A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



called HabcrL'hara,' was in dispute about i 500."^ 

 Other small tenements also occur in the records.'^* 



Richard Towneley complained that in May 1526 

 about eighty of the king's tenants had entered the 

 coal mines or 'coal beds' at Broadhead, which he 

 held by lease from the Crown. The tenants claimed 

 the right to "sufficient coal for their fuel, for their 

 necessary occupation and burning within their houses,' 

 one of them declaring ' the lease is of none authority 

 to discharge us withall, except ye will discharge us by 

 the sword.' One witness deposed not only to his 

 getting coals there for his own use, but to selling them 

 to Burnley people. Another witness said that about 

 1450 two men who had a bloomsmithy in Bentley 

 Wood searched for iron at Broadhead and found 

 coal, going on mining it ; the son of one of them set 

 up a 'turn or windlass.' A number of those who 

 had taken coal were ordered to pay ^J. a fother 

 for it. 169 



It was alleged in 1568 that Sir John Towneley 

 had about fifty years before unlawfully inclosed a 

 large piece of waste on the west side of Horelaw, his 

 answer to remonstrances being that he had a sufficient 

 deed which gave him the land ' for to keep a leash of 

 greyhounds.' Many of the injured commoners 

 thought the deed had been forged by ' one Rough- 

 neck.' "" For this inclosure, sa\s Dr. Whitaker, 

 ' the malice and the superstition of the common 

 people have doomed (his) spirit . . to uander in 

 restless and long unappeased solicitude, crying — 

 Lay out, lay out, 

 Horelaw and Hollinghey Clough.' 



' Lay out ' means ' throw open again.' 



In 1617 there were thirty-seven tenements in 

 Habergham Eaves and eight in Burnley Wood held 

 of the manor of Ightenhill by copy of court roU.i'l 



The first of the new churches of Burnley in 

 connexion with the Church of England was erected 

 in this township, namely that of Holy Trinity, 



Accrington Road, built in 1S35-6; a parish was 

 assigned to it in I 84;!, ''^ and St. Aidan's Mission is 

 connected with it. The Hulme Trustees are patrons. 

 All Saints' was built in I 846-9, the parish having been 

 formed in 1845 *"; the Croun and the Bishop of 

 Manchester exercise the patronage alternately. The 

 rector of Burnley presents to the three churches 

 built more recently — St. Matthew's, i87i;,'''' 

 St. Stephen's, Burnley Wood, 1879,"' and St. John 

 Baptist's, Gannow, i88o."6 



The Wesleyan Methodists have five churches, 

 including one at Park Hill, built in 1843 ; the 

 Primitive Methodists have four, including Bethel in 

 Hammerton Street, 1852, also a mission room ; and 

 the United Free Methodists have three. 



The Congregationalists have a church in Westgate, 

 dating from i 860, and another. The Baptists ha\e 

 Mount Pleasant, 1868, and Mount Olivet, 1893.'" 



The Roman Catholic mission of St. Mary Magda- 

 lene, Gannow, dates from 1887 ; the new church 

 was opened in 1904. St. Augustine's, Lower House, 

 1896, is served from Burnley. The old Towneley 

 Hall chapel is noticed under Burnley. 



BRIERCLIFFE-WITH-EXTWISTLE 



Brereclife, 1242; Brereclive, 1258; BrereclifF, 

 131 1 ; Bretliff, xvii cent. Extwesl', 1260; Extwesil, 

 1322 ; Extwistle, modern. 



Physically this township may be described as con- 

 sisting of two ridges or westward spurs of the chain 

 of hills dividing Lancashire from Yorkshire. Down 

 the central valley between them flows the Don, 

 which at the extreme south-western corner joins 

 with the Swinden and Brun. The two parts are 

 named Briercliffe and Extwistle, to north and south, 

 and have areas of 2,324^ and 1,903 acres respec- 

 tively, or 4,227^ acres 1 in all. The northern 

 boundary is formed in part by Catlow Brook, in 

 which two reservoirs ^ have been formed. The 



'" Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 223, no. 45 ; 

 John Savage of Henley, esq., and Anne 

 his wife, daughter and heir of Ralph 

 Boitock, V. John Ormeston, feoffee. 



