INDEX 



A. 



Abb o' th' Yate, baptized, 270. 



Abbot, Philip, Incumbent of New- 

 church, 161. 



Accounts of the Greave of the Forest, 

 108; Bridle for Scolds, lU; 

 Preston House of Correction, 116; 

 Finger or Guide Posts, 117 ; 

 Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, 118 ; 

 Trophy Money, 118 ; The Plague in 

 France, 119 ; Runaway Sailors, 120 ; 

 RebelUonof 1745, 120; Taking of 

 Carlisle, 123 ; Taking of Stirling, 

 123 ; Stocks at Goodshaw, 127 ; Sab- 

 bath-breaking and Profane Swear- 

 ing, 128 ; The Town Box, 129 ; 

 Stocks at Bacup, 130; Impressing 

 for the Navy, 130 ; Dungeons, 131 ; 

 War with Franco, 132; MUitia, 

 132 ; Peace of Amiens, 133 ; Meet- 

 ings for the defence of the nation, 

 133; Prisoners conyeyed to Holmes 

 Chapel, 135 ; Notices in the Church, 

 135 ; Pinfold at Cloughfold, 136. 



Accrington, Forest or Chase of, 32, 

 48, 55, 86 ; Newhold_, 86. 



Acreage of Townships in Rossendale, 

 227. 



Agisting of Goats and Sheep, 58 ; 

 Cattle, 58 ; Hogs and Swine, 58. 



Agistments, explanation of the term, 

 46. 



Agistors, 54. 



Agricultural capabilities of Rossen- 

 dale, 233. 



Aitken, John, on the remains of Red 

 Deer and Wild Oxen in Rossendale, 

 3, 4 ; Sketch of his life, 253 ; on 

 the Vertical Strata of Rossendale, 

 340. 



Ale-taster, 138; Oath of, 139; 

 Memorial by Richard Taylor, 142 ; 

 his resignation, 144. 



AU Saints' Church, Goodshaw, 176, 

 185. 



Allen, E. B., Incumbent of Good- 

 shaw, 184 ; of St. John's, Bacup, 

 189. 



"Ancient House," Rockliffe, 77. 



Anne's Church, Saint, Edge Side, 196. 



Annual Value of Townships in Ros- 

 sendale, 69, 227. 



Appendix, 328 to 344. 



Asheton, Ralph, and Auditor Fan- 

 shaw, letter to, disputing Copy- 

 holders' title to land, 81. 



Ashworth, Lawrence, Incumbent of 

 Newchurch, 160. 



Assart Land, see Essart. 



Assheton Papers, extract from, re- 

 lating to copyhold lands in the 

 Honor of Clitheroe, 84. 



Attachment or Woodmote, one of the 

 Forest Courts, 54. 



B 



Back-bear, meaning of the term, 58. 



BaUaden Brook, 28. 



Bacup, 7 ; derivation, 7, 8, 40 ; made 

 a consolidated Chapelry in 1839, 

 190; Stocks at, 130; Dungeons at, 

 131 ; Borough of, 230 ; Bull-baiting 

 at, 270. 



Bacup Booth, 69, 70 ; dispute with 

 Cliviger, 23 ; Grant of, 70. 



Badger or Brock, 5 ; Badger Cote, 5. 



Bailiffs, 54. 



Bailey, cited, 6. 



Baines, cited, 25, 33, 60, 70, 78, 90, 95. 



Baldwin, M.A., Nicholas Rigby, In- 

 cumbent of Newchurch, 161. 



Baptist Denomination, 201 ; Bam in 

 Dedwenclough, 201 ; William Mit- 

 chel, first Minister at Cloughfold, 



