BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



is on the western boundary near Habergham Hall. 

 The sewage works are north of Gannow. There 

 are a number of recreation grounds maintained by 

 the Corporation of Burnley. South of Healey there 

 was formerly a race-course. To the south-west of 

 this is HoUin Cross. There are remains of an 

 ancient cross in Cross Field.' 



Leigh about 1 700 noticed several springs in the 

 neighbourhood ; one near Handbridge, Burnley 

 Wood, was medicinal,* as was another near Barn 

 Lane in what is still known as Spa Clough, where 

 about seventy years ago baths and a well-house were 

 built. 



Although in some early deeds Haberg- 

 MANORS ham is described as a ' vill,' in others it 

 is called only a hamlet in the vill of 

 Burnley, and this appears to have been its position till 

 comparatively recent times. It is not mentioned by 

 name in the hearth tax return of 1666, although in 

 1650 the parochial chapelry of Burnley was stated to 

 embrace the ' townships ' of Burnley, Habergham 

 Eaves and Worsthorne.' The greater part of the 

 land was held by copy of court roll,' but there were 

 some freehold estates described as manors. Of these 

 was 



HABERGHAM, which gave a surname to the 

 owners. Roger de Lacy, who died in 121 1, gave an 

 oxgang of land in Habergham to Matthew de Haberg- 

 ham and his heirs for their homage, a rent of 3/. to 



be given yearly at St. Giles's Day.' Matthew de 

 Habergham, with the assent of Peter his eldest son, 

 somewhat later gave a moiety of the land he held of 

 John (de Lacy), the constable of Chester, to another 

 son Henry, at a rent of 6<«'.'° The tenement thus 

 appears to have been divided into two parts and the 

 descent is not altogether clear. Peter and Henry 

 had sons, and various alienations were made, though 

 Peter de Habergham was recorded as holding the 

 oxgang of land by the old rent of y. in 1258." 

 Geoffrey son of Peter de Habergham gave to Adam 

 son of Robert de Holden all the land which he had 

 from Adam son of Matthew through default of 

 homage till the heir should come of age and satisfy 

 Adam." Geoffrey made other grants to Adam his 

 son," Adam de Holden " and John de Birtwisle." 

 In 1311 the free tenants were Adam de Holden and 

 Henry de Birtwisle, who held 2 oxgangs of land 

 by rendering 6s. yearly ; this is twice the amount 

 granted by the extant charter."^ 



It is probable that Adam the son of Geoffrey was 

 father of the John de Habergham to whom in 1335 

 Mabel daughter of William son of Matthew de 

 Habergham surrendered all her lands in the hamlet 

 of Habergham in the vill of Burnley, together with 

 the reversion of her mother Ellen's dower." There 

 is again a defect in the evidence. Ellis de Haberg- 

 ham, chaplain, who was a son of John, and acting as 

 trustee, in 1363 granted to feoffees various lands in 



* Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xviii, 4.8, 

 53. The Bull and Butcher Inn is on 

 the Manchester road outside the borough 

 boundary. 



* Leigll, Nat. Hist, of Lanes, bk. i, 

 37-9. 'The Hanbridge Water, a small 

 spring which lies betwixt Burnley and 

 Towneley, yields a natron or natural alkali 

 . . . and another alkalious salt. This 

 water ... is of great use in the stone 

 and scurvy.' The other springs noticed 

 were at Burnley and Emmott, near 

 Colne. These have been lost by the coal 

 mining. 



^ Cammontv, Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 166. See note above. 



^ The details of the lord's receipts are 

 but scanty. In 1 24.1 only 8j. is recorded 

 as due from Habergham, the greater part 

 no doubt being given with Burnley ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 and Ches.), i, 156. Two free tenancies at 

 least (Habergham and Gunnildisford) are 

 named in 1258 ; ibid, i, 214. The farm 

 of Habergham was £^ 14J. ^d, in 1296 

 and 6d. more in 1305, when also izd. 

 was received for 3 acres that year 

 approved from the waste ; De Laey 

 Compoti (Chet. Soc), 8, 104. The 

 iij. 4(/. had been lost which William 

 de Pendleton had formerly paid for 34 

 acres 5 ibid. 114. In 13 11 tenants at 

 will held 248J acres at \d. an acre ; the 

 free tenants were Holden and Birtwisle j 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 7. In 1323 

 the rent and farm amounted to 

 j^6 Oi. ii^i/. and \\ acres newly im- 

 proved from the waste added 6(/. j ibid. 

 ii, 191. 



