BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



CLERK HILL, the ancient Snelleshou,^2a ^^^^ \^ 

 1553 sold by Assheton and Braddyll to John Crom- 

 bock,*^ whose descendants retained it until 1699, 

 when it was sold to Thomas or James Whalley.^^ 

 The above-named James Whalley, who succeeded to 

 Clerk Hill in 1780, was one of his kinsmen,^^ and in 

 1797 took the additional names of Smythe Gardiner 

 on the death of an elder brother, whom he succeeded 

 as second baronet.*^ The estate was in 1871 sold by 

 the trustees of his grandson's only daughter to Solomon 

 Longworth and Richard Thompson ^^ ; the trustees of 

 the former of these are the present owners. Lower 

 Clerk Hill was long the property of the Hammond 

 family.*^ John Hammond, LL.D., was baptized at 

 Whalley in 1542, became a civilian and master of 

 Chancery, and was one of the commissioners who 

 examined Edmund Campion and others under torture. 

 He died in 1589.^^ He was grandfather of the 

 celebrated Anglican theologian Dr. Henry Hammond 

 (1605-60). 



Moreton ^^ was formerly owned by the Nowells of 

 Read.®^ The estate is now owned by Mr. Henry 

 Wilson Worsley-Taylor, who resides there. ^^ Moreton 

 Hall is a modem building in the Elizabethan style 

 erected in 1829 by John Taylor in place of an 

 older structure on a commanding site on the right 

 bank of the Calder.^^ 



Asterley,^^ Parkhead*''' and some other estates in 

 the township occur in the records. ^*^ 



The Subsidy Roll of 1626 gives the landowners as 

 Sir Ralph Assheton, John Braddyll, George Shuttle- 

 worth, Roger Kenyon and Richard Crombock, who 

 was in ward. There were thirteen non-communi- 

 cants.^^ 



A number of houses of fair size are shown by the 

 hearth tax list of 1666. Sir Ralph Assheton's house 

 had eighteen hearths, Richard Crombock's ten, 

 Thomas Braddyll's nine, and those of Richard 

 Haworth, Richard Horrobin, Margaret Shuttleworth 

 and Richard Waddington seven each ; one house 

 had five hearths, two four and one three, the rest 

 being smaller. The total for the township was 1 2 1 

 hearths.^s 



The chief landowners in 1789 were P. A. Curzon, 

 James Whalley and Robert Isherwood.^^ 



The parish church has been described above. 



The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, first built about 

 1850, was rebuilt in 1872. 



Thomas Dugdale had his barn in Whalley licensed 

 for Presbyterian meetings in 1689.*^° 



Inquiries into the charities of 



CHARITIES Whalley were made in 1826 and 



1 90 1. The report of the latter, 



including a reprint of the earlier report, was issued 



*2^ Snelleshou, though not so named in 

 the charter, was granted by Geoffrey the 

 Dean to his servant Ellis, together with 

 the demesne lands on the east side of the 

 road from Wiswell, and assarts from that 

 road as far as Garecloughs. The tene- 

 ment was to be held of the church of 

 Whalley by a rent of 31. 5 fVkalley Couch. 

 (Chet. Soc), i, 277. In 1237 Ellis de 

 Snelleshou had a dispute about land with 

 John de Lacy; Cur. Reg. R. ii8, m. 

 I d. This may have occasioned the con- 

 firmation by John de Lacy to Ellis son of 

 Thomas ; Whalley Couch, loc. cit. Some- 

 what later Robert son of Ellis de Snelles- 

 hou surrendered his estate to Peter de 

 Chester the rector ; ibid, i, 279. Thomas 

 son of Thomas son of the said Robert in 

 1326 disputed the validity of the charter, 

 but in the end was non-suited, having 

 released his claim to the monks of 

 Whalley; De Banco R. 258, m. 467 ; 

 261, m. 130 d. ; Whalley Couch. '1,2^2-^, 



«3Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 18. John 

 Crombock's two messuages, &c., in 

 Whalley were at his death in 1593 held of 

 the queen by knight's service ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 40. His grandson 

 John (son of William) Crombock and 

 Eleanor his wife in 1607 made a settle- 

 ment of ' the capital messuage called 

 Snelsoe, otherwise Clerk Hill ' ; Lanes. 

 Inq, p.m. (Rec. Soc.),ii, 60. Richard his 

 son recorded a pedigree in 1664 as * of 

 Clerk Hill * ; Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 

 89. His son William was then twenty- 

 seven years old. See further in the 

 account of Wiswell. 



'*'* Whitaker, loc. cit. ; the annexed 

 pedigree states that James Whalley pur- 

 chased Clerk Hill about 1 71 5. A recovery 

 of the lands of John Whalley in Whalley 

 and Oswaldtwistle was suffered in 1772 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R, 615, no, 14. 



