The Marland Family

History in print

From Winifred Bowman; England in Ashton under Lyne (1960):

pp 60-61 The Ancient Manor: Hurst Hall

Another Nicholas de Hurst, and his wife Lucy, held the property in 1578. "Alis Hyurste", who came before the jury of this Court Baron, in 1609, was presumably .his niece. "Alis Hyurste uppon her othe sayeth that Osten Bardsley hade a trie [tree] out of Marlande grounde, and went for the tree downe hurste lanne and her unckell ould Nicholas Hurste touke a staffe and stayed him, then the said Osten Desyred him to let him come, and hee woulde trouble him noe more, and then her unckle went to ould Henrye Marland, And willed him to Joyne with him, that the[y] mighte sele a Locke upon the yate, and ether of them to have a keye to houlde out the reste, but the said Henrie would not. . ."

pp. 66-67 The Ancient Manor: Notes and Items on Tenure of the Estates

1671 The following document, entitled "Release for Ten Shillings of Asheton under lyme to Sir James Langham, Bart.", is actually no more than an instance of the method, adopted by lawyers of that period, known as "trade and release". By this they succeeded in avoiding the law that sales of freehold estates must be enrolled in Quarter Sessions at the Courts in Westminster, to prevent attempts to by-pass the regulations of the Statute of Westminster - passed with the intent to regain royal revenues from feudal dues. By such a bargain and sale, or "trade", as below, at a nominal rent, a leasehold tenancy, here entered upon, would be released.

This Indenture ... 13th June Ann: Dom: 1671 ... Between the Rt. Hon^ble George, Lord Delamere, Baron of Dunham Massey, and Nathaniel Booth of Mottram St Andrews ... Esq ... of one part, and Sir James Langham of Cottesbrooke in the Co. of North'ton, Knight and Baronett, of the other part ...

[lands including] all that the Mannor or Lordship of Asheton under lyme in the Co. of Lancs. with all its Royalties and Appurtenances, And all the messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, whatsoever ... in the Townes Fieldes, hamlets, parish and precincts of Asheton Towne, Audenshaw Moorside, Little Mosse, Waterhouses, Woodhouse, Knottlanes and Parke, Alt, Alt Hill, Lees, Crossbancke, Broadcarre, High Knowles, Lannehead, Smalshaw cum Hurst, Mosseley, Luzeley, Ridghill cum lanes and Manchester ... That is to say -

11. All that mess: or ten: and 18 acres in tenure and occ. of John Marland.

p.70 et seqq The Ancient Manor: The Custumal and Rental of Assheton subtus Limam

[Bowman discusses at some length the transcription history of this archive, which has been quoted by Butterworth and Corry, inter alios, and seems now to have vanished. It consisted of the following documents:]

A Covenant made in the 3rd year of Richard II (June 22nd 1379 to 21st June 1380) between Sir John Assheton and his tenants regarding their swine.

[contains no names]

The list of Free-Tenants under the days when their rents were due ... in or before 1397

[84 names; contains no Marlands]

Covenant made in the 1st year of Henry IV (September 30th 1399 - September 29th 1400 between Sir John de Assheton and his Free Tenants and Tenants-at-Will re the Corn Mill

[contains no names]

The Free Tenants that maken Fine yearly for the making of the milne were, &c. [n.d.]

[1 personal name; contains no Marlands]

The Londes and the Tenements the which is had within he Lordship of Ashton for the term of Life [In or before c. 1402 ...]

[5 names; contains no Marlands]

This is the Rental of Thomas of Assheton, Son and Heir to Sir John Assheton, of the lands and tenements, the which the said John gave him at his marriage, within the Lordship of Assheton, and to his wife, as their deed makes mention [married 1415]

[11 names; contains no Marlands]

The rent-roll of John de Assheton tempus First of Henry the Sixth A.D. 1422

[contains no names]

Rentale tenent ad voluntatem de doma de Assheton Anno Regni Regis Henri Sexti primo [1422] [rental of copy-holders]

[125 names; contains no Marlands]

Rentale Liber tenent de Dome de Assheton sub Lima Anno Suprado solvend ad six Terminos annl &c.

