A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The principal local families were the Nuttalls, 26 Raws tor nes, 26 Ramsbottoms," and Booths 2S ; but of 



NUTTALL. Argent a 

 ihack-bolt sable. 



RAWSTORNE. Per 

 pale azure and gules a 

 castle trifle-towered or. 



In 151611 was stated that the court had 

 not been held from three weeks to three 

 weeks because there was no court-house. 

 There was then no pinfold. The tenants 

 had been summoned to the wapentake court 

 at Salford, to which they did not owe suit. 

 The miller of Cold wall mill in 1560 had 

 not kept the 'mill fleam' ij ft. deep and 

 3 ft. wide. Stocks for the punishment of 

 malefactors were asked for in 1525. One 

 woman and her daughter were reported in 

 1530 for absenting themselves from 

 divine service on feast days and other days 

 all the year round. Forbidden games re- 

 ceived notice ; Edmund Lomax of Cross- 

 dough and another were in 1522 common 

 players at cards, &c., in time of divine 

 service, at mass on feast days ; and in 

 1545 bowling alleys were suppressed at 

 Holcombe and Edenfield. Common re- 

 grators and forestallers were punished. 

 Edmund Greenhalgh was in 1520 fined 

 for levying a toll on people going through 

 to the markets in a place called Shuttle- 

 worth in Tottington. Several were fined 

 for obtaining turf, stone, and slate stones 

 without licence, or for obtaining them and 

 gelling to persons outside the manor. 



Ministers' accounts for Clitheroe in 

 1341-2 give particulars of Tottington, 

 with its two mills and chase, and mention 

 the keeper of Musbury ; Mins. Accts. 

 bdle. 1091, no. 6. 



85 The family took its name from Nut- 

 tall, originally Nuthough or Nuthaw, on 

 the bank of the Irwell. Roger de Noteho 

 was a defendant in a Bury mill case in 

 1256; Final Cone, i, izo; and Richard 

 son of Thomas de Notehoh had a grant of 

 land ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 864. 

 Richard de Notehogh in 1332 contributed 

 to the subsidy in Bury ; Exch. Lay Subs. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 33. James 

 Bury in 1479 complained that some of his 

 cattle at Gooden and Woodroad had been 

 taken by Henry and Geoffrey Nuttall of 

 Bury, Charles Nuttall of Tottington, and 

 others ; Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton, file 

 19 Edw. IV,*. 



There were two branches of the family 

 established in Tottington Nuttall of 

 Nuttall, and Nuttall of Tottington Hall. 

 Of the former family was Richard de 

 Nuttall, who in 1408 leased to his son 

 William all that land called Nuttall (Not- 

 hogh) in Tottington, with the buildings 

 thereon, lately leased to Henry de Nuttall; 

 Ormerod, Parentalia, 40. Henry son of 

 a later Richard Nuttall of Nuttall in 1491 

 acquired Gollinrod in Walmersley ; ibid. 

 41. 



From the court rolls it appears that 

 Richard Nuttall died in 1510 holding 

 four messuages, 120 acres of land, &c., 

 Charles being his son and heir. In 

 October 1537 Charles Nuttall made a 

 settlement of his lands in Little Hol- 



combe ; and in 

 1549 he made a 

 further settlement, 

 Richard his son 

 and heir, being a 

 party. In 1561 

 Richard Nuttall, 

 whose heir was his 

 son Charles, made 

 a lease of certain 

 land. Charles Nut. 

 tall, gentleman, 

 was buried 8 Mar. 

 1604-5 i Charles 

 Nuttall of Hoi- 

 combe, i Aug. 



1613 ; and Richard Nuttall of Nuttall, 20 

 Jan. 1616-17 5 Bury Reg. Charles Nut- 

 tall of Nuttall was a freeholder in 1600, 

 and another Charles contributed to the 

 subsidy in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 248, 162. He was living 

 in 1624, and Blome names the family in 

 his list of Lancashire gentry in 1673 ; 

 Ormerod, op. cit. 41. * The estate passed 

 from this family, probably by marriage, to 

 Miles Lonsdale, of Field House, Esq., 

 about the year 1698, and was conveyed by 

 his descendant and representative, Ann, 

 only child of Henry Lonsdale, Esq., about 

 1790, in marriage to the Rev. Richard 

 Formby of Formby, LL.B., by whom it was 

 sold to Mr. Grant' ; Raines, in Notitia 

 Cestr. ii, 30, 32. 



Of the Tottington Hall family was 

 Ralph Nuttall, who according to the 

 court rolls died in 1530 holding two mes- 

 suages, 6 oxgangs of land, and a third part 

 of 64 acres called Roodland in Tottington, 

 with common of pasture in Alden ; also a 

 messuage, &c., in Deardenfield. Thomas 

 Nuttall, his son and heir, was admitted on 

 a fine of 20*. Emmot, widow of Giles 

 Nuttall, perhaps of another family, occurs 

 in the roll of 1541. 



Thomas Nuttall of Tottington was a 

 freeholder in 1600, while Ralph Nuttall 

 contributed to the subsidy of 1622 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 248, 162. 

