BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



131 1 it appears that there were 16 oxgangs of land 

 there held in bondage* ; the halmote was held in 

 common for Pendleton, Chatburn, Worston and 

 Downham.' The rolls for 1323-4.^ and 1377- 

 I 567,® so far as extant, have been printed. 



LITTLE PENDLETON, held in thegnage, was 

 perhaps the remaining plough-land not accounted for 

 in the inquest of 131 1. It rendered 6s. to John de 

 Lacy in 1241/" and appears to have been acquired 

 by degrees by the Clitheroe family ^^ and their suc- 



cessors/*" Sibyl the daughter and heir of Robert de 

 Clitheroe died in 1414,'* and her daughter Joan, 

 having no issue by her husband Sir Henry de 

 Hoghton, endeavoured to divert the succession to his 

 illegitimate son Richard. The attempt was defeated, 

 but he was allowed to have Little Pendleton," which 

 his descendants^* retained till the beginning of the 

 17th century. John Hoghton died in 1583 holding 

 Pendleton Hall with various lands there of the queen 

 as of her duchy in socage. His heirs were two 



^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 4. ; each 

 oxgang paid 6s. %d. The 16 oxgangs refer 

 to Great Pendleton alone. The other 

 tenants were William Querderay, 30 

 acres from the waste at 20i. rent ; 

 Richard de Ridding 20 acres at 6j. %d, ; 

 various tenants 12 acres at 4^. Henry 

 de Blackburn held by charter and paid 

 id. as above. 



^ Ibid, ii, 5. Downham was after- 

 wards granted out, but the other three 

 continued to have one court. 



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

 Ches.), 23-7. 



^ Fairer, Clitheroe Ct. R, The entries 

 are not of special interest, but in 1544 

 one of the inhabitants was presented for 

 obstructing the collectors of the * galds ' 

 for the Scottish war ; ibid. 141. John 

 Halliday in 1539 had 'oppressed' the 

 common with a large number of beasts, 

 which had been taken to the pinfold five 

 times within the year ; ibid. 123. 



A messuage called the *Ayster,' with 

 10 acres of oxgang land, occurs in 1548 ; 

 ibid. 155. Oldiand, Greenhey, Lower 

 Oxgang, Ringyard and Deyne are other 

 local names. 



^*' Lanes. Inq, and Extents, i, 156. 

 " The charters are in Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, fol. 90, &c. ; Add. MS. 32104, fol. 

 125, &c., but they do not reveal the 

 origin of this separate part of the manor. 

 In 1246 Hugh son of William, Cecily 

 his wife, Henry de Dunham and Hawise 

 his wife, released to Hugh Querderay 

 and Isold his wife the moiety of 2 

 oxgangs of land in Pendleton which 

 represented the share of Cecily and 

 Hawise in the lands of their father 

 Siward de Pendleton, Isold herself being 

 another daughter j Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 105. 



Adam Nowell gave all his land in 

 Little Pendleton to Simon his son ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxlii, fol. 90. Hugh Rothelan and 

 Isold his wife, possibly the daughter 

 Isold, released to Simon Nowell their 

 right in an oxgang of land formerly held 

 by Thomas son of Thomas de Pendleton ; 

 Add, MS. 3 2 1 04, no. 620. Simon 

 restored the 2 oxgangs to them at a 

 rent of zs, ; ibid. fol. 133, no. 569. He 

 gave all his land in Little Pendleton to 

 Hugh de Clitheroe ; ibid. no. 572. An 

 early 13th-century charter records that 

 one Sabasdus de Pendleton granted land 

 there to Thomas son of Ellis de Pendleton 

 at id. rent. Thomas brother of Geoffrey 

 the Dean of Whalley was a witness ; ibid, 

 fol. 153, no. 655. 



The Clitheroe family had already 

 acquired lands there, for Reginald de 

 Pendleton gave an oxgang of land in the 

 vill of Little Pendleton to Ralph son of 

 Karnwath in marriage with his sister 

 Quenild ; a rent of i%d. was to be paid ; 

 ibid. no. 654. Robert son of Reginald 

 de Pendleton gave 4 oxgangs of land 

 in the same place to Hugh son of Ralph 5 

 ibid. no. 535, The following later 



charters are known: 13 17 — John 

 Querderay to Adam de Clitheroe, all 

 lands in Little Pendleton ; ibid. no. 

 568 J 1322 — John son of Adam Querderay 

 to Adam son of Hugh de Clitheroe, the 

 homage of Adam son of Hugh Stutte, 

 with 2i. rent ; ibid. no. 549 j 1324 — 

 John son of Richard de Morley to Adam 

 de Clitheroe, a toft and croft formerly 

 belonging to Avice wife of Roger Rad- 

 chapman and sister of Hugh Stutte ; Ibid, 

 ^o* 570* 5S0 (fol* 136)5 1330 — Hugh 

 son of Adam Querderay to Sir Adam de 

 Clitheroe, all land in Little Pendleton ^ 

 ibid. no. 611. The survey of Adam de 

 Clitheroe's lands in 1333 shows that he 

 had 126 acres in Little Pendleton, 

 occupied by John de Clayton and four 

 other tenants, the rents amounting to 

 ^5 ; Coram Rege R. 293, m. 54. 



In 1348 Roger son of John de Knoll 

 held a messuage and plough-land in Little 

 Pendleton which was claimed first by 

 William le Ward Esebrefc and John his 

 son, and then by Robert son of Robert de 

 Clitheroe ; De Banco R. 354, m. 3d.; 

 356, m. 3. 



