A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



There arc two newspapers, the Rouendak Express, 

 published on Wednesday, and the Bacup Times on 

 Saturday.' 



Remains of ancient earthworks called the Dykes 

 are visible at Broadclough.^ 



The old dungeon was at Bacup,' the pinfold at 

 Clough Fold "• and the soke mill at Wolfenden 

 Booth." 



The district has produced several noteworthy men. 

 Caleb Ashworth, D.D., was born at Clough Fold in 

 1722 and became a Baptist divine; he published 

 works on Hebrew Grammar, Plane Trigonometr)', 

 &c., and died in 177;.^^ Another distinguished 

 Baptist minister was James Hargreaves, bom at Dean 

 Head in 1768 ; he was secretary of the Peace 

 Society, and wrote a life of the Rev. John Hirst ; he 

 died in 184.5.1^ Lawrence Heyworth, merchant and 

 reformer, was born at Greensnook in 1786.'^ 

 William Hoyle, cotton spinner and temperance 

 reformer, was bom in Roisendale in 1S31 ; he died 

 in I 886.''^ Mary Harrison, a centenarian, who died 

 in 181 >>, may also be mentioned.'* 



Ncwchurch, lll;e the rest of Rossend.ile, 

 FOREST was part of the forest of the I'jrd of 

 Clithcroe, and «.i^ never constituted a 

 manor. Its name did not c.\i^t till after the demise 

 of the land to copyholders in 1 507, but vacclrlc^ 

 \\crc established far earlier." The stocks at Bacup, 

 Del I'Acncl'iiijh, Wolfenden and Tunstcad arc re- 

 corded for I 321,'" when each vaccary was let at farm 

 for 26/. Sy. beyond the sustenance of the king's 

 stock." The survey of 1507 gives the follo'.'. ing 

 particulars : Deadwcnclough, farmed lately at £6, 

 now at ;^lo 13/. 41/., to Jord.in Bridge, James and 



Thomas Crawshaw and William Holt ; Tunstcad, 

 l.itcly at £■} 16/. Sd., now at £^ 6x. SJ., to John 

 Pilling, Henry Dearden, Gilbert Kenhaw and the 

 wife of John Tattenall ; Wolfenden, a large waste 

 ground with a fair lodge, never set to farm, but 

 reserved for the deer and for common for the king's 

 tenants, now let to the tenants for £1^ 6s. 8</. ; 

 Wolfenden Booth, lately £6 (with Cowpe), now 

 £^ IS. -d., to John Heap, William and Nicholas 

 Ashworth and Edmund Shaw, Cowpe being let 

 sep.-irately for ^^5 13/. Sfd. ; Harley Head or Bacup 

 Booth, lately /8 13;. \d., now at j^II, to Lawrence 

 and Alexander Lord, John Whitacre and Christopher 

 Tattersall.20 



Later rentals show the principal tenants to have 

 been^' : — 



Deadwcnclough — 1609, John Nuttall of Newhall 

 Hey, William Heaton of Clough, Francis Bridge, 

 John Nuttall of Clough (church land) and Alexander 

 Haworth ; 1662, Christopher Nuttall (church land), 

 James Crawshaw and Adam Bridge. 



Tunstcad — 1609, John Kershaw, John Tattersall, 

 Anthony Nuttall and John Pilling; 1662, repre- 

 scntaiives of John Kershaw, John Pilling and Robert 

 .•\;hwor!h (Nuttall). 



Wolfenden — 1609, Edward Rawstorne of New- 

 hall, John Hargreaves and John Holt ; 1662, 

 representatives of Edward Rawstorne, George 

 Hargreaves, John Holt and Peter Ormerod. 



Wolfenden Booth — i6og, Edmund Rawstorne of 

 Lum and James Walton ; 1662 — Edward Rawstorne 

 of Lum and representatives of James Walton. 



Harley Head and Bacup — 1609, James Lord 

 afias Bolton, John Nuttall of Clough, James Whitaker, 



' In 1870 the p.Trer? were the AV^j 

 (1S61) and Timci (186;). 



" Ne\^bipging, op. cit. 8. 



^ l-'id. 100. 



■' IWd. 10+. 



*^ Ibid. 2ig, ll\. For disputes at to 

 the Roiscn ijlc mi,.s and suit to them *'c 

 l.a'-.c. and Chti. Rci. (Rcc. Soc. Lines. 

 an 1 L'he^.}, ii, 269, 270, 301. Thr^c at 

 \\'".fendcn Booth and Oakcnhead Wood 

 aic named. 



i» Dn: Sut. Biog. 



'' N'cwbigging, op. cit. 178 ; /J..;. .\\it. 

 B.-j;. 



" N'cwbigginp, op. cit. iSi. 



'' Dur. .\ar. B: f. 



'* Ncwbigging, op. cit. 199. 



•' They arc not mentioned by name in 

 the Compoti.of 1296 nnd 1505. 



'^ Ljrcs. In^. and Extent] (Rcc. S'^c. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 198. Tlic booth- 

 men or farmers were Henry del Stock 

 ((-\-'^/:.':, 30), Adam and Alexander ^iel 

 Dciic and Agnes de Balshaw. 



