BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



BLACKBURN 



Talbot. Argent three 

 lions salient purpure. 



younger brothers and seven neighbours, in 1447, in 

 raiding the live stock of Richard de Hoghton at Little 

 Pendleton.^^ After the place 

 of concealment of Henry VI 

 at Waddington in July 1465 

 had been divulged by William 

 Cantelowe, an Abingdon 

 monk, John Talbot, as a con- 

 nexion of the king's protector, 

 Sir John Tempest of Brace- 

 well, kt., made a virtue of 

 necessity and obtained as a 

 reward for surrendering the 

 king an annuity of 20 marks 

 and the conversion of the 

 socage rent of 37/. jd. yearly 



for this manor into a render of a white rose at 

 Midsummer. 3^ 



John Talbot was knighted in Scotland in July 

 1482, succeeded his father in or before 1484, and 

 died in 1511.'* His son, known as 'long John 

 Talbot,' passed his estates to trustees in 1514, to 

 make a sufficient estate to his wife Isabel daughter 

 of Richard Towneley of Towneley, kt., of the manor 

 of Dinckley, and to make provision for his younger 

 sons, and died 17 August 15 I 5. John his son, aged 

 fourteen at his father's death, is described by Benalt 

 in the heraldic visitation of 1533 as ' a verrey gentle 

 esquir and worthy to be taken payne for.' '^ 



John Talbot, third in descent from the last-named, 

 succeeded his grandfather at the age of seven years in 

 1589. He was knighted by James I in 1617 at 

 Lathom House'^ and in 1 642 was appointed one of the 

 collectors in this hundred of the subsidy granted 

 1 7 Charles I for the payment of forces and provision 

 of ammunition for the safeguard of the county. In 

 January 1643 he was suspected of attempting to 

 entice to Salesbury some of the chief Parliamentarians of 

 the neighbourhood of Manchester with a view to 

 effect their capture. The plot was discovered and a 

 force of 300 men a few days later attacked Sir John's 

 horse stationed at Salesbury, slew some of them, drove 

 others into the Ribble, where they were drowned, 

 captured others and pillaged the hall. A month later 

 his son George Talbot narrowly escaped capture at 

 the storming of Preston by Col. Seaton's forces from 

 Manchester.^^ Sir John surrendered to the Parlia- 

 mentarians in December 1645 and in August 1646 

 compounded for his delinquency by a fine of ;^444, 

 representing the sixth part of the value of his estate in fee. 

 He and his son joined the king with the Earl of Derby 

 at Worcester in 1 65 l , and in consequence his Lancashire 



estates were sold by the Treason trustees in 1654 to 

 Adam Bolton, gent., for £710, whilst his son as John 

 Talbot of Dinckley compounded by paying a fine of 

 j^335, representing a third part of the value of his 

 estate.^^ Sir John died intestate in 1659. 



John Talbot, his son and heir, born in 1608, was 

 the last male representative of his line and died 

 in 1677, leaving Dorothy his daughter and heir. 

 She married the following year 

 Edward Warren of Poynton 

 in Cheshire, and carried the 

 manor and estates into that 

 family.*" Their grandson 

 George Warren was M.P. for 

 Lancaster i758-8oand 1786- 

 96, created K.B. in 1761 and 

 died in 1801, leaving an only 

 daughter Elizabeth Harriet, 

 married in 1777 to Thomas 

 James seventh and last Vis- 

 died 

 His 

 Vis- 



who 



Warren of Poynton. 

 Cheeky or and axure^ on 

 a canton gules a lion 

 rampant argents 



count Bulkeley, 

 without issue in 1822. 

 widow, the Dowager 

 countess Bulkeley, hj will in 1826 constituted as 

 her heir her cousin George Fleming Leicester son of 

 John Fleming Leicester first Baron De Tabley, who, 

 attaining his full age in 1832, took by royal licence 

 the name of Warren in lieu of that of Leicester in 

 accordance with his cousin's will. In 1866 he sold 

 the manor with an estate extending to 887 acres in 

 this township and other estates in Clayton, Dinckley 

 and Osbaldeston to Henry Ward of Blackburn for 

 j£ 1 40,000. This was acquired by the Duke of 

 Somerset about 1894. 



