BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



MITTON (PART OF) 



he was son of Edmund. 27 ' He occurs down to 

 I43O, J8 and was succeeded by a son Robert, 381 who 

 in 1443 was summoned to answer Robert Shireburne 

 and Alice his wife, widow of Sir William Hoghton, 

 at to a bond dated 1432 for the marriage of Richard 

 his son and heir to Margaret Hoghton, daughter of 

 Alice. Richard had by inheritance lands in Cumber- 

 halgh and Preston, formerly John de Singleton's. 283 

 Richard ton of Robert Clitheroe and Alice his wife 

 made a feofFmcnt in l459-6o. 283 



Thomas Clitheroe was in possession in 1468 when 

 he presented to Bailey Chapel ; in 1474 he in con- 

 junction with Elizabeth his wife received from feoffees 

 the manor of Bailey. 284 He made a settlement of 

 his estates in 1504 5,*** and was within two years 

 succeeded by his son Robert, who then granted Bailey 

 Hall to his mother Ellen. 286 Ralph son of Richard 

 Clitheroe was in possession by I 544 28r ; he died in 

 August I 556 holding Crawshaw, Walshman's Croft in 

 Bailey, &c., of Sir Richard Shireburne by a rent of 

 5;. \d. ; also lands in Goosnargh and Whittingham. 

 His heirs were his father's three sisters or their repre- 

 sentatives, viz. Isabel wife of John Halstead, aged 

 seventy, aunt ; Joan daughter of John Blakeden, 

 thirty, cousin ; and George son of Mary Franks, 

 thirty, cousin. 28 * Ralph had, however, just before 

 his death sold all his lands to Sir Richard Shire- 

 burne, 28 * who appears to have made arrangements 

 with members of the family and others. 190 



This manor descended with Stony hurst until 1831, 

 when it was sold by Cardinal Weld to Joseph 



Fenton.** 1 It has since descended with Dutton. 

 No courts are held. 



A family named Ash had for several centuries an 

 estate in Bailey and Aighton. 393 Ralph de Bailey 

 granted land in Bailey to Robert son of John de Ash, 

 to be held by 6d. rent, 3 * 3 and Ralph de Mitton 

 made another grant to Robert de Ash and Henry 

 his son at 21. rent. 294 These rents were still payable 

 in the I yth century, but there is not material avail- 

 able to show the descent completely. 2 * 8 Hugh Ash 

 died in 1554 seised of messuages and lands in Dutton, 

 Ribchester, Aighton and Bailey, those in the last- 

 named township being held of the king and queen as 

 of their manor of Clitheroe. George, the son and 

 heir, was only a year old. 398 Edward Ash of Clough 

 Bank died in 1609 holding lands in Aighton and 

 Bailey of Richard Shireburne by rents of 21. and 6J. 

 respectively ; his heir, his son Robert, was fifty-eight 

 years old. 297 



A younger branch of the Shireburnes was designated 

 of Bailey.' Richard Shireburne of Bailey Hail- 

 probably lessee was a younger son of the Hugh 

 Shireburne of Stonyhurst who died in 1528; he 

 died about 1 5 So. 298 A descendant, also named 

 Richard, was outlawed for high treason in 1715, 

 having tal en part in the Jacobite rising. 299 Sir Edward 

 Sherburne, the poet (1618-1702), is usually supposed 

 to have been of the Bailey line. 300 



An early place-name was Greengore in the northern 

 half of Bailey. 301 In 1314 Thomas del Greengore 

 confirmed to Adam his son certain land in Bailey, 



* See note 281 below. 



** He preiented to Bailey chantry in 

 1421. He gave leaiet of Bailer Hall in 

 1407 and 1430 ; Gerard, op. cit. 49, 50 

 (from Leagram and Stony hunt D.). In 

 140) be entailed hi lands in the 

 countiei of Nottingham, York and 

 Lancaster ; Shireburne Abstract Bk. 

 The chief mid cnce of the family appear* 

 to have been at Auckley, to the eait of 

 Doncaster, on the border of Notu. 



Robert de Hoghton in 1407 held 4 

 acrei in Aighton of Nicholai Clitheroe of 

 Bailey by j./. rent ; Inq. a.q.d. file 438, 

 no. 26. Among the Hoghton deedi are 

 granti of land in Bailey and Aighton 

 from Richard ion of John de Bailey to 

 Adam de Hoghton, &c. ; Dodi. MSS. 

 cxlii, foL 6oi, 55. 



** Robert ion and heir of Nicholai 

 Clitheroe and grandson of Edmund 

 occuri in 1444 ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13, 

 p. 282. He married Margaret daughter 

 of John de Singleton ; Shireburne Ab- 

 stract Ilk. 



" PaL of Lane. Plea R. 5, m. 15. 

