SALFORD HUNDRED 



BURY 



been performed by the dependent manors of Bury, 



Middleton, and Chadderton, so that Tottington 



proper, including perhaps Shuttleworth, was free. 



In 1324, however, it was 



stated that the lords had been 



accustomed to pay 1 8</. to a 



service called Grayngall, 7 and 



in 1348 a payment of i6</. 



was made. 8 The service due 



from Tottington was about 



the same time called the fifth 



part of a knight's fee. 9 



It appears to have been re- 

 garded as a free chase. 10 A 

 grant of gallows was obtained 

 by Henry de Lacy from 

 Henry III." Four oxgangs 

 were granted by Adam de 

 Montbegon to Ailward de Bury 

 in free marriage with Alice daughter of the grantor. 1 * 

 A moiety of Shuttleworth was given to the Bury family, 



MONK B R BTTON 

 PRIORY. Sable in chief 

 two covered cups, in 

 base a cross for my ar- 

 gent. 



and some other grants were made ; Cowpe, Lench, 

 and Musbury were placed within the forest of Rossen- 

 dale, and Holcombe was given to the monks of Monk 

 Bretton, near Pontefract. 13 In the time of Richard III 

 Holcombe had been annexed to the duchy of Lan- 

 caster, but the monks' claim seems to have been ad- 

 mitted, and they received the advowson of Darton as 

 compensation. 14 The monks' lands were granted out 

 at a rent of 1 3/. ^.d. a year, 15 and after the Dissolution 

 were in 1546 granted to John Braddyll of Whalley. 16 

 The Compoti of 1296 and 1305 17 and the inqui- 

 sition of 1 3 1 1 18 give particulars of the receipts. There 

 was a capital messuage ; I oo acres of land were 

 demised to tenants at will, as also were the eight ox- 

 gangs ; the courts, water-mill, pasture, and Musbury 

 Park also produced an income. 19 The free tenants 

 seem to have been Henry de Bury for half the manor 

 of Shuttleworth, 10 Richard de Radcliffe, 21 Robert de 

 Bradshaw,* 1 and Roger de Chadderton for Shilling- 

 bottom. 13 The court rolls of 1323 and 1324 

 contain many interesting particulars.* 4 



^ Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 37. 



8 Sheriff's Compotus, zz Edw. III. 



9 Feud. Aids, iii, 87. A similar state- 

 ment was made in 1431 ; ibid, iii, 96. 



" Whitaker, Wballey (ed. Nicholls), i, 

 323. In 1313 it was described as one of 

 the free chases of Thomas, Earl of Lan- 

 caster ; Cal.Pat. 1313-17^.65. In 1327 

 Tottington was granted to Queen Isabel, 

 and a number of trespasses on the chase 

 were reported ; ibid. 132730, pp. 69, 

 284; I343-S. P- 4i7 & 



11 Whitaker, Wballey, i, 326, quoting 

 Towneley MSS.' 



12 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 6 1 . William 

 de Peniston held the land in 1212 with 

 Cecily daughter of Alice. In 1278 Helewise 

 widow of Adam de Peniston was non- 

 suited in her claim against Henry de 

 Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and Gilbert de 

 Clifton respecting a tenement in Totting- 

 ton ; Assize R. 1268, m. 13. Afterwards, 

 in 1292, William Helewise, son of Adam 

 de Peniston, sought to recover the 4 

 oxgangs which Henry de Lacy had taken 

 into his hands, but failed, the jury saying 

 that he was born out of wedlock ; ibid. 

 408, m. 56. 



A grant by Henry de Montbegon to 

 Robert son of Uriel de Tottington is in 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 852. 



18 Roger de Montbegon, who died in 

 1226, granted to Monk Bretton all his 

 forest called Holcombe. The bounds 

 mention Longshaw Head, Alden Head, 

 Harcles How, Pilgrim's Cross Shaw, 

 Tittleshaw (Titeles How), the Robbers' 

 Path, Salter Bridge, and the road by 

 Oskeley. He reserved hunting and falcons. 

 Pasture was allowed within bounds from 

 Caldwell Head and Syke to the Irwell, by 

 this river to Tittleshaw Brook, and up 

 this brook to the road. Three acres of 

 meadow under Harcles How were also 

 granted. The whole was given in free 

 alms for the souls of the donor and his 

 wife, parents, brother John Malherbe, and 

 others ; Whitaker, Whalley, i, 324. This 

 charter is perhaps an extension or correc- 

 tion of two others (ibid, i, 325), which 

 profess to give the whole of Holcombe 

 and pasture rights ; but the boundaries do 

 not agree. See also Dugdale, Man. v, 138. 



The monks appear to have lost their 

 land soon afterwards, but in 1 304-5 occurs 

 a loss of rent of 55. <)\d. from land which 

 had been restored to them ; De Lacy Com- 

 poti (Chet. Soc.), 114. 



In 1346 the Prior of Monk Bretton 

 claimed against Queen Isabel 1,500 acres 

 of pasture and 1,500 acres of wood in 

 Tottington, of which Henry de Lacy had 

 disseised his predecessor, William de 

 Rihale, prior in the time of Edward I ; 

 De Banco R. 348, m. 218. 



