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Burnley." One or two other references occur." 

 Pighole has long been in the possession of the Smiths 

 of Hill and of Hill End,'" the present owner being 

 Mr. William Stephenson Smith, who is also the 

 owner of Hill End, Higher House and Lane 

 House." 



The list of freeholders in 1443 includes some of 

 those already named ; also Finnays and Wymmens.'* 

 In 1 594the freeholders were Simon Haydock, Edmund 

 Townley of Royle, Edmund Tattersall, Robert Brier- 

 cllffe, John Woodroffe, John Townele}- of Towneley, 

 and the Fairmanfield (4 ac). The first five were 

 copyholders also, the other copyholders being John 

 Ecroyd, John Halstead (two), James Paley, John 

 Smith (two), Stephen Smith and Bernard Whit- 

 wham.^' In 1624 a division of the commons was 

 made, when the Limestone Scarr in Thursden was 

 thus divided among the freeholders and copyholderi 

 of BrierclifFe for the purpose of washing the glacial 

 drift for limestone to burn for lime : 



The uppermost part or east part, from the top or north end 

 to the water, to Richard Towneley, — Haydock or William 

 Pollard (whosoever of them of right should have it), John 

 Tattersall of BrierclifFe, John Halstead of High Halstead, Edward 

 Robinson of Old Laund, and to John Smith, alderman, to be 

 divided rateably. The midmost part, likewise from the upper 

 end to the water, to James Folds of Trawden, Lawrence Brier- 

 clifFe, Richard Acroid for HoUingreave lands, Richard Halstead 

 of Windle House, William Sagar and John Smith of Pighole. 

 The low-most part, or west, to Nicholas Townley of Royle and 

 Isabel his wife. A dam of water was to be drawn between the 

 middlemost and lowest parts, ' with water, all that falleth from 

 heaven or cometh without the leave of any must run to either 

 of the said parts one week after another week, viz., to the low- 

 most part one week and to the middlemost part another week 

 for ever hereafter.' *° 



EXTWISTLE was assessed as one plough-land and 

 held by knight's service, variously described as the 

 eighth or the tenth part of a fee. The descent is 

 obscure, but Richard Malbisse*' appears to have held 

 it in the time of Richard I, for he granted half a 

 ploughland in Extwistle to the canons of the Premon- 

 stratensian Abbey of Newbo by Grantham in alms, 

 which grant was confirmed by the superior lord, 

 Robert de Lacy, who died in 1 1 94," and by 

 Henry III in 1235." The other moiety, which 

 was perhaps charged with the whole of the knight's 

 service, was probably granted in fee to a lay tenant, 

 for in 1242 Adam de Preston held the tenth part of 

 a knight's fee in Extwistle, this manor being included 

 in the dower of the Countess of Lincoln." By I 302 

 it had been acquired by Gilbert de Legh, who was 

 stated to hold it by the eighth part of a knight's fee."" 

 But before 1287 the Abbot of Kirkstall had a share 

 of Extwistle,** and in 1 3 1 1 was recorded to hold half 

 a plough-land there, rendering ()\d. at Midsummer 

 and doing suit to the three-weeks court at Clitheroe." 

 This abbot's holding was called half a plough-land in 

 1322, and he was said to hold it by the sixteenth 

 part of a knight's fee.** In 1349 the Abbots of Kirk- 

 stall .ind Newbo were each said to hold half a plough- 

 land in Extwistle, where eight plough-lands made a 

 knight's fee." A few years later, in 1355, the Abbot 

 of Kirkstall was stated to hold the tenth part of a 

 knight's fee which Adam de Preston had formerly 

 held.'" A similar record occurs in 1361." 



There is no record of the acquisition of Extwistle 

 in the Kirkstall chartulary, but from the above it 

 seems clear that the superior moiety had been granted 



3-1 Joan wife of Richard Tattersall and 

 John their son in 1504 claimed a debt 

 from Margaret Tattersall of Briercliffc, 

 widow ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 99, m. 3. 



Richard Tattersall died in 1523 holding 

 four messuages, &c., in BrierclifFe and 

 Burnley. His heir was his grandson 

 Richard (son of Christopher) Tattersall, 

 aged thirty-six. The lands in BrierclifFe 

 were held of the king as duke by knight's 

 service ; the tenure of the Burnley portion 

 was not known ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. vi, no. 38, 79. 



For the later history of the family see 

 Tattersall Wilkinson, Memories of Hurst- 

 ■wood, 125, &c. The later descent is thus 

 given : Richard Tattersall, d. 1587 -s. 

 Edmund, d. c. 1597 -8. Edmund, d. 1669 

 -s. John, d. 1696 -s. Edmund, who sold 

 Ridge End to Clayton of Carr in 1719 

 and then lived at Hurstwood. His son 

 John (d. 1 779) succeeded, and was followed 

 by a brother Richard, who in 1 78 1 sold 

 Hurstwood to John Smith ; their younger 

 brother Edmund was father of Richard, 

 the founder of ' Tattersall's.' 