[30 names; contains no Marlands]

The Gyst Ale of the Towne of Assheton

[6 names; contains no Marlands

p. 81 The Ancient Manor: Notes on the Rental and Custumal, Etc.

Unfortunately, in no case does our Rental and Custumal give a full list of both free tenants and tenants-at-will, in this manor, for any one year - so that the full population here, at any period between 1379 and 1425 (e.g.), is not revealed by this transcript. Many families which were tenants of the de Staveley lords, either in their own manor or in the lands these lords held in Quick Mere and Lords Mere in Saddleworth, or in their territory about the village of Mottram-in-Longdendale may also have been tenants-at-will of Ashton-under-Lyne in 1397, or free-tenants in 1422. If not already here, many of these families certainly became tenants of Ashton soon after this; many others doubtless came this way when the de Staveley possessions passed to the lords of Ashton-under-Lyne ca. 1471, so that there is good reason to note, here, some of the families which, in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, were our "next door neighbours", holding land just across from the eastern border of this manor. They were as follows:

1397... The families of ... Marland ("Merchelond", later "Merlond", "Henry", "Magot" and "John de"); ...

[It is unfortunate that Bowman does not give precise sources for this information]

pp. 111-112 The Manorial Lords

On July 27th, 1513, Sir Thomas [Assheton] placed his manors of Ashton-under-Lyne and Alt, and the advowson of the Church, in the hands of feoffees ... to be the executors of Sir Thomas' will, which he completed on July 20th, 1514, dying on the following day.

Extracts from the Will ... :

my feoffez ... shall make an Astate of all that mease [homestead] place & lands in Asshton ... nowe in the holdyng of my Bastard broder Sethe Asshton ... [also shall] make an Astate sure in the lawe to Gervase Newton, Alexandr Asshton son of Nicholas Asshton, Willm. Stafford & Henry Merlond ... of the yerely value of xx^s Above chargs for tym  liffs ... [similarly] to Arthure Tetlawe & John Tetlawe son of the seid Arthure, to Ayther for tyme of ther sevall Lyves of londs & ten'ts in Assheton ... to the yerely value of xxvi^s viij^d Above chargs ... [similarly] A sure Astate sevally to Thomas Merlond & Rauff Clayden for ... ther lyffs ... in Assheton ...
 

p. 113 The Manorial Lords

24th Henry VIII. Elizabeth Assheton suffered a recovery by Ralph Chetham and Henry Marland of "a moiety of the manor of Staveley 20 (or 30) mess.; 600 ac. land; 80 ac. meadow; 200 ac. pasture; 80 ac. wood; 100 ac. heath and turf, a moiety of one water-mill, and a moiety of one fulling mill, in Staveley, Newton, and Mattely" (Plea Rolls, m. 14.)

p.138 Endowment and Glebe

Extract from the "Ecclesiastical Terrier" of 1663:
"A true and perfect note and Terrier of the Glebe Lands and other possessions belonging to the Rectorie of Assheton under Lyne in the Countie of Lancaster, and diocese of Chester.. . the one and Twentieth day of September In the Fifteenth yeare of the Reigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles the second, by the grace of God etc. . . . Anno Dmi. 1663, by Thomas Ellison Master of Arts and Rector of the sayd Rectorie, Robert Knott, Samuell Jenkinson, John Haywood, and John Hardman, Yeomen, Churchwardens of the sayd Towne and parish for the yeare last past. Richard Cocke, William Stopford, Ott’well Worrall, and John Marland, Yeomen, Chwdns.

p. 165 The Old Church and its Great Parish

Not many months passed, following the taking of this private Inventory*, before the rector, with his four churchwardens — Nicholas Lees (Robert Cock’s cousin), Randall Hulton (of Sunderland Hall), Henry "M’keland" (probably "Marland"), and Gregory Bould — was called upon to receive the King’s Commissioners 34 in our parish church, and to display and record for their benefit all its remaining treasures. These were listed as comprising "iij Coopes [copes] whereof twoo be of Crymson velvet, one other of old grene sylk. Itm. iilj vestim’tes whereof ij are of sylke & other ij of satten of brigges [Bruges] embrowded with flowres & other iiij vestime’tes of saye and buscian embrowded, wt albe and amesse [amice] for ev’y vestime’t.

