Esq., of Newcroft and Fox-Denton, paid a chief rent of three shillings and two-pence to the Queen, in the right of her Duchy of Lancaster, for "the farm of Glodieth." In the tenth year of James the First, 1613, the estate of Glodith, otherwise Glodick, belonged to James Assheton, Esq., of Chadderton. The Asshetons appear to have gradually alienated the whole of their Glodwick property in the seventeenth century. In 1630, much of the land adjacent to the village had become the property of Thomas Cotterell, Esq., of London; and in 1670, Edmund Assheton, Esq., of Chadderton, sold the estate of Swine Clough to Adam Ogden, the elder. Amongst the principal inhabitants of Glodwick, in the seventeenth century, were Mr. James Andrew, in 1634, and Mr. Ralph Heap, in 1633. Mr. John Heap, maternal grandfather of Mr. Thomas Beckett, was living in 1783. Benjamin Dawson, of Oldham, fustian manufacturer and grocer, a descendant of James Dawson, of Turnough, in Butterworth, yeoman, acquired, by purchase, consider- able property in Glodwick, Oldham, and Hollinwood, in the early part of the last century. His kinsman, VVilliam Dawson, of Manchester, apothecary, was father of Captain James Dawson, whose romantic connexion with the rebellion of 1745 is so admirably commemorated by the pen of Shenstone, the poet. The Captain was, it appears, betrothed to a young lady, who, impelled by frenzy and despair, determined to accompany him to the scaffold, when he was executed on Kennington Common, July 30, I746. Summoning all her fortitude, she witnessed his fate with a calm and steady eye, but the effort was more than human nature could sustain :—

"The dismal scene was o'er and past,
The lover's mournful hearse retired ;
The maid drew back her languid head,
And, sighing forth his name, expired."

Mr. Benjamin Dawson, of Oldham, left two daughters, co-heiresses: Alice, the eldest, married James Dawson,

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