BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



AspiNALL of Standen 

 Or a cheveron bet'ween 

 three griffons' heads 

 erased sable. 



He is lord of 



there,'' and after the suppression of the abbey it was 

 sold in 1 5 5 3 to Assheton and BraddyU.'^ The tenants 

 in 1537 were William Farron and Giles Colthurst.'^ 

 The last-named, who had Lower Standen, died 

 in 1553 holding of the queen in chief by the tenth 

 part of a knight's fee and a rent of 9/. 4^." His estate 

 descended to his son Henry and grandson Giles, which 

 Giles died in 1592, leaving a son and heir Henry, 

 aged fifteen.*^ An Edmund Colthurst also had land in 

 Pendleton, for in 1 569 he sold it to John Goodshaw," 

 who died in 1590 holding of the queen by the hun- 

 dredth part of a knight's fee and is. zd. rent " ; his son 

 Edward and Susan his wife in 1592 sold it to Robert 

 Walmesley of Coldcoats." It included Hulcroft." 



Over Standen was in the i6th century held by 

 the Aspinall family/® John Aspinall died 19 June 

 1 64 1 holding it of the king 

 as of his duchy in socage by 

 zs. rent ; he also had an 

 estate in Clitheroe. His heir 

 was his brother Alexander, 

 aged fifty, but he had be- 

 queathed Over Standen to 

 John the son of another 

 brother William," and John 

 Aspinall was there in 1655.**® 

 The present owner of Standen 

 Hall, Col. Ralph John Aspi- 

 nall, is descended from James 

 Aspinall, described as *of Stan- 

 den,* whose connexion with 

 the older owners is not ascertained." 

 the adjacent manor of Little Mitton. 



^^ The endowment included Standen, 

 Hulcroft and Greenlache in Pendleton 

 and Clitheroe ; Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill, 

 (2nd nos.) no. 60. Inquiry was made into 

 the abbey's title in 1402 ; Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep.jd^Af^. 531. 



38 fVhalley Couch. (Chet. Soc), iv, 1 177 ; 

 Standen Folds and Standen Hey are named. 

 A rent of 66s. Sd. was to be paid for the 

 pasture, &c., called Standen Hey. 



A grant of the Whalley lands at Standen 

 or Lower Standen was made to Richard 

 Colthurst in 1620 ; Pat. 18 Jas. I, pt. xxi. 



3^ fVhalley Couch, iv, 1222. Each 

 tenant paid ^z 6s. %d. 



*** Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 51, 

 53. Henry the son and heir was twenty- 

 six years old. 



*^ Ibid, xri, no. 4. Jane Colthurst 

 widow of Henry the father of Giles is 

 named. 



^2 PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 31, 

 m. 133. 



48 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xv, no. 26. 

 The tenement had belonged to Whalley 

 Abbey. Edward the son and heir was 

 thirty-nine years old. 



** Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 54, 

 m. 88. 



*^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. See. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 222-3. 



^® James Aspinall, with whom Giles 

 Colthurst was afterwards joined, was the . 

 warden or sidesman for Clitheroe and 

 Standen from 1519 onwards ; Act Bk. of 

 Whalley (Chet. Soc), 6j, &e. The same 

 or another family of the name has been 

 noticed in the account of Mearley j see 

 also the notes in Whitaker, Whalley^ 

 ii, 105. John and James Aspinall in 1 5 79 

 had lands, &c., in Pendleton, Clitheroe and 

 other places ; Pal, of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 4 1, m. 7. James Aspinall of 



Standen Hall was originally an H-shaped house 

 of two stories facing south, said to have been erected 

 in the 15 th century. It was, however, rebuilt 

 in 1757 more or less on the old plan, and incor- 

 porating some portions of the ancient building, but 

 the principal front was changed to the east side, 

 where a handsome classic elevation of three stories 

 was erected with engaged columns and pediment. 

 The middle and west wings remain of two stories. 

 The west wing was rebuilt about 1858, the roof 

 being raised above that of the middle part of the 

 house, but except for the east front the elevations 

 are quite plain in character. A single-story billiard- 

 room wing was added in 1876 at the north-east end 

 of the east wing.*^^ 



A division of the land called Standen Heys was 

 ordered about 1618.^'' The place afforded a surname 

 to a family of whom there are scattered notices.*' 



Of the other ancient estates in Pendleton some 

 particulars may be obtained from the records, parti- 

 cularly the Court Rolls." From the Wolton family, 

 of long continuance here," probably sprang Dr. John 

 Wolton, who has been noticed among the wardens of 

 Manchester ; an exile for Protestantism in Mary's 

 time he was promoted by Elizabeth to the bishopric 

 of Exeter and died in possession of it in I594.'''' 