*Headed "Assheton", the Inventory was made Sept. 27, 1552. lt is preserved at P.R.O., and quoted in Vol. cvii, Chetham Society, O.S. Although the Commissioners directly responsible for this Hundred were Sirs Edmund Trafford, John Atherton, John Holcroft, and Thomas Holt, neither Richard Hoghton (who had a share in the advowson of this church) nor Ralph Assheton are likely entirely to have absented themselves from a parish in which both had such strong interest. See p. 66, Hoghton’s claim against Holcroft.
 

p. 169 The Old Church and its Great Parish

The custom of seat-holding, in those parishes having tenants sufficiently wealthy to afford it, seems to have begun soon after the Reformation. There is no evidence of the custom existing here before the 18th century. In 1592, at the Visitation of the Bishop of Chester, is noted, "The office against Mr. John Booth, for taking up a Pew in the Church bie reporte. He appeared, and because it was shewn that it was done under the approval of the Dean, the Judge discharged Mr. Booth and warned him as to the future". This was probably a former chantry or a chancel pew. By Will, 1728, John Marland of Twarle Hill devised "Two Seats in Ashton Church to Obadiah Marland and his Heirs for ever being Interlined". (Presumably it was the seats and not the heirs which were so comfortably upholstered!) In 1719 two churchwardens, William Robinson and George Knight were granted leave by the Bishop of Chester, to erect a gallery on the south side of the church, eleven yards long and five and a half yards wide, and to "dispose of the seats therein".

p. 185 The Old Church and its Great Parish

[Rev. John] Harrison next resided for some time in Salford, afflicted greatly by rheumatism and becoming partially a cripple. From thence he returned to Ashton, where he appears to have had a house which he held free of rent or service (see Chapter 6), and where he resided until his death. The Parish Registers twice mention him: Once when he witnessed the wedding of "John Marland of Broad Carr" who was married at Denton February 1655/6; and "2nd Jan. 1670 [1671] Mr. John Harrison, late Rector of this Church, dyed the last day of December about 4 Clocke afternoone".

p. 187 The Old Church and its Great Parish

The Will of Alice Duckenfield of Taunton Hall, written in 1616, was witnessed by "Robert Parker. Thos. Jackson. Edmd. Schofielde", i.e. rector, curate, and parish clerk, in that order. Edmund Schofield, or "Scholefield", was proud of his long service in this church. He entered up the parish registers, with a further reference to his position, in October 1619, "the wif of Roger Marland of Hurst, aunt to me Ed. Sch.", buried.

p. 198 Churchwardens of this Parish 1640-1658

1640. John Barrett, William Marland, Robt. Newton, George Bardsley
1646. Thomas Cock de fflatts, Ralph Wood de Audenshaw, Ottiwell Worrall, John Marland

p. 203-4 The Faith of our Fathers

In 1765 James Marland, one of the constables of Ashton, "Pd. John Cheetham for Repairing Tomson Cross": four years earlier James Ousey, constable, had expended one shilling on the same good work. Probably horses and carriages collided with the cross from time to time, as they struggled down old Rosbottom to the bridge. With the additional expense of "Sills and Spurs at the same time" James Marland’s expenses came to the high amount of 9s. 9d. The base of the older cross was placed in the dingle, in Stamford Park, when, in 1893, a new cross was erected. This was unveiled by Miss Mary Harrison of West Hill, on June 2nd, 1893.
 

p. 208 Will of William Thomson, clarke and P'son of y^e churche of Asheton und' [Sept 1553]

To Henry Marland a riall of gold.

p.221 The Faith of our Fathers

At the following January [1652/53] meeting, Mr. Harrison brought before the classis the case of the misbehaviour of Elizabeth Bardsley, George Marland, and Ann Chadwick, all of his parish, that it might consider whether they should be excommunicated!

