BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



A pedigree was recorded in 1 567. M Thomas Bradley 

 died in 1564 holding the capital messuage called 

 Bradley Hall with 60 acres of 

 land, &c., in Thornley of the 

 queen as of the late priory of 

 St. John of Jerusalem in Eng- 

 land by a rent of ^j. 33 John, 

 his son and heir, then thirty- 

 six years of age, died in 1597, 

 leaving three daughters as co- 

 heirs, viz. Ellen wife of John 

 Osbaldeston, Elizabeth widow 

 of Thomas Talbot and Jane 

 wife of Francis Ducket, aged 

 respectively forty, thirty and 

 twenty-eight years. 34 It de- 

 scended to the heirs of 

 Alexander Osbaldeston 

 (i66o), 3S and from them 

 was purchased in 1764 by the Earl of Derby." 



BRADLEY of Bradley. 

 Sable a fette engrailed 

 argent, in chief a mullet or 

 between two froiietjormjf 

 jitchy of the tecond all 

 within a bordure tn- 

 grailed of the tame. 



CHIPPING 



STUDLET is also named in the records, though it 

 has now disappeared from the map. The Greenhills 

 and Sowerbutts families were connected with it. 17 

 Studlcy also occurs as a surname. 37 * 



Apart from these estates there is but little record 

 of the landowners of former times. As in Chipping, 

 the Leylands of Morleys and their successors had 

 lands in Thornley, VVheatley and Studley, held of 

 the Karl of Derby in socagc. 38 The Wawne family 

 held their land in Whcatley of the Crown as of the 

 dissolved priory of St. John of Jerusalem by a rent of 

 lii/. 39 ; and Richard Shireburnc of Stonyhurst in 

 acquiring the Hospitallers' manors and lands in Stidd 

 and Chipping acquired therewith rents and lands in 

 Thornley, Wheatlcy, Studley and Cockleach. 40 John 

 Rodcs, another landowner, also held of the Hos- 

 pitallers. 41 



One or two other names occur. 41 John Bradley 

 and John Rodes contributed to the subsidy of 1524 

 in respect of their lands. 43 The widows of John 



Chipping and Cecily his wife ; Fin,il Cone. 

 iii, 35. In the following year he was a 

 juror ; Lanct. Iny. f.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 41. 

 Robert Bradley atteited a Thornley deed 

 in 1441 ; Dodi. MSS. cxiii, fol. 53*. 

 John Bradley of Chipping, Robert ion of 

 John Bradley of Chaigley and Miles the 

 brother of Robert occur in 144; ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 8, m. 33. Robert Bradley 

 was concerned in the manor of Thornley 

 in 1479 ; Final Cone, iii, 137. 



John Bradley of Thornley was con- 

 cerned in a rescue of impounded cattle 

 in I $zi, which seems to have led to 

 great disturbance ; Ducky PleaJ. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 8893. Joan 

 the widow and John the son of John 

 BradUy of Bradley Hall in Thornley were 

 defendants in a plea of debt in 1538; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 167, m. 16. 



Joan wife of Thomas CromMeholme 

 and sister of Henry Bradley of Chipping 

 in 1420 received from the feoffees lands 

 in Ribchester, Thornley and Wheatley, the 

 remainders being to Christopher son of 

 Thomas and Joan and to Joan's right heirs ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 1 3 (Chet. Lib.), 224. 



* fail. (Chet. Soc.), 38 ; the descent 

 is thus given : John -s. Thomas -s. John, 

 who had three daughters. The younger 

 John had a brother Thomas Bradley, who 

 acquired part of the manor of Silverdale. 



" Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 37. 



14 Ibid, xvii, no. 28. There is in it 

 recited an indenture dated 1590 by 

 which John Bradley granted the rectory 

 of Wartnn to feoffees, for the use of 

 Thomas Talbot and Elizabeth his wife as 

 to one moiety, and of John Osbaldeston 

 and Ellen his wife as to the other moiety. 

 See Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 53, 

 m. 170. 



" The heir of John and Ellen Osbal- 

 deston was Edward their son, living in 

 1613 ; fiiit. (Chet. Soc.), 84. In 1611 

 it was found that Thomas Osbaldeston, 

 outlawed for murder, had a life annuity 

 of 10 from Bradley Hall and other 

 lands of John Bradley, late of Beetham 

 in Westmorland, recently in the posses- 

 sion of John Osbaldeston, next of Ellen 

 his widow, and in 1611 of Edward 

 Eccleston of Prescot parish ; Law. lij. 

 f.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 1 79. 



The following fines relate to it : 1658, 

 Anthony Munson and Frances his wife, 

 deforciants of the manors of Bradley and 

 Balderston ; Pal. of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 

 162, m. 16. 1726, Nicholas Starkie v. 



Alexander Osbaldeston, manors including 

 Bradley; ibid. bdle. 298, m. 4. 1763, 

 the manor of Bradley and messuages in 

 Bradley, Thornley and Chaigley, the plain- 

 tiff being William Turner and the deforci- 

 ants David Sturgeon, Jane his wife, Richard 

 Shuttle worth, William Bartlett and Eliza- 

 beth his wife ; ibid. bdle. 370, m. 66. 



