A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Brock, who also assumed the additional surname of 

 HoUinshead. He sold the manor before his death in 

 1838 to Mr. Eccles Shorrock, a celebrated merchant 

 and cotton-spinner of Blackburn and Over Darvven, 

 who died in 1853. His heir was Eccles Shorrock, 

 eldest son of Mr. Thomas Ashton by his wife Mary, 

 sister of Mr. Eccles Shorrock,^' who abandoned the 

 name of Ashton upon succeeding to his uncle's 

 estates. Mr. Shorrock is now lord of the manor. 



HoUinshead Hall stood at the foot of a wooded 

 knoll among the moors at the southern extremity 

 of the township, but it is now in ruins, and a 

 modern farm-house, erected about the 'forties of the 

 last century not far from the old house, bears its 

 name. The hall was of i /th-century date, but one 

 wing had been rebuilt in 1776.^' In the garden 

 was a well inclosing a spring of w.iter of cunitive 

 properties, to which the name of Holy Well was 

 formerly given.** 



The family of Hoghton had lands here at an early 

 date. In the reign of Henry III two messuages and 

 2 oxgangs of land here were given by Elias de 

 Pleasington to Henry his son in marriage with 

 Amabel daughter of Roger, parson of Blackburn. 

 Henry de Pleasington afterwards gave the tenements 

 to Henry de Hoghton, who gave them to his brother 

 Master Richard de Hoghton, who held them in 

 1292, when Roger de Pleasington son of Henry and 

 Amabel unsuccessfully sued him for them.'' These 

 premises were held of Alexander Hoghton at his 

 death in 1498 by the service of 3/. 2" 



Between 1 189 and 1 194 John Count of Mortain 

 gave to his servant, or serjeant, Roger de Stanworth, 

 special protection and liberties for himself and his 

 land of Stanworth and Tockholes, confirming his 

 deed in 1 199 when king.^' 



GREEN TOCKHOLES. In the time of Edward II 

 John del Shaw and Robert his son held lands here, 

 probably representing a mesne manor known as 

 Green Tockholes, of John son of Robert de 

 Pleasington for 2/. yearly rent. In 1442 John del 

 Shagh of Tockholes, yeoman, and Oliver his son 

 were wrongfully charged of a breach of the peace by 

 Alexander Radcliffe, ^^ and the same year William 

 son and heir of Richard Walmsley released to his 

 sister Mary and John Shagh her husband the 

 tenement called 'The Hill' in Tockholes.^' The 

 family apparently ended in two heiresses, one of 

 whom carried the mesne manor of Green Tockholes 

 to the Garstang family. 