February 8th, 1652. "George Marland appeared before the Classe and did confess his comitinge the foule and scandalouse sinn of adulterie and fornication with Ann Chadwick, to whom, since, hee is married, pretending thereby to excuse her appearance [see below]." Elizabeth Bardsley still refused to appear before the Elders. The meeting further agreed that there should be an "exercise", or service of solemn prayer, held at Ashton-under-Lyne on March 29th, at which both Mr. Richard Hollingworth and Mr. Meeke should preach. (It was evidently felt that our parishioners were becoming bold, and careless in welldoing, and that ministers known to be "strong in prayer" should "wrestle with them".) The case of George Marland, above, is illuminating. It appears that he and Ann Chadwick had been guilty of the sins with which they were changed, but had attempted to avoid censure by persuading someone, other than a Justice of the Peace, to marry them. Feeling unable to deal with this situation, the congregational assembly had put the matter before the Classis. The latter body considered that the fault of these two persons had been seriously increased by their later act, and ordered the Eldership at Ashton to meet and publicly excommunicate them both. This was done on February 23rd. Before the month was out, George Marland appeared before the Classis — which alone had power to revoke the sentence — "manifestinge great sorrow for his sinns", and, one Elder "certifieing with him and his wife of theme publick and satisfactonie acknowledgement" of his faults, the Classis received the couple back into favour. In another case—that of William Hardy and his wife, who were charged solely with having lived together as man and wife without having been married according to Presbyterian rule — the Classis met with stronger resistance. Like many others, this couple had chosen to be married in secret by the old ceremony and style, and now flatly refused to divulge to the Classis by whom, when, or where, this was done. The Elders ordered them to be married by the recognised form, and to this the husband might have agreed — being the weaker character of the two — but the wife was adamant in her flat refusal to have the marriage resolemnised, saying that to do so would be as good as to agree that she and her husband had been living in sin. The pair were declared guilty of fornication, the Classis recording, "He acknowledgeth that it is a great sin, but asserts that she is his wife before God". Such incidents did the church little good in the eyes of the people.

pp.241-245 The Faith of our Fathers: The Oath of and the Signatories to the Solemn League and Covenant [1643]

For reformacon and defence of Religion the honour and happinesse of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland

The names of the Inhabitants within the parrish of Ashton under lyne and lodgers there, as we have taken, and subscrybed their hands unto the within written League and Covenant.

John Marland [Constable]

Asheton Towne: Georg Marland alls Eyres his marke
Asheton Towne: Thomas Marland his marke

Parke [i.e. Wood Park]: Caleb Marland marke

Hurste: William Marland his marke

Hurste : Thomas Marland

p.258 Defence and War: Weapons and Men

The weapons to be supplied by tenants of the Town Division, according to the covenant made by them at the date (given) when they leased their property and still in force in 1667, are shown below:

"Ashton Towne" 1667.
George Marland, 1636, 1 H[alberd]

p. 279 Defence and War: Hartshead Pike

We do not know whether Hartshead was always a beacon hill. In pre-Roman times it may well have been a height used for sun-worship or for astronomical calculation. F. T. Stubbs, of Oldham, gave good reason for supposing that the beacon hill of "Bucton Castle", lying almost opposite Hartshead across the river, may have been used in past ages for a temple of sun-worship and a solar observatory. He had noted that many stone circles were placed "not on hill tops but in places giving a view of the sun at the summer solstice, rising above conspicuous features of the landscape". He names Alphin as the critical point on the horizon which (from Bucton Castle) is the point of sunrise on the longest day, so that a very definite purpose is suggested by the idea that Bucton became a peak of importance as being the point marking one end of a solar sighting-line. (On June 21st, 1951, the author made an effort to test this theory in regard to Hartshead, and found that when standing on the original site of the beacon — now marked by mill-stones from the Marland’s old sand mill — a straight line from this spot to the point of sunrise on that day passed through the meeting-place of the three old paths near the "Collier’s Arms" inn and ran straight across over Brown Edge to the stone marking the Ordnance Survey datum line at the Edge’s highest point, from behind which stone — although the latter is, of course, not visible from the Pike — the sun had appeared to rise.)

p. 308 Hostelries and Alehouses

So late as June 1771, when the stone and delf mines on and about Brown Edge, formerly tenanted by Obadiah Marland, were leased by Mary, Dowager Countess of Stamford, to James Marland, his successor, the lease included the stipulation that he should pay "the Sum of tow shillings for every gallon of Ale or other Liquor made of Corn, Malt, or Grain, that has not been ground at her mills".

