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A pedigree was recorded in I $6j. 32 Thomas Bradley 

 died in 1564 holding the capital messuage called 

 Bradley Hall with 60 acres of 

 land, &c., in Thornley of the 

 queen as of the late priory of 

 St. John of Jerusalem in Eng- 

 land by a rent of 4/. 33 John, 

 his sun and heir, then thirty- 

 six years of age, died in 1597, 

 leaving three daughters as co- 

 heirs, viz. Ellen wife of John 

 Osbaldeston, Elizabeth widow 

 of Thomas Talbot and Jane 

 wife of Francis Ducket, aged 

 respectively forty, thirty and 

 twenty-eight years. 34 It de- 

 scended to the heirs of 

 Alexander Osbaldeston 

 (i66o), 35 and from them 

 was purchased in 1764 by the Earl of Derby. 3 



BRADLEY of Bradley. 

 Sable a Jesse engrailed 

 argent^ in chief a mullet or 

 between two crosses formy 

 Jitchy of the second all 

 ivithin a bordure en- 

 grailed of the same. 



CHIPPING 



STUDLET is also named in the records, though it 

 has now disappeared from the map. The Greenhills 

 and Sowerbutts families were connected with it. 37 

 Studley also occurs as a surname. 37 * 



Apart from these estates there is but little record 

 of the landowners of former times. As in Chipping, 

 the Leylands of Morleys and their successors had 

 lands in Thornley, Wheatley and Studley, held of 

 the Earl of Derby in socage. 38 The Wawne family 

 held their land in Wheatley of the Crown as of the 

 dissolved priory of St. John of Jerusalem by a rent of 

 1 2</. 39 ; and Richard Shireburne of Stonyhurst in 

 acquiring the Hospitallers' manors and lands in Stidd 

 and Chipping acquired therewith rents and lands in 

 Thornley, Wheatley, Studley and Cockleach. 40 John 

 Rodes, another landowner, also held of the Hos- 

 pitallers. 41 



One or two other names occur. 42 John Bradley 

 and John Rodes contributed to the subsidy of 1524 

 in respect of their lands. 43 The widows of John 



Chipping and Cecily his wife ; Final Cone. 

 iii, 35. In the following year he was a 

 juror ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 41. 

 Robert Bradley attested a Thornley deed 

 in 1441 ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 53^. 

 John Bradley of Chipping, Robert son of 

 John Bradley of Chaigley and Miles the 

 brother of Robert occur in 1445 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 8, m. 33. Robert Bradley 

 was concerned in the manor of Thornley 

 in 1479 ; Final Cone, iii, 137. 



John Bradley of Thornley was con- 

 cerned in a rescue of impounded cattle 

 in 1521, which seems to have led to 

 great disturbance ; Duchy Plead. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 88-93. J oan 

 the widow and John the son of John 

 Bradk-y of Bradley Hall in Thornley were 

 defendants in a plea of debt in 1538 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 167, m. 16. 



Joan wife of Thomas Crombleholme 

 and sister of Henry Bradley of Chipping 

 in 1420 received from the feoffees lands 

 in Ribchester, Thornley and Wheatley, the 

 remainders being to, Christopher son of 

 Thomas and Joan and to Joan' s right heirs ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 224. 



88 Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 38 ; the descent 

 is thus given : John -s. Thomas -s. John, 

 who had three daughters. The younger 

 John had a brother Thomas Bradley, who 

 acquired part of the manor of Silverdale. 



88 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 37. 



34 Ibid, xvii, no. 28. There is in it 

 recited an indenture dated 1590 by 

 which John Bradley granted the rectory 

 of Warton to feoffees, for the use of 

 Thomas Talbot and Elizabeth his wife as 

 to one moiety, and of John Osbaldeston 

 and Ellen his wife as to the other moiety. 

 See Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 53, 

 m. 170. 



85 The heir of John and Ellen Osbal- 

 deston was Edward their son, living in 

 1613 ; Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 84. In 1611 

 it was found that Thomas Osbaldeston, 

 outlawed for murder, had a life annuity 

 of 20 from Bradley Hall and other 

 lands of John Bradley, late of Beetham 

 in Westmorland, recently in the posses- 

 sion of John Osbaldeston, next of Ellen 

 his widow, and in 1611 of Edward 

 Eccleston of Prescot parish ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 179. 



The following fines relate to it : 1658, 

 Anthony Munson and Frances his wife, 

 deforciants of the manors of Bradley and 

 Balderston ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 162, m. 16. 1726, Nicholas Starkie v. 



Alexander Osbaldeston, manors including 

 Bradley; ibid. bdle. 298, m. 4. 1763, 

 the manor of Bradley and messuages in 

 Bradley, Thornley and Chaigley, the plain- 

 tiff being William Turner and the deforci- 

 ants David Sturgeon, Jane his wife, Richard 

 Shuttleworth, William Bartlett and Eliza- 

 beth his wife ; ibid. bdle. 370, m. 66. 



