Chap. 8. 



PARISH OF CHIPPING. 187 



As heir to Michael Doughtie, and not by purchase, as erroneously 



stated by Baines, the Earls of Derby derive their possessions at 



Thornley and Chipping.' x> i f 



On 28th August, 1572, among the estates possessed by the i!.arl ot 



Derby, as declared in his will, was the manor of Thornley. 



Part of Chipping is owned by the Earl of Derby. John Weld, Esq., 

 of Leagram Hall, also possesses land in Chipping. 



The various ways of spelling Chipping which I have found, are : 

 Chipyn, Chependen, Chepyn, Chipen, Chepin, Chypyng, Chippin, 

 Chyppingge. The meaning of the word, according to Professor Blackie, 

 is-a place of merchandise, from A.S. Ceapam, Ger. Kaufen (to buy). 

 Dr Taylor says : " A cMppiiuj was the old English term for a market- 

 place ; thus Wichffe translates Luke vii, 32, 'They ben like children, 

 sitting in chepinge, and spekinge togidre.' " 



The ways of spelling Thornley and Wheatley are very numerous :— 

 Thorentelega, Thorndeleghe, Thorndeleie, Thorndeleye, Thornedelay, 

 Thornedeleghe, Thornedeleye, Thornelay, Thorneley, Thornesdeleye, 

 Thornideley, Thornlay, Tornelay. 



Dr. March gives the derivation of Thornley as the pasture (ley A.b. 

 hah, or leyli) amid the thorn. 



Wheatley, Weetlee, Wetelai, Wetelay, Wetelegh, Weteley, AVhetlay, 

 Whetley, Whetlay, Whetley, Whitley. 



The two townships of Chipping and Thornley-cum- Wheatley cover 

 an extent of 8,756 statute acres. The Earl of Derby, K.G., is Lord of 

 the Manor of Chipping, and also Lord of the Manor of Thornley-cum- 



Wheatley. ^, . • t 



By the kindness of Mrs. Jones, wife of the Vicar of Chipping, i 

 have been enabled to obtain a copy of a very scarce " History of 

 Chipping," written in 1843 by her father, the late Eev. Mr. Pearson, 

 Vicar of Fleetwood. 



The author says : "The earliest account we have of the individual 

 history of Chipping, is founded on an ancient document, supposed to 

 have been written in the fourteenth century, by John Lindley, Abbot 

 of WhaUey, which states that its inhabitants were few, untractable, 



'Canon Raines's Notes to the &tanU]) Papers. 



