A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



At the suppression of the abbey there were three 

 tenants in Co'.dcoats, paying ^^4 6s. zd. in all.** It 

 was sold by the Crown in 1542 to Robert Holt," and 

 shortly afterwards Anthony Watson is found in posses- 

 sion.'- He died in 1568 holding a capital messuage 

 in Little Mitton, called Coldcoats, of the queen by 

 knight's service and %d. rent ; also other messuages 

 and lands in Wiswell and Downham.'' His heir was 

 a son Thomas, then aged twenty-eight, \vho died in 

 1579 holding the same estate and leaving a son and 

 heir Anthony, aged twenty-one.^ Shortly afterwards, 

 in 1586, Anthony Watson 



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and Dorothy his wife sold 

 their estate in Coldcoats and 

 Henthorn to Robert Walmes- 

 ley.*^ The new owner died 

 in 1 61 2, when his son 

 Thomas, aged ten, was found 

 to be his heir ; the tenure 

 was recorded as before."^ 

 Thomas Walmesley was still 

 living in 1 664, when a pedi- 

 gree was recorded." His 

 descendants retained it till 

 the middle of the 1 8th cen- 

 tury, when it was purchased by Piers Starkie of 

 Huntroyde.'" It is still part of the Huntroyde 

 estates. 



The house "" stood high on the right of the road 

 from Wiswell. From what rem.iincd in 1883 of 

 the east and west wings it appeared to date from 

 the middle of the i6th century and was evidently 

 E -shaped in plan. It faced north but was sheltered 

 h}' a large and substantially built outbuilding. 

 F.xternally the house presented the customary central 

 portion connecting two gabled wings, but all the 

 middle part had then disappeared, leaving the wings 

 isolated. The west wing was used as a farm-house 

 and the eastern wing as part of the farm buildings. 

 Most of the original windows were bricked up, but 

 the labels and jambs remained. A stone in the 

 kitchen bore the initials I.W. and another built into 

 the walls of an out-house R.W. 



There were only twenty-two hearths liable to the 

 hearth tax in 1666, and of them Alexander Holt's 

 house accounted for half and Thomas Walmesley's 

 for five more." 



In 1788 the chief landowner! were Beaumont, 

 Starkie and Shuttleworth"^ 



PENDLETON 



Peniltune, Dom. Bk. ; Penilton, 1241 ; Penelton, 

 1246; Penhulton, 1311 ; Standen, 1258. 



This township occupies part of the south-western 

 slope of Pendle Hill, the altitudes varying from 

 1,500 ft. above sea level on the east to 200 ft. on 

 the west. The township is peculiar in including 

 the two districts of Pendleton Hall on the north side 

 and Standen and Standen Hey on the west, formerly 

 extra-parochial. About the centre of the township at 

 a height of 700 ft. is the hamlet of Wymondhouses 

 lower down, to the north-west, is the hamlet of 

 Pendleton. On the south-east border stands part of 

 Sabdcn. The area of Pendleton is 1,923 acres, that 

 of Pendleton Hall 234^, and that of Standen and 

 Standen Hey 668J — 2,826 in all.^ In 1901 there 

 was a population of 1,063. 



The principal road is that southward from Clitheroc 

 to Whalley, which passes through Standen ; another 

 road south-east from Clitheroc to Burnley passes 

 Pendleton Hall ; they are connected by a cross-road 

 through Pendleton hamlet. The Blackburn and 

 Hellifield branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire 

 railway goes north through Standen. 



The township is governed by a parish council. A 

 school board was formed about 1 897. A consider- 

 able part of Pendleton was taken into the new town- 

 ship of Sabden in 1904. 



The land is chiefly in pasture ; the soil is clay 

 and light loam, with a rocky subsoil. There are 

 print works on Sabden Brook. 



In 1066 King Edward held half a 

 Mj4X0RS hide, or three plough-lands, in Pendle- 

 ton.^ Afterwards this manor was in- 

 cluded in the Clitheroe fee and has been retained to 

 the present as one of the demesne manors, though 

 portions have been granted out from time to time. 

