BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



£4 yearly value of land, and lived until the end of 

 '539' having tvfo years before contracted for the 

 marriage of his son Richard to Elizabeth daughter of 

 John Cudworth of Werneth, gent.^^ 



Richard Grimshaw — the family name had now 

 assumed this form — was assessed 

 to the subsidy of 1543 upon 

 £^ yearly value of land, and 

 in 1554 purchased from John 

 Moore of Kirkdale the latter's 

 estate in Eccleshill. He died 

 in 1575, leaving John his son 

 and heir, aged twenty-four 

 years,^* who acquired a further 

 estate by his marriage to Mary 

 daughter and co-heir of 

 Thomas Catterall of Catterall 

 and Little Mitton. John Grim- 

 shaw died in 1587, leaving 

 Nicholas his son and heir, 

 aged thirteen years.-' Nicholas 

 married Ellen daughter of 

 Riddlesden, near Keighley, 



Grimshaw of Clay- 

 ton. Argeitt a griffon 

 segreant sable croivned 



of 



Robert Rushworth 

 CO. York. He was 

 assessed to the subsidy of 1599 '^pon lands of the 

 yearly value of ^£3 6s. SJ., and in 1626 paid double 

 assessment on ^^3 10/. value as a convicted recusant, 

 his wife being also charged upon that conviction. ^^ 

 Three or four years later he compounded for two- 

 thirds of his sequestered estate,^^^ paying ^£20 a year 

 fine. John Grimshaw succeeded Nicholas his father 

 in 1 64 1, and the year following leased to Nicholas 

 Townley of Royle and Henry Townley for a term 

 of eighteen years the mines of coal on his demesne 

 lands or lands let to tenants in Clayton for the main- 

 tenance and education of his two younger sons.^' 

 His own and his mother's estates were sequestered for 

 their recusancy, and two-thirds leased in 1652 to a 

 Preston linen-draper. The valuable coal mines upon 

 the estates in Eccleshill and Clayton brought in a 

 considerable revenue, but the county commissioners 

 were extremely backward in making allowances to the 

 lessees for permanent and needful outlays to maintain 

 the mines in working order.'" John Grimshaw 

 married in 1626 Anne daughter and co-heir of 

 Abraham Colthurst of Burnley, and at his death in 

 1662 was succeeded by his eldest son Richard, who 

 entered his pedigree atDugdale's visitation in 1665.'^ 



Richard Grimshaw married Elizabeth daughter of 

 Stephen Tempest of Broughton in Craven, by whom 

 he had issue an only daughter Susanna, who married 

 Ralph son of Nicholas Shuttleworth of Clitheroe, esq. 

 Mrs. Shuttleworth died in 1727, her Jacobite husband 

 having been attainted of treason 24 July S716.'* 



Richard Grimshaw, who was buried at Altham on 

 26 February i6g6, was succeeded in the ownership 

 of the Clayton estate by his nephew and nearest male 

 heir, John Grimshaw son of Richard's brother John 

 by Jennet daughter and co-heiress of Robert Cunliffe 

 of Sparth. The new owner died between 1707 and 

 1 71 8, and the estate, then heavily encumbered, went 

 to his brother Nicholas Grimshaw, who died in 1718 

 without issue. John had mortgaged his interest to 

 R. Clayton of Adlington, who in 1 71 8 assigned the 

 mortgage to John Heywood of Urmston, brother-in- 

 law of John and Nicholas Grimshaw, having married 

 their sister Mary Anne. Their daughter and heiress 

 Rebecca Heywood (d. 1772) married in 1715 or 

 17 16 Richard Lomax of Pilsworth and Burnshaw 

 (d. 1771). The eldest son of this union, James 

 Lomax, succeeded, and on his death in 1792 was 

 followed by his son Richard Grimshaw Lomax, who 

 died in 1837. He had several sons,'' of whom John 

 (d. 1849) and James (d. 1886) held the estates of 

 Clayton and Great Harwood in succession, and 

 dying without issue were followed by their brother 

 Thomas's representatives, viz. Mrs. Helen Trappes 

 and Mrs. Helen Mary Maxima Howell [nee Segar), 

 daughter and granddaughter of Thomas Grimshaw, 

 who are joint owners.'^ Mrs. Trappes in 1891 

 assumed the additional name of Lomax by royal 

 licence. 



