A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



in 1667 succeeded by his son Digby, who married a 

 distant cousin, Elizabeth daughter of Charles Gerard, 

 Earl of Macclcsfield, lord of the manor of Halsall in 

 Lancashire. Digby's heir was his daughter Eliza- 

 beth, who in 1698 married James fourth Duke of 

 Hamilton, killed in the celebrated duel with Lord 



GERARD, Lord 

 Gerard of Gerard's 

 Bromley. Argent a 

 saltire gules. 



HAMILTON, Duke of 

 Hamilton. Gules three 

 cinquefoils pierced er- 

 mine. 



Mohun in lyiz. 89 The lordship of Wyresdale 

 descended with the dukedom until i853, 60 when it 

 was sold to Peter Ormrod of Bolton, 61 who settled 

 at Wyresdale Park. He diei about 1875, after 

 which his widow held it for life. On her death in 

 1 890 it went to James Cross Ormrod, nephew of 

 Peter, who was in 1895 succeeded by his son Captain 

 Peter Ormrod, stated to be now lord of the manor. 62 

 Wyresdale Park, a modern house, had a herd of 

 deer ; a pack of staghounds is maintained. 



Courts are held. 63 In 1642 it was ordered by 

 the jury that the court should be elected out of the 

 several townships in rotation, the first year out of 

 Barnacre, Bonds and Tarnacre, the second year out 

 of Cabus, Cleveley and Holleth, and the third year 

 out of Wyresdale, Longmoor or Pilling Moss and 

 the remainder. 64 The meeting-place was at Gober- 

 thwaite or Gubisthwaite in Cabus. 65 Gubberford 

 and Gubberford Lane are marked on the ordnance 

 map in Cabus and adjoining Woodacre, and the 

 bridge over the Wyre is named Gubberford Bridge. 

 The courts are still held in Cabus. 



The lords of the manor having been almost sole 

 landowners, no other families occur to be noticed 

 specially in the township. 66 There were some 

 sequestrations under the Commonwealth. 67 



Dolphinholmc in Nether Wyresdale Forest was 

 the subject of dispute in I59I. 68 Wyreside, in this 

 part of the township, is the seat of Captain Charles 

 Henry Garnett. 69 Scorton Old Hall belonged to the 

 Blackburnes in the I7th century. 70 



In connexion with the Church of England St. 

 Peter's, Scorton, was built in 1878-9 ; Captain 

 Peter Ormrod is patron. 71 



The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel at Scorton, 

 built in 1 843, 72 and another at Dolphinholme. The 

 Congregationalists have one at the latter hamlet. 73 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Mary and 

 St. James, built in 1861-2, replaced an earlier one, 

 and represents missionary work at different home- 

 steads in the township and district, which can be 

 traced back to the early part of the 1 8th century. 74 



59 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 146-50. 

 The descent may be given in outline as 

 follows : James, 4th duke, killed 1712 

 -s. James, 5th duke, d. 1743 -s. James, 

 6th duke, d. 1758 -s. James George, 

 7th duke, d. 1769 bro. Douglas, 8th 

 duke, d. 1799 uncle Archibald, gth 

 duke (son of James, 5th duke), d. 1819 -s. 

 Alexander, loth duke, d. 1852. 



Lord Archibald Hamilton (afterwards 

 duke) was knight of the shire 1768-72 ; 

 Pink and Beaven, Part. Repre. of Lanes. 

 85. He died at Ashton Hall. 



There were fines and recoveries of the 

 manors of Nether Wyresdale, &c., in 

 1701 by James Duke of Hamilton and 

 Elizabeth his wife, 1737 by James Duke 

 of Hamilton, 1762 by Lord Archibald 

 Hamilton, and 1800 by Archibald Duke 

 of Hamilton and Alexander Marquess of 

 Douglas ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdles. 247, m. 105 ; 319, m. 10 ; Plea 

 R. 596, m. 5 ; Aug. Assizei, 40 

 Geo. Ill, R. 6. 



60 Fishwick, op. cit. 54. 



61 The Ormrods were cotton spinners 

 of Bolton. James Ormrod of Chamber 

 Hall died in 1825, leaving two sons, 

 Peter and James ; Barton, Bolton Glean. 

 i, 153. The latter was father of Col. 

 James Cross Ormrod named in the text. 

