A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



gable -It each end north and south, the only ancient 

 features remaining being the archway already men- 

 tioned, which was at the north end, and two low 

 stone buttresses. On the north side a building in 

 ruins is shown, but this had probably been removed 

 before 1877. The interior of the west wing had 

 a series of rooms on the upper floor reached by a long 

 corridor and partitioned with oak panelling, but all 

 the lower rooms had been modernized. Some traces 

 of a moat were at that time said to have existed, and 

 on the north side were fragments of a massive rubble 

 wall which may have belonged to the original struc- 

 ture. The west wing was pulled down in 1883 

 when the present house, known as Salesbury Hall, was 

 erected. The south ^ving, or a portion of it, how- 

 ever, still remains between the road and the modern 

 building and is used as a stable. It is 47 ft. in length 

 and I 5 ft. wide with a stone slated roof and timber 

 gable at the east end, one side of it built in stone 

 directly facing the high road. The north side towards 

 the house is built of stone to a height of 9 ft., above 

 which it is of timber and plaster with a cove under 

 the eaves. The framing is filled in with straight and 

 diagonal pieces, and there are two large wooden 

 windows, now built up, these details probably 

 indicating the chief characteristics of the original 

 building. 



A Roman alt.ir from Ribchcstcr dedicated to Apollo 

 was at one time built into one of the walls of Salesbury 

 Hall, butwas removed by Dr. Whitakcr, who at 

 his death bequeathed it to St. John's College, 

 Cambridge. 



There was formerly a deer park here from which 

 Sir Ralph Assheton had venison in 1676 by the gift 

 of John Talbot, esq. The eastern boundary is still 

 indicated by a tenement known as Fence Gate, where 

 the road from Dinckley Bridge enters the toivnship. 

 Further to the north is another tenement called 

 Cob Oak. 



LOIELET HALL (Luffeley, 1473). For five 

 centuries this estate was held by the families of Bolton 

 and Parker. In 124.6 Robert de Bolton had lands 

 in Salesbury and Cl.i}'ton. He was the father of 

 Richard, who had issue by Cecily his second wife 

 Nicholas, to whom in i3i6Dionisia relict of Thomas 

 de Hulton confirmed the estate formerly held by his 

 father Richard de Bolton.^"* His successor Richard 

 by his wife Emota had John, upon whom lands in 

 Salesbury and Wilpshire were settled in 1365, father 



Seymour, Duke oi 

 Somerset. GuUi two 

 •wings conjoined in lure 



of Richard, who died without issue, and Adam, who 



succeeded his brother about 13S7, and by his wife 



Katharine had issue Richard. In i ^93 Richard son 



of Adam Bolton married Matilda daughter of John 



del Meles of Preston. <" He 



appears to have had brothers, 



Geoffrey, who died before 



1406, and Roger, who married 



Cecily daughter of William le 



Wainwright. Roger Bolton, 



yeoman, was amerced in 1447 



for taking part with John 



Talbot and his son in various 



assaults and trespasses upon 



Richard Hoghton of 



Leagram.'*^ About 1460 



Robert Bolton gave puture to 



the sheriff at ' Lovelay,' and 



was probably the father of Richard Bolton, who w.is 



described as of Loveley in 147 V John Bolton son 



of Richard was the last of the line, and passed his 



estates to trustees in 1508 for settlement upon his 



daughter Elizabeth and her then husband John son 



of John Singleton of Chingle Hall, asq.'" 



Some twenty-eight years later one Richard Bolton 

 forcibly entered the messuage of Loveley, claiming the 

 estate against the rightful owner James Halsnll, who 

 held it in right of his wife Elizabeth, who is obviously 

 the daughter and heir of John Bolton.''* A younger 

 branch of the family continued to own lands at 

 Bolton Hall and Copthurst in this township until the 

 1 8th century.'" The above-named Elizabeth had 

 married as her first husband one Hugh Parker of 

 Salesbury,*" and their son Richard P.irker, gent., 

 succeeded and held the estate temp. Elizabeth,'^ 

 dying in 1592. John his successor died seised in 

 1607,'^ whose son Richard and grandson John held 

 the estate during the greater part of the I 7th century. 

