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hospital.* 7 Grants which have been preserved indicate 

 that there had been an organized community there 

 for at least fifty years, 3 * the endowments being given 

 ' to God and B. Mary the Virgin and the hospital of 

 St. Saviour under Longridgc and to the master and 

 brethren serving God there.' M Some of the masters 

 or wardens granted or attested 1 3th-century charters. 40 

 In 1338 it was reported that the camera of St. Saviour 

 called the Stidd, under the preceptory of Newland in 

 Yorkshire, was demised to farm at to marks yearly, 

 but the farmer was bound to pay a chaplain singing 

 there. 41 From this it may be assumed that divine 

 service was maintained down to the Reformation. 41 



RIBCHESTER 



Nothing definite, however, is known, for the manor 

 was extra-parochial. 



After the Suppression the manor was given to 

 Thomas Holt of Gristlehurst 43 and remained in his 

 family for more than a century. It may have been 

 acquired later by Shireburnc of Bailey, founder of the 

 Stidd Almshouses. 44 In 1609, however, an independent 

 grant was made to George Whitmore and others, 44 

 who in 1613 sold to Richard Shireburne of Stony- 

 hurst. 46 Apart from these manors the Crown had 

 sold various lands to Richard Crombleholme 47 and 

 others. 48 The manor was in later times claimed by 

 the Shireburnes and their representatives. 4 * 



v In 1292 it wai found that the 

 Knighti Hospitallcri had acquired from 

 * certain Adam, chaplain-warden of the 

 houe of St. Saviour at Dutton, two 

 plough-land!, with wood and moor, and 

 401. rent in Dutton, Ribcheiter and 

 Aighton during the minority of Henry de 

 Lacy and with the assent of Alice de 

 Lacy ; flu. Je Qua ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 

 376. The date mutt lie between 1258 

 and 1271. See B.M. Add. Charter!, 

 no. 7)64. 



n The earliest part of the chapel may 

 be dated about 1 1 90. 



n Charter! of land in Ribcheiter and 

 Dilworth have been quoted in the account! 

 of those townships ; lee alio Dugdale, 

 A/on. Angl. vi, 686-7. 



40 Alexander the Chaplain, maiter of 

 the hoipital of St. Saviour, and the 

 brethren of the same place made a grant 

 early in the i^th century regarding land 

 in Saleiburr ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 

 202 1. Land in Hothersatl wai held of 

 the hoipital by Richard de Ametehalgh 

 and to one of the deedi regarding it the 

 fint witneiiea were ' Brother Alexander, 

 rector of the hoipital of St. Saviour ; 

 brother Adam of the tame place ' ; Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 5 (fol. 241). Brother 

 Alexander the prior and Adam the chap- 

 lain also occur ; note by Mr. Weld. 



A lomewhat later deed wai atteited by 

 Adam de Blackburn and John hii ion, 

 maiter of St. Saviour; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 119. 



In 1269 70 Richard ion of the maiter 

 of the Stidd, or ion of Alexander de la 

 Stidd, wai defendant ; Cur. Reg. R. 

 199, m. 27 d. ; 202, m. 26 d. It doei 

 not appear that Alexander wai then 

 living, to that he may be identical with 

 Alexander the chaplain. 



Adam Prior of St. Saviour occun ai 

 witness to a Dutton charter which men- 

 tion! land in Hayhurit belonging to the 

 house of St. Saviour ; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 170. 



The hospital may not have become 

 extinct on iti traniference to the Knight! 

 of St. John, for Walter the Chaplain, 

 warden of the houie of St. Saviour in 

 Dutton, wai the fint witnen to a local 

 charter in 13141 Add. MS. 32106, no. 

 1X7. In 1339 Walter de Lofthouium, 

 warden of St. Saviour'! by Ribcheiter, 

 wai one of the defendant! in a diipute 

 about land in Ribcheiter involving several 

 Dutton people. The chief plaintiffi were 

 Hugh ion of John de Huntingdon and 

 Joan his wife ; Assize R. 427, m. 2 d., 3 d. 



u Hoipiiatltn in Engl. (Camd. Soc,), 

 III. In i ; ci the Prior of St. John 

 granted the manor of St. Saviour called 

 the Stidd to Richard Tomelay (t Townley) 

 fur life. The leitee wai to maintain the 

 building! and the chantry and pay 8 a 

 year to the treaiury at Clerkcnwell 



(Fontit cliricorum). A mark wai to be 

 paid at death at obit. When the pre- 

 ceptor or warden of Ribiton should come 

 (not more than once a year) to hold the 

 prior'i court, provision for men and horiei 

 wai to be made by the leiiee ; MSS. Par. 

 Coll. (Hiit. MSS. Com.), ii, 228. 



In 1292 Robert Spendloue and Amery 

 his wife were non-iuited in a claim against 

 the Prior of the Hospitallers ai to a tene- 

 ment in Dutton ; Atiize R. 408, in. 22. 

 In 1337 the prior did not prosecute hit 

 claim againit Thomai de Dudhill of 

 Dutton ; Assize R. 1424, m. 1 1 d. 



William Hall (see Chipping) in 1 506 

 held a meuuage, &c., in Dutton of the 

 Prior of St. John of Jerusalem by a rent 

 of ji. 6</. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 

 no. 19. 



