeaconry of Chester; origin of the
office, 23; Manchester comprehended in the archdea-
conry of Chester, 23; consent for the collegiating of
the church of Manchester required from him, 153; he
appoints procurators, 159-60; charter is confirmed by
him, 169, 177.

Ardena, Adam de, rector of Ashton, 88.

John de, chaplain of Manchester, 88.
Arderna, Nicholas de, rector of Ashton, 77.
Ashton-under-Lyne, an infeudation of the barony of Man-
chester, and confounded with Ormeston, 41-2, 67; sup-
posed mistake in the name of one of the Ashtons, 42;
origin of the term under line or lyme, 51; its chapel
united to that of Manchester, 68; how much taxed in
the valor, 68; the subinfeftment under a Kirkby and
Ashton, 67, 77; value of the living, 77, 95; advowson
separated from the manor, 77; Jerusalem land, 95; a
free warren obtained, 101; state of its infeudation, 101,
and Thomas la Warre's deed relative to it, 126-7; rec-
tors, 77, 95, 105, 109, 111, 112.

Auncell, William, a cofeoffee with the bishop of Durham
in Thomas la Warre's infeftment, 125-6; his demise,
144.

Benefice of Manchester, placed under Peter Greslet's war-
denship, 60, taxation of it by Pope Nicholas, 68, and
its value in 1322, 94.-[See also Endowment.]
Bexwyck, family of and descent, 109, 194.

Galfridus de, chaplain, 109, 194.

Bibby, Robert, chaplain of Manchester, 100, 194.
Bondage lands of the manor of Manchester, originally cul-
tivated by villeins, and the character of the tenures, 62;
how villeins were advanced in the social scale by becom-
ing bondage tenants, 61; bondage tenants of the manor
of Manchester, 67; required for the wars, 69.
Booth, Thomas del, his descent, &c., 109; builds a chapel
and bridge at Salford, 110; his attachment to school
education, 110; his will, 110-1.

Borough of Manchester, origin of term, 44; when the
name was acquired, 62-3, and why, 67; Manchester
becomes a chartered and free borough, 70; the statutes
and other advantages secured by the charter, 70-6; free
burgesses described, 72; burgage tenures, nature and
laws of inheritance, 73; commerce encouraged by the
charter, 73; municipal laws, 73-6; moveable chattels,
laws of, 73; knights, priests, or clerks not exempted
from arrest for debt, 72, 75; talliages required, 76; land
subject to the law of mortmain, 77; witnesses to the
charter granted, 76; borough privileges disputed by
Henry, Duke of Lancaster, 107-8; borough not ad-
vanced to the rank of a municipal corporation, 123.
Braybon, Richard, chaplain of Manchester, 100.
Brynkelowe, William, a procurator, 158.
Bulle oke, the, 170-2, 196.

Burun, Hugo de, his descent; he becomes a Cluniac monk
of Lenton, 16*; retires to a cell at Kersall, 17*.

Chaplains of Manchester, list of them recorded, 194.
Chapel, Grelle's, &c., 39.-[ See Chauntry.]
Chauntry, Grelle's, and another one, 81-2.
Chester, Earls of, RANULF MESCHINES, the third earl,
succeeds to the honour of Lancaster, and is possessed
of divers lands, 8.-RANULPH GERNONS, the fourth
earl, possessed of Salford town and wapentake, 16; his
life and acts; he founds the cell at Kershall, 17; his
death, 18.-RANULPH DE BLUNDEVILLE, the sixth
earl; his arms, descent, and estates, 42; resists the
papal power, 42-3; grants a charter to the town of
Salford, 43; his farther exploits and demise, 47, 51-2;
is succeeded by William de Ferrars, 51-2.
Claydon, John de, rector of Manchester, acquires leave of
absence, 96-7, 193.

Clifford, Sir Lewis, marries Eleanor la Warre; has tem-
porary ward of John la Warre's estates and presents
Thomas la Warre to the living of Ashton, 111; attach-
ed to the principles of Wycliffe, 114, 118; presents a
petition of the Lollards to the king and is reprimanded,
122; his dying charge, 124.

