A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



heir to her grandfather Henry Boys of Boyshouse in 

 Ribchester *' and conveyed his e>tites in Wilpshire, 

 Salesbury and Clayton-le-Dale to trustees in 1574.'' 

 William Dewhurst petitioned in 164.6 to compound 

 for his delinquency in arms, having surrendered to 

 Lord Fairfax. In 1 649 he recovered possession of 

 his estates by payment of a sixth of the value 

 amounting tOj£i86.^^ His successor John Dewhurst 

 in 1662 paid a free rent of IS^"/. to the lord of 

 Clitheroe for lands called Dewhurst. Representatives 

 of the family are still living in the district, but the 

 estate is now the property of the Chorlton and 

 Manchester Joint Asylums Committee, who have 

 an epileptic colony at Langho in the next township. 



CjiRR HALL. — This messuage formed part of 

 the estate of the CunlifFes of Cunliffe in Billington 

 and passed after the death of Roger Cunliffe temp. 

 Henry IV to his daughter and heir Ellen, the wife of 

 Peter Talbot, a younger son of Richard Talbot of 

 Slaidburn. Their descendant Stephen Talbot, living 

 in 148 I, was grandfather of Nicholas, who died in 

 1547 seised of lands in Wilpshire, Billington, Sales- 

 bury, Mitton and Tadcaster. His estate in Tadcaster 

 descended to his daughter Margaret by his first wife 

 Agnes daughter of Lawrence Shuttleworth of Gaw- 

 thorpe. She married Robert Aspden. The re- 

 mainder of the estate including Carr descended to his 

 son George Talbot by a second marriage, who died 

 in 1629, aged eighty-eight." " His son John married 

 Dorothy daughter of Edward Braddyll of Portfield, 

 by whom he had Edward Talbot, who probably 

 sold the estate. George Talbot's estate at Carr was 

 sequestered for 'delinquency' by the Parliament 

 in the Civil War.^' In 1662 John Braddyll paid 

 3a'. free rent for his lands called Carr.^^ The estate 

 is now the property of Mr. G. E. A. H. Petre of 

 Dunkenhalgh. 



A Wesleyan chapel was built in the village in 

 1887. 



DINCKLEY 



Dunkythele, Dinkedelay, 1246; Dunkedeley, 

 1258; Dinkedelegh, xiii-xiv cent.; Dinkedley, 

 1327 ; Dynkley, xvi cent. 



The township, formerly united with Wilpshire as 

 one, but now separated, lies between the River Ribble 

 and Dinckley Brook, forming a slight plateau between 

 these waters, with an elevation of 250 ft. or more 

 above the ordnance datum. The subsoil consists of 

 the Yoredale Rocks, with alluvial deposits by the river. 

 The soil is clayey ; the land consists entirely of 

 meadow and pasture with some woodland on the 

 brows above the river. No main road passes through 

 the township, but traces of the Roman road from 

 Ribchester to Ilkley may be seen at various points. 

 The nearest railway station is at Langho, distant 

 2 miles. The township was included in the parish 



of Langho in 1842, when that district chapelry was 

 created out of the parish of Blackburn.' The area 

 is 608 acres, and the population in 1 90 1 numbered 

 seventy-four persons.' 



Dr. Stukeley records that several Roman altars were 

 found here, but all had been removed before 1725 

 save two which were both obliterated : one stood in 

 a grass-plot in the garden at Dinckley Hall, covered 

 with moss and weeds, the other was used in the house 

 as a cheese-press.' 



Ailsi lord of DINCKLEr at the 

 MjiNOR commencement of the 1 3th century was 

 father of Eli.is ' de Dunkythele ' living 

 1 246, whose son John with Bernard del Hacking 

 recovered moor and woodland here in 1 292, of which 

 they had been disseised by certain of the free ten.ints 

 of Salesbury.* In 1295 he gave to his daughter and 

 co-heir Christiana lands bounded by Weticroft sjke, 

 a 'clocum' called Wilmescrofte-walle, and Mikel- 

 broc, and the service of 6 J. from John del Mikel- 

 ridding. To Matilda his other daughter he gave his 

 chief messuage of Dinckley and free thegnage rents 

 due at St. Giles of i8J(/. and a pair of spurs from 

 Bernard de le Hacking, 19a'. from John son of Ecke, 

 id. from Robert Collan and \d. from Christiana his 

 daughter." These two ladies appear to have con- 

 veyed the greater part of their estate to Hugh de 

 Clitheroe of Salesbury and his son Roger, who held 

 a third part of the town at the death of the Earl of 

 Lincoln in 131 1 by 24|</. thegnage rent.^ In 13 16 

 Adam son of Hugh de Clitheroe acquired the lands 

 of Adam del Clough of Read.' These estates de- 

 scended in the family of Clitheroe to the Talbots in 

 the same way as the manor of Salesbury, and with 

 the reputed manor of Dinckley next to be described 

 formed part of the estate of 370 acres sold by Lord 

 De Tabley in i 866 to Mr. Henry Ward of Blackburn, 

 and about 1894 conveyed to the Duke of Somerset, 

 the present owner. 



The estate held by the Hacking family seems to 

 have been identical with the reputed manor. Bernard 

 del Hacking had a younger brother John, who died 

 before I 3 i 3, leaving issue by Cecily his wife, after- 

 wards the wife of Richard son of Adam de Knoll, a 

 daughter Alice his heir, who married Adam son of 

 Hugh de Pemberton. In 1323 Bernard del Hacking 

 sued his brother's representative for four messuages 

 and half the mill of Dinckley, but unsuccessfully, as 

 it was proved that William del Hacking the father 

 had given the tenements to his younger son John in 

 fee for the render of a pair of white gloves.* During 

 the succeeding century the descent of this estate is 

 obscure. John and Alice de Cundeclif contributed 

 to the poll tax levied in 1379.' In 1430 Gilbert 

 Cunliffe paid a free rent of zs. for Dinckley, and as 

 Gilbert Cunliffe of Dinckley, gent., was arrested in 

 1440 with Richard Banaster of Brogden and Peter 

 Riley of Accrington, gents., at the king's suit.'" His 



>' Kuerdcn folio MS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 fol. 37. 



1* Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 36, 

 m. 247. 



'» CjI. Com. for Comp. ii, 1089. 



«i Dodg. MSS. cxlii, foU 153. 



Thomas Talbot a younger son of 

 George entered the English college at 

 Rome in 1591 and joined the Society of 

 Jesus in 159S. He was ordained and 

 served on the Lancashire Mission, dying 



in 1652. He translated and published a 

 Method of Prayer ; Gillow, Bihl. Diet, of 

 Engl. Cttth. V, 537 ; Foley, Rec. S. /. vi, 



187. 



*' Cal. Com. for Comp, iv, 3129, 



^ Clitheroe rental />«« W. Farrer. 



^ Lond. Gaz. 20 Sept. 1842. 



* The area according to the survey of 

 1895 is 610 acres, including 15 of inland 

 water. 



^ Stukeley, Itin. Curiosum^ ii, 38, 



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

 Ches.), 85-6 ; Asfizc R. 408, m. 62. 



* Towneley MS. DD, no. 1191, 2049. 

 ® Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec Soc 



Lancfl. and Ches.), ii, 12. 



' Towneley MS. DD, no. 1237. 



^ Assize R. 424, m. 5-6 ; 426, m. 2 d. 



* Subs. R. Lanc«. bdle. 130, no. 28. 



'0 Kucrden MSS, (CoU. of Arms), iv, 

 22 ; Pal, of Lane Writs of Assize, 

 bdle. 2. 



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