BUTLEY, a township in the parish of PRESTBURY,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER,
2 miles (N. by W.) from Macclesfield, containing 579
inhabitants. At the time Of the Norman survey, -this
place, then the property of one Ulluric, a Saxon freeman,
was exempted, and is consequently unnoticed in
Domesday-book, a mark of clemency which the owner,
who was allowed to continue in undisturbed possession,
probably acquired-by some signal'service to the Conqueror.
The manufacture of silk is carried on to some
extent. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists,
with a school attached, in which about one
hundred children are instructed. Some tumuli were
discovered in the vicinity a few years since. This is the
birthplace of Thomas' Newton, a distinguished writer
in the sixteenth century.