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other profits, is worth by the j'ear 104s. That the Chase of 

 Rossendale, with Accrington, for herbage and other profits beyond 

 the feeding of Beasts of Chase, is worth by the year ;^2o, 2s. The 

 Manor of Tottington, ^^29, 15s. i^d. ; and the Chase and Park 

 there, £,(>, 53. Also the herbage of the Wood at Hoddesden, 

 ^i, 9s. 6d. 



In the Register of John of Gaunt, under date 45th Edward III. 

 (1372,) June 14th, Savoy, is a "Warrant to Richard de Radchf, 

 our chief forester in Blakebournshire, to deliver to Robert Dyngeley, 

 Esquire, two harts of grease, in the Chace of Rossendale, and two 

 does in the Chace of Penhull." 



Two years later, in the same Rolls, under date " Hegham 

 Ferrers, July 20th, T. Banastre " appointed forester of our Chaces 

 of Penhill, Trowedon, and Rossyndal." This Tho. Banastre, as 

 appears by the saine Records, was drowned at sea (" commanded 

 to God by tempest in the sea") in the month of December, 1379, 

 (3rd Richard II.) 



In the Calender of Rolls of the Chancery of the County Palatine 

 of Lancashire, there is a precept dated the 1 2th year of Henry IV. 

 (141 1), addressed to the Sheriff of Lancashire, requiring him to 

 cause public proclamation to be made at the next ensuing Sessions 

 to be held at Lancaster, against hunting and killing deer in the 

 King's Forests of Bowland, Penhil, Rossyndale, and Trauden. 



The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey contains a 

 quittance or release (/■) for the tithes, amounting to ;^ii 13s. 4d., 

 of the grass land and pasturage for cattle in the closes (enclosures) 



(/;) The original is as follows : — Acquietantia pro herbagio in EoUand, 

 Penhull, et Rossendale. Nouerint universi p presentes nos Abbatem et 

 conuentum de Whalleye recepisse et habuisse die confectionis presentium de 

 Thoma Stanley milite receptore dni Regis in comitatu Lancastrie undecim 

 libras tresdecim solidos et quatuor denarios p decima herbagij et agistamenti 

 diuersorum clausorum in Bowland, Penhull, et Rossendale de anno ultimo 

 preterito terminat. ad festum sancti Michaelis ultim preterit. De quibz quid 

 ■em xj. libr. xiij. sol. et iiij. denar. fatemur nobis fore solut. diet, p dnum 

 Regem ac receptorem predictum inde esse quietos p presentes. In cuius re: 