 Peter Ormrod rebuilt the parish church 

 at Bolton ; his brother James built St. 

 Peter's, Scorton, in memory of him. 



The price paid for Nether Wyresdale 

 (4,027 acres) was 110,500, for 

 Cleveley (693 acres) 35,100, and for 

 Cabus (1,359 acres) 54,100; Preston 

 Guard. 21 Nov. 1874. 



63 Hcwitson, Northward, 75. 



63 Fishwick, op. cit. 57. 



64 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1870), ii, 528. 

 Fishwick (op. cit. 47-54) gives a list of 

 the tenants in 1604-5 w 'th the allot- 



ments of common made to each by 

 agreement with Lord Gerard. 



65 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 72 ; 

 the manor of Wyresdale is here called 

 Goburthwaite. See the account of Little 

 Eccleston. 



68 Scabgill in Wyresdale was in 1615 

 held by Robert Foxe of the king as of 

 his manor of Wenden Ferrens in Bucks, 

 in socage. Thomas Foxe, aged twenty, 

 wa next of kin and heir ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 



122. 



Park House, part of the lands of 

 William (Parr) Marquess of Northampton, 

 was in 15614 in dispute between 

 Anthony Harrison (in right of his wife 

 Margaret, daughter and heir of Richard 

 Hodgekinson) and William Harrison, &c. ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 286-7. 



There were disputes as to tenures in 

 the manor in 1664 and later, yielding 

 the names of many of the tenants 5 

 Exch. Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 38, 43, 44. The depositions were 

 printed in the Preston Guard. 6 Nov. 

 1886 and later. A court held at 

 Wedacre is named. There were further 

 disputes in 1687, Lady Elizabeth Gerard 

 being in possession ; Exch. Dep. 71. 



67 William Baines, recusant, had two- 

 thirds of his estate under sequestration in 

 1653 ; Royalist Camp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 157. John Baines, 

 aged thirty, admitted to the English 

 College, Rome, in 1659, was son of 

 William. He stated that his parents, 

 4 Catholics of the middle classes, descended 

 from an ancient stock . . . suffered much 

 on account of their religion and were 

 reduced to very slender means in con- 

 sequence ' ; Foley, Rec. S. J. v, 3 99. He 

 was ordained and sent to England. John 

 Baines, who had taken part in the ' second 



304 



war ' on the king's side, escaped with a 

 fine of 3 5 Royalist Comp. Papers, i, 1 1 8. 

 Thomas Mercer and Mary his wife, 

 who were leaseholders under Lady Kil- 

 morey, for recusancy suffered sequestra- 

 tion, but were dead in 1655 ; ibid, iv, 130. 

 The surname is given as Myerscough in 

 Cat. Com, for Comp. v, 3242. John 

 Rigmaiden of Wyersdale, recusant, de- 

 sired to contract for the two-thirds of his 

 estate in 1654; ibid, v, 3186. John 

 seems to have died soon after, the trustees 

 of his daughter Anne, wife of Roger 

 Green, petitioning for discharge later in 

 the year; ibid, iv, 2851. William 

 Windress, though not actually sequestered, 

 compounded in 1651 for having been in 

 arms for the king in 1643 ; ibid, iv, 2899. 



68 Ducatus Lane, iii, 275. 



69 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



70 Fishwick, op. cit. 256. 



71 A district was formed for it in 1880 ; 

 Land. Ga*. 17 Sept. 



'* Hewitson, Our Country Churches, 524. 

 A poor woman, employed at the mill, 

 held a class meeting in her house ; this, 

 after some persecution, found protectors 

 in the mill-owners and regular services 

 were instituted. 



73 Services began in 1875 and an iron 

 church was opened in 1881 ; Nightingale, 

 Lanes. Nonconf. i, 207. 



74 Hewitson, op. cit. 521-3. Mass used 

 to be said at Brackenlea (occupied by the 

 Jenkinsons), and there was a priest's 

 hiding-place at Foxhouses. ' The original 

 Catholic chapel at Scorton was a small 

 rude thatched building. In its early career 

 the building, it is said, was used as a 

 clogmaker's shop on weekdays and for 

 Catholic worship on Sundays. It was 

 eventually replaced by another building, 

 set apart entirely for religious purposes.' 

 This was afterwards used as a schoolroom. 



