BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



Henfield moor or waste, tenants of the adjoining 

 manor of Accrington making claims."' He made 

 settlements in 1587'° and 1608, naming in the latter 

 Elizabeth his wife, Nathaniel his son and Nicholas 

 the son of Nathaniel," and he died in 161 2, when 

 the said Nathaniel, thirty years of age, succeeded." 



The heir was a Roman Catholic, and about 1632 

 compounded by an annual fine of £\o for the 

 two-thirds of his estate liable to sequestration for 

 recusancy." He had paid a further £10 in 1 631 on 

 declining knighthood." By his wife Elizabeth 

 daughter and co-heir of Barnaby Kitchin he obtained 

 a third part of the manor of Pilling. On the out- 

 break of the Civil War he took the king's side, and 

 as a ' Papist delinquent ' his estates were sequestered 

 by the Parliament. He died in 1649 and was buried 

 .It Garstang, and then his son Richard, who was 

 ' conformable to the Church of England ' and ' a re.il 

 Protestant and ... a friend to the Parliament 

 and their proceedings,' obtained a discharge of the 

 estates." He recorded a pedigree in 1665, when his 

 eldest surviving son Nathaniel was seventeen years 

 of age.'° Nathaniel Banastre's house had ten hearths 

 liable to the tax in 1666 out of forty-six in the whole 

 township." 



Nathaniel, who died in 1669, was succeeded by a 

 brother Henry,^* and he by his son Nicholas, the last 

 male heir. At his death in 1694 his sisters Mary 

 wife of Ambrose Walton and Isabel wife of Charles 

 Halsted succeeded. The Waltons on partition in 

 1699 had Altham." Mary's son Henry Walton was 

 succeeded by his son Banastre,*" and on his death 

 without issue in 1784 Altham passed to his cousin, 

 the Rev. Richard Wroe," rector of Radcliffe, who 

 took the name of Walton in accordance with Banastre 

 Walton's will. At his death in 1 801 he was followed 

 by his son Richard Thomas Wroe Walton, who died 



unmarried in 1845, his sisters being heirs. One ol 

 them died unmarried, and the other, Mrs. Maw, 

 had no children, but they left their estates to distant 

 relatives who were their next heirs, namely two sisters, 

 Mrs. Hallam and Mrs. Fawcett." These settled the 

 property on their children in equal shares " ; the son 

 of the former, the late William Hallam of Kirkby 

 Stephen, became patron of the benefice, but the lord- 

 ship of the manor is held by Mrs. MacDiarmid, 

 Miss Hallam, Mrs. Haworth, Mr. R. T. R. W. Hallam 

 and Mrs. Patton. No courts are held. 



Few of the minor tenants appear in the records." 

 The lands of the church appear to have been 

 occupied by the lords of the manor." In 1298 

 William de Altham claimed a moiety of the manor 

 against the Abbot of Stanlaw.** The lands are de- 

 scribed in a memorandum of the time of Henry V, 

 printed in the Whalley Coucher." An inquiry was 

 made about them in the time of Cardinal Pole, when 

 it was found that they were dispersed in the town 

 fields. In 1 61 6, at another inquiry, it was found 

 th.u the scattered portions had been occupied by the 

 lord of the manor or his ancestors for many years. 

 In that way they were lost." 



There appears to have been a re- 

 CHURCH ligious house of some kind at Altham, 

 its advowson being granted to Hugh son 

 of Leofwine together with the manor about 1 1 65.'" 

 Nothing further is known of it, but Hugh founded 

 a chapel and endowed it with 4 oxgangs of land, 

 designing to have a separate parish formed.'" He 

 obtained the assent of Geoffrey dean of Whalley 

 and placed in it as vicar Geoffrey's son or brother 

 Robert. A rent of one pound of incense was to be 

 given to Whalley Church yearly on All Saints' Day" 

 by Henry de Clayton, who about 1220 succeeded 

 Robert as vicar," but in 1249 Peter de Chester, 



29 Ducdtus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 33, 

 4.7 5 Lanes, and Chei. Ree. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 257, 279. 



3» Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 49, 

 m. 236. For Elizabeth wife of Nicholas 

 see the account of Holden in Haslingden. 



^^ Ibid. bdle. 71, m. 7 j the deforciants 

 were Nicholas Banastre, Nathaniel Banas- 

 tre and Elizabeth his wife. 



