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RadclifFe of Todmorden and Henry his son and heir 

 sold lands in the township to Ottwell and Alexander 

 Hindle.*^ 



Adam de Clitheroe in 1333 had land in Oswald- 

 twistle occupied by Adam de Haworth ^° ; it descended 

 to Sir Henry de Hoghton in right of his wife Joan " 

 and then to Talbot of Salesbury,^* 



A family named Parker was of importance in the 

 I 5 th century/^ but in 1482 Thurstan son of Edmund 

 Parker^* sold his lands to John RadclifFe of RadclifFe. 

 Oliver Parker, who had lands in Knuzden and else- 

 where,** in 1478 gave Jack Place in Aspden to his 

 son Gilbert. ^^ 



ASPDEN gave a surname to a family noticed in 

 the account of Church. In 1276 Richard de 

 RadclifFe and Adam de Aspden claimed a tenement in 

 Oswaldtwistle against Henry de Lacy and others." 

 Later a family named Grimshaw were in possession. 

 Elizabeth widow of John Grimshaw receiiied lands in 

 Oswaldtwistle in 1408 with remainder to their son 

 Roger ^^; and Roger Grimshaw died in or before 

 1434^* holding Aspden of Richard RadclifFe and 

 having for heir his sister Alice widow of Peter 

 Marsden.^" 



CATLOfV^^ was probably the half oxgang of land 

 granted by Roger de Oswaldtwistle to William son 



of Richard de RIshton at a rent of 2/.^^ The Cattlow 

 or Catlow family appears from time to time in this 

 township" and in Church. The estate about 1500 

 became divisible among a number of co-heirs — Riding 

 or Ridding, CunlifFe, Greenwood, Rishton and others.*'^ 

 One Catlow Hall was in 1538 sold by Peter' Fielden 

 and Margaret his wife to Charles Towneley," and 

 John Towneley of Cornfield in 1566 sold it to John 

 WoodrofFof Bank Top in Burnley. It descended to 

 the Shireburnes and was sold in the 1 8th century/** 

 Robert Riding died in 163 1 holding a messuage, Sec, 

 of Thomas Barton by knight's service ; his heir was 

 a sister Ellen, aged forty." Thomas Greenwood of 

 Foxhole Bank was a freeholder in 1600.^® He died 

 in l6i8 holding a messuage of Sir Thomas Barton 

 by knight's service, suit of court and mill and id. 

 rent. His heir, a daughter Susan, aged twenty-five, 

 was wife of Nicholas Rishton.** Gilbert Rishton of 

 Dunnyshope had a Catlow Hall in 1556.^'' 



Other branches of the Rishton family also had 

 estates in Oswaldtwistle ^^ ; thus in 1 6 1 9 Ralph 

 Rishton of Ponthalgh had the messuage called White 

 Ash, occupied by William Rishton,*' Nicholas son 

 of one Ralph Rishton died in 1596 holding two 

 messuages, &c., which descended to his son William, 

 then fourteen years of age.*^ Ralph Rishton of 



socage ; Duchy of Laac. Inq. p.m. v, no. 3. 

 In 1 561 the tenure was by knight's 

 service of Robert Barton ; ibid, xi, no. 7. 

 The estate descended to Sir Gilbert 

 Gerard ; ibid, xvi, no. 2. 



^ Towneley MS. OO, no. 1042. 



^° Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 241. 



^^ Final Cone, iii, 82 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. See), ii, 43. 



^^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. ii, 41 (held of the 

 king in socage), 55. 



^ Edward Parker was judge for 

 Oswaldtwistle at Clitheroe wapentake 

 court in 1408 ; Dunkenhalgh D. 

 Edmund Parker occurs in 1445 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 7, m, 2^, 8 ; 9, m. 11. 



3-1 Towneley MS. RR, no. 1471-3. 



^ Ibid. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), P 51. 



36 Ibid. P 42. 



3^ Assize R. 405, m. 2 d. Peter de 

 Chester, provost of Beverley, released to 

 Adam de Aspden land in Oswaldtwistle 

 which he had purchased from William de 

 Foxholebank ; DD, no. 836. In 1326 

 Adam son of Roger de Aspden gave his 

 brother John the hey of Broadfield and 

 other land ; John married Alice daughter 

 of Thomas de Catlow j ibid. no. 845. 



Edmund Aspden of Oswaldtwistle 

 occurs in 1445 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 7, end. Isabel Aspden daughter and 

 co-heir of Ellen, lately wife of James 

 Aspden, in 1512 gave to Richard Rishton 

 her messuages, &c., in Oswaldtwistle, but 

 was to have a rent of 135. ^d. payable 

 also to her son ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 

 807, 1 157. Another Isabel As;-den h 

 said to have married Ralph Rishton of 

 Antley ; Whitaker, Whaliey, ii, 299. 



^ Towneley MS. HH, no. 1501. 



39 For writ of diem cL extr. see Dep, 

 Keeper^s Rep. xxxiii, App. 34. 