Cluniac monks of Kersall, origin of their order, 10; their
excellent discipline, 28-9; how affected by the act De
asportatis religiosorum, 78; their monasteries seized,
97; released from their obedience to the foreign abbot
of Clugni, 127-8.-[See Kershall.]
College of Manchester, formation of; motives for colle-
giating the parish church, 129-33; the description of
college meditated by Thomas la Warre, 134-6; its ef-
ficiency considered, 137-43; a royal license procured for
it, 143-8; petition of the churchwardens for its found.
ation, 150-2; the charter of foundation generally de-
scribed, 153; its grant dependant on the prior and
chapter of Coventry, the archdeacon of Chester, and
the bishop of Lichfield in convocation, 153; premises
of the charter, 154-7; procurators appointed, 157-9; a
commissary, or commissaries, to be chosen, 157, 159;
the contumacy of certain persons proclaimed, 160-1;
the charter of foundation declared by the bishop of the
diocese, 162-5; confirmed by the prior and chapter of
Coventry, 169; and by the archdeacon of Chester,
168-9, 177-8; but doubtful if confirmed by the pope,
179; the laws framed for the government of the college,
167.-General remarks on the documents now published
concerning the collegiating of the parish church of Man-
chester, 194.

Coventry, prior and chapter of, sit in convocation over
the charter of foundation, 153; appoint procurators,
157; confirm the charter, 169.

Crosseby, Richard, prior of Coventry, 153, 157, 169.
Crusading spirit at Manchester, ancient stone sculpture of
a crusader, and Elias the giant of Worseley, 25.

Danes, deface Manchester and levy the Dane-geld, 4; the
geld exacted from the Manchester church in Norman
times, 9; but relieved from it by Stephen, 16.
Dean rural, is identified with the archpriest, such, for ex-
ample, as in England collected the Decimæ Saladinidæ,
22-3; what the office of the dean rural originally was,
27; he does not appear in England until the eleventh
century, 27-8; the first recorded dean of Manchester
was in the time of Richard the Second, 25*; the pa-
rishes comprised in the united deanery of Manchester
and Blackburne, 28; the two offices of rector and dean
rural of Manchester not united as Whittaker supposed,
28, 52-3; a dean of Manchester recorded by Hollin-
worth, 52; the deanery of Manchester and Blackburn
comprised within the archdeaconry of Chester, 52; the
dean has under him a sub-dean and apparitors, 52; the
dean how instituted, 53; his supervision, testamentary
duties, and coercive power over the religious and moral
state of the laity, also over the lives and manners of
the clergy, 53; he protects the temporalities of the
church, 54; the jurisdiction of deans rural in rural
chapters, or rural courts Christian, and their subordi-
nation to decanal synods explained, 54-5; the jurisdic-
tion voluntary, or contentious, 54-5; the punishments
inflicted, 55; the inquisitions held on vacant benefices,
in the question of appropriations, &c., 55; constitution
of decanal synods, 55; how deans rural were reimbursed,
55-6; deans were employed in the pope's valor, 59; the
unpopularity of deans rural and their courts, occasioned
by lax conduct and their being employed as tax gatherers,
64; the united deanery of Manchester and Blackburn
at the close of the thirteenth century, 68; a dean and
sub-dean of Manchester mentioned, 76; farther causes
of the decline of the office of deans, 91-3; an exception
made to the archdeaconry of Chester, where the deans
continued in some degree effective, 92-3; they there

held their offices for life, 93; the deanery of Manchester
separated from that of Blackburn by a new decad of
parishes, 99; Thomas la Warre inferred to be both
rector and dean rural, 129; the possibility that this in-
ference may in some degree be incorrect, 189; the dean
of Manchester, by the seal of the deanery of Manches-
ter, consents to the collegiating of the parish church,
agreeably to the petition of the parishioners, 149-52;
list of such of the deans rural of Manchester as are re-
corded, 188.

Denesgate, street so named from a dene, or narrow valley,
and not from a dean rural, 25*, 31.

Dennis, Saint, the newer church first built on the Baron's
Hull dedicated to, 112, 162.-[See also Saint George.]
Didsbury Chapel, when built, 21.

