A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Bicentenary chapels.''" The old chapel was sold to 

 the Primitive Methodists, and was afterwards used by 

 the Salvation Army. The Arm}' now has a barracks 

 in Shawbridge Street. 



The Baptists have a place of worship in the same 

 street ; the cause was formed in 1888. 



In 1665 and later Quakers were reported to the 

 Bishop of Chester,!*' but no meeting-place is known. 



Thomas Blakey and three women were convicted 

 recusants in 1626,1*" ^^^ ^^ Andertons of Horrocks- 

 ford with four others about 1670.^*' Only twelve 

 ' Papists' were known here in 1767.^*2 Thirty years 

 later mass was once more said in the town, the 

 Jesuits of Stonyhurst serving the mission, and a small 

 building, afterwards used as a schoolroom, was opened 

 in 1799. A resident priest was not appointed till 

 1842. The church of SS. Michael and John the 

 Evangelist was opened in 1850, and continues in 

 charge of the Jesuits. 



The Grammar School was founded by Philip and 

 Mary in 1554,1^^ but there is evidence that a school 

 of some kind existed as early as 1283.''* 



An official inquiry into the charities 

 CHARITIES of Clitheroe and Chatburn was held 

 in 1 90 1, and the report, including a 

 reprint of the report of 1826, was issued in 1902. It 

 shows that in addition to educational and Wesleyan 

 endowments there arc endowments for the poor in 

 each of the townships named. For the aged poor of 

 Clitheroe belonging to the Church of England or any 

 Protestant Dissenting denomination Thomas Hyde in 

 1867 left ;^5oo, now producing £1^ 16/. S;/. ; this 

 is distributed equally among about a hundred re- 

 cipients at Christmas time. Miss Susanna Constan- 

 tine Robinson in 1862 left X'°° '° ^^^ P°°'' °^ 

 Chatburn ; this is invested in railway stock and pro- 

 duces about j^5 7/. a year, distributed by the vicar at 

 Christmas time in money gifts to poor persons of all 

 religious denominations. 



CHATBURN 



Chatteburn, I 24 1. 



Chatburn occupies a piece of hilly ground sloping 



west and north to the Ribble and its tributarj 

 the Ings Beck, which with some minor variations 

 form the boundary of the parish and county at this 

 point. The village of Chatburn lies in a hollow 

 between two hilly ridges, and through it a small 

 brook flows north to the Ribble less than a mile 

 away. The township contains 896 acres, including 

 13 of inland water, and had in 1 901 a population 

 of 772. 



Several roads spread out from the village. To the 

 north go two, to Grindleton and to Sawley in York- 

 shire ; to the east goes one to Downham ; to the 

 south and south-west go three to Pendleton and 

 Clitheroe. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 

 Company's line from Blackburn to Hellifield, running 

 north-east through the township, has a station at the 

 village. 



Roman coins have been found.' 



There were thirty-six hearths liable to the tax in 

 1666, but no house had as many as three. ^ 



The soil is clay with limestone subsoil. The 

 limestone is extensively quarried, and there is a 

 cotton mill. The land is chiefly used for pasture. 

 William the Mustard-maker of Chatburn is named 

 in a deed of 143 1. 



The township is governed by a parish council. 

 The gas and water works are in private hands. 



The demesne manor of CHJTBURN 

 MJNOR was never alienated from the honor of 

 Clitheroe, so that it has no separate 

 descent. In 1241-2 after the death of John de 

 Lacy it was found that the annual value of Chatburn 

 was £"] 19/. "jd? Edmund de Lacy held it in 

 demesne; there were in 1258 9 oxgangs of land 

 without the demesne, each of 8 acres and paying 1 81/, 

 a year as well as reaping thrice in autumn * ; eight 

 cottagers paid 6d. each, and six men had 23 acres, 

 pajing 4<z'. an acre. In demesne were 118 acres of 

 arable land and 1 6 acres of meadow, alike worth /^d. 

 the acre.' Chatburn is not named in the inquisition 

 of I 3 1 1 , but it may have been surveyed with Worston 

 or Downham. The net receipts from the manor in 

 1323 amounted to ^23 11/. i\d.^ A few further 

 particulars can be obtained from the Court Rolls,' 



"* Nightingale, Lanei. Nonconf. ii, 199- 

 207. Owing to a secession there was a 

 second Congregational meeting-place, 

 called Providence Chapel, from 1869 to 

 1879. 