M Information of Mr. J. J. Hornby. 



17 The feoffees in 1441 regranted to 

 John Formby his lands, &c., in the vill 

 of Studley, a hamlet of Thornley, with 

 remainders to his daughters Alice and 

 Joan in equal shares for life, and then to 

 Thomas Greenhills the cousin and heir- 

 apparent of the said John, with remainders 

 to Margaret and Isabel, sisters of the 

 said Thomas, and then to Alice, mother 

 of John Formby ; Dods. MSS. culii, fol. 

 5 3 A. John in 1444 made a formal affirma- 

 tion that Thomas Greenhills was the heir of 

 the land he had from his mother Alice : ibid, 

 fol. 54* ; Towneley MS. OO, no. 12 1 3. 



William Sowerbutts of Studlcy re- 

 leased to Thomas Lord Stanley in 1458 

 certain lands in Studlcy and Whcatley ; 

 ibid. no. 1009. Robert Sowerbutts in 

 1482 released to William son of Henry 

 Hoghton all his right in certain lands in 

 Studley and was re-enfeoffcd ; Add. MS. 

 32106, no. 350; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1869. Richard Sowerbutts was a free- 

 holder in 1600 ; Mite. (Rec. Soc.), i, 235. 



* 7 * In 1357 John de Studley claimed a 

 messuage and lands in Wheatley against 

 Henry de Dinckley and William son of 

 Richard the Smith ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 5, m. 8 d., i d. 



** See the account of the Leyland 

 tenement in Chipping and the references 

 theregiven. In 1621 Edward Tyldesley's 

 estate was held of Michael Doughty as of 

 his manor of Thornley ; Lanet. Inf. f.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 261-9. 



** An account of the Wawne or Walne 

 family has been given under Chipping ; 

 the tenure recorded is in Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xv, no. 1 3. See also the 

 Hospitallers' rental of 1609 quoted above. 



In 1409 Agnes widow of Robert Moton 

 gave her daughter Alice wife of John 

 Wawne the elder a tenement in Wheatley, 

 the bounds of which extended from the 

 Loud on the north to Studley Brook on 

 the south, and part of another tenement 

 between Studley Brook and Longridge, 

 which had descended to the grantor on 

 the Heath nf her sister Alice, a daughter 

 of William the Smith ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), 



35 



A 1 206 3. The latter tenement was known 

 as the Birks in 152;, when it was held 

 by Robert Wawne, William Sowerbutts 

 being occupier; ibid. A 13467, 13473. 

 Lower and Higher Birks are now shown 

 on the map to the south of Wheatley. 



For a dispute between Wawne and 

 Sowerbutts see Ducatut Lane. (Rec. Com.), 

 iii, 163, 179. 



> Thornley Hall, Ac, as part of Stidd 

 was included in the grant to George 

 Whitmore and others ; Pat. 9 Jas. I, 

 pt. xxvii. It was sold to Shireburne in 

 1613 ; Kucrden MSS. ii, fol. 132. See 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 4. 



Sir Richard Shireburne had in 1(73 

 purchased a messuage, lee., in Whcatley 

 and Thornley from Richard Alston ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 3;, m. 101. 

 Richard Shireburne in ic86 purchased 

 messuages and lands in Thoraley, Wheat- 

 ley and Studley from Robert Newsham and 

 Elizabeth his wife ; ibid. bdle. 48, m. 27. 



41 See the rental of 1609 above cited. 

 John Rodes was a freeholder in 1600 ; 

 Mite. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. and Ches.), {,23$. 

 In 1631 the same or a succeeding John 

 paid jio on declining knighthood ; ibid. 

 217. 



For the Rodes family see T. C. Smith, 

 CUffing, 251-3. 



41 John del Woodscholes received lands 

 in Thoraley in 1316-17; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 58. John son of Robert del 

 Woodscholes was plaintiff in I 3 5 1 ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. i,m. vd. In 1546 

 Elizabeth Rodes, widow, was plaintiff in 

 a fine respecting Woodschole howe and 

 lands, &C., in Thornley, the deforciants 

 being Thomas Johnson a/iai Tomlinson 

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

 bdle. 12, m. 293. 



In 1574 a settlement was made of a 

 messuage, &c., in Wheatley and Thornley, 

 by Robert Aytough, Joan his wife, William 

 Ambrose, Ellen his wife (to whose heirs it 

 was to remain), Agnes and Frances Eccles ; 

 ibid. bdle. 36, ni. 121. 



Sir Richard llnghton in 1630 held land 

 in Thornley, but the tenure is not stated ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. i ]. 

 Some appears to have been sold by Sir 

 Henry Hoghton in 1772 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 615, m. 7 d. 



Thomas Shirebume of Heysham in 

 1635 held land of Henry l)..u lily as ol 

 his manor of Thomlcy ; Towneley MS. 

 C8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 108). 



41 Subs. R. Lanes, bdlr. I 30, no. Si. 



