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of wooden partitions, which form a passage-way on two 

 sides. On the west wall are two wide fireplaces and an 

 oak settle is still in position. The other rooms on the 

 ground floor are the offices and servants' quarters, and 

 are now mostly abandoned and quite without interest. 

 On the first floor the two principal rooms in the 

 north-west wing facing the courtyard are known as 

 the dining and drawing rooms, the former, which is 

 26 ft. by 2 2 ft. and 1 1 ft. 6 in. high, being an interest- 

 ing I yth-century apartment with oak wainscoted walls 

 in diagonally set panels and ornamental plaster ceil- 

 ing, the date 1628 being on the panelling in a recess 

 on the south side of the fireplace. It is lit by three 

 windows, and contains a long oak table dated 1 6 1 3 

 and bearing the initials W.B., S.B., which formerly 

 belonged to Barcroft Hall. The drawing-room, 

 which leads from it on the north side, has been 

 modernized and is of little interest. It has, however, 

 a good stone angle fireplace. 



The chapel, which, as before stated, is situated at 

 the back or south end of the added portion of the 

 wing, is 33 ft. by 18 ft., and about one-third of its 

 length is taken up by the sanctuary, the remaining 

 two-thirds constituting the nave. The sanctuary end, 

 which in reality faces south-west, is much loftier than 

 the rest of the room, the height of which is only 

 1 2 ft., and the ' east ' window, which has a four- 

 centred head, being placed high in the wall gives a 

 very excellent lighting effect. The sanctuary has a 

 richly moulded oak cove and elaborately panelled 

 wainscot and ceiling, probably dating from the latter 

 half of the 15th century, and said to be the fittings 

 of the original chapel in the destroyed wing, which 

 is stated to have been the work of Sir John Towneley 

 in the reign of Henry VII. The rest of the panel- 

 ling is of a later period, apparently having been 

 erected or restored at the end of Queen Elizabeth's 

 reign, since the date 1 60 1 and the initials R.T., I.T. 

 are carved over the priest's door together with a shield 

 of sixteen pieces. There are three windows in the 

 west side and a door leading to a small priest's chamber, 

 whose projection externally breaks the long straight 

 line of the wall. The ceiling of the nave is sup- 



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ported by richly moulded oak beams and joists. The 

 other rooms on the first floor are without interest. 

 On the upper floor there were formerly five small 

 rooms on the inner side overlooking the courtyard, 

 but these have since 1902 been converted into a long 

 picture gallery lit from the roof, the windows on the 

 east side being blocked up. 



In the grounds at the back of the house is the 

 Foldys Cross, dated 1520, which formerly stood on 

 the south side of Burnley Parish Church, but was 

 removed here in 1789."" 



The Towneley MSS., now dispersed, are reported 

 upon by the Historical MSS. Commission.'" 



GAfVTHORPE may have grown up from land in 

 the vill of Ightenhill, which was in 1389 surrendered 

 by John del Eves to the use of Ughtred de Shuttle- 

 worth.'" In 1470 Lawrence son of Nicholas Shuttle- 

 worth married one of the four daughters and co-heirs 

 of Richard Worsley of Downham and Twiston,'" and 

 from that time the descent of the estate seems clear.'" 

 Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe, a successfol 

 lawyer, became chief justice of Chester and was made 

 a knight.'"^ He married Mar- 

 garet widow of Robert Barton 

 ofSmithills, buthadnoissue.'" 

 The accounts of his property 

 at this time have been printed 

 by the Chetham Society.'*' 

 He died in 1600, when his 

 estates went to a brother and 

 then (1608) to a nephew, 

 Richard Shuttleworth,'*' who 

 married the heiress of Richard 

 Barton of Barton near Preston. 

 He was sheriff in 1 6 1 8 and 

 1638, member for Preston 

 in 1641,"° took an active part 

 on the Parliamentary side 

 in the Civil War,"' and was 

 a member of the Presby- 

 terian Classis. He recorded a pedigree at the 

 visitation of 1 664 ™ and died in 1 669. His eldest 

 son Richard, who shared his father's principles,"' 



Shuttleworth, Lord 

 Shuttleworth. Quarterly; 

 I and 4, Argent 

 three shuttles sable, for 

 Shuttleworth ; 2 and 3, 

 Argent three ermine spots 

 bet*ween Pwo bendlets sable 

 and as many crescents gules. 



