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servants of us or our heirs ; and from all other services, exactions, and 

 demands whatsoever. Aud that it may be lawful for the said Abbot and 

 Convent, and their successors, to enclose the said Pasture and to reduce it to 

 cultivation, or to make any other profit thereof, at their free will, without 

 contradiction or impediment of us or our heirs, saving to us and our heirs in 

 the aforesaid Pasture our right to hunt without injury or troubhng the said 

 Abbot and Convent of Whalley or their successors and servants, &c. To 

 these being witnesses, Master Henry de Walton, Archdeacon of Richmond ; 

 Hugh de Berewick, our Steward ; Henry de Trafford; Adam de Houghton ; 

 Nicholas le Botiller ; William de Clifton; Knight Richard de Ratcliffe, 

 William Lawrentz, John de Aluetham, and others. — Given at our Manor 

 House of the Savoy, near London, the twentieth day of February, in the 

 twenty-fifth year (1349) of the reign of King Edward III. from the conquest 

 of England, but of his Reign of France the twelfth." 



In the Patent Rolls, 20th Edward III. (1346 Sept. 15) it is 

 stated that John de Radeclyf, Robt. Oilstones, Robt. de Henclif, 

 forester, Robert de Catlowe, forester, Alan, son of Adam Greyeieson 

 of Staytburn, and others were purturbators of the Abbot of 

 Whalley, at Castleton, Blakebourn, and Brendwood in Rossendale. 



In the Rolls of the Duchy of Lancaster, during the time of the 

 same Duke Henry aforementioned, in the reign of King Edward 

 III., being the period of the first ducal administration, the following 

 references to Rossendale occur : — 



A Grant of a Lease of the Herbage of Musbury Park. 



In the loth year of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, there was an 

 Appointment of Justices to try Malefactors for Trespasses in the 

 Chases of Rowland, Penhull, Trowden, Rochdale, Rossendale, and 

 Romesgrene. After the death of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, 

 which occurred March 24th, 1361, an Inquisition was made by 

 Commission of King Edward III., before Henry de Haydok and 

 John Cockayn, of all the Lands and Tenements of which the Duke 

 was seised on the day that he died. 



This document is preserved amongst the records of the Court of 

 Chancery, and, along with other particulars, it is therein stated, 

 that the Chase of Penhull, [Pendle,] for herbage beyond the 

 feeding the Beasts of Chase, is worth by the year ^20 13s. 4d. 

 That the Chase of Trogden, [Trawden,] together with herbage and 



