BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



Shore, £2 14;. Sd. ; William Hancock (Cornfield),^^ 

 £1 \is.; the widow of Richard Stuttard,-^ £3 y. ^d. ; 

 Edmund Rishton, ^^i 8/. ; Henry Harger, ^^i 8^ ; 

 George Halstead, £2 \s. \id.; James Holt, ^l %,s.6d.; 

 John Ingham, ^6 11/. lod. ; Richard Bentham, 

 £2 IS. \d. ; Richard Boothman, £\ js. id.; James 

 Pollard, £z 15/. jd. ; John Spenser, £2> ^'- ^d. ; and 

 Richard Clayton, 5;. The average rent was little 

 more than i /. for the statute acre.^' Sir John Towneley 

 in 1532 obtained from the Crown another lease for 

 eighty years.^* 



The circumstances of the transfer of the lease to the 

 Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe are not known, but in 

 I 593 Sir Richard Shuttleworth granted a lease of lands 

 in the park, in which were recited and confirmed 

 certain conditions granted in a former lease by John 

 Towneley. The cause of the transfer was probably 

 connected with the recusancy of the former lessee.^^ 

 In 1597 a lease in remainder of the park and two 

 mills was granted to Sir Richard for a term of forty- 

 one )ears at the rent of ^£3 5 ijs. %d. a year ; 1 00 marks 

 were paid for obtaining it.'** The Park and Cornfield 

 were granted out again in 1628.^' General Monk 

 in 1664 granted a new lease of the park to Richard 

 Shuttleworth ; it contained a covenant for the main- 

 tenance and repair of the manor-house. ^^ The whole 

 was afterwards acquired by the Shuttleworths in fee 

 simple, and is still held with Gawthorpe ; but the 

 site of the manor-house was excepted, this, as 

 representing the manor, being part of the honor 

 of Clitheroe.^' 



One part of the story is not clear. Charles I in 

 1625 granted his manors of Ightenhill, Colne, Pendle- 

 ton, Worston and Chatburn, parcel of the honor of 

 Clitheroe, for 1,000 years to Edward Allen and 

 another,^^ who apparently transferred their interest to 

 others, for in 1655 Thomas Foster was lord of the 

 manor of Ightenhill.'^ Such grants must have been 

 surrendered at the Restoration, for in 1661 Ighten- 

 hill, Colne, Accrington and other manors were in- 

 cluded in the grant to the Duke of Albemarle.^' 



The site of Ightenhill Manor House is about a 

 quarter of a mile to the east of Gawthorpe in a 

 meadow on the brow of a hill, from which a good 

 view is obtained of the whole of Pendle Forest. No 

 part of the walls is standing, but in 1894 the founda- 

 tions of the keep could easily be traced.'^ The old 

 draw-well had then been only recently covered up. 



Whitacre Ford below Ightenhill Park is mentioned 

 in 1334 as the place where Richard son of Richard 

 Hicheson and others had captured and imprisoned 



Gilbert de la Legh, robbing him and putting him to 

 ransom at j^ioo.'^ 



In Ightenhill Park in 1666 there was no house 

 with more than three hearths liable to the tax, except 

 Richard Shuttleworth's, which had seven ; the total 

 number was thirty-seven. 



A manor-house like Ightenhill would no doubt 

 from the first have a chapel for the lord and his 

 tenants, and in I 361 the oratory there is mentioned '"; 

 but the report above quoted indicates that in 1522 

 the chapel had shared in the decay of the dwelling, 

 and was left without door or windows. The chapel 

 is named in 1536 as subordinate to the Castle parish, 

 but no revenue seems to have belonged to it.''" Since 

 then there has been no place of worship in the town- 

 ship. 



REEDLEY HALLOWS, FILLY CLOSE 

 AND NEW LAUND BOOTH 



Redlaihalghes, 1342 ; Redelegh-hallous, 1459 ; 

 Redhalowes, 1507. 



Filicloos, 1324; Filieclose, 1423. 



Newlande, 1459. 



