BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



after an arbitration, it was decided that all homages, 

 services, heriots, courts, knights' service, wards, mar- 

 riages and other claims by Simon Haydock in right 

 of Joan his wife should be released to the freeholders, 

 who were, however, to continue to pay the ancient 

 yearly free rent of ^2 os. 1 \d. and £ 1 6s. 8d'. incre- 

 ment.'^ The manor was thus dissolved, except in 

 name," and in 1627 the Haydocks sold their right to 

 William Thornton." After this time there is no 

 further record of any manor there. 



The early division into tenements has been related 

 above, but from rentals of uncertain date, perhaps the 

 14th and 15 th centuries, it is shown that the vill had 

 been divided into four parts of half a plough-land 

 each, the names of the lords being given as Alexander 

 de Patrington, Alexander de Nevill, Robert Pelie or 

 Polie and Roger de Thornton.'* In a dispute in 



1548 it was explained that within the township there 

 were four principal freeholders called the four 'posts,' 

 who all held their lands of Simon Haydock and Joan 

 his wife. Upon the death of any one of them a 

 herlot of 45;-. was due to the lords, to the payment of 

 which the freeholders had to contribute." The 

 existence of these minor lordships affords a clue to the 

 disputes which led to the agreement of 1560. This 

 agreement contains a list of the tenancies then exist- 

 ing and fixes the contribution of each to the chief 

 rent." 



Some of the earlier occupiers used Worsthorne as a 

 surname," but in later times the chief families were 

 those of Halstead or Halsted of Rowley and Towneley 

 of Hurstwood. 



ROIl'LET is mentioned in a number of early 

 charters'" and by the beginning of the 1 6th century was 



"Add. MS. 32104, no. 1300; a 

 grant of the rights to the freeholders by 

 Simon and Joan Haydock. The agree- 

 ment was confirmed by a fine } Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 22, m. 149. It 

 was also entered in the Court Rolls. 



" Evan Haydock died in 1596 holding 

 the manors of Hurstwood and Wors- 

 thorne of the queen as of her duchy in 

 socage by id. rent ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xvii, no. 40. In 1607 Simon Hay- 

 dock was stated to hold not the manors 

 but a rent-charge of ^^3 6j. id. from 

 Worsthorne and Hurstwood in socage, 

 by rendering a rose yearly ; Lanes. Ijiq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc Lanes, and Ches.), i, 8 I, 

 123. 



'5 PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 113, 

 no. 7 ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 461-2. 

 The parties to the sale were Evan Hay- 

 dock the younger (son of Simon), Anne 

 his wife, Gilbert his brother, and Evan 

 Haydock the elder, uncle of Evan and 

 Gilbert. William Thornton was described 

 as of Clement's Inn, Middlesex. 



^^ Folds D. Nothing is known of the 

 lords. The earliest list, which appears to 

 be earlier than 1292, gives twenty-one 

 tenements, as follows : Petrington — John 

 de Windle, ^ oxgang of land, paying 1 6*/. ; 

 Adam the heir, i, 32^/. ; Henry son of 

 Cyprus, J, \6d. \ John Honne, ^, 1 6d. ; 

 Adam son of Adam de Hurstwood, J, 

 idt/. ; Oliver de Stansfield, J, 13^^^.; 

 Robert son of Nicholas, ^, 135. ; giving 

 totals of 4 oxgangs and loj. zt^d. rent. 

 Nevill — Thomas son of William, J, 1 6d. ; 

 William de Windle, J, i6d. ; Adam de 

 Bottin, J, i6d. ; Richard son of Henry, 

 ^, ij^d. ; Gilbert de Birtwisle, I, -^zd. j 

 ditto, I, 26J</. ; total, 4 oxgangs, ioj. 3 ji/. 

 Pelie — Robert son of John, i, ^zd, ; 

 Roger de Halsteads, J, \id, ; Richardson 

 of Henry, J, 17^. ; Gilbert Bridd, |, 

 zo^d, ; Nicholas de Towneley, ^, 6^d, ; 

 Adam Spenser, J, iT,\d. ; Robertson of 

 Richard, J, i^^d. ; total, 4 oxgangs, 

 gi. ii^d. Thornton — Henry de Clayton, 

 J, 27Z ; Robert son of Alexander, i, 

 zjd. ; William de Windle, J, 13!^.; 

 Henry son of Gilbert, J, 13 J</. ; Nicholas 

 de Towneley, J, 13 j</. ; Richard de 

 Halsteads, J, i6d. ; Gilbert de Birtwisle, 

 J, 6d. ; total, 4 oxgangs, 91. SJa'. The 

 total rents amount to 40J. zd. In the 

 third part the total does not agree with 

 the details. Many of these tenants are 

 named in the charter of 1292. 



The second list records twenty-three 

 holdings ; Petrington (by Hoppay) — 

 Robert Hoppay, i ; Richard Holgate, i ; 

 John de Barcroft, jun., J ; Richard de 

 Towneley, i ; Lawrence de Legh, J. 



Nevill (by Halliday)— John Halliday, J ; 

 Robert Hoppay, J ; Richard de Towneley, 

 J i Robert de Grimshaw, ^ ; Michael 

 Tattersall, 2. Pelie (by Hurstwood) — 

 John de Hurstwood, i ; John de Hal- 

 steads, J i Richard Hichson, J ; Michael 

 Tattersall, J ; Richard de Towneley, J ; 

 John de Barcroft, jun., J ; William Dick- 

 son, J. Thornton (by Towneley) — 

 Richard de Towneley, l ; John Halliday, 

 I ; Robert Hoppay, ^ ; John Spenser, ^ ; 

 Richard de Towneley, J ; William de 

 Halsteads, ^. 