SJLESBURT HALL stood in a low situation 

 300 yds. to the south-west of an acute bend in the 

 course of the River Ribble known as Sale Wheel, 

 where there is a deep pool, once a several fishery of 

 the lords of Clitheroe,''! and is said to have been 

 a quadrangular house built in the reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth, but no record of its exact character seems 

 to have been kept and only a fragment now remains. 

 An account of the building written in 1877*^ 

 describes the south and west wings as then standing 

 though detached.*^ The west wing had been cur- 

 tailed at its north end and its front wall had been 

 restored in dressed stonework, but it retained a wide 

 depressed arch, no doubt formerly the entrance to 

 the courtyard, but then blocked up. A sketch ''^^ of 

 the building in 1834 shows the west wing at that 

 date to have had pretty much the appearance of a 

 two-story cottage with square sash windows and a 



being her heir subject to her husband's 

 occupation by the courtesy of England j 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 41. 



Thomas Stanley and Thomas Haring- 

 ton, kts., on Saturday next after ' St. 

 Elyn Day,' 29 Hen. VI (? 8 May or 

 21 Aug. 1451), awarded to Henry son of 

 Richard Hoghton of Chippingdale the 

 manor of Little Pendleton with lands in 

 Newton, Easington and Bradford in 

 Bowland, Preston, Ribchester, Clitheroe, 

 Dinckley and Wilpshire ; Towneley MS. 

 HH, 197. John Talbot the elder and 

 John his son gave a bond to abide by 

 this award on ic Aug. 1448 ; ibid. DD, 

 903. 



" Ibid. DD, no. 1067 ; PaU of Lane. 

 Plea R. 9, m. II d. 



*■* Ramsay, Lane, and Tork. ii, 316-17 ; 



John Talbot received from Edward IV an 

 annuity of 20 marks for his faithful ser- 

 vice * in captura magni adversarii nostri 

 Henrici nuper in facto sed non de jure 

 regis Anglie.' Towneley MS. HH, no. 

 212. This was confirmed to his son 

 John Talbot, kt., by Richard III in 1484 ; 

 ibid. 213 i DD, no. 1031. 



^* Shaw, Knights of Engl, ii, 19 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 94. 



86 Ibid. 67 ; Fisit. (Chet. Soc), xcviii, 

 35. His will dated in 1551 is given in 

 Abram, Blackburn, 649. 



8' Shaw, Knights of Engl, ii, 165. 



88 Ci-vil War Tracts (Chet. See), 



67-75- 



8' Cal. Com. for Comp. 1449, 3281 ; 

 Cal. Com. for Advance of Money, 1642. 



^^ Pedigrees of Talbot of Salesbury will 



be found in Whitaker, PP^halley {ed. 1876), 

 ii, 376-7 and Ahram^ Blackburn, 647-52- 

 Edward Warren of Poynton in 1645 com- 

 pounded for his 'delinquency' in going 

 into the king's quarters in Shropshire in 

 1644. He had left them in the following 

 November and had since lived in the 

 Parliament's quarters in Blackburn and 

 had taken the National Covenant. His 

 fine was ;^630 j Cal. Com. for Comp, ii, 

 1038. 



^1 De Lacy Comp. (Chet. Soc. cxii), no. 

 *Wie],' Gaelic, a pool. 



^^ Abram, op. cit. 654. 



^^ Ibid. * Where the angle of the two 

 blocks approach they are splayed to make 

 a passage between the buildings.' 



^3a By the Rev. S. J. Allen, now in 

 the possession of Henry Taylor, F.S.A. 



