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of the reign of Edward III it remained in the Crown. ^^ That sovereign in 

 1327 granted the hundred with the honor of Clitheroe to Isabella, the queen 

 dowager, for the term of her life.^* In the extent of 1346 she was returned 

 as holding the castle with its members, paying yearly for castle guard 

 of Lancaster 50J. due from five knight's fees." On 22 March 1 660-1 

 Charles II in consideration of the eminent services rendered to him by 

 General George Monck, whom the previous year he had created Duke of 

 Albemarle with other titles, granted to the duke in fee the castle, honor 

 and lordship of Clitheroe with the demesne manors and tenements appur- 

 tenant to it, and the wapentake or hundred of Blackburnshire with the 

 manors and members belonging to the same.^^ 



From George Duke of Albemarle the hundred descended to his son 

 Christopher, who having no issue gave his estate to his wife, Lady Elizabeth 

 Cavendish, eldest daughter and co-heir of Henry Duke of Newcastle, and 

 died at Jamaica in the year 1688. His widow married in 1692 Ralph 

 Montagu first Duke of Montagu, who died in 1709. She was well known as 

 the 'mad Duchess,' and died possessed of the hundred 28 August 1734, aged 

 eighty years.^'' John second Duke of Montagu, son of the first duke by a 

 former wife, succeeded to the hundred and died in 1749. His daughter and 

 co-heir, Mary, married George Brudenell fourth Earl of Cardigan, afterwards 

 Duke of Montagu. He died without male issue 23 May 1790, aged 

 seventy-seven, having been created in 1786 Baron Montagu of Boughton, co. 

 Northampton, for life with a special remainder of that dignity to the second 

 and every other younger son of his only daughter Elizabeth, who had 

 married in 1767 Henry third Duke of Buccleuch, and their issue in tail-male 

 successively.^ She had issue besides the fourth Duke of Buccleuch a third 



2' Adam de Clitheroe, John de Hesketh, Richard de Merkesden (Marsden) and Richard de Balderston 

 were appointed sub-keepers of the peace in the hundred 2 Nov. 1323 ; Cal. Pal. 1321-4, p. 382. 



2^ Ibid. 1327-30, p. 32 ; 1330-4, p. 19s ; i343-5> P- 447- 



25 Add. MS. 32103, fol. 147/J. 



2* Pat. 13 Chas. II, pt. XXX, no. 3. The grant also comprised (a) the manors of Ightenhill, Colne, 

 Pendleton, Worston, Chatburn, Accrington, Haslingden, with coal-mines, rents, &c. ; Trawden, Great 

 Marsden, Pendle, Rossendale, with messuages, mills, coal-mines and courts ; also all messuages, mills and 

 hereditaments, &c., in Blackedge, Sabden Hey, Reedley Hallows, Higham Booth, New Laund, Trawden, Alden, 

 Car(ry)hey, Musbury, Ugden, ' Mussendale ' (Musden), Rossendale, Over Goldshaw, Nether Goldshaw, with 

 the Craggs, Pendle, Over Barrowford, Nether Barrowford, Over Roughlee, Nether Roughlee, Hawbooth, 

 Wheatley in Hawbooth, Whitleyford, ' Roodhams,' Broadshabooth, Over Wicoller, Nether Wicoller, Colne, 

 Rushton Thornes, Gamelside, Tunstead alias Tunstall, Hoddlesden, Newhey, Over Shawfield, Neiher 

 Shawfield, ' High UUey ' alias High Riley, Newland in Accrington, Newhallhey, Henhead alias Overhead, 

 Friarhills, Cowhouses in Accrington, Rottanstall alias Rounstallhey, Constablegh, Okenwood, DedwinclifFe 

 alias Downeclough with Mete {sic), Holcar, Wolfenden Booth, Cowhope, Baxenden in Accrington, Crawshaw 

 Booth, Golshaw alias Goldshaw Booth in Rossendale, Falklough alias Felicklough, Croxenshangend, Winewall 

 in Trawden, Antley, being possessions belonging to the office of the collector of Blackburnshire ; also all 

 messuages, mills and hereditaments of the annual value of j^85 i8j. 6|a'. in Twiston, 'Thamor,' 

 Cliviger, Church, Chippingdale, ' Bramley,' Tunstall, Chipping, Downham, Chipping Brook, ' Sawden ' 

 {sic), Clitheroe, Blackley, Ribchester, Read, Simonstone, Blackburn, ' Balden Hall,' ' Blackwitthill,' 

 Leagrim, Bowland, ' Welneboth,' ' Baldworth,' Sclaterhill, Padiham, ' Marchden ' (Marsden), Cliviger 

 Moor, ' Deeplieginger ' (Derplay ?) and Glenfield, parcel of the possessions belonging to the wapentake 

 or hundred of Blackburnshire ; also all messuages, mills and hereditaments of the annual value 

 of ^95 1 5 J. lid. in Slaidburn and Bowland, &c., being the possessions belonging to the office of Master 

 Forester of Bowland ; also all messuages, mills, coal-mines, &c., of the annual value of ^59 15/. 9^^. in 

 Haslingden, Holmecroft, Inglefield, Accrington, Cliviger, Marsden, Burnley, Pendle, Briercliffe, Colne, 

 ' Barneley ' (f Barnside), Padiham and in Burnley at Broadhead, being the possessions belonging to the office 

 of Master Forester of Blackburnshire ; also the manor of Furness with the members (recited) and the manor 

 of Dalton with the bailiwick, parcel of the possessions of the duchy of Lancaster. 



2' G.E.C. Complete Peerage, i, 59. 

 28 Ibid. V, 344-S- 



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