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History of Rossendale. 



203 ; David Crossley, first Pastor at 

 Baoup, 203 ; Old School House, 

 Bacup, 205 ; Dissensions, 206 ; pro- 

 sent position of the, 211. 



Baxter, cited, 6. 



Beacon remains on Thiereley Pike, 1, 

 19 ; Uses of Beacons, 19. 



Beasts of Forest, Park, Chase and 

 Warren, 54. 



Bearnshaw Tower, 23. 



Beaver, the, 5. 



Bedel or Beadle of the Forest, 54. 



Beehives in Rossendale, 162. 



Bell-ringers of Newchurch, 157. 



Births and Deaths in Rossendale, 234. 



Blackburn Hundred, Account of, in 

 Domesday Book, 34. 



Blackhurnshire, Forest of, 32. 



Blaize, Bishop, festival in honour of, 

 289. 



Bloody-hand, meaning of the term, 58. 



Boar tribe, names having reference to 

 the, 3. 



Boarsgreave, 3. 



Book of Sports, 172. 



Booths in Rossendale, 69. 



Booth, John, of Barton, receives 

 grant of Bacup Booth, and New- 

 hallhey pasture, 70. 



Boothfold, bull-baiting at, 270. _ 



Bos Priinipenitis, horn of, found in the 

 Valley of the Irwell, 4. 



Boundaries of Rossendale, 5 ; of a 

 Forest, 58. 



Bovate of Land, meaning of the term, 

 34. 



Bowland, expeditation in, 57. 



Brandwood, origin of the name, 38 ; 

 granted to the Monastery of Stan- 

 law, 38 ; separated from Rochdale 

 Manor, 79 ; Annual Value, 227 ; 

 Acreage, ib. ; Population, 229. 



Brandwood Higher and Lower End, 

 69 ; Freehold rights in, 74. 



Brandwood Moor, 5, 28. 



Bridle for Scolds, 114. 



Brindle, M.A., Rev. J.F., Incumbent 

 of St. John's, Bacup, 189. 



Brittliffe, Lawrence, 204. 



Broadclough, 5, 231 ; Dykes, 9. 



Brockclough, 6. 



Brunanburh, Battle of, 10. 



Buccleuch, Duke of. Lord of the 

 Honor of Clitheroe, 36. 



Buokearth, 4. 



Bull-baiting in Rossendale, 270. 



Burrow, Rev. Edward, Incumbent of 

 Newchurch, 161, 190. 



Butterworth family, 237, 238. 



Byron family, 76 ; Letter of Lord 

 Byron, 76. 



C. 



Camden, cited, 6. 



Canute, King, promulgates the 



Const itittiones de Foresta, 63. 

 Can- gate, 75. 

 Carucato of land, meaning of the term, 



34. 

 Cat, the wild, 6. 

 Catholics, Roman, 197. 

 Cattle within the Forest, agisting of, 



68. 

 Celtic Britons, 2. 

 Cemetery, Bacup, 230. 

 Charity Commissioners, the, 168. 

 Chapel Hill, 220, 231. 

 Chase and Forest, difference between, 



64. 

 Chase, Beasts of, 64. 

 Chases, Parks, and Forests, 54. 

 Chief Justice in Eyre of the Forest, 



26, 54. 

 Christ Church, Bacup, 193. 

 Churchwardens, old custom of the, 129. 

 " Clerk," formerly the designation of 



a Clergyman, 136. 

 Climate of Rossendale, 232. 

 Clitheroe, Honor of, 32. 

 Cliviger, 2 ; Moor, 5, 22, 28. 

 Cloughfold, Pinfold, 136; Baptist 



Church, 201 ; Endowments of, 207. 

 Commission for Granting of the 



Forests, 67, 80. 

 Coal Mines, 302. 

 Compotus of Blackhurnshire, 70. 

 Constable-lee, 69, 70. 

 Constitutiones de Foresta, 53. 

 Co-operative and Industrial Stores, 



304. 

 Copyholders' Contributions for their 



Estates, time — James I., 328. 

 Copyhold lands in Rossendale, 80 ; 



foundation of titles to, 85. 

 Corn or Soke Mills, 280. 

 Corry, cited, 32. 

 Cotton Manufacture, 294. 

 Cow Pastures, 69. 

 Cowpe, 69 ; Lench, Newhallhey and 



HaU Carr, annual value, 227 ; 



acreage, ib. ; population, 229. 

 Cowpe Brook, 28 ; Cowpe Law, 5, 20, 



231 ; Cowpe Valley, 8. 

 Courts, Forest, 64. 

 Crabtree, M.D., John, 248. 

 Crag, 2. 

 Crawshawbooth, 8, 69, 70; Valley, 231. 