1" Visit. Returns. 



"" Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 131, no. 317. 



"1 Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc), v, 142. 



'*' Tram. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xviii, 

 216. 



1*^ Whitalcer, op. cit ii, 93-5 ; End. 

 Char. Rep. 1902. For a disputed election 

 of governors in 1586 see Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec Com.), iii, 510. 



1** In attesting the age of John Tem- 

 pest in 1304 Robert Buck said he re- 

 membered the year because just before 

 John's birth, while at school {in scolis) 

 at Clitheroe at the cost of Sir Henry de 

 Kighley, he was so cruelly beaten that he 

 left the school altogether ; Torks. Inq. 

 (Yorks. Arch. Soc), iv, 92. 



' Watkin, Roman Lanes, 233. 



' Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



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

 Lanes, and dies.), i, 156. 



* Three of the exgangs were liable alio 

 to plough bail' an acre. 



* Lanes. Inq. and Extents^ i, 216. 



^ Ibid, ii, 202. The farm of the ox- 

 gangs and ridings was ,^4 91. ^\d. ; 

 demesne lands £6 ys. io)^d. ; capital 

 messuage and other demesne lands (worth) 

 ^6 ; fishery of the Ribble, 31. ; water- 

 mill, £1 31. ; fines for entry of lands, 

 ^3 loj. \d. ; perquisites of the halmotc, 

 zs. ^d. Out of this 4J. was spent on the 

 repair of the mill. 



? The halmote courts of Pendleton, 

 Worston and Chatburn were held 

 together. The rolls for 1323-4 are 

 printed in Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 23-7; those from 1377 to 

 1567, as far as extant, have been printed 

 by W. Farrer in Clitheroe Ci. R. (1897). 

 There is little of interest. A list of the 

 tenants in 1443 is given (p. 500). In 

 1 507 it was reported that by the death 

 of the Abbot of Sawley a messuage and 

 close of land within the new improve- 

 ments had reverted to the king, and the 

 new abbot was admitted on payment 

 of izd. fine ; op. cit. 20. The abbey of 

 Whalley had land also, and the chantry 

 at Clitheroe. 



In 15 10 various tenants were presented 



for not doing their shares of the mill 

 repair, while John Corbrldgc, the miller, 

 was fined for taking excessive tolls j ibid. 

 37. Holly grew on the common. 

 Playing unlawful games, including cards," 

 was punished. Various persons were 

 fined in 1527 as * common fishers in the 

 water of Ribble,* taking * kcippcr 

 salmons ' J ibid. 78. A claim for *the 

 peck of haver ' (oats), made by the 

 Forester of Bowland on certain land In 

 Chatburn, as due every fifth year, was 

 disputed by the occupier ; ibid. 81. 

 Some tenants were in 1562 fined for 

 keeping up two fires on the one house- 

 site — scitum, Anglice*an aster' — and &o 

 consuming a double allowance of fuel ; 

 ibid. 204. Other terms used are 'the 

 full foot or fourth part ' (ibid. 202), a 

 janua czWed * a lydyate * (ibid. 210], and 

 'bridleway or bridle sty' (ibid. 129). 



Among the tenants' names occur 

 Bretherton, Chatburn, Dugdalc, Harrop, 

 Hird, Kendal and Ruskin. Numerous 

 field names also are given, including 

 Bargargate, Crook of Beanhill, Bradford 

 Brigatead, Foxholt Redei, Mirrcll, Peche 

 and Rodei. 



