A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



to the king and \^d. to the Prior of St. John of 

 Jerusalem. '" 



The manor descended like Knowsley until 1600, 

 when William the sixth earl sold it to Baptist Hicks 

 of London, 19 who in turn sold it to Michael Doughty 

 of Lathom,' one of the clerks of the kitchen there." 

 Henry Doughty and his son William took part against 

 the Parliament in the Civil War, and the estate was 

 sequestered and afterwards sold." As in other cases, 

 part or the whole was recovered for the family. 

 John Doughty, the eldest son, who died in or before 

 1647," left two daughters, Mary and Susan.* 4 The 

 former married Thomas Patten of Preston, who died 

 in 1697, leaving as heir his daughter Elizabeth wife 

 of Sir Thomas Stanley of Bickerstaffe." By this 

 marriage the manor has descended to the present Earl 

 of Derby in the same way as Bickerstaffe. 86 Manor 

 courts are still held once a year." 



THORNLET HALL, sometimes known as Patten 

 Hall, stands at the foot of Jeffrey Hill on the north side 



of Longridge Fell, and is a plain two-story house very 

 much modernized, but retaining some ancient features. 

 Over the doorway is the inscription ' B. O. Michael 

 Dovghtie 1605,' and in the dining-room over the 

 mantelpiece is a small cupboard on which are the 

 initials of Elizabeth and Mary Patten and the date 

 1 709. All the windows are modern sashes and the 

 house has little architectural interest, but the front 

 lay-out is effective with balled gate piers, low fence 

 wall and a tall clipped yew tree close up to the 

 building rising to the level of the eaves. 



WHE4TLEY was in 1066 the important part of 

 the township, being named in Domesday Book as 

 assessed at one plough-land. 18 In later times it is 

 sometimes named before Thornley and sometimes 

 after it, as at present. Occasionally Wheatley appears 

 to have been regarded as a separate manor. 19 



BRADLEY was held by the Hospitallers, 10 the 

 tenants being a family assuming that name, 31 who had 

 lands also in Chaigley and neighbouring townships. 



18 Rental in the possession of Lord 

 Lathom. The following tenants paid the 

 'gressum' due every eighth year : Mar- 

 garet Alston 19*., Alexander Bradley 



24J. 4</., Thomas Burne 71., wife of 

 Thomas Dilworth 101., Richard Kilworth 

 8j., Henry Dicconson ios., Richard Ecclcs 

 13*. 4^., Ughtred Huddersall js., Richard 

 Marsden iji. lid., Edward Rodes 101., 

 Thomas Rodes 81., Christopher Sower- 

 butts ios. t John Thornley 141. yd,, Robert 

 Wilkinson 201., &c. The rents of free 

 tenants amounted to 22s. gj., of tenants 

 at will ,22 4*. lod.j the demesne yielded 

 10 (to which was added the rent of a 

 close in Chaigley lately purchased, viz. 

 IOJ. and 6d. instead of a stone of cheese), 

 the commuted ' works ' of the tenants 

 l8j. 6d., the turbary of Withinreap 

 l8i. lod. The gross return from the 

 manor was given as 44 125. e)d., but 

 many allowances had to be made. No 

 courts had been held. A payment of $d. 

 called *Juger sylvere ' was made yearly 

 to the bailiff of Blackburnshire at the 

 court held at Clitheroe. 



19 Towneley MS. OO, no. 1013-16. 

 In 1602 the earl sold lands, &c., in 

 Chipping and Bosden in Bowland to 

 Baptist Hicks, who in 1606 sold the same 

 to Michael Doughty j ibid. no. 1001-2. 



In Feb. ^02-3 Baptist Hicks of 

 London transferred to Michael Doughty 

 of Lathom, Cecily his wife and Henry 

 his eldest son the manor of Thornley, late 

 the inheritance of Ferdinando Earl of 

 Derby ; OO, no. 1000. From a later 

 fine, however, it seems that in 1609 Sir 

 Baptist Hicks acquired the manor of 

 Thornley and messuages and lands in 

 Thornley, Chipping and Bosden from 

 Thomas Lord tllesmere and Alice his 

 wife, Countess of Derby (i.e. widow of 

 Ferdinando) ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 75, no. 18. For the countess's 

 right see Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 

 3*3, 352.458. 



a Stanley Papers (Chet. Soc.), ii, 23, 

 106, &c. Michael Doughty represented 

 Preston in the Parliament of 1589 and 

 Liverpool in that of 1593 ; Pink and 

 Beaven, Par!. Repre. of Lanct. 146, 184. 



A pedigree of Doughty of Thornley 

 will be found in the fisit. of 1613 (Chet. 

 Soc.), 64. Henry Doughty paid 10 on 

 refusing knighthood in 1631 ; Misc. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 217. 



22 Royalist Camp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 256-68. Itappears 



that Henry Doughty the father about Aug. 

 1648 'took up arms against the Parlia- 

 ment and fled away with the Scots forces 

 under Duke Hamilton ' ; ibid. 266. Other 

 sons, Henry and Michael, are named. 



Henry Doughty's estate was sold in 

 1652 ; Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 41. 