36 Information of Mr. J. J. Hornby. 



37 The feoffees in 1441 regranted to 

 John Formby his lands, &c., in the vill 

 of Studley, a hamlet of Thornley, with 

 remainders to his daughters Alice and 

 Joan in equal shares for life, and then to 

 Thomas Greenhills the cousin and heir- 

 apparent of the said John, with remainders 

 to Margaret and Isabel, sisters of the 

 said Thomas, and then to Alice, mother 

 of John Formby ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 

 53/>. John in 1444 made a formal affirma- 

 tion that Thomas Greenhills was the heir of 

 the land he had from his mother Alice; ibid. 

 fol. 546 ; Towneley MS. OO, no. 1213. 



William Sowerbutts of Studley re- 

 leased to Thomas Lord Stanley in 1458 

 certain lands in Studley and Wheatley ; 

 ibid. no. 1009. Robert Sowerbutts in 

 1482 released to William son of Henry 

 Hoghton all his right in certain lands in 

 Studley and was re-enfeoffed ; Add. MS. 

 32106, no. 350; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1869. Richard Sowerbutts was a free- 

 holder in 1600 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc.), i, 235. 



37a In 1357 John de Studley claimed a 

 messuage and lands in Wheatley against 

 Henry de Dinckley and William son of 

 Richard the Smith ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 5, m. 8 d., i d. 



38 See the account of the Leyland 

 tenement in Chipping and the references 

 there given. In 1621 Edward Tyldesley's 

 estate was held of Michael Doughty as of 

 his manor of Thornley ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 2619. 



89 An account of the Wawne or Walne 

 family has been given under Chipping ; 

 the tenure recorded is in Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xv, no. 13. See also the 

 Hospitallers' rental of 1609 quoted above. 



In 1409 Agnes widow of Robert Moton 

 gave her daughter Alice wife of John 

 Wawne the elder a tenement in Wheatley, 

 the bounds of which extended from the 

 Loud on the north to Studley Brook on 

 the south, and part of another tenement 

 between Studley Brook and Longridge, 

 which had descended to the grantor on 

 the death of her sister Alice, a daughter 

 of William the Smith ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), 



35 



A 12063. The latter tenement was known 

 as the Birks in 1525, when it was held 

 by Robert Wawne, William Sowerbutts 

 being occupier; ibid. A 13467, 13473. 

 Lower and Higher Birks are now shown 

 on the map to the south of Wheatley. 



For a dispute between Wawne and 

 Sowerbutts see Ducatus Lane . (Rec. Com.), 

 iii, 163, 179. 



40 Thornley Hall, &c., as part of Stidd 

 was included in the grant to George 

 Whitmore and others ; Pat. 9 Jas. I, 

 pt. xxvii. It was sold to Shireburne in 

 1613 ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 132. See 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 4. 



Sir Richard Shireburne had in 1573 

 purchased a messuage, &c., in Wheatley 

 and Thornley from Richard Alston ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 35, m. 101. 

 Richard Shireburne in 1586 purchased 

 messuages and lands in Thornley, Wheat- 

 ley and Studley from Robert Newsham and 

 Elizabeth his wife ; ibid. bdle. 48, m. 27. 



41 See the rental of 1609 above cited. 

 John Rodes was a freeholder in 1600 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 235. 

 In 1631 the same or a succeeding John 

 paid ^10 on declining knighthood ; ibid. 

 217. 



For the Rodes family see T. C. Smith, 

 Chipping, 251-3. 



48 John del Woodscholes received lands 

 in Thornley in 1316-17; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 58. John son of Robert del 

 Woodscholes was plaintiff in 1351; Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. i, m. v d. In 1546 

 Elizabeth Rodes, widow, was plaintiff in 

 a fine respecting Woodschole howe and 

 lands, &c., in Thornley, the deforciants 

 being Thomas Johnson alias Tomlinson 

 and others ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 12, m. 293. 



In 1574 a settlement was made of a 

 messuage, &c., in Wheatley and Thornley, 

 by Robert Aytough, Joan his wife, William 

 Ambrose, Ellen his wife (to whose heirs it 

 was to remain), Agnes and Frances Eccles ; 

 ibid. bdle. 36, m. 121. 



Sir Richard Hoghton in 1 630 held land 

 in Thornley, but the tenure is not stated ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. 13. 

 Some appears to have been sold by Sir 

 Henry Hoghton in 1772 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 615, m. 7 d. 



Thomas Shireburne of Heysham in 

 1635 held land of Henry Doughty as of 

 his manor of Thornley ; Towneley MS. 

 C8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 1083. 



43 Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 130, no. 82. 



