BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



the former rebuilding being retained. The house is of 

 two stories, and is faced with narrow-coursed stones 

 with chamfered quoins, and the roofs are covered 

 with stone slates. The entrance is now at the east end 

 under a porch erected in 1833, and two staircase 

 towers which form a prominent external feature of 

 the building belong to the early 19th-century addi- 

 tions. The towers, together with the rest of the 

 modern worit, are architecturally uninteresting, ex- 

 cept as they are used to concentrate all the chimneys 

 of the house, the shafts breaking through the parapets 

 on each side." The absence of ordinary chimney 

 shafts from the rather low-pitched roofs of the 

 house gives them a very undistinguished appearance. 



The interior is almost entirely modern, but there 

 is a good 17th-century carved oal; mantelpiece in 

 one of the rooms, and there is some furniture of the 

 same period, including a good four-poster bed. There 

 is also preserved an old carved oak panel with the 

 arras of, Spenser of Hurstwood, which is said to 

 have been taken from ' Spenser's House ' in Hurst- 

 wood village when that building passed to the 

 Ormerods.™ 



Cliviger was used as a surname in the 14th 

 century," and other local names occur."" John 

 Towne of Cliviger in 163 1 was among the com- 

 pounders for having refused knighthood."" John 

 Watson of Cliviger in 1632 was charged £'i & year 



Ormerod House 



*' Some of the 'shafts' are dummies 

 included for the sake of symmetry. 



^ It may, however, have formed one 

 of a series of carved armorial bearings of 

 local gentry made for the decoration of 

 a panelled room in the old hall of 

 Ormerod, See Trans. Burnley Lit. and 

 Scient. Cluh, iv, 78, vphere a description 

 of the panel is given in a paper discussing 

 the relation of Edmund Spenser to the 

 local family of that name. 



" In 1284 Robert de Cliviger son of 

 Adam Atte Yate claimed a messuage and 

 half an oxgang of land in Cliviger held by 

 Agnes daughter of Maud de Cliviger, 

 which Maud had been wife of Richard *he 

 Smith. Agnes was under age, and the plea 

 was postponed ; Assize R. 1265, m, 5 d. 

 Adam son of Adam de Cliviger claimed 

 a tenement in 1292 against John son of 

 Matthew de Cliviger but was non-suited ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 20. John son of 

 Matthew de Cliviger granted to Gilbert 

 de Legh his land between Calveknoll- 

 sykes on the east and Doustisykes on 

 the west and another piece bounded in 

 part by the Out lane going as far as 

 Troghsykes ; C 8, 13, C113. 



Robert son of Cecily de Cliviger in 

 1 305 granted to Gilbert de Legh the 

 service of Stephen son of Robert del 

 Holerodes, including 6d. rent ; ibid. 

 C 114. The same Robert in 1309 gave 

 his lands to Richard de Marsden, clerk, 

 who transferred the same to John son of 

 Gilbert de Legh ; ibid. C 1 1 5 ; Add. MS. 

 32104, no. 439. 



^'^ Robert son of Richard the Fuller of 

 Cliviger gave to Robert son of Herbert 

 de Cliviger the fourth part of an oxgang 

 of land, which he had bought from John 

 son of Ellis the Harper of Priestley and 

 Gilbert, grantor's brother — viz. the 

 Menerode, Herunterode, half Homrode, 

 and a little piece below the miUpool 

 between the Fallrode and the Hourrode. 

 The rent was i%d. ; C 8, 13, F 36 (about 

 1270). 



Jane (Yana) daughter of Thomas del 

 Green confirmed to Henry son of Richard 

 de Healey 2 J roods of land in Cliviger ; 

 ibid. G 57. 



Robert son of William Lctharum con- 

 firmed to Robert son of Christiana an 

 acre of land lying between Mcnegate and 

 the Calder for half a mark given him. 



A rent of 6d, was to be paid at St. Giles's 

 Day ; ibid. L 185. 



A curious name is that of Knave- 

 castle, if that is the word transcribed 

 Cuanecastel, &c. In 1 301 Henry son 

 of Robert de Knavecastle granted to his 

 brothel William land which he had 

 purchased from Simon son of Adam son 

 of Walter the Chaplain of Towneley, 

 lying between the Scholerodcsyke and 

 Thieveley (Thaueley) ; C 8, 13, C 127. 

 John son of Robert son of Robert de 

 ' Knauencastel ' in 1334 claimed a 

 messuage, &c., in Cliviger against John de 

 Birches ; De Banco R. 298, m. 223. 



Richard son of Thomas de Worsthorne 

 in 13 16 granted his land in Cliviger to 

 Elizabeth daughter of Leuot (?) for ten 

 years at \id, rent ; C 8, 13, W 107. 



Ellen widow of John de Wymondeslegh 

 in 1370 claimed land in Cliviger against 

 Thomas del Stocks, clerk ; De Banco R. 

 440, m. 20. 



«i Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 217. The house at Wallstreams In 

 Worsthorne bears an inscription showing 

 that it was built by John Towne »nd 

 Alice his wife in 1593. 



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