Among the other charters preserved 

 are some referring to the Pendleton and 

 Querderay families. Agnes daughter of 

 Thomas de Pendleton in her widowhood 

 gave her daughter Avice her messuage, 

 &c,, id. rent to be paid to the heirs of 

 Siward de Pendleton on St. Oswald's 

 Day; Add. MS. 32104, no. 905. In 

 1 3 14 Thomas son of Denote of Little 

 Pendleton and Cecily his wife pledged to 

 William Querderay four selions of arable 

 land lying between the Withinenge and 

 the Meregrene, between lands of A3am 

 de Clitheroe and Hugh de Pendleton ; 

 another selion between Withinenge and 

 Little Pendleton ; an acre of meadow in 

 Thornhillenge — or if there be not a 

 whole acre let it be completed In the 

 Halfacredale in the townfield of the vill 

 of Little Pendleton; ibid. fol. 151, no. 

 648. In 13 15 Roger Radchapman 

 demised to Robert Querderay for eleven 

 years a messuage in Little Pendleton 

 which he had received with Anota his 

 wife, the rent to be 131. ; ibid. fol. 135^, 

 no. 579. Thomas son of William de 

 Pendleton and Cecily his wife, daughter 

 of Hugh Rothelan, in 13 16 gave to John 

 (son of John) de Standen the elder all 

 the land In Little Pendleton received 

 from Isolda formerly wife of Hugh ; 

 ibid. fol. 145, no. 616. 



^^ Lands In Little Pendleton are named 

 In feoffments by Robert son of Adam de 

 Clitheroe in 1340 and by Robert son of 

 Robert de Clitheroe in 1356; ibid. no. 



573» 544- 



^^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 



105- 



''^ Ibid. II, 43-5 ; Final Cone, iii, 82. 

 A feoffment of the Clitheroe estates was 

 made by Sir Henry de Hoghton and Joan 

 his wife in 1415, including Little Pendle- 

 ton and a water-mill there ; Add. MS. 



393 



32104, no. 593, 561, and regrant no. 

 606-7. 



In 1423 the trustees of lands, &c., in 

 Rlbchester, Oswaldtwlstle and Dutton re- 

 granted them to Sir Henry and Joan and 

 the Issue of the latter ; in default to the 

 male issue of Sir Henry, and In default to 

 Richard de Hoghton son of Sir Henry 

 and issue ; then to Peter and Giles sons of 

 Richard Talbot ; ibid. no. 538, Another 

 regrant with similar remainders referred 

 to the Little Pendleton estate ; ibid. no. 

 546. Richard was In possession of these 

 in 1426 ; Ibid. no. 545, 556. He also 

 held Salesbury and Clayton as late as 

 1438 ; ibid. no. 553. He was seated at 

 Leagram, of which an account has been 

 given above. He was described as 'of 

 Leagram' in 1447 ; ibid. no. 656. 



Richard Hoghton and Agnes his wife 

 occur In 1448 ; Dods, MSS. cxlii, fol. 90^. 



^5 In 1451, In consequence of the dis- 

 putes between John Talbot of Salesbury 

 and Henry son of Richard Hoghton of 

 Chlppingdale as to Dame Joan's lands 

 having been referred to arbitration, the 

 manor of Pendleton with Joan's lands in 

 Pendleton, Newton, Easington, Bradford, 

 Preston, Rlbchester, Clitheroe, Dinckley 

 and Wilpshire was allowed to Henry 

 Hoghton and his issue, with remainders 

 to Miles his brother; Add. MS. 32104, 

 no. 587, 547- 



William Hoghton was described as 'of 

 Pendleton' In 1480; Ibid. no. 595. 

 William son of Henry Hoghton in 1482 

 made a settlement in favour of his son 

 John and Elizabeth his wife ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, fol. 92, William's widow Elizabeth 

 married Thomas Singleton, and in 1499 

 they in conjunction with John Hoghton, 

 the son and heir of William, made a 

 feoffment of various lands and rents, the 

 water-mill of Pendleton and 6s. %d. from 

 a close called Over ThornhiU ; Add. MS. 

 32104, no. 542. Elizabeth was still 

 living in 1523 ; ibid. no. 563. 



John Hoghton of Pendleton occurs In 

 1501 ; Lana. /nj'. />.?». (Chet. Soc), ii, 131. 

 In 151 1 Thomas Singleton of Broughton, 

 son of Richard Singleton of Ingolhead and 

 Katherlne his wife, released to John 

 Hoghton their right in the Oxhey and 

 Horsehey in Little Pendleton, Goose- 

 butts, Friday bank and Rawflatting In 

 Clitheroe, &c. ; Add. MS. 32104, fol. 

 132, no. 564. In 1515 John Hoghton 

 married Katherine widow of Henry 

 Shuttleworth of Hacking ; ibid. no. 

 582—3. His son and heir Roger had 

 previously been contracted to marry 

 Elizabeth daughter of William Lister ; 

 ibid, no. 604 (fol. 144^). Katherine was 

 In 1555 the wife of Nicholas Battersby ; 

 Ibid. no. 560. She was a daughter of 

 Ralph Catterall; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 



93- 



Roger Hoghton died before his father, 

 who was living in 1536, but had a son 

 William, married by 1 5 29-30 to Margaret 

 daughter of Sir John Towneley. The 



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