14 Whitaker, Whalley, i, 325 ; the date 

 is 8 Feb. 1483-4. Also Cal.Pat. 1476-85, 

 p. 388. 



15 Dugdale, Mon.v, 141. 

 "Pat. 3 8 Hen. VIII, pt. ix. 

 17 Cbet. Soc. Publ. cxii. 



w Ibid. Ixxiv. 



In 1295-6 the rent of Tottington was 

 13 I2i. 6$d. ; the rents of free tenants 

 came to 4*. ii^</. ; fines of lands, court 

 fees, &c., brought in 4 141. ; the mill, 

 26s. ; and stallage, herbage, pannage, &c., 

 7 19*. i</. The total given 27 17*. 8</. 

 is a little in excess of the details ; 

 Compoti, 5. 



In 1304-5, excluding the 4. ica. 

 scutage for the army of Scotland, the 

 profits amounted to ^38 is. 6\d. ; most 

 of the items showed an increase, allowance 

 being made for the park newly formed at 

 Musbury. A new approvement of 6of 

 acres of land yielded zos. $d, for the first 

 year ; ibid. 100-1. 



19 De Lacy Inq. 19; Whitaker, Wballey, i, 

 326, 327. The total estimated net value 

 was only 6 6s. 3j</., against gross re- 

 ceipts of 38 in 1304-5. 



In 1399-1400 the bailiwick of Totting- 

 ton produced 471. yd. and the manor 

 33 191. yd. ; Farrer, Clitberoe Ct. R. 489. 



In 1505 the mills were leased to Sir 

 John Booth for twenty-one years ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Misc. Books, xxi, A/5gd. 



20 See the account of Shuttleworth. 



M The Radcliffesof Radcliffe continued 

 to hold this land till the beginning of the 

 1 6th century. Richard son of Robert de 

 Radcliffe in 1292 claimed 80 acres of 

 pasture in Tottington against Henry de 

 Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, but withdrew ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 57. In 1295 Richard 

 de Radcliffe held 20 acres by the earl's 

 charter at a rent of 3*., and he paid iod. 

 for 2^ acres, inclosed with the preceding 

 land, but held at will ; Compoti, 5. The 

 court roll of September 1513 shows that 

 John Radcliffe had recently died, holding 

 Holehouse and lands in Tottington ; his 

 nephew John was his heir. The roll of 

 September 1517 states that John Rad- 

 cliffe had held Holehouse, and 25 acres, 



145 



with common rights in Alden ; he left a 

 widow Mary, and his heirs were his four 

 sisters. 



22 In 1311 Robert de Bradshagh held 

 a pasture freely by the service of izd. a 

 year ; De Lacy Inq. 19. The court rolls 

 for 1508, 1543, and 1551 show that this 

 estate was an acre at Affetside. 



28 Geoffrey de Chadderton for Shilling- 

 bottom in 1295-6 gave ij</. in lieu of a 

 pound of cummin, and the same in 

 1304-5 ; Compoti, 5, 177. In 1311 Roger 

 de Chadderton held 12 acres on the same 

 terms ; De Lacy Inq. 19. Roger de Chad- 

 derton in 1325 had licence to enfeoff 

 Roger son of Roger de Chadderton of a 

 messuage, &c., in Tottington ; Cal. Pat. 

 1324-7, p. 182. From the court roll of 

 1528 it appears that William Chadderton 

 had held the Peel in Tottington ; Edmund 

 was his son and heir. In 1550 Edmund 

 was dead, and George his son and heir 

 succeeded to the Peel and lands in Tot- 

 tington and Edenfield ; while in June 

 1551 George Chadderton of Nuthurst 

 sold Shillingbottom to Thurstan Hamer. 

 Thurstan Hamer had land in Buckden 

 in 1547. 



The estate was in 1849 the property 

 of Robert Nuttall of Kempsey ; Raines 

 MSS. xxxi, fol. 333, &c. 



24 Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Cbes. xli, 615. 

 Fines were paid, for instance, for licence 

 to brew, for selling bad ale, for multure 

 carried away, for a sparrow-hawk taken 

 in the forest, and for ' Haymald ' of a colt. 



There are numerous later court rolls 

 from 1507 onwards, some preserved at 

 Clitheroe Castle and some at the Public 

 Record Office. The courts were held at 

 Holcombe twice or thrice a year, usually 

 in June and October, both for the manor 

 and fee of Tottington. The judges, who 

 were the lords of the manors, were re- 

 quired to attend from Bury, Middleton, 

 Alkrington, and Chadderton ; also two 

 constables from each of these townships. 

 The officers of the manor or 'greaveship ' 

 of Tottington were the greave, appraisers, 

 supervisors of bread and ale, byrlaw men, 

 affeerers of the court, and sometimes 

 fence-lookers, and moor and moss-lookers, 

 appointed annually. The usual business 

 of such courts was done. The common 

 pastures of Duerden, Affetside, Wykeside, 

 and Hawkshaw were regulated, highways 

 kept in order, and complaints heard about 

 mills, folds, &c. 