Rights in Pendleton Wood were included in the 

 grant of Mearley to Ralph le Rous by Ilbert de Lacy 

 about 1140." A decree concerning the boundary 

 between Wiswell and Pendleton was made about 

 1608 ^^ and a map has been preserved." Some other 

 disputes occurred.^* An allotment of the wastes was 

 made in 1638."^ 



Standen Hey was a freeholder in 1600 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 235. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq, p.m. xxx, no. 98. 



*^ Whitaker, op. eit. ii, 107. 



** See pedigree, ibid, j Burke, Landed 

 Gentry. 



James was brother and apparently heir 

 of John Aspinall of Standen, serjeant at 

 law, who is commended for his hospitality 

 by Thomas Pennant {Tour to Alston MQor)^ 

 and died in 1784. 



49a There is an illustration of the 

 house before the rebuilding of the west 

 wing in Twycross, Lanes, Mans. (1847), 

 i, II. 



^*> Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Ree. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 243. 



^^ See the note in Whitaker, op. cit. 

 ii, 104. Thomas son of Vivian de Standen 

 and Walter his brother occur in 1250; 

 Close, 64, m. 14. In 13 11 Thomas 

 de Standen acquired a messuage in 

 Clitheroe ; Final Cone, ii, 6. Maud Pey- 

 tevin in 13 14 claimed land in Standen 

 against John son of William de Standen 

 and others ; De Banco R. 206, m. 3 d. 

 Henry son of John de Standen settled a 

 messuage, &c., in Great Pendleton, with 

 remainder to his son William in 1418 ; 

 Final Cone, iii, 74. 



*2 A list of the tenants in 1443 is 

 printed in Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. i, 500. 

 The names include Mitton, Wolton, Fool 

 or Fowle, Chamber, Westby and Gartside. 



John Fowle, called Marshal in 1359, 

 obtained a tenement there from William 

 de Hallstead and Joan his wife ; Final 

 Cone, ii, 1 6 1 . The Fowles held an oxgang 

 of land in 1425; Farrer, op. cit. 11. 

 John Forest succeeded William Forest 

 in the same year as tenant of another 

 oxgang ; ibid. Nicholas Westby died in 

 or before 1530, and left two daughters as 



co-heirs ; Margery was wife of Richard 

 Webster and Elizabeth of John Moore ; 

 ibid. 90, 118, &c. Other families were 

 Cromock or Crombock, Feilden, Mufton 

 and Tattersall. 



Nicholas Talbot died in 1547 holding 

 land in Pendleton, and left a son and heir 

 George, not two years of age ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, no. 41. 



Anne Dinelay died in 1596 holding in 

 Pendleton and the Castle parish ; her 

 husband Henry survived her, and they 

 had a son William, aged nine ; Chan, 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), v, 263-7, 



*^ John Wolton occurs in 1425 ; Farrer, 

 op. cit. 9, 13. Ranald Wolton was greave 

 In 1 53 1 and James Wolton in 1547 ; 

 ibid. 94, 1 54, ^* Diet. Nat. Biog. 



" Farrer, Lanes.PipeR. 388 ; Inq. p.m. 

 20 Edw. Ill, no. 43. 



^6 Duchy of Lane, Special Com. 802. 



^"^ Lanes, and Ches. Rec. I, 24. 



^^ The boundaries were probably 111 

 defined, for In 15 12 the tenants of the 

 Heyhouses were said to trespass with their 

 cattle on Pendleton common pasture ; 

 Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. i, 40. In 1546 

 they cut turf there ; ibid. 148. 



The bounds of the Goldshaw Booth 

 turbary were decided by an inquest in 

 1516 ; Towneley MS. GG, no. 964. 



In 1 591 there was a dispute as to 

 Over Standen between the burgesses of 

 Clitheroe and other Inhabitants j Ducatus 

 Lane, (Rec. Com.), iii, 276. 



Various allotments of common lands 

 were made in the time of James I and 

 Charles I, and two plans of 1612 haTe 

 been preserved. Lengthy abstracts of the 

 depositions and awards have been printed 

 by Dr. Laycock In his essay on Xh^ Allot- 

 ment of Sabden Common Pasture (1901), 



*8a Duchy of Lane. Special Com. 848. 



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