BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



The entrance hall and dining-room contain a 

 number of family portraits,'"^ and old furniture 

 remains in other of the rooms. 



To the north-west of the house and of con- 

 temporary date is the great barn,'" one of the 

 loftiest and most spacious in the county. It is built 

 of stone, with stone slated roof, and measures 

 100 ft. by 60 ft. It consists of central and side 

 aisles and is divided into nine bays by eight low 

 square stone columns supporting wooden pillars 

 carrjing the cross timbers and beams of the roof. 

 Two bays at the south end have been divided off and 

 made into stables. 



The steward's accounts give the names of various 

 rooms and places at the time of the building of the 

 hall, but not all of these can be identified, and some 

 rooms are probably called by more than one name. 

 The following are mentioned : — 



The hall The scullarye 



The gallery in the lower The butterye 



end of the hall 

 The dyning chamber 

 The little dyning cham- 

 ber 

 The chamber next the 



dyning chamber 

 The little room or with- 

 drawing place between 

 the dining chamber 

 and the hall 

 The kechinge 

 The pantery 



The over butterye 

 The lower butterye 

 The porch chamber 

 The chamber over the 



porch 

 The inner roum 

 The little roum 

 The mydle chamber 

 The chamber where 



Ivaby lay 

 The back starres 



The little chamber at the 



starre foot 

 The under romes 

 The over romes 

 The chamber in the syed 



of the gallery 

 The hymost tower 

 The hymoste roum 

 The heighmost chamber 



in the westc side 

 The turret chamber 

 The milke-howsc 

 The chamber over the 



mylkehowse 



WHALLEY 



The deyhowse 



The great barne 



The oxe-howse in the 



great barne 

 The cowhowses in the 



new barne 

 The lower oxcn-howse 

 The grouppe 

 The stable 

 The litle howse over 



the welle 

 The litle howse at the 



head of the garthen 



stares 



In 1258 William de Ryland held 24 acres in 

 Burnley by a rent of 4/.,'^" and Thomas de Rylands 

 held the same estate in 13 1 1.'" This may after- 

 wards have come to a branch of the Whitaker 

 family,'™ for in i 5 10 William Whitaker and Alice 

 his wife made a feoffment of Ryland Hall, Healey, 

 and Parkenrode.'*' Yatefield was another part of 

 their estate.'** HoUingreave,'*' Oakeneaves,'" Pickup 

 and Hudhouse '" were the subjects of various dis- 

 putes. Hudhouse or Hood House was later owned 

 by the Halsteds of Rowley. After the death of Miss 

 Halstcd, who resided there, a portion of the estate 

 was in 1895 purchased by the trustees of the late 

 John Hargreaves Scott of Burnley and presented to 

 the town as Scott Park, the house being demolished ; 

 the remainder of the land was sold for building 

 purposes. '^° The ' manor of Moseley, otherwise 



1^* They are enumerated and described 

 in Chet. Soc. xli, 322, 325. 



^^^ It was in course of erection in Aug. 

 1604. 



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



'59 Ibid, ii, 7. 



'™ In 1311 John de Whitaker held 

 8 acres in Burnley by a rent of 4^., and 

 Dowe de Healey held 1 3 acres by 31. ; 

 ibid. 



16' Towneley MS. C 8, 13, W 82, 86. 

 The remainder was to Edward (son of 

 Nicholas) Tattersall and issue, in default 

 to Alice Whitaker. Another deed, of 

 i539,namesWilliam Whitaker of Healey, 

 Alice his wife and Nicholas his son; ibid. 

 W j6. There was at this time a divorce 

 between Nicholas and Isabel Tattersall 

 alias Whitaker ; ibid. W 84. 



'*^ In 1547 the feoffees of William 

 Whitaker of Healey granted Yatefield to 

 Nicholas, William's son and heir, &c. ; 

 and on Nicholas marrying Elizabeth 

 daughter of Henry Barcroft of Reedley 

 Hallows Yatefield was assigned to the 

 wife ; ibid. W 85, 79, 81 ; see also T 59, 

 147. 



Again in 1577, when Robert Whitaker 

 of Healey married Isabel daughter of 

 John Robinson of Old Laund, there was 

 a surrender of Healey, Ryland Hall and 

 Yatefield, the last-named being assigned 

 to Isabel ; ibid. W jy. 