"5 In 1 3 18 Peter son of Richard de 

 Marsden claimed land in Marsden and 

 Briercliffc against Richard de Marsden ; 

 De Banco R. 221, m. 281. 



John Halstead of Halstead in 1503-4 

 made a surrender of lands in Briercliffe 

 for his base son John, who married 

 Isabel daughter of Robert Clitheroe ; 

 C8, 13, H 250. 



James Hartley of Briercliffe in 1632 

 compounded for the fines for recusancy 

 due from John Windle (Wynnel), ' dead 

 long ago ' ; Tram. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), 

 xxiv, 180. 



36 A demise of part of this copyhold 

 estate from John of Gaunt, Duke of 

 Lancaster, to a lineal ancestor of Smith 



was in the possession of the family early 

 in the last century, but was accidentally 

 burnt. 



^^ Other owners are — Cockden, Mr. 

 Abraham Leaver by purchase from Miss 

 Ellen Halstead and her sister Mrs. 

 Cook ; Holt Hill, Mr. George Hitchon ; 

 The Hill, Mrs. J. C. Widdington ; High 

 Halstead, Lady Gordon Lennox ; Hol- 

 lingrove, Mrs. W. Ayre in succession to 

 the late Richard Ridehalgh ; New House 

 and Shuttleworth Pasture, Col. Holden ; 

 Stephen Hey, Mr. Jesse Altham by 

 purchase from Mr. Robertshaw ; Slack, 

 Sir John O. S. Thursby, bart. ; Higher 

 Cockden, Blackhouse Lane and North 

 Bank, Mr. Heap ; Banks, the Misses 

 CoUinge ; Haggate House, Mr. Stephen 

 Thornber Smith. 



'8 Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. i, 505. 



" Folds D. James Paley was the 

 husband of Isabel base daughter of Robert 

 Robinson, and in 1602 made a claim 

 against Edmund Robinson and others ; 

 Ducatus Lane, iii, 470. 



In 1617 the copyholders were : 

 Lawrence Briercliffe, John Ecroyd, James 

 Folds, John Halstead of High Halstead, 

 John Halstead of Windle House, Stephen 

 Smith and Bernard Whitwham ; Towne- 

 ley MS. ' Honor of Clitheroe.' 



"» Mr. Smith's D. 



■•' Diet. Nat. Bi'ig. ; Pontejract Chartul. 

 (Yorks. Arch. Soc), ii, p. Ixviii. He 

 died in 1209. 



" Couch. ofKirhtall (Thoresby Soc), 

 191; a confirmation by John de Lacy, 

 between 1232 and 1240, made to Newbo, 

 wi.h quitclaim of all reliefs, &c., due to 

 him and his heirs. 



■13 Charter R. 29 (19 Hen. Ill), m. 

 1 7. For the abbey see V.C.H. Lines, ii, 

 207. 



The name Monks Hall occurs in an 

 Extwistle complaint of 1277 • Christiana 

 de Watesdea v. Richard de Windle, 

 Robert his brother, Henry de Monkes- 

 hall, Henry Dandyson, Alice de Windle, 

 and Matthew de Briercliffe, for assault j 

 De Banco R, 21, m. 28 d. Adam de 

 Monachis is named in a charter cited 

 below. 



^^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents^ 1, 150. For 

 the Preston family see Pontejract Chartul. 

 i, 226. Adam de Preston was a tenant 

 of Kirkstall in Preston and Garforth ; 

 Couch, of Kirkstall, 349. The abbey may 

 therefore have held the manor at that 

 time. "^^ Lanes, Inq. and Extents, i, ^18. 



^^ Extwistle was excepted from the 

 surrender of the abbey lands in Black- 

 burnshire made to Henry de Lacy in 

 1287 ; Misc. (Thoresby Soc), iv, 194. 



In 1 300 and later Isabel widow of 

 John de Wridelesford claimed dower in 

 Extwistle against the Abbot of Kirkstall, 

 who replied that he had part only of the 

 land and had already assigned dower to 

 her from that; De Banco R. 135, m. 

 363 ; 141, m. 214 ; 148, m. 96 ; 151, 

 m. 14. A Samson de Wridlesford 

 attested Lacy charters about 1200 j 

 Pontefract Chartul, i, 27, &c. See also 

 Couch, of Kirkstall, 281, &c. 



■^^ Lanes, Inq. and Extents, ii, 10. 



48 Ibid. 134. 



"^^ Lansdowne Feodary in Baines' 

 Lanes, ii, 693-4. 



60 Feudal Aids, Hi, 88. In the same 

 year the Abbot of Kirkstall had a plea 

 concerning land with William son of 

 Roger de Preston, but the place is not 

 named. Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 4, 

 m. 12. 



*' Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 

 122. 



