BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



BLACKBURN 



of the family was Major Egerton Cross of Kersley 

 Hall, who died in 1803.50 



The family of Fish were also small freeholders 

 here, the first on record being Michael Fisshe living 

 in 1404.5^ Mr. Abram gives an account of this and 

 of many other yeomen families of Over Darwen.^^ 



HODDLESDEN " formed in the 12th century the 

 westernmost limit of the Forest or Chase of Rossen- 

 dale, from which it was gradually severed by the 

 industrious natives of the lords of Clltheroe in the 

 adjoining township of Haslingden, who broke up the 

 wastes, created a community there and so at length 

 elevated Haslingden to the status of a vill. This cut 

 Hoddlesden off from the main body of the forest, and 

 when in 1296 it first comes into view it is being 

 dealt with as a stock-raising farm of the Earl of 

 Lincoln, the lord of Clitheroe. We read of nine calves, 

 the issue of the heifers at Hoddlesden, being delivered 

 to the chief stock-keeper of the honor ; of herbage 

 sold and old brushwood supplied during thirteen weeks 

 to a forge or smelting furnace at a charge of 11. 

 a week ; of repairs to the dwelling-house and 

 fences there ; of manuring of meadows, mowing and 

 haymaking ; of the building and thatching of a new 

 house and of the sale of materials from an old cottage^"" 

 Nine years later we read of similar receipts and out- 

 lay, including 44-r. spent in mowing, making and carry- 

 ing hay from 72 acres of meadow, and 3;. ^d. for 

 cleaning out the ditches and making new fences.^^ 

 In 1324 and for a few years before the vaccary of 

 ' Hoddesden ' and the herbage of the forest there had 

 been let to farm to Adam de Holden at a yearly rent 

 of 24/.'* There are signs of development in the 

 accounts of I 342 ; the same rent is being paid, but 

 Queen Isabella has a stock of breeding cattle here 

 also, and Adam son of Henry de Grimshagh of Grim- 

 shaw in the adjoining township of Eccleshill is pay- 

 ing a yearly rent of 4J. Sd. for 14 acres of waste in 

 the chase of Hoddlesden." At the death of Duke 

 Henry in 1 36 1 the herbage of the wood of ' Hoddes- 

 den ' was said to be worth zgs. 6d. yearly. ^^ 



For some years before 1464 James Radcliffe of 

 Radcliffe was farming the vaccary for i o marks a year 

 and Henry Grimshagh (for Robert Grimshagh) the 

 Newhey in Hoddlesden for js. id. yearly.^' They 

 were still farming these tenements in 1483.^" The 

 commissioners for disforesting the forests in the 

 hundred returned their report in 1507 that ' an other 

 vacherye callid Hodlesden and an othir litill parcell 

 of ground callid Newhey in Hodlesdon (are) to be 

 leten to John Radclyf esquier for i o/i.' ^^ Thence- 

 forward the lands in this booth or vaccary were held 

 by copy of court roll of the honor of Clitheroe and 

 were rapidly parcelled out into tenements. In I 524 

 three persons were assessed to the subsidy in ' Hodils- 



den,' as if it were a township,'^ but this does not 

 occur again, and in subsequent rolls the inhabitants 

 are recorded in Over Darwen. For the levy of 

 county rates Hoddlesden Booth was included m 

 Rossendale and paid one-fourteenth of the whole levy 

 on the forest."^ In 1539 the heir of John Radclifft 

 paid £<^ I zs. \d. and Thomas Grimshay "js. id. 

 for Hoddlesden and Newhey. °* 



At the date of King James' decree confirming the 

 copyholds in the hundred, viz. 11 February 1608-9, 

 the following were the tenants of Hoddlesden : — 



/. d. 

 Nicholas Grimshaw 

 Thurstan Maudsley 

 George Holden, sen. 

 George Holden, jun. 

 Gilbert Hey 

 William Yate, sen. 

 Giles Holme 

 Robert Yate 

 Henry Bacon 

 John Welsh, jure uxorh 

 Giles Yate . 

 James Yate . 

 James Knowles 

 Elizabeth Sharp 

 George Yate 

 Robert Brindle 

 William Yate, jun. 



Sum 



is 19 6J 



In the survey of 1662 the following par 

 were returned from Hoddlesden ^^ : — 



Richard Grymeshaw, esq. 



Thomas Fish and Anne his wife for the 



lands late of Thurstan Maudsley . 

 George Houlden ..... 

 James Walmesley and Anne his wife for 



the lands late of George Holden, jun. . 

 Robert Houlden, esq., for the lands late of 



Gilbert Hey 



William Yates . . . . • 



James Cowper for the lands late of G}'les 



Holme ....•■ 

 James Yates for part of the land, late of 



Robert Yates 



William Yate for part of the same . 

 Thomas Fish and Anne his wife for their 



part of land late of Henry Baron . 

 James Kershaw jure uxoris for part of the 



same ...••• 



Henry Atough for part of the same lands 



late of John Welch .... 



ticulars 



/. d 



7 8 



12 oj 



16 ci 



16 6J 



8 o 

 II iij 



II 4 



6 o 



6 o 



2 6 

 6 6 



^ Abram, Blackburn, 503, where a 

 pedigree of the family is given, 



" Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. bdle. i, 

 lile 9, m. 28. He had in his possession 

 chattels belonging to William Jenkynson 

 alias the Talllourson of Nether Darwen, 

 a rebel who had been outlawed, but was 

 afterwards pardoned, probably in con- 

 nexion with Henry Percy's rising ; ibid. 

 m. 94 ; file 6, m. 19. 



*^ Abram, op. cit. 505, 



^^ Hoddisdene, circa 1 250 ; Hoddes- 

 dene, 1295 ; Hoddelesden, 1324. 



M De Lacy Camp. (Chet. Soc.), 1-39 

 faaim. 



" Ibid. 87-108. 



'8 Duchy of Lane. Mins. Accts. bdle. 

 1 148, no. 6 ; Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 73. 



5' Duchy of Lane. Mins. Accts. bdle. 

 109 1, no. 6. At Michaelmas 1342 

 there were 20 cows, a steer, 2 heifers, 

 2 stirks, and 16 calves, all drafted in 

 from other vaccaries in Pendle and Ros- 

 sendale. 



^8 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. HI (ist nos.), 

 no. 122. 



*9 Duchy of Lane. Receiver's Acct. 

 bdle. 90, no. 1649. In 1465 RadclifFe 

 renewed his lease for fourteen years at the 



same rent; Duchy of Lane. Reg. vol. 

 xix. 



™ Receiver's Acct. no. 1653. 



61 MS. at Huntroyde. 



62 Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 130, no. 82. 

 William Yate was assessed on lands ^3, 

 Robert Fyshe on goods 40s., and Robert 

 Baron the same. 



63 Bk. of Rates, p. 64, fenes W. 

 Farrer. 



6< Hon. of Clitheroe, MS. 294, 305, 

 MS. penes W. Farrer ; Forest Deer. 75, 

 MS. penes W. Farrer. 



65 Hon. of Clitheroe MS. 168. 



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