Adam de Bury, I

The manor of BURY was held of the lord of Tottington as one knight's fee. (fn. 24) The tenant bore the local surname, and in 1193–4 Adam de Bury offered 5 marks for having the king's good will after the rebellion of John, Count of Mortain. (fn. 25) Under Roger de Montbegon Adam de Bury, son of Ailward de Bury by his wife Alice de Montbegon, (fn. 26) in 1212 held the fee of one knight 'of ancient tenure'; (fn. 27) the formation of this holding may therefore date from the early part of the 12th century

26 In 1244–5 Adam de Bury laid claim to the Montbegon inheritance on the strength of this descent; the jury did not allow it, so that Alice may have been illegitimate; Assize R. 482, m. 17. Alice, wife of Eward (or Ailward) de Bury, received from her father, Adam de Montbegon, land in Tottington; Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 61.

27 Ibid. 60. Robert de Bury and Adam de Bury attested an Eccles Charter about 1205; Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc), i, 57. It is impossible to say how many Adams there were. Adam de Bury secured an acknowledgement of his right to a moiety of Shuttleworth in 1227; Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 49. He was one of the twelve knights engaged in the perambulation of the forest in 1228; Lancs. Pipe R. 420. A little later he confirmed land in Marland to Stanlaw Abbey; Whalley Coucher, ii, 593. He held the knight's fee in 1242; Inq. and Extents, i, 153. Four years later he recovered a small strip of land, probably on the boundary, against Geoffrey de Radcliffe; Assize R. 404, m. 3.

An Adam, son of Adam de Bury, appears in 1246 at Bradley, near Chipping, but he may be of another family; Final Conc. i, 102.

The king in 1250 ordered the sheriff not to place Adam de Bury on juries so long as he continued to be coroner; Close R. 64, m. 1. In 1251 Adam was one of the knights attesting the grant of Ordsall to David de Hulton; Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 347.

The rights of Adam's mill were in 1256 acknowledged by two of the tenants, who agreed to grind corn growing on the lands they held of him to the twentieth measure; but should Adam allow his mill to fall into decay then they were to be at liberty to grind elsewhere, without giving any multure to him; Final Conc. i, 120. Two years before this Adam had claimed suit of mill against various tenants; Curia Regis R. 154, m. 16, 17.

An Alexander de Bury made a grant of Gollinroyd about 1260; Ormerod, Parentalia, 43.

Adam de Bury was plaintiff and defendant in suits of 1277 and 1278; Assize R. 1235, m. 13; R. 1238, m. 31, 32; R. 1239, m. 37, 39. He was again plaintiff in 1281; Pat. 9 Edw. I, m. 14 d. Sir Adam de Bury and Adam his son attested a Barton charter before or about that time; De Trafford Deeds, no. 192.

In 1287 Anabel, widow of Adam de Bury, claimed a third part of the manor of Bury and advowson of the church, against Henry de Lacy; De Banco R. 67, m. 56. 

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