 From the Bury Registers it appears that 

 Thomas Nuttall, gentleman, was buried 

 19 June 1609 ; and Thomas Nuttall of 

 Tottington 12 Oct. 1614. These are 

 probably the father and son who head the 

 Nuttall pedigree recorded in 1664-5 5 

 Dugdale, V'uit. (Chet. Soc.), 222. 



A further account of this family will be 

 found under Oldham ; they are now re- 

 presented by the Radclyffes of Foxdenton. 

 Some documents concerning them are in 

 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxiv, fol. 245- 

 57. Thomas Nuttall, who died about 

 1727, built a schoolhouse at Tottington 

 and left 3 a year towards the endow- 

 ment ; End. Char. Rep. Bury, 1901, p. 6. 

 Mr. Grimshaw was owner of Tottington 

 Hall in 1828; ibid. 8. 



26 The name was originally Routhesthorn, 

 and has taken a great variety of forms; 

 including Rostron. Adam de Rawsthorne 

 was defendant to a plea by Roger son of 

 Geoffrey son of Joan de Bury in 1304 ; 

 Coram Rege R. 176, m. 48. Adam the 

 elder and Adam the younger contributed 

 to the subsidy of 1332 ; Exch. Lay Subs. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 36, 37. 



Lumb Hall in Edenfield is said to have 

 been the seat of Adam Rawsthorne in 

 1482 ; Raines, in Notitia Cestr. ii, 30. 

 From the court rolls it appears that 

 Adam Rawsthorne died in 1508 holding 

 five messuages and 153 acres of roodland , 

 he left a widow Ellen, and a son and heir 



Henry. In 1528 Henry Rawsthorne died, 

 his son and heir Adam succeeding. 

 Adam Rawsthorne of the Lumb and 

 Richard his son were concerned in a cove- 

 nant of marriage with Richard Ormerod of 

 Wolfenden in 1551. Adam died in 1562, 

 and Richard, as son and heir, succeeded. 



The will of Richard Rawsthorne (1580) 

 is printed in Piccope, Wilh (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 1 68 ; it mentions his wife Agnes, his 

 sons Richard, the heir, Adam, parson of 

 Bircham Newton (Norfolk), and Law- 

 rence, 'scholar,' and his daughter Ellen, 

 wife of Thomas Fish. The will of his 

 widow Agnes (1594) is also printed ; ibid. 

 iii, 146. Richard, the son and heir, was 

 buried in 1593 ; Bury Reg. His will 

 (1593) is printed; Piccope, op. cit. iii, 

 38 ; his son Edward was the heir, but 

 legacies were given to younger children 

 and others. Certain furniture, including 

 seven silver spoons, were to remain as 

 heirlooms at the capital house of the Lumb. 

 The will of his widow Eleanor (1599) is 

 in Wills (Chet. Soc. new ser.), i, 226. 



Edward Rawsthorne of Lumb was a 

 freeholder in 1600, and contributed to the 

 subsidy in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 247, 162. He died 20 Dec. 

 1634, holding lands in Ditton of the king 

 as of his manor of West Derby ; the Tot- 

 tington estate is not mentioned. The 

 heir was his grandson Edward (son of 

 Edward), two years of age ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 23. Edward 

 Rawsthorne of the Lumb, no doubt the 

 father of the heir, was buried 16 Mar. 

 1631-2; and Edward son of Edward 

 Rawsthorne of the Lumb was baptized 

 23 May 1632 ; Bury Reg. It is said to 

 have been the second Edward's daughter 

 and heir Elizabeth who conveyed the 

 estate in marriage about 1660 to Thomas 

 Bradshaw of Bradshaw; Raines, in Notitia 

 Cestr. ii, 30. Oliver Hey wood tells the 

 following story, which illustrates a popular 

 superstition : ' Mr. Rawsthorne of Lumb 

 and Mr. Thomas Bradshaw walked out 

 and after they had drunk a cup of ale re- 

 turned home. Going in the night by a 

 pit side Mr. Rawsthorne (being troubled 

 with the falling sickness) fell in ; Mr. 

 Bradshaw leapt after him to take him out, 

 because he could swim, but they were 

 both drowned. Mr. R. swam at top, but 

 Mr. B. could not be found. A woman 

 bade them cast a white loaf in, and they 

 doing so it would not be removed from over 

 the place where he was ; so they took him 

 up, and they were buried together. A sad 

 family it was, my brother being eye-wit- 

 ness thereof ; Diaries, iii, 89. The date 

 seems to be Dec. 1664. There is a pedi- 

 gree in Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), i, 162, 

 in which it is stated that Elizabeth's son 

 Thomas had a son and heir Rawsthorne 

 Bradshaw, born in 1689, who, finding the 

 estate much encumbered with debts, sold 

 it in 1725 to Miles Lonsdale. 



New Hall in Edenfield is stated to have 

 been purchased in 1538 by Lawrence 

 Rawstorne of Windsor ; Raines, loc. cit. 

 In 1556-7 Lawrence Rawstorne of New 

 Hall made a settlement of his lands ; he 

 mentions William and Edward his sons 

 and Jane his daughter ; the trustees were 

 William son and heir of John Orrell of 

 Turton ; Thomas son and heir of Ralph 

 Nuttall of Bury ; and Peter son and heir 

 of James Heywood of Bury ; Raines MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xiv, fol. 89. He is men- 

 tioned in the court rolls in 1538 and 

 1541. 