Moseley wai about the same time the 

 property of Lawrence Tattersall, and 

 descended to Edmund Tattersall, who left 

 three daughters as co-hei-s — l<ibelwife 

 of Richard Tattersall of Briertliife, Joan 

 wife of John son and heir of Robert 

 Woodroffe and Elizabeth wife of John 

 son and heir of John Robinson of Old 

 Laund ; C 8, 13, T 118. Elizabeth his 

 widow afterwards married John Barcroft. 

 In 1 546 the heirs complained that 

 various persons had broken into a wood 

 there called Nanchey Wood, where plain- 

 tiffs had preserved timber and underwood 

 for their own use, and had cut down ten 

 of the best oaks, each worth 8;., thereby 

 injuring also fourteen younger ones. The 

 intruders claimed the authority of the 

 chancellor of the duchy, but were not 

 allowed to take the timber away. It was 

 deposed that Moseley contained 50 acres 

 copyhold and 8 acres freehold, and that 

 the owners had been accustomed to have 

 the timber there as their own property • 

 Duchy of La.nc. Dep. Hen. VIII, xlvii' 

 R3. 



^^ Cronkshaw belonged to the Town- 

 leys of Royle; Ducalus Lane, ii, 104, 

 121. 



Smallshaw was disputed in 1532 be- 



tween the representatives of John Ingham, 

 clerk, viz. Alice his sister, wife of Robert 

 Barcroft, and Richard Tattersall his 

 nephew. Ingham, just before he died, 

 had desired the parties to agree to arbi- 

 tration, threatening that if they did not 

 agree he would give all his lands to 

 the Church ; Duchy of Lane. Dep. 

 Hen. VIII, XX, B 12. There were later 

 pleadings in the time of Elizabeth ; 

 Ducatui Lane, iii, 47. 



Stanyneburgh is mentioned in 1583 ; 

 ibid, iii, 125. 



'«> Duchy Plead, i, 1 3 8-45. The right of 

 the Crown was then established, and in 

 '577 ^he Broadhead coal mine was granted 

 to John Braddyll for thirty years at 

 261. %J. rent. Complaint was made that 

 in 1580 William Barcroft of Pendle had 

 entered the said mine, also parts of the 

 wastes called Rappock Lane and the 

 Ridge, where he had made two coal pits. 

 Barcroft replied that he claimed by a 

 different lease, and that his new mines 

 were i J miles from Broadhead ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead. Eliz. cix, A 5. 



"" Duchy of Lane. Special Commis- 

 sions, no. 196. This encroachment was 

 nullified. Other cases of inclosure were 

 inquired into. 



'" Towneley MS. 'Honor of Clitheroe." 

 The tenants were : John Habergham, 

 gent, John Towneley, gent., Thomas 

 Asfden, Nicholas Bancroft, George Birt- 



468 



wiale, Adam Bridge, Robert Dean, Richard 

 Gill, Lawrence Hargreavcs, Nicholas 

 Hargreaves, Robert Hargreavcs, John 

 Hartley, William Hartley, Hugh Hal- 

 stead, John Higgin, Richard Ingham, 

 William Isherwood, Richard Kippax, 

 Robert Leigh, Edward Marsden, John 

 Parker, Richard Pollard, Christopher 

 Robinson, Edmund Robinson, Thomas 

 Robinson, Charles Ryley, Edmund Spenser 

 and Henry West (in right of wives), 

 William Saltonstall, Edward Tattersall, 

 Robert Tattersall, Henry Walton, Nicho- 

 las Whitaker, Robert Whitaker, James 

 Willisill, John Willisill, Richard Wood- 

 roffe, Those in Burnley Wood were : 

 John Folds, John Haworth and William 

 Pollard (in right of wives), the same John 

 Haworth, Robert Ingham, John Jackson, 

 John Sagar, John Wade, Charles Wood. 

 '" Lond. Gaz. 3 Jan. 1843. 

 "' Ibid. 3 and 16 Sept. 1845. 

 ''•I For district see Land. Gaz, 30 Apr. 

 1880. 



"■' Ibid. 17 Aug. 1879. 

 '"Ibid. 14 Sept. 1880. 

 '" Nightingale, Lanci. Nonconf. ii, 167. 

 It arose from a secession from Bethesda 

 in 1859. 



' The present reduced area contains 

 4,148 acres, including 28 of inland water ; 

 Census Rep. 



' Coldwell to the east and WaWerdeo 

 to the west. 



