A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



WINKLEY of Wink- 

 ley. Per pale argent 

 and gules an eagle dis- 

 played counterchangcd. 



his son and heir made a feoffment of all his lands and 



the reversion of those held by his mother Joan. 217 



Thomas Winkley was still living in 1479, when he 



allowed Richard Catterall to 



make an attachment (perhaps 



for a mill stream) over his 



land to the water of Kibble 



near its junction with the 



Hodder 218 ; but his son and 



heir Geoffrey had in 1463 



married Isabel daughter of 



Alice and Alexander Nowel, 219 



and was living some time 



later, when he demised land 



called Horrockfields. 220 



Next appears Roger Wink- 

 ley, with Margaret his wife, 

 in I5o8. 221 He lived on till 

 1556, when by his will he 



left his ' capital or manor house called Winkley 

 Hall ' to his then wife Jane for her life. 222 His 

 son Anthony had in 1546 demised Woodfields in 

 Aighton to his brother Roger. 223 Anthony died 

 in 1566 seised of the capital messuage called Winkley 

 Hall in Aighton and 30 acres of land, held of the 

 queen as of the late monastery of St. John of Jeru- 

 salem in England by a rent of 4^. for all services ; 

 also half an oxgang of land and a messuage called 

 Woodfields, held of Sir Richard Shireburne by the 

 fortieth part of a knight's fee and \d. rent and by 

 \^d. rent respectively. Nicholas Winkley the son 

 and heir was forty years of age. 224 A pedigree was 

 recorded in l6l3, 225 but the main line of the family 

 was extinct by 1 664. 226 Roger Winkley, son of Thomas 

 son of Nicholas, seems to have succeeded to the estates 

 before 1615, when Toby Archbishop of York gave him 

 licence to construct a pew in Mitton Church adjoining 

 the old quire of Richard Shireburne. 227 William 

 Winkley of Winkley, occurring 1641 to 1 65 2, appears 

 to have been the last of the name in possession. 228 



Winkley was held in 1696 by Sarah widow of 

 Thomas Lacy, and she sold it to Sir Nicholas Shire- 

 burne. 229 It descended like Stonyhurst until 1828, 

 when Thomas Weld sold it to James Wilkinson. 

 Farms called Jumbles and Boat-house, parts perhaps 

 of the original Winkley, had become included in the 

 Walmsley of Dunkenhalgh estate and were in 1827 

 sold by George Petre to the same James Wilkinson. 

 His daughter married a Macdonnell, and her son 

 James in 1879 sold the estate to Mr. William 

 Walmsley Simpson, the present owner. 230 



Winkley Hall, now a farm-house, stands in a low 

 situation on the right bank of the Hodder im- 

 mediately above its junction with the Ribble, but 

 is a house of no architectural interest, having been 

 entirely modernized and altered from its original 

 appearance. It is a two-story stone building with 

 thick walls facing east to the river, but its only ancient 

 features are two windows of 1 7th-century date at the 

 back, of five and three lights respectively with tran- 

 soms and hood moulds, and a low one of the same 

 date in the northern end gable. 



CRAWSHAW in Aighton was part of the estate of 

 the Clitheroes of Bailey. 231 It was in the I7th 

 century tenanted by Richard Holden, younger brother 

 of John Holden of Chaigley, probably the recusant of 

 that name who had his lands sequestered by the 

 Commonwealth ; on his death in 1652 the trustees 

 for his infant children desired a discharge. 232 The 

 place comes into note through an outrage illustrative 

 of those days. A priest was beheaded at Chapel House 

 Farm in Chaigley whilst in the act of saying mass 

 there. The head was thrown over the fence into an 

 adjoining field and Mrs. Holden of Crawshaw 

 gathered it into her apron and took it into her house, 

 and secured also the objects in the chapel at the time 

 missal, altar cloth, vestments, candles, &c. and they 

 have been preserved as relics by the family. 233 



Morton, an early place-name, seems to have been 

 in Aighton. 234 A local family used Aighton itself as 



817 Towneley MS. DD, no. 653. 



818 Ibid. no. 650. 219 Ibid. no. 763. 



220 Ibid. no. 665. 



221 Ibid. no. 674, 647. In the re- 

 corded pedigree Roger is said to have 

 been a son of Thomas. 