p.353 Transport, Traffic and Communication

..."to make sufficient passage" in "the highe waye in Cawell lane", but in 1710 two property owners there were ordered "to Make a sufficient and passable Cartway Through the said Cowhill Lane. . .", whilst three years later the "Inhabitants of Ashton Towne" were warned "to make a sufficient Cartway betweene the end of their Towne all along the Cowell Lane to the brooke called Hurst Brook . . . Sarah Marland . . . Mr. Hurst and John Higginbotham to take att the said brooke and make a sufficient cartway through every one of theire devisions before the next Court Leete in 3s. 4d."
 

p. 357 Transport, Traffic and Communication

Ashton January 10th, 1776:
Whereas George Clark Esq., has indicted the whole Parish of Ashton Under Lyne for the repair of the road within the Hamlet of Audenshaw, which usually belonged to the Inhabitants of the said Hamlet to repaier, and by that Means, the Parishioners of Ashton aforesaid are precluded from becoming witnesses to prove the seperate Lengths and Portions belonging to them AND as George Clark Esq. aforesaid has promised to withdraw his Indictment on Condition he is indemnified and all the Expences incurred by such Indictment discharged NOW to facilitate this Business with the greater readiness and Dispatch WE whose names are hereunto subscribed being the major part of the Inhabitants Assembled in Vestry, the same being legally convened do agree to indemnify the said George Clark and support at the joint and publick expence the Manager of this Business as Witness our Hands, Miles Greaves, John Saxon, Isaac Sevill, Josiah Birch, David Holt, James Cooke, John Cradock. John Brown, John Mayall, Jas. Marland, Joseph Higginbottom, Samil. Heape, John Street, Jonah Harrop, John Lees, Jonah Andrew, Joseph Wrigley, John Shaw, John Ogden, John Heap, John Andrew, John Wright, Aaron Ogden, James stopford, Henry Taylor, Robt. Hyde, James Bardsley, James Smith, Margaret Lees, John Mayall, Thomas Stopford

p. 434-436 Craft, Trade, and Industry: Freeholders

A List of all the Freeholders within the Town and Parish of Ashton Underlyne in the County of Lancaster who are proper Persons to serve as Jurors at the Assize and Quarter Sessions for the year [1776]

Park : Jno. Marland, Yeoman
Heartshead [sic] : Jas. Marland, Carrier

Sworn at Ashton Underline [sic] in the said County the Thirty-first day of December, 1776 by James Stopford Constable there, Before me
[L.R.O., Q.D.F./2/5. (5).]
 

p. 473 Craft, Trade, and Industry: Other Types of Mines

The right to get stone, and the preservation of fair opportunity to do so as between tenant and tenant, was jealously guarded. A Court Leet verdict, of October 1709, states, "Information is Given to us that Andrew Robertson hath Gotten Stone beyond his Terme, to the prejudice of the Lord of this Leet and his Tenants". He was ordered to "Cease Immediately"!

In 1761, "a mine or delf in Robt. Hyde’s tenament in Knott Lanes" was leased from the lord of the manor; three years later "Mines or Delfs of Slate and Flag, in Haslehurst, Mossley, Luzley, Alt-Edge, Lees, Woodpark, and Crossbank" were let, in one lease, at £5 per annum. The "Personalities" recorded in the Poor Rate Assessment, 1777-8, shew:—

Jas. Marland for stone mine on Brown Edge ... 4/3.
Henry Lees exors. for stone & slate mines in Mosley, Luzley, & Haslehurst 14/2.
Jonah Harrop for stone mine at Bardsley ... 1/5."