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

 and Ches.), i, 235. Nicholas Banastre 

 was certainly a conformist in religion, for 

 he was on an ecclesiastical commission in 

 1580 and was a justice of the peace in 

 1600; Cal.S. P.Dom. 1580-1625, p. 25 ; 

 Mise. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 234. 



^ Trans. Hist. Soe. (new ser.), xxiv, 176. 



^* Mise. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 218. 



^^ Royalist Comp, Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 125-8. Richard's 

 elder brother Nicholas had died without 

 issue in their father's lifetime. 



'« Dugdale, Fisit. (Chet. Soc), 24. The 

 eldest son Nicholas had died leaving two 

 daughters. 



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

 Two houses had four hearths and two 

 had three. 



^^ The remainder of the descent is 

 taken from Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 269- 

 70. 



In 1 67 1 Henry son of Richard Banastre 

 claimed the manor of Altham, &c., against 

 Amee widow of his brother Nicholas, who 

 afterwards married Thomas Cockshutt. 



Nicholas had two daughters, who married ; 

 Exck. Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 



48, 75- 



Henry Banastre by his will of 1684 

 devised his manor of Altham, &c., in suc- 

 cession to his son Nicholas and daughters 

 Mary and Isabel and their heirs male, 

 &c. ; Whitaker, loc. cit. 



^^ A settlement of the manor was 

 made in 1700, the deforciants to the 

 fine being Ambrose Walton, Mary his 

 wife, Charles Halsted and Isabel his 

 wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 244, 

 m. 12. 



Henry Walton, on attaining the age of 

 twenty-one (17 19), joined with his 

 mother and her husband Ambrose Walton 

 in suffering a recovery of the entailed 

 estates ; Whitaker, loc. cit. 



■*'' Banastre Walton was vouchee in a 

 recovery of the manor in 1756 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Pica R. 582, m. la. 



*^ Son of the Rev, Thomas Wroe, 

 fellow of Manchester, by his wife Mary 

 sister of Henry Walton. He paid almost 

 the whole of the land tax for Altham in 

 1787. 



^^ Baines, Lana. (cd. 1870), ii, 54. 



*3 Information of Mr, William Hallam, 

 who died in 1910. 



^^ Aythalgh, Ewood and Hindle were 

 yeomen 144.5-7 i P^^* of Lane. Plea R. 7 

 (end) ; 10, m. 12. In 1468 William 

 Aythalgh complained that Gilbert Banastre 

 and others had broken his close at Altham .; 

 Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton, 8 Edw. IV. 



Lawrence Brandwood contributed to 



413 



the subsidy for land in 1524 ; Lay Subs. 

 Lanes, bdle. 130, no. 82. 



Henry Hodgson had a dispute with the 

 lord in 1602 ; Ducatus Lane, iii, 453* 

 462. 



"^^ Four oxgangs of land would be half 

 the vill. 



'**' De Banco R. 125, m. 224. 



^^ Op cit. i, 305 ; they included — e.g. 

 in Hoghtonfield in the Blakecroft 

 eighteen selions lying one by one among 

 the parcels of the oxgangs, and in the 

 same field six butts likewise lying sepa- 

 rately. The field-names, &c., give Tadrid 

 Ees, Todgrave, Bankhouses, Muthom, 

 Nether-eastfield and Over-eastfield, the 

 hard Aspden, Townsteadfield, Britholm 

 and others ; the greengate, the farthings, 

 the manor barn and tithe barn, the 

 chaplain's house and the priest's garden. 

 There was a * great meadow ' under Lords 

 Hill. 



■^^ Whitaker, op. cit. ij, 267. 



^9Ibid. 265. 



5° Ibid. 266 n. Here the authority 

 quoted says that GeofiVey the younger. 

 Dean of Whalley, gave it to his brother 

 Robert. 



51 PFhalley Couch. (Chet. Soc), i, 296. 



53 Ibid. Robert de Whalley, rector of 

 Rochdale, gave the * church ' of Altham 

 in alms to Henry dc Altham son of Henry 

 son of Hugh as a perpetual vicarage. 

 Geoffrey the Dean of Whalley at the 

 p^me time confirmed the gift, which was 

 further ratified by William de Cornhull 

 Bishop of Lichfield from 1215 to 1223. 