 John Parker's estates of Loveley and Hollowhead 

 were sequestrated for his delinquency and sold by 

 the Tre.ison trustees in 1654.'' John Parker son of 

 the last-named John was assessed to hearth tax in 

 1666 upon four hearths and died in 1692. In 171 i 

 another John Parker sold Loveley to Edmund Winder 

 of Clayton-le-Dale, whose brother Robert and son 

 John were concerned. This son, John Winder, gent., 

 held the estate in 1735, as appears from his initials 

 and the date upon the easing-pipes on the front of 

 the house. He was succeeded by his son Edmund 



** Lanes. Assixe R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 33 ; Towneley MS. HH, no. 489. 



Richard de la Tyndihevid (see above) 

 exchanged lands in 1 3 10 in Hesemore 

 eaves with Nicholas de Bolton, his brother 

 of the half-blood, for lands on the eastern 

 side of Tynderley syfce ; ibid. 488. 



«Ibid. 418, 397, 316, 3-3. 



« Ibid. 43 S, 331 ; Pal. of Lane Plea 

 R. 10, m. 42. It is not certain that he 

 was owner of Loveley. 



■" Towneley MS. HH, no. 473, 476 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 107, m. i d. ; Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc, Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 

 165 ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 189*. 



*^ Pal. of Lane. Writs of Assize, bdle. 

 17. In 1535 James Halsall of Haskeyn 

 in Halsall and Elizabeth his wife, late wife 

 of Hugh Parker, were plaintiffs ; ibid. 

 Plea R. 161, m. 13. In 1556 James 

 Halsall and Elizabeth his wife conveyed 

 lix messuages, ic, in Salesbury, Wilp- 



shire and Clayton to feoffees ; ibid. Feet 

 ofF.bdle. I 7, m. 121. For the Parkers see 

 also Hallhead in Wilpshire. 



« Towneley .MS. (Chct. Lib.), C 8, 13, 

 fiassim j Abram, Blackburn, 6^^. John 

 Bolton of Loveley, Richard Bolton of 

 Lipshawe and Nicholas Bolton of Cad- 

 shaw were defendants in 1 5 14; PaL of 

 Lane. Plea R. 118, m. 8 d. 



^ Hugh Parker and Elizabeth his wife 

 had a daughter Jane, married to Roger 

 (or Robert) Walmsley and afterwards to 

 Ralph Talbot. She and her son by the 

 second marriage (Richard Talbot) were 

 plaintiffs ; Duchy of Lane Plead. Eliz. 

 ixrvii, T 4 ; Decrees and Orders, l2-l6 

 Eliz. (18 June 1578). 



^^ Richard Parker, gent., in 1583 and 

 John Parker, gent., in 1593 conveyed the 

 estate to feoffees ; PaL of Lane Feet of 

 F. bdle. 4;, m. 178 ; 5 i, m. 66. 



*^ John Pirker of Loveley, gent., died 



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29 Dec. 1607, leaving a son and heir 

 Richard, aged twenty-one ; Lanes. Inq, 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc, Lanes, and Ches.), i, 90. 

 By will dated 3 July 1607 John Parker 

 gave a third of his goods to his wife 

 Alice, the remainder chiefly to his only 

 child Richard, including tithes at Loveley, 

 Cadshaye and lands at Holehead ; also a 

 great ' meal arke,' a silver salt and eleven 

 silver spoons ; value of goods ,^187. 

 The will of his widow Alice (proved 

 1628) contains the following clause : 

 'Whereas yt hath beene an oulde use 

 and custome to deale pcnye dowle at 

 the Church or at men's houses in ourc 

 countree and it is plainely seene thai 

 manye a one comes to take penis that 

 hath no neede at all of them, therefore 

 my mynd is th.it 40J. shalbe gi\en 

 unto such needful! people in due time 

 after my death.' 



^ Cal. of Com. for Comft. 2446. 