The third list, about the beginning of 

 the 1 6th century, records : Heriots with 

 Peter Hoppay — Agnes, Alice, and Joan 

 Hoppay, daughters and heirs of Peter 

 Hoppay (i) j Lawrence Towneley, I ; 

 William Barcroft, J ; Sir John Towneley, 

 I ; the same, for Legh's tenement, I 

 (?J). Heriots with Peter Halstead — 

 John Halstead (his brother), ^ ; Peter 

 Hoppay, ^ } Richard Towneley, J ; 

 Thomas Grimshaw, ^ ; John Ormerod, 

 2. Heriots with William Hurstwood — 

 William Hurstwood, l ; John Halstead, 

 J ; Richard Hichson, J ; heirs of John 

 Ormerod, f ; Richard Towneley, ^ j 

 William Barcroft, ^ ; heirs of William 

 Hurstwood, ^. Heriots with Sir John 

 Towneley — Sir John Towneley, i ; 

 William Halstead, i ; Hoppay lands, ^ ; 

 Edmund Spenser, ^ j Lawrence Towneley, 

 J ; Oliver Halstead, ^. The heriots 

 were paid at the rate of lij. ^d. an 

 oxgang of land, at the death of the person 

 named at the head of each section. It 

 is stated that after the death of Peter 

 Hoppay * Simon Haydock did strain upon 

 the late his lands one cow of the goods ' 

 of his daughters. 



'7 Duchy Plead, iii, 41. Three of the 

 four * posts ' had been Sir John Towneley, 

 Robert Hoppay and William Hurstwood. 



^^ The freeholders and rents were : 

 John Towneley, 16s. 2%d. ; William Bar- 

 croft, 3 J. 5^t/. J Bernard Towneley and 

 Agnes his wife, 51. 6|</. ; Oliver Hal- 

 stead, 6j. g^d. J William Halstead, 6s. %J.'y 

 John Halstead, son of William, zs. 3^^/.; 

 John Halstead of High Halstead and 

 Robert Halstead, 31. z%d. ; John Wood- 

 rofFe, ij. lofi. ; William Folds, zs. 3^. ; 

 Christopher Jackson, 41. iid. ; John 

 Halstead of Windle House and Alice his 

 wife, zs. 3j</. ; John Hurstwood, 41. 2ji.; 

 Edmund Spenser, u. io%d. ; Richard and 

 John Hichson, 4J. oji. ; John Aspden, 

 chaplain, is. o^d. 



" Various early charters have been pre- 

 served by Christopher Towneley. Some 

 of them illustrate the subdivisions already 

 described. 



475 



John son of Dolphin de Worsthorne 

 gave to Ralph de Clayton the homage of 

 Peter his brother (zz^i. rent) ; Towneley 

 MS. C8, 13, W123. John son of 

 Matthew de Worsthorne gave to Ralph 

 de Clayton the service of Adam the Chap- 

 man of Hurstwood [2^- rent), Robert son 

 of Alexander de Worsthorne [id. rent), 

 Nicholas son of Dolphin {^d. rent), and 

 Gilbert son of Peter (6d. rent) } ibid. 

 W 130. 



Richard son of Westmund de Wors- 

 thorne granted half an oxgang of land at 

 6d. rent to Reynold son of Thon as de 

 Worsthorne, 20s. being paid to hi n. 

 Among the witnesses were Geoffrey de 

 Whaliey and Robert his son, Osbert de 

 Worsthorne, Mar'do de Habergham and 

 Richard his son, and Michael de Licht- 

 ness ; ibid. W 104. William son of 

 Robert son of Westmund de Worsthorne 

 gave half an oxgang of land, formerly 



occupied by son of Wolf, to Adam 



son of William de Worsthorne at id, 

 rent ; ibid. W 105. Robert son of 

 William son of Westmund released to 

 Oliver de Stansfield the rent of id. due 

 from lands in Worsthorne ; ibid. W 125. 



Henry son of Richard son of Matthew 

 de Worsthorne granted to Adam son of 

 Adam de Hurstwood all his land in the 

 township at id. rent, Oliver the Clerk of 

 Stansfield being a witness ; ibtd. W 103. 



Henry son of Robert de Worsthorne 

 gave to William son of Adam de Windle 

 all his land in Worsthorne— namely, half 

 an oxgang ; also the rents of ^.d. from 

 Richard at Bridge (^ oxgang), id. from 

 Henry son of Hypper — cf. Cyprus above — 

 (^ oxgang), 4.d. from Adam de Bottin 

 (2 acres), 6;/. from Alexander de Kuhelagh 

 (2 acres) ; and the service of Adam son 

 of Henry de Worsthorne for i oxgang. 

 Adam de Blackburn and Richard Fitton 

 were witnesses ; ibid. W 209. 



The surname continued in use some- 

 what later. In 1312 Richard son of 

 Thomas de Worsthornegranted to Gilbert 

 de Legh all the land between land of 

 William de Halstead and Bottin Clough j 

 ibid. W95. A messuage with half an 

 oxgang of land was in 1323-4 given by 

 Henry son of Robert son of Richard dc 

 Worsthorne to Lawrence son of John de 

 Legh ; ibid. W. 96. In the following 

 year Robert son of Alexander de Wors- 

 thorne gave to Gilbert de Legh land for 

 a ' colwindle * to be built on ; ibid, W 97. 



^^ For example, in the grant to Osward 

 Brun ^before 1194) quoted under Brier- 

 cliffe. Robert son of Robert son of 

 Alexander de Worsthorne in 1295 released 

 to Oliver de Stansfield his right to a 