Diocese, in what, the Saxon church of Manchester was
comprised, 4; also during the very early Norman period,
9, and in the twelfth century, 14, 23-4.

Dore Abbey, where situated and by whom founded; its
history, and why patronised by John la Warre, 86, 185;
manor of Manchester alienated to the abbey, 86, and
restored to John la Warre, 95; Thomas, the last of the
Greslets, conjectured to have retired to it, 86, 186.
Drengage, why so named, 7; characterises many tenures
near Manchester, 8; state of in the twelfth century, 24.
Durham, Bishop of, and his cofeoffees are in trust for the
estates of Thomas, Lord la Warre, 125, 143; they join
in the petition to the king for the collegiating of the
parish church of Manchester, 143; they confirm to John
Huntyngdon, the first warden, the endowments of Tho-
mas, Lord la Warre, 174-6; they appoint attorneys to
surrender the devised lands, 176.-[See also Langley,
Thomas, Bishop of Durham.]

Endowments, Kirkmanshulme granted by an unknown
Saxon thane, 5-6; Parsonage land gifted by Albert
Greslet (Senex), 18-9, and where situated, 31; endow-
ments by Thomas la Warre of five messuages and ten
acres of land, 170-2; land with which Saint Matthew's,
or Aca's, Chapel was endowed, 39.

Fairs of Saint Michael, Saint Matthew, and Saint Mary,
Manchester, 36-7; their general privileges, 38, 40-1.
Fair of Saint Matthew, its origin, 36; when held, 37; its
commercial importance, 37-8; supported by Robert
Greslet, the fifth baron, and is chartered by the king,
38; why named Aca's, or Acca's, fair, 39; site de-
scribed, 39; how the fair is proclaimed in modern times,
41; curious custom in the opening of it, 41.
Fawkes, John, chaplain of Manchester, 123.
Ffereby, Thomas, appointed a procurator, 157-8.
Ffryth, Richard, a cofeoffee with the bishop of Durham,

125-6, and styled lord of the manor of Manchester, 144.
Freeman, English, why so named, 94.
Forere, alluded to in the endowment of Nether Alport,
171-2; the etymology inquired into, 196.

George, Saint, the newer church built on the Baron's Hull
dedicated to, conjointly with Saint Dennis, 112, 162.
Gorton Green, certain lands in, gifted to the college,

170-2.

Grandison, Otto de, instituted rector, 69-70; his descent,
70; difficulty attending his genealogy and error cor-
rected, 192.

Grelle's Chauntry, where it stood, 39; indentified with
Saint Matthew's Chapel and Aca's Chapel, 40, 81.
Greslet, Albert, first baron, his descent, possessions, &c.,

13.

Greslet, Robert, second baron, to whom he held his lands;
extent of his barony and how divided, 14-5; gift to
Swineshead of a mill, and his demise, 15.

—, Albert (Senex), third baron, obtains by marriage
part of Widness, 16; his gift of land to the church of
Manchester, and where, 18-9; confirms to the monks
of Swineshead a mill, 20; his infeftments, demise, and
heir, 20; has a younger brother Osbert, 17.

Albert (Juvenis), fourth baron, succeeds, 21; his
infeftments, 22; his marriage and demise, 22,

Robert, fifth baron, succeeds, 22; marries, 24;
assists Richard the First in his Norman expedition,
24; rebels against John, 26*, 182; resides in Manches-
ter, 30; his civil jurisdiction, 31-6; his issue and de-
mise, 47, 57, 183.

Thomas, sixth baron, succeeds, 51; holds twelve
knights' fees, 51; his military services, 56; has a grant
of free warren, 57; the escheat of Horwich which en-
sued, 60; recovers his estates, 60; his demise, 60; the
manor of Swineshead assigned to his wife, Christiana
Ledet, as a dower, 183; his issue Robert, who dies, and
Peter, a churchman, 60, 190; the king disputes his in-
feftment to Peter in prejudice of a grandson Robert,
who is the true heir, 60, 190.

