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heather, ao that it became a homestead. In the 81st year of 

 King Henry the Eighth, or about 1540, John Woodrofe, the wife 

 of John Robinson, John MankelL Jacob Ballard, Jacob Hugyn, 

 Peter Verley, Thomas Verley, Jacob Hartley, John Robinson and 

 Miles Crabtree paid a rental averaging 8s. a year each (£4 for 

 the whole) for the whole of Barley. Higham Booth (Higham 

 Bothe) had ten farmers, Hugh, Christopher and John More, 

 Robert, Radus, George, Richard and Jacob Hargreaves, Hugh 

 Parker and Edmund Emmot, altogether they paid £5 in rent for 

 Higham. There is a place called Higham Cloyse, cloyse or close 

 is a field which Nicholas Hankok had all to himself for £3 a 

 year. Sir John Towueley (the ghost Towneley) had the whole of 

 Ightonhill Park and paid £15 a year. The same Sir John had 

 the whole of Felecloyse (Filly close) and paid a yearly rent of 

 £5 6s. 8d. Pillyclose, now a township, was a large tract of land 

 nsed for the rearing, protecting and perhaps breeding of foals. 

 The rearing of horses in this district (Pendle) was a matter of 

 great importance to the Earl, as he was often called upon to 

 supply horses for the service of the King in war. In the com- 

 potus of Ightenhill in 1296 there is an item paid to two men 

 for keeping foals in the stable ten weeks 7s. 6d. Selling foals, 

 halters bought for them and expenses of those who helped to 

 hold and take them, 5s. 2Jd. There is New Laund and Old 

 Laund — a laund is grass land and we get our word lawn from it. 

 In 1540 New Laund had three tenants, Elias Nutter senior and 

 junior, and Robert Nutter, and paid £3 yearly. Old Laund had 

 two tenants, John Robinson and John Hugyn. At Westcloyse, 

 otherwise Hunter Holme, at this time there were four tenants, a 

 Robert, John (senior and junior) Cronkshaw, and John Croke, 

 they paid £4 a year for West Close. Over Roghleghis (upper 

 Ronglalee) nether Roghleghis (Lower Roughlee,) there are 15 

 tenants paying £6 13s. 4d. There are three Robinsons, three 

 Baldwins, three Smiths, a Nutter, Mytton, Bybby, Hurst, Har- 

 greaves and Hartley. Over and Nether, that is Higher and 

 Lower, Barrowford in 1296 a John Del Baroforde gets 10s. 

 allowed from his rent of the vaccary that he holds (probably because 

 he is sick and unfortunate.) In the time of Earl Lacy what are 

 now townships were probably vaccaries, that is places for the 

 feeding, guarding, and production of cattle, the same year that 

 John Del Baroforde gets 10s. remitted from his rent, he sends in 

 a statement of his vaccary, he does not go himself (he is pro- 

 bably ill) but sends Thomas son of Alan and he renders his 

 compotus of 36 cows and one bull of the remainder (that is of 

 what he had last time he delivered his returns of cattle census), 

 and nine of addition and 1 received from the instaurator. total 46 

 cows and one bull, of which he counts two delivered to Simon 

 le Geldherde and four to the instaurator ; 40 cows and one bull 



