Glodwick whether considered originally as the single dwelling of a Saxon freeholder, or as a group of small tenements held under one common owner, is a place of great antiquity. As early as the reign of' Edward the First, 1272-1307, Adam de Glothie held lands in thanage under the king. as already alluded to; and in 1311, the lands of Clodyke, or Clodick, were held by Hugo de Allerton, or Atherton, in fee of the honour of Lancaster. John Radclyffe, Rector of Bury (second son of Robert de Radclyffe, of Radcliffe Tower), who was living in the sixteenth year of Edward the Third, 1343, married Margaret, the daughter and heir of an individual whose name is not recorded in the Radcliffe pedigree, but who is described as the lady of divers lands in Gloditch. This heiress was probably a daughter of Hugo de Atherton, who seems to have been erroneously stated in Percival's MSS. as the holder of thirty·six acres in Glodwick, in the seventh of Henry the Fifth. 1420. John Radcliffe, Rector of Bury, was father of John Radcliffe, Esq., who married Mary, the heiress of William Chadderton, Esq., of Chadderton, and who was grandfather of Sir John Radcliffe, Knight, whose son, Richard or John Radcliffe, Esq., left three daughters, co-heiresses: Joan married Edmund Assheton, Esq., apparently about l470; Margaret, married Ralph Standish, Esq., of Standish; and Elizabeth, married Robert Radcliffe. Esq., of the Radcliffes, of Ordsall. The property at Glodwick was alternately held by the descendants of these co-heiresses. In the twenty-eighth year of Henry the Eighth, 1537, a court was held at Chadderton, before Ralph Standisshe, Edmund Assheton, and Thomas Radcliffe, Esqrs., in the rolls of which are lists of` all the free tenants of each of the Lords in Glodyght. In 1540, Alexander Standisshe held the messuage of Glodyth, and in the same year, Ralph Standyshe held Glodethe. In 1547, Ralph Standyshe, minor, held Glodythe. The place was subsequently in the hands of the Radcliffes, for in the reign of Elizabeth, 1558-1603, Richard Radcliffe,

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