Robert, seventh baron, succeeds his grandfather,
60; Edmund Crouchback his guardian, 63; is sum-
moned to the wars, 183; marries Hawise de Burgh, 63,
183; favours the abbey of Stanlawe, 64, 184; his con-
firmation of land to the chapel of Dene, 64, 184; his
demise, possessions, and descendants, 65, 184.

Thomas, eighth baron, has a guardian appointed
to his infancy, 65; the feudal services required during
his minority, 65-6; feudal state at this period, 66-7;
his rights of patronage invaded by William de Marchia,
67-8; grants a charter to Manchester, making it a free
borough, 70-6; makes a grant of the manor of Man-
chester, &c., to his sister Joan and John la Warre, her
husband, 79; conjectured to have retired to Dore Abbey,
85, 186; his demise, 85, 185.

Peter, a churchman, second son of Thomas Gres-
let, the sixth baron, 60; fails in succeeding to the manor
of Manchester and certain chapels, 61, 190; is appointed
warden of the church of Manchester, 61; is afterwards
rector of Manchester, 190.

Hadelsay, Richard, notary of York, employed in drawing
up the charter of foundation, 158, 160; his declaration
to the correctness of the proceedings, 166.
Halsall, Henry, archdeacon of Chester, when collated, 153;
sits in convocation over the charter, 157, 160; appoints
a procurator, 159; his death, 167.
Hayward, Roger de, chaplain of Manchester, 123.
Helworth, William, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, his
history previous to favouring the views of Thomas, Lord
la Warre, in granting a charter of foundation, 133; his
good acts, and demise, 198.-[See Lichfield, Bishop
of.]

Henege, John, a cofeoffee with the bishop of Durham in
Thomas la Warre's infeftment, 125-6, 143-8.

Heton, the land at, which is gifted to the college, 170-2.
Horewich, forest laws of, 57-8; is escheated, but restored,

60.

Hugh of Manchester, is not a native of Manchester, but
of Mancester in Warwickshire, 69, 188.
Huntyngdon, John, rector of Ashton, made procurator by
the prior and chapter of Coventry, 157; also by the
archdeacon of Chester, 160; presented by Thomas,
Lord la Warre, to the first wardenship, 172-4; his in-

stitution, 174; the lands and advowson appropriated
to the college of Manchester are surrendered to him,
174-6.

Ina, King of Wessex, and Ethelburga resident at Man-
chester, 3.

Jurdan, chaplain of Manchester, 52, 194.

Kershall Cell, Hugo de Burun becomes a recluse of, 16*;
cell is founded and endowed by Ranulph Gernons and
attached to the Cluniac monks of Lenton, 17-8; con-
firmed by Henry the Second to the monastery of Len-
ton, 21; and again by King John, 26; Cluniac monks
of, described, 28-9; and their litigation with the rector
of Manchester, 29-30; the cell is prohibited sending
taxes out of the kingdom to the abbot of Clugni, 78; is
seized by Edward the Third, but restored, 97; monks
are released from their obedience to the abbot of Clugni,
127-8; why the monks of Kersall were in favour, 134.
Kirkman's Hulme granted by a Saxon thane to the two
churches of Manchester, 5-6.

Knute's, or Knott Mill, named from Canute, 4.

Laghmote, of Salford, 49-50; of Manchester, 71; the
ranks amenable to it, 72; its origin and object, 74;
obligations of the burgesses to it and its distinct func-
tions, 74; undertook emendations of the assize, 75;
practice relative to frays, &c., 75.

Lancaster, Honour of, under De Poictu, 6-7; in the time
of Richard the First, 24; becomes an earldom, 56.-
EDMUND CROUCHBACK by the acquisition of Robert
de Ferrars's estates is made earl; the greatness of the
house from this time, 63.-THOMAS, EARL OF, his
revolt against the king and joined by all ranks, 89-90.-
HENRY, EARL OF LANCASTER, has the estates of the
Honour restored by a reversion of his brother's attain-
der, and is created duke of Lancaster with power of
chancery, 96, 101; his possessions in the hundred of
Salford, 107; disputes the privileges of the borough
of Manchester, 107.-JOHN OF GAUNT succeeds to the
dukedom and aids the attacks of Wycliffe against the
pope's supremacy, 113; orders the mendicant friars to
quit the duchy of Lancaster, 113; his power on the
death of Edward the Third begins to decline, 114; his
hostility towards the yeomen for seeking matrimonial
alliances with the gentry, 117; he withdraws his favour
from Wycliffe for his views relative to the Eucharist,
118; his son Henry of Bolinbroke is banished and he
dies from grief, 122.

