A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



which a wing has been added during the last century. 

 The roofs are hipped and covered with stone slates, 

 with overhanging eaves. The windows have key- 

 stoned heads, and the angles of the building and old 

 entrance doorway are further emphasized in stone. 

 The back part of the west wing appears to belong to 

 an older house, probably of the 17th century, and 

 has a gable and large projecting stone chimney. 

 There is said to have been a chapel on the first floor 

 in this part of the house, approached by an external 

 flight of stone steps. The steps are gone, but the 

 old doorway still remains. Some portions of timber 

 construction belonging to the older house are also 

 visible. The building was probably of the usual H 

 type of plan, the front part reconstructed in the 

 1 8th century, and most likely on the old foundations. 

 The interior has been almost entirely modernized, 

 though two of the lower rooms retain original 

 painted wainscot. The front elevation is of good 

 design and has a very good appearance, o^ving to the 

 colour of the old bricks and stone slates and to the 

 fact that the windows retain their barred sashes. 



The other tenants of the Hospital included the 

 Worthingtons of Blainscough,^ Standish ^ and Halli- 

 well.' The tenants of Co.kersand Abbey were 

 Ban.i:tre, Rigby, Stopford and Tunley.'' 



TUME}' at one time gave a surname to the 

 tenant.' In part it was owned by the HalliwcUs 

 and in part by a Wilson family, i\ hose representatives 

 retain it.* South Tunley,' now a farm-house, stands 

 on rising ground above a small stream called Tun!cy 

 Brook at the east side of the towiuhip, and is an 

 interesting 17th-century building of two stories of 

 the H tyF<^' 'he middle and east ^'ing being of 

 timber and plaster and the west wing of brick i'. ith 

 gritstone dresings, the whole on a high sandstone 



chamfered base. The front, which faces south and 

 is about 55 ft. in length, retains mo t of its original 

 features, though all the windows in the timber portion 

 have been modernized, and in 1896 the greater part 

 of the old oak timber in the east gable was taken out 

 owing to decay and replaced. The end wings are 

 gabled but without barge-boards, and there is a 

 smaller timber gable over the projecting porch to 

 the hall in the angle formed by the west wing. The 

 appearance of the front with its combination of old 

 red brick, stone, plaster and timber and greystone 

 roofing slates is very picturesque, the position of the 

 house, which stands some 8 ft. or i o ft. above the 

 roadway, and the character of its approach adding 

 materially to the effect. The lower part of the 

 porch, which is open and has a wooden seat on each 

 side, is built of gritstone, and on the door head are 

 the date 1622 and the initials of Thomas Wilson and 

 his wife. This probably gives the year of building, 

 what later work there is being more in the nature of 

 embellishment or repair than of structural alterations 

 or additions. The hall is only 17 ft. by 12 ft. 6 in., 

 the greater length being from front to back, but the 

 size is increased by a large open fireplace 4. ft. 6 in. deep 

 and 12 ft. wide on the west side, now filled with a 

 modern grate. The floor is flagged and the ceiling, 

 which is 9 ft. 6 in. high, is crossed by a single oak 

 beam now whitewashed carrying the exposed joists of 

 the floor above. The whole of the south side of the 

 room is occupied by a window, and there are three 

 doors, one in the south-west corner from a lobby 

 between its porch and west wing, and the others on 

 the east and north sidfs opening directly into the 

 parlour in the east \v ing and to a smaller room and 

 staircase on the north side. The west wing, which 

 preserves its low stone muUioncd windows, contains 



Mar[:'.r(rt, whose i99ue failed; Piccope 

 MS. Pedigrees, n, 288. 



In a deed of James Nelson Ashlon of 

 F.iirhurst, 1764., he is described as nephew 

 and devisee under the last will of Maxi- 

 milian Nelson of F^iirhurst, and second 

 son of John Ashton and Elizabeth his 

 wife ; Piccope MSS., iii, 380, from deeds 

 at Preston, R. 4. of Geo. III. 



The estate * descended to the Riddells 

 and was recently sold to the present occu- 

 pier' ; Baines, Lanci, (cd. 18-0), ii, 150. 



The Fairhurst estate was owned by 

 Hugh Ainscough of I'urscaugh, and now 

 by his executors ; informntion of Mr. 

 James Ainscough of Fairhurst. 



* They are not named in the Hospi- 

 tallers' Ren:a;, but Peter Wnrth;n:ton in 

 i';"7 held messuages in Wrightingion as 

 of the late priory by a rent of \zd, ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 18, &c. 