No courts are held and no court rolls are known 

 to exist. 



Clayton Hall is a plain classic building erected in 

 1772.'*=" 



DUNKENHJLGH (Dunkaneshalghe, 1285).— 

 This mesne manor, occupying the south-western part 

 of the township, was an ancient infeudation of one 

 of the early lords of Altham, of whom it was held 

 by a quit-rent of lod. per annum. William de Dun- 

 kanshalgh occurs in 1285 with Adam de Church son 

 of Roger de Dunkanshalgh.'^ It does not appear 

 how the estate came to the Rishton family. Richard 

 de Rishton, who was living from about 128010 1320, 



" DD, 1602 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. viil, no. 16. He had settled Hacking 

 in Aighton on his son at his marriage. 

 Besides his manorial estate in Clayton 

 and the ancient family property in Eccles- 

 hill he had 3 tenement in Burnley which 

 he held of Hugh Shuttleworth. His son 

 was born in 1 508 and inherited the third 

 part of his mother's estate in Melling, 

 Aintree and Liverpool, described at her 

 death in 1549 as the third part of thirty- 

 four messuages, 1,380 acres of land, &c., 

 420 acres of moss, 8 * oppells ' of two 

 mills, one a water and the other a horse 

 mill, and 30J. of rent j Inq. p.m. ix, 25. 

 Her son had given her these lands for 

 her life in 1544; OO, 1074. 



26 00, 1081 ; Inq. p.m. OO, 1086. 

 Richard Grimshaw held Clayton Hall of 

 Nicholas Banister for izd. free rent and 

 the Eccleshill estate of Robert Holden, 

 gent^ in socage for 4J. rent. 



^' DD, 1636; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xiv, no. 53. 



2' Lanes. Subs. bdle. 131,00. 274, 317. 



In 1592-3 Simon Haydock, late of 

 Clayton-le-Moors, gent., Alice wife of 

 Robert Catterall, yeoman, and John Dew- 

 hurst incurred penalties of ^20 per 

 month for absence from church 5 Exch. 

 L.T.R. 34 Eliz. Recusant R. 



28a Trans. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xxlv, 

 174. 



'"> Clayton D. penes W. Farrer. The 

 lessees had power to break the soil, make 

 pits, shafts and trenches for draining water 

 away. The lessor reserved the right to 

 take sufficient coal out of the said mine 

 for burning at the hall of Clayton. 



™ Lanes. Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. 

 Soc), iii, 128-33. In 1652 'hewers' in 

 the mine were paid 4j</. per quarter, 

 * drawers ' -^d,, the banksman and his 

 partner for winding and finding 'sledds ', 

 shovels and other necessaries 3^1/. per 

 quarter. There remained 4^/. per quarter 

 profit to the owner. At Eccleshill mine 

 thirty-seven men were employed. 



3' DD, 1634 ; risit. (Chet. Soc. Ixxxv), 

 117-8. Richard Grimshaw is named in 



419 



the survey of Clitheroe in 1662 as paying 

 e^d. puture rent for Clayton Hall. Richard's 

 brother Nicholas was a Douay priest and 

 began a controversy with the vicar of 

 Mitton, of which the story may be read 

 in Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of Engl. Cath, iv, 

 325. 



82 Forfeited Estate Papers, L 5. 



^^ Another son, William Lomax, S. J. 

 (1804-56), was the author of Devout 

 Prayers, &c. ; Gillow, op. cit, iv, 

 321. 



^■^ This account of the recent descent 

 of the manor, derived from the Clayton 

 Hall muniments, is due to Mr. R. Trappcs- 

 Lomax. It corrects that given by 

 Whitaker. Thomas Lomax's daughters 

 were Mary wife of William Francis Segar 

 and mother of Mrs. David Howell, and 

 Helen, who married Thomas Byrnand 

 Trappes. 



34a Twycros?, Lanes. Mans, i, 19, where 

 are two illustrations of the house. 



^^ Lanes. Assme R, (Rec. Soc. xlix), 20S ; 

 Rishton D. HH, 31-61. 