Lancashire, disturbed state by the struggle for the repre-
sentative system, 63; Scottish wars during Edward the
First's reign, 78-9; much disturbed during the Wat
Tyler period, 116.

Langley, Thomas, bishop of Durham, his descent and his-
tory; is made cardinal, 126; his farther annals, 133;
supports the collegiating of the parish church of Man-
chester as a remedy for the abuses of patronage, 133;
his munificent acts, and his demise, 197.-[See also
Durham, Bishop of:]

Langton, Walter de, his descent and family, 68, 191; suc-
ceeds to William de Marchia in the living of Manchester,
68; is made high treasurer of England and bishop of
Lichfield, 69; resigns his living at Manchester, 69; ad-
ditional biographical notices of him, 191-2.
Latimer, Sir John, a connexion of the La Warres, 118;
reprimanded by the king for forwarding the petition of
the Lollards, 122; his dying charge, 124.

Leia, John de, chaplain of Manchester (?), 194.
Lenton, Cluniac abbey of, founded by William Peverell,
10; endowed by William Peverell the younger, 16*;
the cell of Kersall confirmed to it by Henry the Second,
21, and by John, 26.

License, royal for founding the college, 143-8.
Lichfield, Bishop of, petition to from the parishioners of
Manchester, 150-2; he presides in convocation, 153,
156; appoints commissaries, 157-8; declares the charter
of the foundation of the college, 161-5-[See Hei-
worth, William.]
Lichfield, Dean and Chapter of, in convocation over the
charter of foundation, 153; appoint a procurator, 158.
Lollards, i.e. Wycliffeites, in Lancashire, 121; petition
against church abuses, 121; various decrees against
them, 123; dispersion of scriptures, 124; the statute
framed against them De Heretico comburendo, 123;
precepts issued to the sheriff of Lancaster against them,
128; many brought to the stake, 128.
Longholt, Adam, a chaplain of Manchester, 100.
Lord's day, edict in Manchester against assaults then com-
mitted, 75.

Lumbard, Richard, parson of church of Holthyn, a co-
feoffee with the bishop of Durham, 126, 143.

Mamcestre, Roger de, chaplain of Manchester, 109.
Mancenion, or British Manchester, 1.
Mancunium, or Roman Manchester, 1, 30-1.
Manchester, Saxon, or Manigceastre, originally at Alport,
3; destroyed by the Danes, 4; Mancastle built by Ed-
ward the Elder, 4; town removed to a more northern
site, 5; its state in Anglo-Norman times, 30-1; its
jurisdiction based on the Saxon principle of residence
and mutual pledges, 32; privileges of soc, sac, &c., and
modes of punishment, 33, 188; manorial rents, markets,
mills, &c., 67; its charter, 73-76; its boundaries,
mills, agricultural state, ferries, fisheries, markets,
rental, and social state in 1322, 93-4; manor alienated
to the abbey of Dore, 86; reverts to John la Ware, 95;
manufactures introduced by the Flemings, 97; its in-
creased trade, population, and social state in the fifteenth
century, 129-32; documents relative to its municipal
history lately acquired by the corporation of Manches-
ter, 187.

Maderere, Robert, a procurator, 159.

Marchford, John de, has the living of Ashton, which he
resigns, 112.

Marchia, William de, is made rector of Manchester and
Ashton by usurping the rights of patronage, 68; is
made bishop of Bath and Wells and resigns his rectory,
68; is high treasurer of England in Edward the First's
reign, 83; plunders the monasteries and religious houses
for the support of the royal treasury, 191; his death
and interment, 83, 192.