■^ Ralph Standish's \J. is entered in the 

 above-cited rental, but in the inquisitions 

 his land is stated to have been held of 

 John Wrightington by it/, rent. ; ibid, vii, 

 no. 17 ; see also L^^ct. Ir.^, p,m, (Rcc 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 190. 



* The name appears in the Hospitallers' 

 Rental as succeeJing Dwerryhouse. 



A number of Dwerryhouse charters are 

 in the Kuerden MSS. vi, fol. 41, By one 

 Robert, Prior of St. John, granted to 

 Adam son of Robert de Dwerryhouse land 

 within bounds beginning at the brook of 

 Dwerryhouse croft, passing beyond S[an- 

 neres west to the brook coming from 

 Dwerrt^house wall, following the foot of 

 the Great hill to * Extremoor Cornell ' to 

 the Fernyhurst in the south-west, and so 



ascending beyond the Great Stanere to the 

 Blackbutt°, saving the footway to the 

 neighbouring villagers, thence to Wliitcnr 

 and the starting point. Adam had leave 

 to build a windmill ; a rent of dd. was to 

 be paid. Another is a grant by Robert, 

 chaplain of Eccleston, to Richard the Car- 

 penter of land in Wrightington held by 

 gift of Roger de Ayston (Ashton) to the 

 Ho.pitallcrs, together with the service of 

 id. a year to Robert son of Adam ; a rent 

 of dd. was due to the Hospital. 



In 1 5 14 it was agreed that Nicholas 

 son of John HalliwcU should marry Jane, 

 a daughter and co-heir of Richard D wcrry- 

 house ; Agnes was another daughter. 

 Kuerden fol. MS. 88. Three years later 

 testimony was given as to the true heir 

 of ' little Henry ' Dwerryhouse, Towneley 

 MS. RR, no. 908. Thomas Hesketh in 

 1516 had given to Wi.liam Tarleton all 

 his lands called Dwerryhouse lands in 

 Wrightington, Heskin and Eccleston ; 

 ibid. no. 972. See also Ducatus Lane. 

 i, 162 ; ii, 71. 



Robert Halliwell of the hall of Tunley 

 was about 1 578 concerned in a lease of 

 land made by Roger Kirkby to a certain 

 John Fisher. There were in later years 

 disputes concerning the property between 

 Thomas Fisher son of John and William 

 and Richard Fisher sons and executors of 

 John. See Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. 

 cxxi, F 7. 



William Halliwell died in 1609 holding 

 a messuage and land (by descent) of the 

 heirs or assigns of John Butler ; also New- 

 field (by purchase) of Thomas Lathom of 

 Parbold and Richard Nelson of Fairhurst. 



176 



John, his son and heir, was seventeen years 

 of age J Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 .ind Ches.), i, 140. Lawrence Halliwell 

 died in 161 9 holding a messuage, &c., of 

 Edw.irrj Mosley, Thomas Lathom, Henry 

 Ashhurst and Maxie Nelson by rents of 

 8<y., 5j. lot/., 9t/. and 31. 4^/. respectively; 

 Robert the son and heir was thirty-three 

 years old ; ibid, ii, 180. 



John Halliwell in 1631 paid ^^ 10 on 

 refusing knighthood j Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 244. 



The HalliwcUs adhered to the Roman 

 Catholic religion. 



^ Cockersand Chartul. iii, 1260-1. 



' Henry and William de Tunley con- 

 tributed to the subsidy in 1332; Exch. 

 Lay Subs. 51. 



•■ Richard Wilson was a landowner in 

 1628; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 169. This Tunley family were 

 Protestants, and Thomas Wilson was a 

 member of the Presbyterian classis of 

 1646. After the Restoration 'Mr. 

 Wilson of Tunley ' gave shelter to Adam 

 Martindale for a time ; Aulohiog. (Chet. 

 Soc), 178 ; see Lr,c. Gleanings Lanes, and 

 Ches. ii, 247. 



The Wilsons continued to own Tunley 

 aad reside there until 1821, when on the 

 dsoth of the owner, a bachelor, it passed 

 to a relative, a solicitor at Preston, and 

 was let as a farm. It descended to his 

 grandson, the late Edward Wiison of 

 Broughton House, near Preston, who 

 aff jrded this information. 



' See Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. 

 (new ser.), lil, 187-90, where a description 

 of the building with illustration is given. 



