descent from Adam de Tetlow, furnished to the country muster of soldiers during the reign of Elizabeth, 1574, one plate of coat armour, one long bow, one sheaf of arrows, one caliver (a handgun}, one steel cap, and one bill. His son's second son, Edmund Tetlow, gentleman, (son of Richard) who was of Coldhurst Hall, devised along, with his sen Edmund in 1640, two acres of land near Fog-lane, for the benefit of the poor of Oldham. Edmund Tetlow, the younger, probably gave name to Tetlow-fold, and was ancestor of the Tetlows, of Oldham, North-moor, Hollinwood, &c. The last of the male line of Tetlow, of Chamber Hall, was Robert Tetlow, gentleman, son of Richard and brother of Edmund, the elder; he contributed £5 1s. to the subsidy levied in the eighteenth yearof James the First, 1621. Mr. Richard John Tetlow, of Knottingly, Yorkshire, solicitor, author of an "Historical Account of Pontefract," 1769, son of the Rev. John Tetlow, B.A., is understood to have been related to this family. Jane, heiress of Robert Tetlow, gentleman, conveyed the property by marriage to a Mr. George Wood. John, the eldest son of this George Wood, is believed to have been the John Wood, of Prestwich, gentleman, who was required in 1646 to pay the sum of ten shillings into the public treasury. to redeem his estate of sequestration, owing to his disaffection to Parliament. John Wood, and his younger brother George, sold the estate in 1646, to Henry Wrigley, "a prosperous dealer in Manchester commodities, sent up to London," - these Manchester commodities were fustians, composed of Irish linen yarn and Cyprus cotton. Mr. Wrigley seems to have acquired his wealth in trade, and there is reason for supposing him to have rebuilt the mansion. In 1651 he served the office of High Sheriff of the county, as the substitute, it has been said, of Edmund Hopwood, Esq., who died during- his shrievalty. Mr.Wrig1ey was the grandson of Henry Wrigley, of Salford, a draper. He was appointed one of the Trustees, under the will of Humphrey Chetham, Esq., founder of Chetham's

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