Mary, Saint, church in the newer town of Manchester de-
dicated to, 4; Saint Mary's-gate leads to it, 5; endowed
by a Saxon thegn, 5; mentioned in Domesday Book, 9;
endowed by Albert Greslet, 18.-[See Fairs.]
Matthew, Saint, a chapel, or chauntry, dedicated to, 36,
and its supposed site, 39-40; is the same as Grelle's
Chauntry and Aca's Chapel, 39-40, 81.-[See also
Fair.]

Michael, Saint, the oldest Saxon church of Manchester
dedicated to, situated at Alport, and its supposed feast
of dedication, 3; mentioned in Domesday Book, 9; its
state of neglect, 19; discovery of stone relics which are
supposed to have belonged to it, 19-20, 25.-[See
Fairs.]

Mills of Manchester, Knute's mill or Knott mill, 4, a mill
gifted to the abbey of Swineshead, 15, and confirmed to
it, 20; mills in the thirteenth century, 67; in the four-
teenth century, 93.

Millgate, Old, its ancient state, 31.

Milnegate, Hugh de, a chaplain of Manchester, 88.
Milnegate, Richard of the, a chaplain of Manchester, 100.
Morton, Thomas, a procurator, 157.

Motte, Nicholas, parson of Swynesheued, a cofeoffee with
the bishop of Durham, 125-6, 143.

Nettleworth, Henry, rector of Assheton, 112.
Neville, Albert de, rector of Manchester, 26*; adjusts a
dispute for Robert Greslet, 26*, 84; his deed with John
de Buran, 27; was not dean rural as well as rector, 28;
his litigation with the monks of Kershal, 29-30.
Ninths, the clergy amenable for, what they were, and an
inquest in Salford relative to their assessment, 98-9.

Ordeshal, named Woden's Cave, 3; etymology of Orde-
shall, 11; described by Mr. Barrett, 11; religious object
of the cave, 12; its conversion to a Christian oratory
attributed to Cluniac monks, 10-1; surmises why all
historical traces of it are lost, 17*; lands of Ordeshal
conveyed to David de Hulton, 58; present effaced state
of the cave, 17*.

Orm-Eston, now Urmstone, 'confounded with Ashton-
under-Line, but corrected by Dr. Ormerod, 41-2.
Overton, John, a cofeoffee with the bishop of Durham,
125; his demise, 144.

Parish of Manchester, its Saxon origin and extent, 3; its
state in the twelfth century, 14; its increased population
and bounds in the fifteenth century, 135; an augmenta-
tion of Divine worship and a more efficient cure of souls
provided for by the foundation of the college, 162, 164.
Parishioners, their consent necessary to Thomas la Warre's
appropriation, 149; expressed in a petition to their
bishop, 150-2.

Patronage, rights of, invaded by the pope in his provisors
as well as by the king, 43, 58-9, 132; Peter Greslet
guards against this invasion, 61; Thomas Greslet de-
frauded of his rights by William de Marchia, 67, pa-
tronage is abused by the king applying the temporalities
of benefices to support the clergy who are employed in
offices of the state, 83; the national indignation against
the pope's invasion of the rights of patronage, and acts
framed against papal provisions, 100, 102; Wycliffe de-
clares against them, 103; the gross abuses of patronage
by spiritual and lay patrons themselves conjoined with
female influence are exposed by Wycliffe, who protests
against their simony, extortions of procuracy, misappli-
cation of tithes, grievances of spiritual courts, &c. &c.,
by which undeserving clerks are preferred to benefices,
103-5; patrons charged with disposing of benefices for
the purpose of remunerating by the emoluments thereof
such clerks as are employed by them in secular offices,
being to the neglect of parishes, 105; the pope relaxes
in his interference with patronage, 112; attempt of the
pope to revive provisions which is met by a confirmation
of the acts against them, 120; statutes against provi-
sors remitted, 132; the abuses of patronage from lay
patrons form the most powerful motive for collegiating
the parish church of Manchester, 132-3; the abuses are
recited in detail before the bishop of Lichfield, by which
he is induced to consent to the collegiating, 136-43; the
patron's consent necessary to the appropriation of the
Manchester church, 149, 164.