*^ Whitaker, loc. cit. (pedigree) ; he wai 

 younger son of Robert Whalley, M.D., 

 brother of James Whalley (son of John) 

 of Clerk Hill (d. 1780). John was brother 

 of the Thomas and James named in the 

 text. 



^^ G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, v, 228 ; 

 Sir James d. 1805 -s. Sir James, d. 1851 

 -3. Sir James Brocas, d. 1868, leaving a 

 daughter Mabel Katherine. 



•*'■ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 19 ; Clerk Hill 

 descended to Sir James's sons by his second 

 wife, Robert and (Rev.) John Master in 

 succession, and on the latter's death in 

 1861 was claimed by his sister Elizabeth 

 Jane wife of S. Jellicoe. The right of 

 Sir James's heir male, though of the half 

 blood, was established, and Sir John Brocas 

 Whalley Smythe Gardiner came into pos- 

 session. ■*« Ibid. ''^ Diet. Nat. Biog. 



5^ Morton, Moreton, 1273-5. Amiria 

 daughter of Siward de Morton had various 

 suits respecting lands in the place from 

 1273 onwards. She was sister and heir 

 of Jordan. The defendants were Ralph 

 de Daniscales (or de Ridding) and others ; 

 De Banco R. 3, m. 34 ; 9, m. 26 ; 1 1, 

 m. 62; 27, m. 62 d.; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 32, 6$. 



51 About 1555 Gilbert Moreton claimed 

 Overtown in Whalley against Christopher 

 Thornber ; Ducatus Lane, i, 300. In 1583 

 William Halsted of Worsthorne, Isabel 

 his wife and William his son granted 

 Moreton House in Whalley (occupied by 

 Gilbert Moreton) to John Moreton, 

 citizen and haberdasher of London, for 

 sixty years, with reversion to Roger 

 Nowell of Read, who had (158 1) married 

 Katherine daughter of John Moreton ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 754. 



William Halsted and Isabel his wife 

 had a messuage in Whalley in i579» 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 41, m. 145. 

 In 1592 William Halsted and Janet his 

 wife sold a messuage, &c., to Roger 

 Nowell ; ibid. bdle. 54, m. 9. 



Roger Nowell died in 1624, his wife 

 Katherine having died in 1621, and it was 

 found that he held messuages, &c., in 

 Whalley of the king in chief by knight's 

 service ; Lanes. Inq. p,m. (Rec. Soc), iii, 

 429. 



52 Whitaker, loc. cit. As already stated, 

 John Taylor purchased part of Earl Howe's 

 Whalley estate. 



5* It was designed by Webster oi 

 Kendal. There is a view in Baines' 

 Lanes, (1836), iii, 192. 



5*' George Shuttleworth held Asterley 

 in 1563, when a claim against htm was 

 made by John Crombock and Edward 

 Braddyll ; Ducatus Lane, ii, 260. George 

 died in 1593 holding a messuage called 

 Asterley, and lands in Whalley and Black- 

 burn, which he had in 1577 settled on his 

 grandson William (son of Gilbert) Shuttle- 

 worth and his heirs male by Alice daughter 

 of Roger Nowell of Read ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (ser, 2), ccxxxvi, 105. William, 

 aged thirty-eight on succeeding, died in 

 1625, leaving a widow Anne and a 

 son and heir George, aged twenty-one ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 44. 

 The tenure of Asterley is not recorded. 



William and George Shuttleworth held 

 a messuage in Whalley in moieties in 

 1537 at a rent of £z iij. %d. ; Whalley 

 Couch, iv, 1 197. 



5^ Roger Kenyon died in 1635 holding 

 two messuages, &c., in Whalley, and others 

 in Dinckley and BiUington. His heir 

 was a son Roger, aged nine ; ibid, xxvii, 

 no. 55. See pedigree in Dugdale, Visit. 166, 

 and the account of Little Hulton. A certi- 

 ficate of the arms of Roger Kenyon in 1649 

 is given in Cal. S. P. Dom. 1649-50, p. 65. 



^^ In 1529-30 Christopher Smith held a 

 farm called Bankend in Whalley, which 

 was claimed by George Foster ; Ducatus 

 Lane, i, 135. John Smith died in 1596 

 holding Bankend, with land and pasture 

 right, and leaving a son Christopher, aged 

 twenty ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, 

 no. 91. 



The Subsidy Roll of 1600 gives the fol- 

 lowing landowners : Edward Braddyll, 

 John Braddyll, John Chew, William Shut- 

 tleworth, William Crombock, Christopher 

 Smith and Alice Smith his mother ; Lay 

 Subs. Lanes, bdle, 131, no. 274. 



^^ Ibid. no. 317. 



^8 Ibid. bdle. 250, no. 9. 



^^ Land tax returns at Preston. 



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