C I A N T omnes tam presentes quam futuri quod ego Alanus de Merland vendidi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmaui dño Rogero, constabulario Cestrie, totam tcrram meam de Merland in feudo et hereditate imppetuum, sicut eam melius et liberius et quietius unquam tenui vel habui p centum solidis argenti quos mihi dedit p omnib3 que ad me ptinent. Tenebunt autem prefatus Rogerus de Lascy et heredes sui predictam terram

* Marland, originally Merlond or Merland, from its mero or small lake, which has lately been drained, was a grange of the abbey of Whalley. The whole of the hamlet of Marland, containing 720a. 2r. Юр., was granted by tho crown, after the Dissolution, to Thurstan Tildesley, Esq., and Edward Jackman, Esq., by letters patent dated 1st July, 32 Henry VIII.; and they, on the 9th December, 1565,conveyed the same to Richard Radclyft'e, of Langley Hall, Gent., whose descendant sold it in 1631, after much curious litigation, to Robert Holte, of Castleton Hall, Esq. It afterwards passed with one of the coheiresses of James Holte, Esq., to Samuel Chetham, of Turton, Esq., and was sold, about 1776, to Thomas Ferrand, Gent.

The family of Marland continued to reside here as inferior gentry until the death of James Marland, Gent., in 1683, who had covenanted with Alexander Butterworth, Esq., on the 12th October, 1665, on selling him a moiety of Trinity Chapel within Rochdale Church, " for a seate to sit in while he lived and a buriall place at his death." This chapel was the joint foundation of his ancestor, Dr. Adam Marland, and Sir Randle Butterworth of Belfield, in 1487. — Lane. M&S. vol. xv. p. 165.

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libere et quiete cum ommb3 ptinentijs, in bosco, in plano, in vijs, in semitis, in pratis, in pascuis et pasturis, in aquis. in molendinis, in stagnis, in viuarijs, et in omтb3 locis et aisiamentis que ibi sunt vel fieri possunt. Reddend. annuatim dño meo Hugoni de Eland et heredib3 suis xl. denarios argenti ad festum sancti Martini, excepto forinseco seruicio dñi Regis et seruicio Hugonis de Eland predicte terre adiacente. Ego autem A. et heredes mei warantizabimus pre- fatam terram de Merland predicto dño Rogero et heredib3 suis vel quib3cunq. illam dare voluerint contra omnes homines, et tactis sacro- sanctis iuraui. quod non queram artem neque ingenium unde predic- tus dñus Rogerus et heredes sui vel quib3cunq. terram predictam dederit amittant. Et ut hec venditio firma sit et inconcussa, sigilli mei appositione eam confirmaui. Hijs testib3, dño R. comite Cestrie, Philippo de Orreby* Justic. Cestrie, Hug. et Galfr. de Dutton, Hug.f et Thom. Dispensar., Mich. balliuo dñi de Rach., Adam de Spotland, et multis alijs qui hec viderint et audierint.