^^ Ibid. 35 ; he also held Oakenshaw 

 in Clayton. 



In 1563 Ralph Rishton claimed lands 

 in Aspden Manor atid waste in Oswald- 

 twistle Mocr pgainst a number of persons ; 

 Ducatus Larc. ii, 2O9, 270. 



^^ Cattelow, 1307. 



"*' Add. MS, 32104, no. 1 1 60. 



^^ In 1326 Thomas son of Henry dc 



Catlow granted to Roger de Catlow a 

 messuage in the vill of Oswaldtwistle 

 which he had had by gift of Agnes his 

 mother; Add. MS. 32104, no. 1137. 

 The feoffee of Robert son of Henry de 

 Catlow in 1343 regranted to him lands 

 in Oswaldtwistle with remainders to his 

 sister Margery and to Margery's brother 

 Thomas ; ibid. no. 425. 



^^ See the account of Church. Catlow 

 Hall was in 1527 held by Ralph Hyanson, 

 Richard Lache, John Riding and Piers 

 Feilden, paying gi. ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Rentals, bdle. 5, no. 12. 



45 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 11, 

 in. 7. 



■*^ These particulars are from the Shire- 

 burne Abstract Book at Leagram. 



■''' Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, 

 no. 84. In 1 581 John Riding of Os- 

 waldtwistle released to Lawrence Duxbury 

 of Great Harwood a messuage in the 

 former township ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 

 1263, 1265. Lawrence Duxbury and 

 Nicholas his son in 1609 sold the tene- 

 ment called Riddings to Robert Riding ; 

 ibid. no. 1264, 1266. In 1621 Robert 

 granted the Riddings to feoffees to fulfil 

 his will, and in 163 1 he made his will, 

 naming Elizabeth his wife and Ellen his 

 sister, but making Edmund Rishton, rector 

 of Earnley in Sussex, the ultimate bene- 

 ficiary ; ibid. no. 1268, 1267, 1269. 

 Edmund Rishton, who married Anne 

 daughter of Geoffrey Rishton of Antley 

 (ibid. no. 1257), made bis will in 1640, 

 leaving daughters Mary, Jane, Anne and 

 Susan ; ibid. no. 1262. 



48 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 237. See the account of Church. In 

 15 18 John Greenwood of Foxhole Bank 

 in Oswaldtwistle and Margaret his wife 

 gave a rent of 6j. %d. for life to Alice 

 Holker ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13, R 5(;. 



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

 and Ches.), ii, 244. 



°° From the account of Church it will 

 be found that Gilbert Rishton married 

 Elizabeth Catlow before 1500. In 1556 

 another Gilbert Rishton (of Accringtm) 

 obtained Catlow Hall and a messuage in 



407 



Read from Ralph Rishton with reversion- 

 ary rights after the death of Ellen widow 

 of Henry Rishton of Dunkenhalgh ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, no. 1246, 1251. It 

 thus appears that Catlow had been held 

 by the Dunkenhalgh Rlshtons. Richard 

 Rishton of Dunkenhalgh held land in 

 Oswaldtwistle of the king in socage in 

 1530, and Henry Rishton held it In or 

 before 1549 } Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 vi, no. 9 ; ix, no. 30. Gilbert Rishton 

 of Dunnyshope in 1575 granted Catlow 

 Hall to his son Robert; ibid.no. \z<^%. 

 By William Rishton of Dunnyshope 

 Catlow Hall was in 1597 assigned for the 

 benefit of Richard Assheton of Mlddleton 

 and Margaret his wife, widow of Robert 

 Rishton and mother of the grantor ; ibid, 

 no. 799, 1244, 801, 804. In 1 60 1 

 William Rishton son and heir of Robert 

 Rishton gave a lease of Catlow Hall for 

 three lives to Ralph Ayanson ; Ibid. no. 

 1261. He in 1616 sold land In Oswald- 

 twistle to John son of Nicholas Haworthj 

 ibid. no. 1252. The before -mentioned 

 Edmund Rishton was in possession of 

 Catlow Hall in 1632, when he gave a 

 new lease of it to Christopher Jackson 

 and Lettice his daughter ; ibid. no. 1259- 

 60. 



fii Ralph Rishton of Ponthalgh held in 

 Oswaldtwistle of Richard RadclifFe in 

 1417 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 

 14. A later Ralph held of the king by a 

 rent in 1527, and his grandson William 

 held after him in 1589 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. vi, no. 24; xv, no. 55. The 

 estate was no doubt White Ash, as in the 

 next note, 



^2 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1400. In 

 1 571 Elizabeth Parker, as widow of 

 Ralph Rishton of Ponthalgh, had had a 

 dispute with Roger Kenyon and George 

 Ainsworth respecting White Ash ; Ducatus 

 Lane, iii, 59 ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 258. Again 

 in 1579 there was contention about it 

 between Roger Rishton and William 

 Rishton ; Ducatus Lane, ill, 84. 



*3 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvli, no. 20. 

 Alice widow of Ralph had a third part in 