The Marland family held and worked the stone on Brown Edge for several centuries, the lease passing from father to son or near relative. In 1709 John Marland (at whose wedding our Puritan rector, John Harrison, was a witness) lived at Twarle Hill. By Will, made in that year, he bequeathed the right of working this white stone (by grinding it to sand, etc.) as his forefather, Miles Marland, had worked it in 1618, from the old homestead called "Top o’ th’ Heights" near the crest of the Edge. "I, John Marland of Twarle Hill within the parish of Ashton under Lime, yeoman, being Old and Infirm of Body, but of Sound and Perfect Mind ... by an old Indenture of Assignment — I did grant, Demise, etc. ... unto Obadiah Marland of Hartshead, Nephew, ... all that parcel of Ground called the Brown Edge, Together with the Privilidge of getting and selling the white stone on Brown Edge, ... or at any other Delf within the parish of Ashton under Lime... for 21 years, to Commence the Day next after my Decease, the said Obadiah Marland paying the yearly rent of ffive pounds." On the expiration of the allotted term, the right was to pass to James, the testator’s brother. The latter received a lease (or a renewal), in 1771, from the widowed Dowager Countess of Stamford, in which the actual sites of working are named: "the lands and rights formerly in the possession of Obadiah Marland, deceased, i.e. the Light Birch, the Brown Edge, and the Moor ffield". The lease included a stipulation that the tennant should pay "ten shillings in lieu of an heriot". The Marland family was still working these "mines" or quarries in 1840.
 

p. 503 The Struggle for Human Rights: The Chartists

[1832] August 25th. Quarter Sessions records show that, on this day, a mob of between 4,000 and 5,000 persons gathered outside Wanklyn’s silk mill, at the bottom of Booth Street. Matthew Maiden, special constable, stated that the magistrates arrived between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. and the military were called out. James Jowett, Esq., then read the Riot Act, whilst the crowd shouted and howled and threw stones at magistrates and soldiers. Samuel Marland, another special constable, deposed that he saw "the principal rioter, John Winterbottom ... he was in Booth Street, which leads from Old Street to the Park Parade, down the steps at the end of Wood & Harrops factory".
 

p. 521 The Root of Local Rating — The Poor Laws

Petition to the Earl of Derby as Lord Lieutenant from Ashton Vestry Meeting 2 May 1742 for Poor Law business to be done before magistrates at Manchester or Ashton rather than Rochdale.
Signatories include: Obadiah Marland Mark
 

pp 531-534 The Root of Local Rating — The Poor Laws

A copy of the Assessment lay’d and appointed in the Fifteenth year of the Reign of James the First, 1618; called the Fifteenth Book, for the Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, together with the number of Acres in every Inhabitants holding, as’ the same was lay’d and appointed to remain a precedent for the whole parish.

 

Hartshead	Miles Marland	4 acres	½d
Hartshead	John Marland	13 acres	2d
More in Common		½ acre
Hurste or Hirst or Hurst	Roger Marland	60 acres	2½d
More for the Park			4d
	William Marland	21 acres	3d
	Miles Marland	1¼ acre	1½d
More on New Ground	John Marland		1½d

p. 537 Old Homesteads: Domestic and Social Life

At a Sessions at Manchester, in February 1623, John Chadwick of Ashton-under-Lyne was charged with the theft of a frying-pan from "the house of Mr Wilcox in Ashton", which he had then tried to sell to two other parishioners — Elizabeth Marland and Elizabeth Gartside. Chadwick admitted that he and a friend, named Cocker, had gone to Mistress Wilcox’s house one night, and Thomas Cocker "Wth a little knife Wch he then had tooke downe a glasse windowe" in order to reach inside and obtain the pan.

p. 552 Old Homesteads: Domestic and Social Life

Games of dicing, and card games, were the indoor recreations of the late mediaeval and Tudor manorial lords, gradually becoming those of the people in general also and never losing their attraction. In 1778, our churchwardens paid 7s. to "Robert Marland for writeing the notice against Gameing". It must have been a lengthy notice, for the writer was very highly paid!

p. 557 Old Homesteads: Domestic and Social Life

An inventorie taken the xvii jth daye of November Anno regni Elizabethe regina [etc.] xxxiijo [1590] of all the goodes and chattells of John Cocke late of the parishe of Ashton under lyne in the countye of Lancaster, husbandman, deceased:

