THE FORESTS OF LANCASHIRE 105 



wards, in each of which woodmotes were held. The receipts 

 were 65 iqs. 4^. The heaviest charge under wages was 

 6 13-s 1 . 4^. to the steward of the master forester. The parker 

 of Laythegryme received 6s. 8d. for cutting deer-browse in the 

 winter, which is said to have been necessary that season. The 

 expenses of repairing the pales of the forest and fencing the 

 bounds amounted to 5 19.9. lod. 



Sir John Stanley, father of Thomas, first Lord Stanley, was 

 appointed chief steward of Blackburnshire in 1424. He was 

 also made master forester of Blackburnshire and Salfordshire. 

 His accounts for the latter office for 1434-5 are extant, but are 

 of a very simple description ; they included 2id. perquisites of 

 the woodmotes held at Colne. 



The rolls of Quernmore and Wyersdale are the only ones 

 that we have found which make mention of a court held in 

 a chapel. In 1477 two swainmotes for the Wharmore division 

 were held in the chapel of Wyersdale, and another in the 

 following year on the feast of St. Wilfrid. 



In 1501 the Crown issued a series of warrants to the Earl of 

 Derby and others, directing that " putre money" or "forester 

 fee " be paid by the tenants to the foresters and keepers of the 

 forests of Penhull, Rossingdale, Acrington, and Trowden, in 

 Lancashire, according to the old custom and use, as set forth 

 in the account books of the duchy. It was stated that the old 

 records also showed that the foresters had committed "divers 

 displeasures and annoyances against the tenants, theire wyfes 

 and servants in sundrywise by theire coming to theire houses for 

 theire meate and drink," and that on the tenants' complaint the 

 duchy had agreed that the tenants should pay yearly 12 13^. ^d. 

 towards the foresters' wage, in recompense for the meat and 

 drink which was no longer to be claimed. This composition 

 was paid yearly until 1461, when for certain special causes 

 this payment was put in respite for a certain season. The sum 

 of 119 6s. 8d. had been thus respited. Stringent orders were 

 issued for the future payment of this fee by the tenants. 



A like warrant was issued with regard to the foresters of 

 Holland, in Yorkshire, in which case the fee had not been paid 

 since 1484, and the sum respited amounted to 357 14^. 2d. 



Rossendale, the largest of the four great divisions of the 

 forest of Blackburnshire, with an area of upwards of thirty 