131 Taylor, And. Crosses and Holy TVells 

 of Lanes. 112, where a desoription of 

 the cro88 is given. The old shaft was 

 broken and has been replaced by a roughly 

 squared one. 1^ i2f/>. iv, 406-16. 



1^ Towneley MS. OO, no. 1641 ; an 

 extract from a Burnley court roll ; there 

 were about 25J acres of rodeland in the 

 vill of Ightenhill and 7 acres in Padiham. 

 This is probably the same Ughtred who 

 was in the remainders in a deed of 1375, 

 and who was in 1408 called her son by 

 Agnes widow of Henry de Shuttleworth ; 

 ibid, no. 1 640 ; Shuttleivorth Accts. (Chet. 

 Soc), ii, 262, The same or later 

 Ughtreds were at the Burnley court in 

 1425, and among the tenants of Ighten- 

 hill and Padiham in 1445 ; Farrer, 

 CUtheroe Ct. R. ii, 7 ; i, 505, 506. 



124 See the account of Downham, In 

 one of Lord Ribblesdale's deeds (T 5, 6, 

 bdle. 30) is a contract of marriage between 

 the son and heir of Nicholas (son of 

 LaviTence) Shuttleworth and a daughter 

 of Thomas Lister. The wife of Nicholas 

 was named Helen (T 9). 



There was another Shuttleworth family 

 in Winewall-in-Trawden. 



^^ See pedigrees in Whitaker, ffhalley, 

 ii, 1 84 5 Foster, Lanes, Pedi, There may 



be a generation omitted between Nicholas 

 and Hugh (d. 1596). The printed visita- 

 tion pedigrees of 1664, which give a 

 different descent here, are unsatisfactory 

 from S onward. 



Hugh Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe was 

 buried at Padiham 26 Dec. 1596 ; Reg. 



126 Hg ^ag made justice in 1589 and 

 was probably knighted at the same time. 



12^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 

 44 ; she died in 1592. 



128 Old ser. ; the accounts in xxxv, 

 xli ; the introduction and notes in xliii, 

 xlvi. There are some biographies in xli, 

 which has for frontispiece a portrait of 

 the Rev. Lawrence Shuttleworth, S.T.B., 

 the brother and heir of Sir Richard. 

 Lawrence was of University College, 

 Oxf. ; B.A. 1575, B.D. 1583 ; rector 

 of Kirklinton, Cumb., 1577 and Which- 

 ford, Warw., 1583 ; Foster, Alumni 

 Oxon. He died at Gawthorpe in 1608 

 holding messuages in Padiham, &c., and 

 leaving as heir his nephew Richard (son 

 of Thomas) Shuttleworth, aged twenty- 

 five ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 109. Thomas Shuttleworth 

 died in 1593 ; his widow (d. 1637) after- 

 wards married a Mr. Underbill ; Shuttle- 

 ivorth Accts. ii, 297. 



I'^Of Brascnose College, Oxf., 1605, 

 and Gray's Inn ; Foster, Alumni. He 

 had two brothers, Nicholas and Ughtred ; 

 ibid. Richard Shuttleworth ' of Barton * 

 and five sons were enrolled at the guild 

 of 1622 ; Preston Guild R. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), yy. 



"" Pink and Beaven, Parly. Rep. of 

 Lanes. 151—3 ; elected 1640 (both Parlia- 

 ments), 1654, 1656, 1659. 



I'll He was a colonel in the Parlia- 

 mentary army. His chief exploit was 

 the defeat of Sir Gilbert Hoghton near 

 Blackburn in 1642 ; Civil War Tracts 

 (Chet. Soc), 65. He was one of the 

 sequestration committee. There are a 

 number of references to him in the War 

 in Lanes. (Chet. Soc). Four of his sons 

 were made captains on the outbreak of the 

 war ; ibid. 15. One of them (William) was 

 killed during Lord Derby's attack on Lan- 

 caster ; Ciwl WarTractSji^. Two others, 

 Nicholas and Ughtred, became colonels. 



"2 Dugdale, ^isit. (Chet Soc), 271. 



1*^ Pink and Beaven, op, cit. 253 ; he 

 sat for CUtheroe 1640-8. He also was a 

 member of the Presbyterian Classis in 

 1646. He was of Brasenose College, 

 Oxf. (B.A. 1633), and the Inner 

 Temple ; Foster, Alumni. 



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