9 Kuerden fol. MS. 231 ; Harl. MS. 

 2077, fol. 322. The surname is spelt 

 Hambrigh in these copies. 



"> Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 H 155. Geoffrey Dean of Whalley and 

 his sons Robert and Henry were among 

 the witnesses, Matthew de Habergham 

 attested an early 13th-century charter 



about land in Birtwisle ; Whalley Coueh, 

 (Chet. Soc), i, 322. 



*^ Lanes. Inq, and Extents, i, 214. 



12 Towneley MS. DD, no. 856 ; 

 Michael de la Legh was a witness. 

 There is another grant by Geoffrey to 

 Adam de Holden of the service of Adam 

 son of Matthew de Habergham ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13, H 152. 



Matthew son of Peter de Habergham 

 gave to Adam his brother [fratrt, perhaps 

 for Jllio) all the land in Habergham 

 which he had had from his father Peter, 

 to be held of Geoffrey, grantor's brother, 

 by 12^. rent; DD, no. 841. 



One Matthew de Habergham was a 

 juror In 1269 ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 235. Ini3il Adam son of Matthew 

 de Habergham released to Henry son of 

 John de Birtwisle all his right in a 

 messuage and 16 acres, &c., in 

 Habergham; Add. MS. 32104, no. 

 1 178. There had been a pleading about 

 it in 1310 ; De Banco R. 183, m. 222 d. 



Another Matthew was son of Henry 

 the brother of Peter de Habergham. 

 Geoffrey son of Peter gave to Matthew 

 son of Henry half his land In Habergham 

 held of Henry de Lacy (except Henry's 

 assart and an assart beyond the brook of 

 Bradley) which Peter his father gave to 

 Adam the grantor's brother ; zs, rent was 

 to be paid ; C 8, 1 3, H 153. The Adam 

 named was probably husband of the 

 Constance (or Christiana) widow of 

 Adam de Habergham who in 1302 

 claimed dower in a messuage, &c., in 

 Burnley against Henry de Birtwisle ; De 

 Banco R. 142, m. 38. 



Henry son of Matthew de Habergham 

 confirmed to William his younger brother 

 all his land In Habergham, for which 

 12d, a year was to be paid to Henry de 

 Lacy; C8, 13, H 151. This deed has 

 no date, but in 1307 the same Henry 

 confirmed to his brother William a 

 messuage in the vill of Habergham and 



455 



half of the land inherited from his father ; 

 ibid. H 123. 



^^ Ibid. H 154. ; a confirmation of all 

 the land in Habergham which Geoffrey 

 had received in exchange from Adam his 

 brother for the land of Bradley, except 

 lands of Matthew son of Henry and 

 Adam son of Matthew which he had 

 granted previously. A rent of izd. was 

 to be paid. 



!■* Ibid. H 149 ; the homage of Adam 

 grantor's son for land called Reedyfurlong, 

 Fennifold and Spinkholme, with a rent of 

 Zd. a year. In a further grant (H 147) 

 Jrater and ^lius appear to be confused. 



^^ Ibid. H 150 ; a confirmation of land 

 in a place called Overholme, between 

 Henry's rood and Bradley Brook, with 

 the service of Adam son of Earner de 

 Habergham (viz. zd. rent). The land 

 was to be held of grantor and his heirs by 

 rendering a barbed arrow at St. Giles' 

 feast. Adam son of Geoffrey de 

 Habergham confirmed to Henry son of 

 John de Birtwisle all the lands, &c., 

 which he (Adam) had of his father's 

 gift ; ibid, H 148. 



^^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents J ii, 7. Henry 

 de Lacy Earl of Lincoln granted to 

 Henry de Birtwisle all the land which 

 Robert son of William had held of him 

 in Habergham, the new tenant rendering 

 6s. lod. at St. Giles' Day ; K-ucrden fol. 

 MS. 233. One Robert son of William 

 had in 1258 held (in Burnley) 13 acres 

 at -^d. an acre ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 

 214. 



Later inquiry was ordered as to the 

 boundaries between the lands of Adam 

 de Holden and Henry de Birtwisle in 

 Hayridding, Hawkshead and Hesting in 

 Habergham \ Add. MS. 32104, no. 

 1237- 



•^ C 8, 13, H 122. Mabel gave a 

 further quitclaim in 1341 ; ibid. H 159. 

 John de Habergham attested a charter in 

 1342 ; Whalley Couch, i, 325. 