 In 1 24 1 it was found that (Great) Pendleton had 

 rendered £1 7/. \od. to John de Lacy.' The com- 

 potus of 1295 shows a return of £6 4/. zd. for the 

 farm of Pendleton and Wymondhouses, \d. from 

 Henry de Blackburn for 80 acres and \s. 6d. as 

 perquisites of the halmote.* Similar returns were 

 made in subsequent accounts." From the inquest of 



alienated to Whalley ; Inq. p.m. 36 

 £dw. Ill, pt. ii (2nd nos.}, no, 45. 

 Another inquiry stated that the abbot 

 had acquired Coldcoats in 1358 without 

 licence ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 47 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 43. See also Coram Rege R. 460, 

 m. 25 ; Memo. R. (L.T.R.), 142, m. 5 ; 

 Co. Plac no. 30, of 48 Edw. III. 



Coldcoats seems to be the estate in 

 Great Pendleton which was in 1357 

 granted to trustees (perhaps for the 

 monks) by Nicholas del Bruch and 

 Margaret his wife. Agnes daughter of 

 John Xowell put in her claim j Final 

 Cone, ii, 1 54. 



^ JVh:illey Couch, iv, 1217 ; the tenants 

 were Gi'es Grove, William Dawson and 

 Giles Hammond. 



■•' Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. vi. A later 

 grant by the Crown is recorded. In 1585 

 t' Walter Spen-ilow and another 46 acres 

 in ^ 'Idcoats within Little Mitton ; Pat. 

 27 Eliz. pt. vi. Messuages and lands in 

 Coldcoats, Little Mitton and Henthorn 

 were in 1 591 granted to David and 



Katherine Smith; ibid. 33 Eliz. pt. 

 viii. 



'"•^ Anthony Watson first appears in 

 the Court Rolls in connexion with 

 Wornr.n in 1^38 ; Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. 

 i, 117. He acquired lands in Pendleton 

 in 1545 ; ibid. 144. He claimed exemp- 

 tion from tolls at Middleham in 1547 ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 231. 



^ Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. xiii, 

 no. 36. 



^ Ibid, xiv, no. 28. 



" Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 48, 

 m. 242. The purchaser was a brother of 

 Sir Thomas Walmesley of Dunkenhalgh. 



^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 218-23. ^'^ '^f' » widow 

 Isabel. His son Thomas married Eliza- 

 beth daughter and heir of Richard Grim- 

 shaw of Moor Hills in Pendle. Thomas 

 Walmesley in 1 63 1 compounded for 

 ha', ing refjsed knighthood; Misc. (Rec, 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 217. 



*■ Dugdalr, n-it. (Chet. Soc), 326; 

 it shows The mas, aged sixty-three, -I. 



Robert -8, Thomas. Thomas Walmesley 

 of Coldcoats married Helen Crook of 

 Coppull at Chorley in 1686 ; Reg. 



*® Whltaker, op. cit. ii, 27. 



6aa There is a description of the house 

 as it was in 1883 in the Trans. Burnley 

 Lit. and Scient. Club, iii, 122-3. 



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



™ Land tar returns at Preston. 



1 The Census Rep. 1901 records 2,829 

 acres, including 6 of inland water. 



2 KC.H. Lanes, i, 286 *. 



8 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rcc. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 1^8. 



* De Lacy Compoti (Chet. Soc), 7, 

 ^ In 1305 the receipts were 31. from 

 impounding beasts, £6 4*. ^d. the farm 

 of the land and zd. from an approvement 

 from the waste; ibid. 102. In 1324 the 

 farm had increased to j^6 101,4^. ; Henry 

 de Blackburn's rent of id. was additional. 

 Fines for entry of lands came to ^2 71. io</. 

 and the pcrqui itca of tlic halmotc U' 

 51. 4i/. ; Lanes, Inq. ar.J Exrerji, ii, 

 190. 