28 Royalist Camp. Papers, ii, 257. His 

 widow Elizabeth daughter of Serjeant 

 Robert Callis was claiming under her 

 marriage settlement of 1641. A mort- 

 gage by Henry Doughty (the father of 

 John) of the manor-house of Thornley, 

 called Thornley Hall, is named. No 

 ' delinquency ' seems to have been alleged 

 against John Doughty. 



21 In a fine respecting the manor of 

 Thornley, with lands, water-mill, &c., in 

 Thornley, Chipping, Goosnargh and 

 Witton in 1684 the plaintiffs were 

 William Patten and Thomas Naylor and 

 the defendants Thomas Patten, esq., Mary 

 his wife and Susan Doughty, spinster ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 213, m. 8. 



*> See the account of Bickerstaffe. 

 Thomas Patten, a barrister, was the 

 eldest son of William Patten of Preston j 

 see pedigree in Gregson's Fragments (ed. 

 Harland), 185 ; Preston Guild R. 



Thomas Patten represented Preston in 

 the Parliament of 1688 as a Whig ; Pink 

 and Beaven, op. cit. 156. 



26 The manors of Thornley and Chip- 

 ping were held by successive Earls of 

 Derby in 1738 and 1776 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 549, m. 5 ; 623, m. \a. 



27 T. C. Smith, Chipping, 46-52, ex- 

 tracts from the old Court Rolls being given. 

 From a record of the boundaries of the 

 manor in 1808 they seem to have been 

 those of the township. On the border of 

 Dutton were a stone called the White 

 Stoup and a group of stones called the 

 Cripple Oak. 



28 V.C.H. Lanes, i, 288*. Cf. the tene- 

 ment of Osbaldeston in 1 349 as already 

 recorded. 



A family named Wheatley occurs. Thus 

 in 1227 Jordan de Wheatley obtained 

 from Eve widow of William de Edisford an 

 oxgang of land in Wheatley, which was to 

 descend to Jordan's heirs by his late wife, 

 sister of Eve ; Final Cone, i, 50, 60. 



29 In 1612 William Helme (see Chip- 

 ping) was said to have held lands in 

 Thornley and Wheatley of Edward Tyldes- 

 ley, as of his manor of Wheatley, by 21. f,d. 

 rent ; Lanes. Inq.p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Chcs,), i, 213. See also note 8 above. 



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80 'Wheatley' is named in the list of 

 the Hospitallers' estates In 1292 ; Plac, de 

 Quo Wan; (Rec. Com.), 375. In 1 294 the 

 Prior of St. John complained that John de 

 Knoll had rescued certain cattle impounded 

 at Thornley ; De Banco R. 103, m. 26. 



In a Stidd rental of 1609 a rent of 

 2J. I ex/, is entered as due from John 

 Rodes for a tenement in Thornley, and 

 one of6d. from John Hurst (lately Edmund 

 Wall or Wawne) in Wheatley j Kuerden 

 MSS. ii, fol. 132^. 



81 Adam son of Adam de Bury appears 

 to have held the 'manor of Bradley' in 

 1246, when he sold it to Thomas rector 

 of Slaidburn ; Final Cone* i, 1O2. The 

 bounds extended from the Loud to Long- 

 ridge and from Bradley Syke to Bradley 

 Brook. This may have been only a feoff- 

 ment in trust, for in 1262, when Ralph 

 son of Adam de Thornley acquired from 

 Robert de Bradley 100 acres of wood in 

 the township, Adam de Bury *put in his 

 claim,' as did also the Prior of St. John 

 of Jerusalem and John de Knoll ; ibid. 

 137-8. The bounds began at the place 

 where Bradley Brook fell into the Loud, 

 went up the brook to the Veu Viver, 

 thence west to Bradley Syke, down this to 

 Ramsclough and so down to the Loud. 

 Hugh le Surreys charged Robert de 

 Bradley in 1278 with breaking his pound 

 at Thornley; De Banco R. 23, m. 37 d. 

 Thomas le Surreys in 1289 complained 

 that Robert had cut down trees in Thorn- 

 ley in contravention of the above agree- 

 ment j Abbref. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 219. 



A Roger de Bradley of 1202 has been 

 already mentioned. In 1278 Robert de 

 Bradley had some dispute with Ralph son 

 of Adam de Thornley; Assize R. 1238, 

 m. 33d. The same parties appear to 

 have been again at variance in 1292 ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 54. 



From Richard son of Robert de Bradley 

 dower in Thornley, Aighton and Chaigley 

 was in 1313 claimed by William de 

 Huyton and Emma his wife, in right of 

 her former marriage with Thomas de 

 Bradley ; De Banco R. 201, m. 69 d. In 

 1332 Richard and Robert de Bradley con- 

 tributed to the subsidy ; Exch. Lay Subs. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 82. Richard 

 de Bradley, perhaps another of the name, 

 was one of the chief inhabitants in 1341 ; 

 Inq. Nonarum (Rec. Com.), 38. 



Thomas de Bradley in 1389 acquired a 

 messuage and land in Thornley from 

 John son of Thomas son of Roger de 