41 In 1501 Nicholai Talbot appointed 

 a prieit to ling for twelve montht at 

 Stidd, 'where father and mother are 

 buried '; Whitaker, M'hMty (ed. Nicholli), 

 ii, 465. In 1535 Thomai Bradley wai 

 chaplain at Stidd ; Yahr Ecd. (Rec. Com.), 

 v, 68. The bailiff there wai John Talbot ; 

 he had a fee of 301. ; ibid. 69. 



"Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. iv. The 

 manor, with m my other estates, was held 

 by the thirtieth part of a knight'i fee ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 46. It 

 ii regularly named in icttlements and 

 inquisitions ; e.g. Land. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanci. and Chei.), i, 158; ii, 81 ; 

 iii, 371. 



44 An eitate called Stidd in Dutton 

 belonged in 1716 to John Shireburne, 

 younger brother of Richard Shireburne 

 of Bailey ; Payne, Engl. Catk. Rec. 144. 

 In 172; John Shireburne of Sheffield 

 where he wai agent to the Duke of Nor- 

 folk wai engaged to marry Margaret 

 Nelion of Fairhurit, 40 being settled 

 on her from * the capital meuuage called 

 Stidd, and demeine landi in Stidd, Rib- 

 cheiter and Blackburn ' ; Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), iii, 228, from roll 1 1 of Geo. I 

 at Preiton. Next year John Shireburne 

 made hit will. To Elizabeth widow of 

 hit brother Richard he gave 15 a year 

 out of Bailey Hall ; to hii couiin Richard 

 Walmiley of Showley (who wai one of 

 the residuary legateei) fio for the poor 

 of Bailey, Stidd, etc., and 10 for a piece 

 of plate. Hii executori were to build a 

 good almihouie on hii eitate at Stidd for 

 five poor persons to live separately therein, 

 and to endow it with 30 a year, viz. 

 ; for each inmate and $ for repair!. 

 He died in Dec. 1726. See C. D. Sher- 

 born, Skerborn Fam. 73 6. 



" Pat. 9 Jai. I, pt. xzvii. At the 

 lame time an extent wai made ; Kuerden 

 MSS. ii, fol. 1324-3*. It appear! that 

 Stidd wai occupied by Robert Goodihaw, 

 who paid 41. rent. There wai a consider- 

 able number of farms, &c., in Dulton and 

 the adjoining townthipi. 



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Thii iccond manor may have been due 

 to a regrant to the Hospitaller! by Queen 

 Mary of Stidd with numerous dependen- 

 ciei ; Pat. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv. 



46 Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 132. The 

 tale included the manor of Stidd, formerly 

 belonging to the Knighti of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, with customary rents in 

 Chipping, Barbing, Thornier, Chaigley, 

 Aighton, Bailey and Belingncld, 4c., 

 together with perquisites of the court of 

 Stidd ; but a rent of 4 io. oj</. for 

 Stidd, Forton and Cunicough wai to be 

 paid to the Crown. 



In i 543 Sir Alexander Oibaldeiton had 

 a leaie of * the manor or capital meuuage 

 of the Stidd,' by purchase from John 

 Cowell, who had it from the Crown at a 

 rent of 5 n. 8</. ; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 1076. 



" The grant to Richard Crombleholme 

 in Dutton, Huntingdon, Milneclough, Ac., 

 appear! to have been from part of the 

 Hospitallers' possessions ; Pat. 38 Hen. 

 VIII, pt. xvii. In the extent of 1609, 

 above referred to, Richard Crombleholme 

 is itated to have held Huntingdon and 

 ' Bailey in Dutton ' by the twentieth part 

 of a knight'i fee and 31. ij. rent, and to 

 have granted out many portion! of the 

 landi. 



Richard Crombleholme the elder held 

 a meuuage 'in Huntingdon in Bailey in 

 the township of Dutton ' and varioui 

 lands, and made a Kttlement of part 

 thereof in 1576. Hii ion William hav- 

 ing died before him, he wai lucceeded by 

 a grandson Richard the younger (ion of 

 William), who died at Dutton in 1588 

 holding Huntingdon, 6cc., of the queen by 

 the hundredth part of a knight'i fee, and 

 other land in Dutton of Sir Richard 

 Shireburne at of hii manor of Dutton. 

 Richard, the ion and heir of the younger 

 Richard, wai icven years old ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 40. See further 

 in T. C. Smith, op. cit. 238-9. 



William Cromblehnlme of Dutton wai 

 arrested in 1584 on hii way to the Con- 

 tinent to be educated for the priesthood 

 and was imprisoned in the Tower for tome 

 time; A/IK. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), iii, 17; 

 Gillow, Hill. Did. of Engl. Ctih. iii, 410 

 (quoting Bridgewater'i Contrriatia). He 

 ii luppoied to have become a missionary 

 print in Lancaihire. 



Huntingdon it now the property of 

 Mr. Holt of Stubby Lee in Spotland. 



4S Carlinghurit was in I 560 granted to 

 Thomai Reeve and Richard Pynde ; Pat. 

 2 Elit. pt. iii. Afterward! it wai held 

 by the Shireburnes. 



" In a fine of 1 686 respecting the manor 

 of Stidd and varioui meuuagei, landi, &c., 

 in Stidd, Ribcheiter and Blackburn the 

 plaintiff wai Edward Burdett and the 

 deforcianti were Jamei Stamford Richard 

 Cliorley, Richard Husband, Richard 