 Robert Clitheroe in 1447-8 gate Bailey 

 Hall on lease to Richard Crombleholme ; 

 Shirrburne Abstract Bk. 



* Ibid. Richard was living in 1466 

 and Alice hii widow 1473 ; ibid. 



Ibid. 



** Ibid. The will of Thom.is Clitheroe 

 (wrongly described as incumbent of 

 Mitton) is given in Barnes' Laxa. (ed. 

 1870), ii, 101. 



** Ibid. Robert presented to Bailey 

 Chapel in 1517 and was living in 1511. 



Robert Rushton of Walsall claimed 

 the manor calle I Bailey Hall in right of 

 his wife Ellen in 1518 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead. Hen. VIII, iii, R i. From a 

 plea of if,}! it appeirs that Henry 

 Alston had demised the manor of Bailey 

 Hall to Edward Halstead for the life of 



Ellen Rishton, widow, who had a rent of 

 6 161. 8</. from it; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 153, m. 15 d. 



*" Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



"* Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 2$. 



A moiety of the manor of Bailey was 

 in 1 549 granted to Robert Low by Ralph 

 Clitheroe, together with lands in Bailey 

 and Goosnargh ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 13, m. 102. 



* Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



" In 1557 Sir Richard purchased a 

 moiety of nine messuages, &c., in Aighton 

 and Bailey from Robert Clitheroe ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 17, m. 21. In 

 1574 he purchased nine messuages, 4c, 

 from George Green ; ibid. bdle. 36, m. 

 280. In the following year he obtained 

 a considerable estate in Aighton, Bailey 

 and Whittingham from Jolin Hopwood ; 

 ibid. bdle. 37, m. $7. A further purchase 

 was made in 1590 from John Halstead 

 in Aighton, Bailey, Winkley, Haighton 

 and Goosnargh; ibid. bdle. 52, m. e,i. 

 Also a mailer one in 1593 from John 

 Burgoyne esquire in Aighton, Chaigley and 

 Bailey; ibid. bdle. 55, m. 153. The 

 'manor' of Bailey is not mentioned 

 subsequently, except at part of the 

 Shireburne estate. 



*" Baines, Lanci. (ed. 1836), iii, 371. 



w> Deeds are in Add. MS. 32107, no. 



*74-93- 



*" Ibid. no. 930. Ralph de Bailey 

 also granted land in the vill of Bailey to 

 Robert son of John de Ash, who married 

 Cecily daughter of Roger de Heyhurst 

 (in Dutton); ibid. no. 883, 899. 



" 4 Ibid. no. 92$. 



*** Adam son of Adam Walkandfot in 

 1292 claimed a tenement in Bailey and 

 Dutton againtt Richard son of Robert de 

 Ash; Assiie R. 408, m. 42. In 1304 

 Robert de Clitheroe claimed account 

 against Richard de Ash, his bailiff, and 



I? 



in 1327 against two of the name, the 

 elder and younger; De Banco R. 152, 

 m. 181 d. ; 268, m. 34, 



Richard de Ashes the elder was 

 defendant in a claim for land in Aighton 

 put forward by Ralph son of Jordan 

 Moody in 1334 ; Coram Rege R. 297, 

 m. 16 a. In 1338 Richard de Ash gave 

 land in Bailey to his son Robert ; Add. 

 MS. 32107, no. 898. Robert is described 

 as 'of Dutton' in 1341 (ibid. no. 896) 

 and in I 346 he obtained land in Aighton 

 from William de Wormstall and Margaret 

 hit wife ; ibid. no. 882. It appears 

 William and Margaret (in her right) held 

 an oxgang of land in Aighton which they 

 old in 133$ to Henry son of Robert del 

 Hall ; Final Cane, ii, 98. 



John de Ash seems to have followed 

 about the time of Richard II. His son 

 Richard married Margery daughter of 

 Thomas del Ridding, and she in 1439, 

 as widow of John de Whalley, had held 

 lands of Richard de Shireburne by t 

 rent of 21. Thomas Ridding was her 

 brother and heir ; Add. MS. 32107, no. 

 874, 89:, 886. Far the Whalley family 

 see Final Cone, iii, 75. 



Thomas Ash in 1456 had a tenement 

 called Hunt in Aighton ; A Id. MS. 

 32107, no. 894. 



" Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 35. 



** Linci. Inj. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and dies.), i, i6c. 



* His will of that date ii printed by 

 C. D. Sherborn, op. cit. 71, and an 

 account of the family follows. Some 

 other wills are printed in ll'illi (Chet. 

 Soc. new er.), ii, 159, 179. 



' See further in the account of 

 Dutton and Stidd. 



* See Sherborn, op. cit. 84 ; Gerard, 

 Snnykunt Coll. 82 ; Diet. Nat. Bug. 



101 See the account of the Holden 

 family. 



