A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



don. 24 A few additional owners, a: Bradley, 23 

 Harrison 26 and Thorpe, 27 are also known. 



The abbeys of Whalley 28 and Sawley 29 and the 

 hospital of St. Leonard at York 30 had land in the 

 township. 



For their lands the following contributed to the 

 subsidy of 1 524 : Edmund Bradley, Robert Goodshaw, 

 John Hayhurst and Richard Townley. 31 Similarly to 

 that of 1543 Richard Townley and Robert Ash the 

 elder. 32 To that of 1597 Thomas Holt, Henry 

 Townley, Edward Ash, John Hayhurst and Richard 



Goodshaw. 33 To that of 1626 Henry Townley, 

 John Hayhurst, Edward Ash and Robert Good- 

 shaw ; various non-communicants are entered on 

 this list. 34 



Richard Duckett of Button paid 10 in 1631 on 

 declining knighthood. 35 



The land tax return of 1787 shows that Thomas 

 Weld, Sir George Warren, Lord Petre and Mrs. 

 Jane Entwisle were then the chief landowners. 



The manor of ST1DD 36 was acquired by the 

 Hospitallers about 1265 from a more ancient 



A noteworthy grant was one by the 

 prior of the Hospitallers to Richard son 

 of Adam Award de Dutton of lands called 

 Canfall (by Dodhill Moss), Hichetleys, 

 by the Stonebridgc, Codec, Bernardacre 

 and four butts in landoles ; a rent of 

 6j. <),!. wai to be paid, and half a mark 

 at death; ibid. no. 1196. In 1508 

 accordingly 6. 8</. was paid for the 

 'obit' of Henry father of John Hayhurst j 

 ibid. no. 1217. 



Robert son of William de Dutton 

 granted land in Hayhurst belonging to 

 the vill of Dutton to Otes son of John 

 son of Roger de Hayhurst. The bounds 

 name Ash House, Wyardburn to Ribble, 

 down the Ribble to land held of St. 

 Leonard; ibid. no. 1192. Otes de 

 Hayhurst and Margery his wife appear in 

 1335 ; no. 1215, 1202. Margery was 

 a widow in 1338, and there were several 

 sons, William, Richard and John being 

 named; no. 1455, 1430, 1432, 1440. 

 John son of Otes de Hayhurst and Alice 

 his wife are mentioned from 1348 to 

 1372, and Alice was a widow in 1379 ; 

 no. 1216, 1205, 1200. Alice was 

 probably one of the three sisters and 

 heirs of an Adam Award and had a son 

 John ; no. 1212, 1197, 1476. John son 

 and heir of Otes Hayhurst in 1401 gave 

 lands in Dutton to William son of 

 Richard Hayhurst ; no. 1435-6. See 

 also an undated testimony as to the 

 possessions of William Hayhurst ; no. 

 1476. Oliver son and heir of Robert 

 Hayhurst had land in Dutton in 1446-7 ; 

 no. 1 1 94. The will of Percival Hayhurst, 

 1499-1 500 names his son and heir John ; 

 no. 1457. John eon and heir of John 

 Hayhurst did homage for his lands (in 

 Bailey) at the court of Aighton in 1 549 ; 

 no. 1441. Jenet widow and executrix of 

 Henry Hayhurst of Hayhurst in 1574 

 became bound to John, the son and heir, 

 an executor ; no. 1226. 



Thomas son of Robert son of William 

 de Hayhurst in 1364 claimed a messuage, 

 &c., in Dutton against John de Hayhurst ; 

 De Banco R. 417, m. 214; 419, m. 

 21 2 d. 



John Hayhurst died in 1619 holding 

 Hayhurst, Furtherhouse and Hough- 

 wellfall of the heirs of Richard de 

 Dutton by a rent of t,d. His heir was 

 his son Henry, aged forty-two ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ii, 121. For Houghwellfall cf. Fallwel- 

 halgh in the account of Ribchester. 



The Hayhursts were Puritans ; one of 

 them was vicar of Leigh 1646-62, nd 

 founded the library at Ribchester. See 

 the account of the family in T. C. Smith, 

 Ribchcsttr, 232-4. On the opposite side 

 Lawrence Hayhurst of Dutton, yeoman, 

 registered his house and land in 1717 as 

 a ' Papist ' ; Eitcourt and Payne, Etigi. 

 Cath. Non-jurort, 104. 



14 In 1277 Robert de Huntingdon, liv- 

 ing at the abbey of Sclby, came to Dutton 



and buried his son Roger, and then entered 

 upon half his land, whereupon Beatrix 

 widow of Roger, Robert her son, Richard 

 de Wulnesbooth, John le Surreys, Hugh 

 the Clerk and Henry de Blackburn made 

 complaint ; Assize R. 1235, m. 12. 



It may be added that Thomas son of 

 Richard de Ulvesbooths and Jordan his 

 son, a clerk, attested a local charter ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1137. 



15 In 1466 William Bradley, chaplain, 

 granted to John son of Henry Bradley 

 lands in Dutton inherited from hit 

 mother; Add. MS. 32107, no. 1464. 