These three portions of the forest of Pendle were 

 considered as extra-parochial, i.e. they remained 

 attached to the Castle parish of Clitheroe after other 

 chapelries had been carved out of it, though they were 

 8 miles away. Pendle Water winds through the 

 township, having Reedley Hallows, 545 acres, on the 

 east side of it, adjoining Burnley ; New Laund Booth, 

 431 acres, on the north-east, and Filly Close, 470 

 acres, on the north-west and the south. The total 

 area is therefore 1,446 acres, and in 1901 the popu- 

 lation numbered 1,285. Owing, however, to the 

 growth of Burnley the township was divided in i 894 ; 

 parts of Reedley Hallows and Filly Close were in- 

 corporated with the extended township of Burnley, 

 and the remainder was constituted into a township 

 with the name of Reedley Hallows alone.' The 

 area of this new township is 1,106 acres, including 

 25 acres of inland water, and in 1901 its population 

 was 658 ; it is governed by a parish council. 



Reedley slopes down in general from east to west 

 towards Pendle Water, the limits being 680 ft. and 

 a little under 400 ft. above sea level. The other 

 components of the township, divided partly by the deep 

 ravine of Spurn Clough, slope down from the north 

 and north-west, from about 580 ft. to 300 ft. From 

 Burnley a road goes north through Reedley towards 

 Nelson and Colne, while another goes north-west as 



^ The house at Cornfield is said to 

 have been built about 1500; Duchy of 

 Lane. Dep. Hen. VIII, xlvii, R3. For 

 disputes as to Cornfield, 1565-8, see 

 Ducatu! Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 314, 363. 

 Elizabeth Hancock claimed under a lease 

 to her husband William. 



26 Thomas Barcroft, a seminary priest, 

 was said to have been harboured in 1590 

 by Richard Studderd of Ightenhill Park, 

 and by Henry Hindley of Pendle Forest ; 

 Cal. S.P.Dom. 1591-4,?. 149. He was 

 perhaps one of the Bancrofts of Barcroft, 

 and was educated at the English College, 

 Rome, 1584-9 ; Foley, Records S. J. 

 1, 164. 



" Chet. Mhc. (Chct. Soc. old ser.), 3 ; 

 Folds MSS. 



2» Duchy of Lane. Plead. I Mary, 



XXXV, T 14 ; a complaint by Sir Richard 

 Towneley of trespass by 'cross calls and 

 weirs,' by Lawrence Habergham. 



23 Whitaker, op. cit. i, 308. 



'" Cal. S. P. Dom. 1595-7, P- 49°' ^°' 

 half a year's rent of the park and the mills 

 of Burnley and Clitheroe, due 25 iVIar. 

 1600, the steward paid £iy l8j. lod. ; 

 Shuttleivorth Accts. (Chet. Soc), 127. 



" To Edward Ditchfield and another ; 

 Pat. 4 Chas. I, pt. xxxiii. This was a 

 grant in socage. 



*^ Sliuttleiuorth Accts. 109. 



^^ Whitaker, loc. cit. The same con- 

 ditions continue still, the owners of Gaw- 

 thorpe paying £1 a year to the lords of 

 the honor of Clitheroe for the site of 

 the manor-house. The manor includes 

 Burnley, Padiham, Little Marsden, Brier- 



489 



cliffe and Heyhouses ; information of 

 Mr. A. Ford. 



^"i Pat. I Chas. I, pt. ii. 



35 Ct. R. 



^^ Pat. 13 Chas. II, pt. xxx, no. 3. 



8' W. Waddington in Pai. Note B{. iv, 

 150. *A farmer hard by stated his house 

 was erected with stones from the ruins, 

 and an examination of the masonry con- 

 firmed this, many of the stones being cut 

 from large boulders of hard gritstone 

 not found in any quarry of the neighbour- 

 hood.' 



38 Coram Rege R. 298, m. Rex 18. 



39 Lich. Epis. Reg. v, fol. 6. 



'*" Whitaker, op. cit. i, 116 n. No 

 chapel there is named in the Wkalley 

 Act Bk. 



1 Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 31666. 



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