John son of William de Gerstan, or Garstang, of 



Penwortham, and Joan his wife mortgaged two 

 messuages and lands in Livescy to Thomas Molyneux 

 of Cuerdale in 1377, and in 1393 setJed them on 

 Lewis their eldest son, with remainders to his 

 brothers and sisters.-'' Lvwh or Ludovic, living in 

 141 6, by his wife Ellen daughter of Thomas 

 Dicconson Harrison had issue Ralph, who married 

 Alice daughter of Richard Haydock, and had issue 

 James Garstang, whose widow Margery \vas living 

 in 1492.^* Their son John Garstang died in 1498 

 seised often messuages in Livesey and Tockholes, and 

 a messuage in Whittle ' in the Mores ' held of Anne 

 daughter and heir of Alexander Hoghton, U., by 

 the twentieth part of a knight's fee ; John his son huj 

 aged eight }ears.^* In 1522 John son and heir of 

 William Woodcock gave to John son and heir of 

 John Garstang, late of Stanworth, his pourparty of 

 the estate in Livesey called FenisclifFe in exchange 

 for land in Walton-le-Dale.-' John Garstang died 

 in 1530, leaving issue by Anne his wife a son James, 

 aged eight years, whom he had contracted in marriage 

 to Margery daughter of William Clayton of Little 

 Harwood, gent.-* 



James Garstang, gent., appears to have dispersed a 

 great part of his property. In 1564 he passed 

 FenisclifFe to Robert Harwood and another messuage 

 to William Page, gent., who sold it a few years later 

 to Richard Hoghton ; in 1565 he passed tenements 

 in Tockholes to Henry Clayton and Henry Marsden 

 respectively ; the next year two messuages in Livesey 

 and Tockholes to Gilbert Hoghton and six messuages 

 in Green Tockholes with half the mesne manor of 

 Green Tockholes to John Osbaldeston, esq.^" From 

 this time the family resided on their estate in 

 Whittle, but members of the family remained in 

 Tockholes, and two tenements there bear to this day 

 the name of ' Garstangs.' '" 



In 1 6 1 1 Edward Osbaldeston of Osbaldeston 

 claimed the manor and waste of Tockholes by virtue 

 of his great-grandfather's purchase from Garstang, 

 alleging in support of his claim that the ancestor of 

 James Garstang had married one of two daughters 

 and co-heirs of the then lord of the manor. In 

 1625 Edward Osbaldeston, kt., passed the mesne 

 manor of Tockholes to Thomas Walmsley, kt.'' 



According to the inquest of the honor of Clitheroe 

 taken in 1662 the following tenants paid yearly 

 rents to the wapentake : — 



Ralph Walmesley of Tockholes for his lands 

 called The Hill 6J. 



^^ Abram, Blackburn, 509, 685. 



'■^ Ibid. 686. The house was then 

 (1877) 'untenanted and in a state of 

 decay.' Twycross [Lanes. Mansionz, i, 

 37) says that the house, which was 

 originally very extensi\e, was almost 

 entirely pulled down in 1776. 



^^ Abram, op. cit, 686. 



" Assize R. 408, m. 51. 



-" Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 

 66. 



^' Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), zyh. 

 Stanworth was afterwards acquired by 

 the Hoghtons and possibly this * land in 

 Tockholes' at the same time. 



^'Towneley MS. HH, no. 3+13 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 4, m. i, 17. 



"Add. MS. 32106, no. I186. The 

 Hill was afterwards in the posiession of 

 the Walmsley family. 



^* Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, .i, 41. 



^'^ Abram, Blackburn, 683. In 1479 

 James * Garston ' instituted proceedings 

 against Thomas Garston, William, 

 Thomas and Ralph Walmsley, Hugh and 

 Thomas Stanworth, George and William 

 (jun.) Astley, all of Tockholes, yeomen, 

 for breaking into his house at Tockholes ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Proton. Writs, 19 

 Edw. IV, b. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 78. 

 Alexander Radcliffe claimed wardship of 

 the heir in respect of the tenements held 

 of him in Tockholes, and Giles son and 

 heir of John Livescy in respect of two 

 tenements in Livesey ; ibid. 82—3. 



" Add. MS. 32109, no. 97. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, 5. 

 John Garstang held his lands in Livescy 



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of Jamea Livesey in socage for iZi/. rent ; 

 in Tockholes of Alexander Radcliffe, kt., 

 in socage for zi. rent j he also held lands 

 in Whittle of Richard Hoghton, kt., who 

 gave the wardship of the heir to William 

 Clayton ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 780, 



^ Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 26, m. 

 145. »7+ i 27» m. 14.2, 223 ; 28, m. 148, 

 178. John Osbaldcbton died in 1575 

 holding tenements in Green Tockholes of 

 John Radcliffe in socage for 71/. rent, and 

 other tenements there of the *heir of 

 Roger de Stanworthe' in socage by u. 

 rent ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. zii, 28. 



^ In 1597 Edward Garstang of Livescy, 

 gent., gave to Richard Houghton of 

 Readlee for 401. *aU my right lying in 

 Tockholes' ; Add. MS. 32108, fol. 16*. 



31 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdlc. 107, 

 no. 36. 