222 Winkley Family. The will was 

 proved in 1557. 



233 DD, no. 669. 



M4 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 28. 

 A settlement of the manor of Winkley 

 with various messuages and lands, a 

 water-mill and a free fishery in the Hodder 

 and Ribble was made by Nicholas Winkley 

 in 1567 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 29, 

 m. 12. Only a year later a similar settle- 

 ment was made by Thomas Winkley the 

 younger (son of Nicholas, according to the 

 pedigree), with remainders to his uncles 

 Henry and Thomas ; ibid. bdle. 30, 

 m. 146. Another was made in 1586, the 

 deforciants being Thomas Winkley, Cecily 

 his wife, Henry Winkley, Jane his wife, 

 and Nicholas son and heir of Henry ; 

 ibid. bdle. 48, m. 114. 



In 1589 Anthony Isherwood of Chaig- 

 ley and Anne his wife, a daughter of 

 Nicholas Winkley, complained that the 

 legacy due to her was withheld by Henry 

 Winkley and other feoffees ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead. Eliz., cl., I i. 



The will of Henry Winkley (of Wood- 

 fields), dated 1589 and proved 1590, is 

 printed in Win^ley Family, no. 3. 



225 Visit, of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 38; 

 deeds are referred to in the margin. Roger 

 Winkley, the son and heir of Thomas, 

 was thirty-eight years old. 



226 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 334. 



227 Winkley Family. 



2S He was a creditor of Gabriel Hes- 

 keth of Goosnargh ; Royalist Comp. Papers 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 188. 

 According to a pedigree in the Shireburne 

 Abstract Bk., Roger Winkley, living in 

 1649, had a granddaughter Martha 

 (daughter of his son Roger) and a nephew 

 William Winkley of Billington, no doubt 

 the William named in the text. 



329 Shireburne Abstract Bk. ; the brief 

 details given do not show how she came 

 to own it. She had a son John Mitchell 

 by another husband, and Thomas Lacy 

 had a son Roger. 



230 Information of Mr. Simpson and 

 his solicitor, Mr. S. Sandeman. 



Myles Macdonnell occurs (either as 

 purchaser or trustee) in 1836, while in 

 1843 Miss Wilkinson was the daughter 

 and representative of James ; End. Char. 

 Rep. Her children in 1875 were James 

 Macdonnell and Mary Jane Nelson, 

 widow. 



231 Robert de Clitheroe, clerk, granted 

 a pasture called Crawshaw in Bailey to 

 Richard son of Henry de Clitheroe and 

 John his son ; Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



832 Royalist Comp. Papers iii, 236. George 



Holden, killed at Usk, when in the king's 

 service in the war, is supposed to have 

 been of this family ; Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of 

 Engl. Cath. iii, 330, 340. Richard 

 Holden, a descendant, registered an estate 

 in 1717 as a 'Papist'; Estcourt and 

 Payne, op. cit. 102. 



2SS Pal. Notc-bk. ii, 127 ; from family 

 traditions. It is not known who the 

 priest was. The relics were kept with 

 great secrecy at Crawshaw until the 

 establishment of the Jesuits at Stonyhurst, 

 when they began to be shown. They 

 were in 1887 in possession of the Holdens 

 of Hill House in Woodplumpton, and an 

 elaborate description is printed in the 

 Stonyhurst Mag. of that year (Nov.). A 

 stained altar-cloth has the initials E H 

 (or P H) embroidered on it. One of the 

 chasubles is inscribed : ' Orate pro ani- 

 mabus Oliveri Wastlei et Ellene uxoris 

 ejus.' The missal (1570) once belonged 

 to Dr. Henry Holden ; it bears the 

 words : ' Dieses geh5rt unserm Marter 

 und unserm lieben Pfilp.' The Wastleys 

 appear to have been a Chorley family. 



234 Almarica daughter of Siward de 

 Morton complained in 1276 of disseisin 

 of her free tenement in Morton and 

 Aighton by Godith de Riddings and 

 others ; Assize R. 405, m. 4 ; 1238, 

 m. 31 d. ; De Banco R. 27, m. 26 d. As 

 heir of her aunt Sibyl daughter of Gamel 

 de Morton she in 1284 claimed 2 acres in 