The Whitakers remained at Healey 

 till the death of Robert Whitaker in 

 1778, when he was succeeded by a daugh- 

 ter Mary, who married John Fletcher of 

 Ightenhill ; Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 176. 

 The estate was purchased by P. E. Towne- 

 ley of Towneley in 1826. 



'63 HoUingreave in Burnley Wood was 

 the piece of alleged church land which 

 was in 1557 claimed by Robert (son of 



William) Pickup in virtue of a surrender 

 made about 151 3 by his grandfather 

 Robert Pickup ; Duchy Plead, iii, 252. 

 William Pickup was said to have conveyed 

 the land in 15 30-1 to Charles Towneley 

 of Towneley, who gave it to a chantry 

 priest. On the dissolution of the chan- 

 tries it was, as stated, claimed by Robert 

 Pickup. His claim was successful in 

 Queen Mary's time, but John (son of 

 Reginald) Whitaker, the tenant of Ed- 

 ward VI, tried again, and after a time his 

 right was admitted, but Robert Pickup 

 again claimed the land in 1574 ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Plead. Eliz. Ixv, W 1 1 ; xciii, 

 P 2, 3. A trial in Lancashire was ordered. 

 For a later reference see Ducatus Lane. 

 iii, 148. 



For Shorehey and HoUingreave see 

 Ducatus Lane, i, 260 j Pat. 21 Jas. I, 



pt. XV. 



'^ Oakeneaves also was claimed as 

 church or chantry land. One William 

 Booth had held it in 1508, when he 

 settled it on his grandson William (son 

 of Edward) Booth, but the trustees sur- 

 rendered the land, apparently for a chantry, 

 in 1526-7. In 1539 John Low and 

 Isabel his wife claimed it, she being sister 

 and heir of the younger William ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Plead. Hen. VIII, x, L 6. The 

 claim must have failed, for William Low 

 son of Isabel claimed again in 1560, and 

 his brother and heir James Low in 1562, 

 and after some time (1564) a decree 

 against them was given ; ibid. Eliz. xlv, 

 H 3 j Iii, L 1 ; Decrees and Orders, xiii, 

 Eliz. fol. 483. 



•*^ John Tattersall in 1562 made a 

 claim against Robert Pickup and others ; 

 Duealus Lane, ii, 235. The will of John 

 Tattersall of Pickup, who died in 1581, 

 left half his goods to his wife Elizabeth, 



and made bequests to sons of his bastard 

 brothers and others. He left his silver 

 spoon to John son of Bernard Towneley 

 of Hurstwood and 40J. to the poor of 

 Burnley, Habergham Eaves and Padiham. 



For Hudhouse and Moseley in 1563 

 see Farrer, CUtkeroe Ct. R. ii, 334-5. 



In the latter part of Elizabeth's reign 

 there were many disputes in the Tatter- 

 sall family respecting Pickup lands, Ridge 

 End and other lands in Burnley and 

 Habergham Eaves ; ibid, iii, 264, &c. In 

 one of the pleadings James son of Robert 

 Tattersall of Pickup (' Pycopp ') said that 

 his father had in 1582 settled this tene- 

 ment with remainder to Robert's son 

 and heir Edmund Tattersall and his male 

 issue by his wife Lettice Hargreaves. 

 Hudhouse, then held by Elizabeth Tatter- 

 sall, widow, was to descend in the same 

 way. As Edmund died without issue, 

 James, the plaintiff in 1589, entered into 

 possession 5 but Lettice, who as widow 

 had Hudhouse, married Randle Ryley, 

 and they made further claims ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead. Eliz. cxlviii, T 8. In 1597 

 Edmund Tattersall, as son of Richard 

 brother of Robert Tattersall of Pickup, 

 laid claim to the estate, alleging that 

 Edmund and James were bastards ; ibid, 

 clxxviii, T4. Edmund Tattersall was 

 buried 26 Aug. 1587 and Robert Tatter- 

 sall a week later ; Burnley Reg. The 

 will of Robert Tattersall (1587), who had 

 'now no wife nor children living that be 

 legitimate,' was in favour of his sons 

 James and Robert. The will of Richard 

 Tattersall of Burnley, tanner (1595), 

 made Edward his eldest son executor, 

 mentioning James Tattersall of Pickup 

 as brother. Robert Tattersall of Pickup 

 died in 1649. 



'"6 Information of Mr. W. Parkei. 



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