'* Lanes. In J. and Extent:, ii, 20I. 



"> MS. at Huntroyde. 



Fr'teenth-century leases of the vaccar; ts 

 are recorded in UTiitakcr, Jf'r^..e\;i, 35;, 

 360. \V;th T, instead we^.t 'the Set- 

 tings' in Sow Cloujh. In a lease of 

 Bacup Booth in 141 8 it was stipulated 

 that no wild beasts were to be destroyed ; 

 Kuerdcn MSS. iv, R25. 



The Abbot of Whalley in 1338 com- 

 plained that various persons had trespassed 

 on his gra*! at Tunstcad in Rossendale ; 

 De Banco R. 31;, m. 335. The abbot 

 appears to have lei i it on lease ; Q. R. 

 Memo. R. 183, m. 23-. 



A number of disputes are recorded in 

 the Dueatui La-.;. (Rec. Cnm.). Sir John 



Bridge was plaintiff in 1540-1 ag.iinit 

 George Birtwi^ c and Margaret his witc 

 respect:!!- lands in Deadwcnclough, Sez. ; 

 ibid. 1, 160. Pasti.re cal'ed Half-a-Fot,t 

 occurs in 1559 ; ibid. 11, 213. Copyholds 

 in Lacup were in 1566 claimed by John 

 Lnrt and Thomas Robertshaw in right of 

 their wives, Joan and Alice daughters and 

 heirs of Christofher Bridge, James Whit- 

 aker, grcave of the forest, being defendant ; 

 ibid. 11, 32S ; iii, 83. A messuage, lands 

 and Icasowein Tunstcad were claimed by 

 Rdbrrt Duerden in 1 ':74-^ against Francis 

 ILiit or his representatives; ibid, iii, 19, 

 42. The capital messuage called Tun- 

 stead with lands called Shaw Clough, t^-rc, 

 was claimed by William Tattersall against 

 John Tattersall in 1386; ibid, iii, 193. 

 In 1600 Ellis Chadwick claimed land in 

 Wolfenden in rlj;ht of his wife Margaret, 

 next of kin and heir of Gilbert Birtwisle ; 

 ibid, iii, 41 '. 



Lands in * Rossendale ' (perhaps in 

 Brandwood) occur in the inquisitions, &c., 

 of the Holts of Gristlehurst, but no 

 details are given ; Lanes, Inrj. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 81, 372 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 75, no. 37. 



The following were the copyholders in 

 1 52-, from Duchy of Lane. Rentals, 

 bale. ;, no. 12 : 



In Deadwcnclough — Jordan Bridge, 

 William Holt, Charles Xutto (Nuttall), 

 Richard Whitworth, Charles Haworth, 

 Edmund Pickup and Thomas Crawshaw, 

 paying £io 131. ^d. in alU 



Tunstcad or Tunstall — John Pilling, 

 John Tattersall, Henry Duerden, Jrhn 

 Lawes, the wife of Christopher Kirshaw, 

 Alice and Agnes Kirshaw ; in all 

 £i 6,. id. 



438 



Wolfenden Booth — Charles Nuttall, 

 James Pickup, Edmund Shaw, William 

 Ashworth, the wife of James Taylor, 

 Agnes and John Heap ; ,^10 loi. 



Sedges and Sowclough — John Pilling, 

 John Tattersall, John Lawc, the wife of 

 Christopher Nuttall, Agnes and Alice 

 Nuttall j 5j. 4^. 



Harley Head and Bacup Booth — Chris- 

 topher Tattcrhall, James Lord, jun. and 

 sen., John Lord, John Whitacre and John 

 Bridge ; /ll. 



To these may be added the Rossendale 

 copyholders outside the parish, in Roch- 

 dale and Bury. 



RockclifTe Wood— Abbot of Whalley ; 

 161. Sd. Newhall Hey— John Nuttall, 

 the wife of Christopher Nuttall, Otwell 

 and Nicholas Ramsbottom, Thomas 

 Crawshaw; £6 161. Sd. Over Lench 

 and Hall Carr— Nicholas Towncley, John 

 Nuttall and the wife of Christopher 

 Nuttall ; ^5 3/. 4</. Balyden— James 

 Haworth, i2d. Musbury— Adam Ha- 

 worth, Richard Duckworth, the wife of 

 Peter Haworth, Geoffrey and Lawrence 

 Taylor, Otwell Bridge, William Croke- 

 shagh ; ^13 I J. id. Ogden and Musden 

 — Ellis Rothwell, Christopher Hargreaves; 

 151. Alden — Reeve of Tottington, i6j. 



Also the following : Hudlesden and 

 Newhcy— the heirs of Thomas Radcliffe, 

 £i) 121. 4^. ; Thomas Grimshaw, 71. id.; 

 Thurstan Ramsbottom for Crawshaw 

 Head, zs. ; in all /lo 2j. Banastre 

 Holme — Richard Hey, Edmund Rams- 

 bottom, Nicholas Fenton ; iii. 6d.ia all. 



" For 1609 Grimshaw MS. and Duchy 

 of Lane. Special Com. 722 ; for 1662 

 Honor of Clitheroe MS. (Towncley) In 

 possession of W. Farper. 