Item Richard Shuter for iiij suttes of th[e] dede Md. that I have three yeares occupacionne in the j clouse of Myles Marlaundes, ij yeares to pasture and one [to] sowe

p. 569 Local Poets and Writers: Edwin Butterworth

I am unable to account for a roughly written will (owned and shewn to me by J. Marland, Esq., of Broadoak Road) by which Margaret Butterworth of Oldham (née Hyde) disposed of her goods, with the consent of "my husband James Butterworth" who was witness to and executor of the testament (December ‘7th, 1816). She was formerly the wife of a man named Smith, by whom she had a son Samuel, and two daughters, Esther and Mary, all then living. By her second marriage she had a daughter, Mary Ann Butterworth. Her first husband seems to have been a joiner by trade. Her sister, "Mary Hyde" (see relationship between families of Hyde of Alt Hill, Hartshead, etc., and Marland), was executor jointly with James Butterworth.
 

p.579 Local Government: Subsidy Rolls

1524 Lay Subsidy, Assheton:

Henry Merland [Marland] assessed in lands £3; tax paid 3s
Thomas Merland assessed in lands £3, tax paid 3s

1541 Subsidy Roll, Assheton and Moston
Thomas Marland for xl^li in goods xx^s
Henry Marland for xx^li in goods x^s
 

p. 597 Local Government: The Lagh-Mote

Quarter Sessions records of 1602, state that, at "Assheton" [Ashton-underLyne], on November 10th, 1601, Henry Taylor (of Ashton-under-Lyne) husbandman, entered the close of John Marland, called Laugher Meydowe, and made a footpath across it. Eighteen acres, held by John Marland, were amongst the estates excepted from interference or transfer when Lord Delamere "released" the manor of Ashton-underLyne to Sir James Langham, Bait, for ten shillings (a legal move, made in 1671).

p. 602 Local Government: Churchwardens

Additional extracts from the Churchwardens’ Accounts
1778. "pd. Robert Marland for writing the Notice against gameing 1/-."

p.607 Local Government: The Constables and the Watch

Ordinarily the Leet jury found it quite easy to order the parish to reimburse any constable who had been obliged to expend more than he had received (although, on occasion, a certain niggardliness seems to have influenced its members); e.g. Michaelmas Court 1644, "Wee have received the accounts of Robert Knott, John Marland, and Ottiwell Worral, Constables, in Anno dni 1644 [1643-44] of which accompts wee doe approve and wee find Robert Knott is indebted to our parish l1~ 9’ 6’, John Marland is indebted to our parish 0" 10’ 9d , likewise wee find our parish is indebted to Ottiwell Worrall 0" 18’ 8".

p.607 Local Government: The Constables and the Watch

In the spring of 1725, Ashton-under-Lyne Court Leet ordered that "Matthew Hague and Robert Marland do Pay Samuel Andrew the Antiant and usuall waighes [wages] for Watching for them, they Refusing and Denying to Watch, Contrary to the Statutes".

p.609 Local Government: The Constables and the Watch

June 24th, 1620. "Pd. for hue & cry from Ashton after Edward Hudson for killinge a man.. . 8d.", is the Manchester record — whilst our own parish registers record the burial of "Henry Marland who receyved his death wound att one blowe given by Edward Hudson with a yard Pule on the Saterday at nighte last paste on Newton Heath as they came from Manchester and lived till Munday about 3 of the clocke and was buried the day after, 12 June".
 

p.617 Local Government: The Constables and the Watch

Our Constables’ Accounts shew that, in 1723, the "Old Stocks" were sold to James Marland at the humble charge of one shilling.

p. 622 Local Government: Flood

Again, selfish residents would (perhaps excusably!) try to prevent the drainage from their neighbours houses and stables from taking its natural flow to the nearest ditch, and since there was not, of course, even primitive sewerage in Ashton-under-Lyne at or before the beginning of the 19th century, it was essential that objectionable liquid should quickly drain to the nearest channel which would carry it away. "Thomas Holt . . . shall not stop Josiah Leech water, that Comes out of his stable, nor Cause it to be Stoped, Butt it shall Goe Through the Throughe [trough] and Downe away by yC Side of Josiah Building and so into Dan. Prestwich Ditch", April 1722. October 8th, 1756, "James Marland to Open his Sough Lying by the side of the workhouse Backside so as to Take the Water down the Antient Course".

p. 623 Local Government: Flood

1713 "make 2 sufficient Bridges one over the smallbrooke [Smallshaw Brook], the other over the Gam Roade brooke att William Marland’s" (near Gambrel Bank), etc., etc.