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ECCLESHILL was another member 

 MJNOR of the knight's fee granted about 1165 

 by Henry de Lacy to Robert Banastre, as 

 described under Walton-le-Dale. At the beginning 

 of the 14th century the 

 Hoghtons were mesne tenants 

 under the Langtons, and after 

 the Earl of Lincoln's death 

 in 1 3 1 1 Richard de Hoghton 

 was returned as holding half a 

 plough-land here by the six- 

 teenth part of a icnight's fee 

 and i\d. yearly, doing suit 

 at the three weeks court at 

 Clitheroe.^ The mesne tenants Hoghton. SabU 



also rendered 4/. yearly to the 'fine bars argent. 

 bailiff of Salford Hundred in 



respect of a 12th-century infeudation made to the 

 Marsey family of this manor, as stated in the account 

 of Mellor. The mesne lordship of the Hoghtons 

 became merged in the superior lordship under the 

 lords of the honor of Clitheroe upon the acquisition 

 of the manor of Walton-le-Dale by that family. 



Under the Hoghtons a family bearing the local 

 name appear as tenants of the manor in the 13 th 

 century. Henry de Eccleshill attested a charter in 

 1214. Robert de Eccleshill occurs in 1246, and was 

 probably father of another Robert, living in 1269, 

 who gave to Stanlaw Abbey the site of a tithe 

 barn between Hoddlesden Brook and Eccleshill 

 Mill, and in 1276 was committed to gaol for 

 disseising Margery daughter of John de Samlesbury 

 of land here.* Robert son of Richard de Eccleshill 

 held the manor in the time of Edward II, and in 

 1 32 1 enfeoffed Thomas de Culcheth of land called 

 the Halgh in the fork between the River Darwen 

 and Hoddlesden Brook.' He had sons Richard and 

 Robert, but the manor passed early in the reign 

 of Edward III to Adam de Turton, who held 

 lands adjoining the Halgh in 1 32 1, was the largest 

 contributor to the subsidy of 1332, and in 1344 

 rendered 4/. to the sheriff in respect of this manor.* 

 His son Nicholas de Turton was living in 1 346, but 

 died before 1350.' The records are silent for some 

 time, but the manor or part of it appears to have 

 been acquired by the Holdens of Holden.'^ William 



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Moore of Kirkdale held an estate here at his death 

 in 1409 which doubtless included some part of the 

 manor, for John Moore held Eccleshill in 1445-6 as 

 the forty-eighth part of a knight's fee.'" It descended 

 in this family until 1554, when John Moore, esq., 

 and Anne his wife passed by fine to Richard Grimshaw 

 fourteen messuages with lands in Eccleshill." These 

 estates, including the manor, descended in the Grim- 

 shaw family of Clayton-le-Moors until after the 

 death of Richard Grimshaw about the year 1672. 

 A century later the manor was in the possession of 

 the right hon. Richard Clayton, lord chief justice of 

 the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, 1765-7C, 

 of the family of Clayton of Adlington, and after- 

 wards of his nephew Sir Richard Clayton, bart., whose 

 lands here in 1787 paid land tax £6 Ss. id. out of 

 £<) lis. I0(i'. charged upon the township.'^ The 

 manor was sold by Sir Richard about 18 14 to 

 Thomas Wilson of Preston. Mr. Wilson's heirs 

 held it in 1836, and sold it in 1859 to James 

 Hodgson of Liverpool, in whose trustees the manor 

 and estates are at present vested.i^ 



Clayton. Argent l 

 cross engrailed sable be- 

 tween four torteaux. 



Grimshaw. Argent 

 a griffon segreant sabhy 

 beaked and legged or. 



GRIMSHJW. At an early date this estate adjoin- 

 ing on the east to Hoddlesden Brook was granted to 

 a family who took name from it. Having acquired 

 half the manor of Clayton-le-Moors by marriage 

 about the year 1345 they removed to that place, in 

 the account of which some notice of the family will 

 be found. In the time of the first Edward the 

 original tenement was augmented by various gifts of 

 adjacent lands from the lords of the vill.^^ 



' Lanes. Ittq, and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 1 2 ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 192. 



^ Lanes. Assise R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 47, 146 i Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 235 ; Whalley Couch. (Chet. Soc), 

 i, 102. 



' In the descriptioa of the boundaries 

 of this land on the east, south and west 

 these places are named — From Hoddes- 

 dene Brook up Dedesike and Wallesike to 

 Wallesheved, by Haselehurst Greve below 

 the Halgh house, to a Hag-hethorn on the 

 lower side of Thommekar and to a Crabbe- 

 tree, up the Redde-lumme to Halghdich, 

 across the ditch of Tyddy-clogh, below 

 the Outlone leach, down to Derewent ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1579. 



* Ibid. ; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 83 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Var. Acets. bdle. 32, no. 17, fol. 6. In 

 1325 Robertson of Robert de Eccleshill 

 gave to Adam de Turton all his messuages 

 and lands in Eccleshill (except a plat called 

 Thomeherth) within boundaries among 

 which Les Bridestones, Blakepitte, 

 Blakelache-hevid and Le Wythyn-greve 



are named ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 

 1580. 



' Ibid. no. 1587-8. Nicholas son of 

 Adam de Turton was in 1343 accused of 

 interfering with the Clitheroe fair ; Assize 

 R. 430, m. 22. 



^ See the tenures recorded in sub- 

 sequent notes. 



'° Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 93 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, 

 no. 20, fol. 9. 



" Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 15, 

 m. 70; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1582*. 

 Thomas Grimshaw father of Richard died 

 in 1539 seised of seven messuages here 

 which he held of Gilbert Holden for 4s. 

 rent ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, 16. 

 John Grimshaw son of Richard died in 

 1587 seised of nineteen messuages here 

 which he is erroneously stated to have 

 held of Robert Holden, gent., in socage 

 by 41. rent ; ibid, xiv, 53. 



^^ Land tax return at Preston. The 

 will of Richard Clayton the judge had 

 ordered his manor to be sold j Trans. 

 Hist. Soc. (new sen), xxv, 65. 



'^ The manor and estates were adver- 



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tiaed for sale in 1848, and then consisted 

 of the tenements of Grimshaw, Brockle- 

 head, Bent, Eccleshill Fold, Shaw Fold, 

 Holden Fold and Lower Eccleshill, having 

 a total area of 436 acres \ also of mines of 

 coal which had been worked for several 

 centuries j Abram, Blackburn j 597 ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. lii, 2379. 



" Robert son of Richard de Eccleshill 

 gave to Richard son of Walter de Gnme- 

 schae land between Ketlis croft and Bimme 

 croft, land the grantor had given to hia 

 son Richard with the services of Richard 

 de Grimeschaw 45. 6^/., Alan son of Robert 

 10^., Adam son of Henry (Grimshaw) 

 I i^i/., Adam de Wiswalle ^d. To Henry 

 son ofWalter de Grimeshawe he gave land 

 bounded by Hodlesden Brook, Lewebroc 

 and Ruhlieruydic ; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1 571, 1 581. Robert son of the above 

 Robert confirmed to Henry son of Adam 

 de Grimeschagh in 13 17 the lands which 

 Henry and his ancestors held of him for 

 45. yearly and four iron arrows ; ibid, no, 

 1582. By this service Nicholas Grimshaw 

 held his estate of Grimshaw of Robert 

 Holden in 1610 ; ibid. OO, no. 1180, 