 From a feoffment of 1370 it would seem 

 that this land had belonged to John son 

 of Adam de Bradley in right of his 

 marriage with Beatrice daughter of John 

 de Dudhill ; ibid. no. 1518. 



Edmund Bradley died in 1529 holding 

 a messuage in Dutton of the king aa 

 duke by the hundredth part of a knight's 

 fee and the rent of id. or a pair of white 

 gauntlets. The heir was his grandson 

 John Bradley (son of John), aged seven- 

 teen years in 1539, and an idiot ; he had 

 sisters Anne and Alice, aged nineteen and 

 fifteen. James Sharpies was the uncle 

 and guardian of the said John ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no. 22. From a 

 later pleading it appears that John 

 Bradley died in 1545 ; Anne married 

 Alexander Bimson and Alice Thomas 

 Wynhart, and a division was made in 

 1550; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 184, m. 

 4 d. ; 190, m. z. See also Dueatus Lane. 

 ii, 220, for a claim to a moiety of 

 Dudhill by the Bimsons. In 1609 a 

 fourth part of Dudhill was held of the 

 Crown (as of the Hospitallers) by Richard 

 Thornley and John Bimson, and the 

 remainder by John Bimson, by a total 

 rent of 21. ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 133*. 



36 The estate was known as Smithy- 

 bottom. Richard Harrison, who died in 

 Oct. 1587, had made a settlement in 

 1578 in favour of his son Richard (aged 

 twenty-four in 1589), and afterwards, 

 his daughter Jane marrying one Thomas 

 Jones, he granted them a third part of 

 the messuage for twenty-one years. The 

 whole was held of the queen by the 

 2ooth part of a knight's fee and a 

 rent of 31. -jd. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xv, no. 57. For fines relating to 

 the estate see Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdles. 49, m. 142; 56, m. 54 ; 59, m. 2 1 8. 



From the Dueatus Lane, it appears that 

 a number of disputes soon afterwards 

 broke out ; op. cit. iii, 215, &c. Richard 

 Harrison in 1594 complained that 

 Thomas Jones, his brother-in-law, 

 Richard Goodshaw and others retained 

 possession of Smithybottom and its lands. 

 At his father's death he said he had been 

 a minor, T. Jones being his guardian ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. clxiv, 

 H 12. John Lynalx or Lennox after- 

 wards claimed a third part ; Dueatus Lane. 

 "' 399. 44*- 



58 



Edward Houghton died 30 June 1621 

 holding a messuage and land called 

 ' Smeathbottom ' by the 6ooth part 

 of a knight's fee and the third part 

 of a rent of 31. jd. Edward his son and 

 heir was twenty-nine years old ; Lanes. 

 Inif, p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ii, 276. 



37 John Thorpe died in 1588, leaving a 

 son and heir John, aged fifty-six ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xv, no. 52. 



The Walmsleys purchased lands in 

 Dutton as well as in Ribchester, and 

 Thomas Walmsley was in 1584 found 

 to have held land in Dutton ; ibid, xiv, 

 no. 72. 



Robert Reade of Aighton held land in 

 Dutton in 1610 ; Lanes. lay. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc.), i, 177. 



Bartholomew Barker of Salesbury was 

 a landowner in 1641 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxx, no. ii. 



In these cases the tenure is not 

 recorded. 



The land at Harrows Banks in 

 Dutton produced a rent of 2 51. about 

 1 540. The tenants at will were Dew- 

 hurst, Green and Bolton ; Whalhy 

 Couch. (Chet. Soc.), iv, 1219. From a 

 preceding note it is known that the 

 Shireburnes of Stonyhurst had also part 

 of the abbey land. In 1557-8 Kenning- 

 field and Harrows Banks in Dutton and 

 Clayton, lately belonging to Whalley 

 Abbey, were sold by the Crown to Richard 

 Shireburne ; Pat. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, 

 pt. viii. Dutton Lee, &c., were in 1564 

 granted to Charles Jackson and William 

 Mason ; Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. x. 



89 The grants by the Dutton family 

 have been recorded above. Thomas 

 Sowerbutts died in 1594 holding Rcedy- 

 snape, part of the lands of Sawley 

 acquired by Sir Arthur Darcy in 1538 ; 

 it was held by the 2OOth part of a 

 knight's fee ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xvi, no. 20. His grandson Thomas (son 

 of Robert) died in 1623 holding the same 

 lands and leaving a son Robert, under 

 age ; ibid, xxv, no. 37. 



The 'land of St. Leonard ' has been 

 named in a Hayhurst charter already, 

 quoted. In 1299 the master of the 

 Hospital of St. Leonard of York 

 recovered lands in Dutton against 

 Richard son of Robert del Hes of 

 Hayhurst, John son of Avice and Otes 

 son of John ; there was some suspicion 

 of fraud or evasion of the statute ; De 

 Banco R. 130, m. 243. 



81 Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 130, no. 

 82. 



" Ibid. no. 125. 



88 Ibid. bdle. 131, no. 274. 



84 Ibid. no. 3 17. 



85 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 217. 



86 The old spelling was some form of 

 Stede ; ' Le Styde,' 1343. Stydd is a 

 common form at present. 



