A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



ByerJcn Lane, and then, after crosnng the river at 

 Pendle Bridge, goes on through New Laund Booth as 

 Greenhead Lane ; a minor road branches off from 

 the bridge to cross Filly Close. The road from 

 Brierfield to Pendle Forest crosses into New Laund 

 by Chamber Bridge, better known as Quakers' Bridge, 

 from the active part said to have been taken by that 

 religious society in its erection. The Leeds and 

 Liverpool Canal and the Colne line of the Lanca- 

 shire and Yorbhire Railway go north through Reedley. 



In Reedle)-, Haulgh is on the eastern boundar)', 

 nou within Burnley ; Reedley proper, to the north, 

 has a numDer of modern reaidences, including the 

 Rector}' ; Monk Heys or Monkholme is to the north- 

 west and Lodge to the south-west. In New Laund 

 the house so named stands in the centre, Greenhead 

 being to the south-west. Waterside to the east and 

 Montford to the north. Moor Isles or Moorhiles is 

 near the north-west boundary of Filly Cluse. 



The soil is clay, overlying clay and rock. Apart 

 from the urban district adjoining Burnley the land 

 is mostly used for pasturage, the following being the 

 distribution : arable land, 3 acres ; permanent grass, 

 1,201 ; woods and plantations, Ijo" 



In Bverden Clough, formerly the boundary be- 

 tween Reedley and Burnley, were brickworks. To 

 the north is a colliery. There are mills in Reedley 

 and New Laund; the Burnley sewage works (Duck 

 Pits) and sewage farm (Wood End) are in Filly Close, 

 adjoining Pendle Water. 



In the close of REEDLE}' HJLLOWS 

 FOREST there was at Micliaelmas 1341 stock con- 

 sisting of a bull, seventy-eight cows and 

 one heifer. This inclosure of pasture was originally 

 used as a store farm from which to replenish the 

 adjoining vaccaries, but in 13-I.2 the herbage had 

 been demised to farm for /,lo.' In 141 8 Roger 

 Flore, chief steward, demised three parts of a meado^^ 

 called the Reedley Hallows, lately demised to Sir 

 Henry Hoghton at £6 i y. \ii., to James Banastre 

 for the increased rent of _^8, and the other part 

 to Richard Folds at £z \0s. rent for ten )ears.^ 

 Afterwards the whole was let for £c) i6s. %tl., 

 and in 14.59 and 1464 was held b)' Lord Stanley 

 and William Leyland at a rent of £^ 6s. 8./.,* in 

 \\hich was probably included the 50/. ii/. due for a 

 fourth part of the herbage demised in 1464 for twelve 

 years to Richard Halstead and Ricliard Folds, \\ho 

 were required to reserve for the king's deer such 

 amount of pasture as it had been customary to reserve 

 in time past.' Lord Stanley held it at the same 

 rent in 1474,^ and at the greatly enhanced rent of 

 /I20 zs. Sd. (sic) in 1495.' 



Upon the granting of the forests in 1 507 the 

 vaccary called Reedley Hallows, containing 200 acres 

 by customarj- measure, was demised by copy of Court 

 Roll to William Winder and his fellows for jf 10 a 

 year.' In 1527 the heir of William Barcroft held 

 half, the remainder being divided almost equally 

 between Christopher Jackson, Ellis Nutter and 

 George Ormerod.' At the same time the heir of 

 Thomas Radcliife paid i jj. ^d. for (Little) Reedley 

 Hallows,'" but this tenement appears to be the same 

 as Chamber in Pendle.'"'' Robert Barcroft in 1609 

 held the Barcroft and Ormerod shares of 1527, 

 while Christopher Jackson and Henry Nutter had 

 the other parts." Thomas Barcroft of Lodge paid 

 /15 in 1631 for having refused knighthood." In 

 1662 Thomas Barcroft, Ellis Nutter, John Jackson 

 and William Robert were tenants, the Jackson estate 

 having been diminished a little to the profit of Nutter 

 and Robert.'^ The hearth tax return of 1666 shows 

 that Thomas Sagar and Ellis Nutter were each 

 assessed upon seven hearths and Mary J.ickson on 

 four.'* 



The principal family was that of Barcroft of Lodge, 

 3 younger branch of the Barcrofts of Cliviger." In 

 1590 John Towneley brought a bill of complaint 

 in the Duchy Chamber against William Barcroft of 

 Lodge and James Hargreaves touching a right of 

 wa\ over Banister Heald in the vaccary of Reedley 

 Hallows, through Filly Close to Fence Gate, and 

 from Byerden Gate to Saxifield Common. '° In 1727 

 Leonard Clayton, son of Henry Clayton of Pendle 

 Hall, yeoman, was described as ' of Lodge.' " Thomas 

 Bradshaw of Marple in Cheshire was in 1 739 the 

 owner of tenements called Haugh Head and Haugh 

 Row." Sarah the daughter and co-heir of Thomas 

 Barcroft in 1670 married Nicholas Townley of 

 Royle, and the Lodge has descended with that estate 

 to Mr. R. A. Tatton of Cuerden." 



The Nutters were of Reedley.'" The family gave 

 two victims to the Elizabethan persecution. John 

 Nutter went over seas to Rheims, where he was 

 ordained priest in I 582. Being sent on the English 

 mission he was put ashore at Dunwich sick of a fever. 

 The officials of the place, having found some Roman 

 Catholic books in a bag, gave information to the 

 justices and Nutter was arrested. He was imprisoned 

 in the Marshalsea and the Tower and executed at 

 Tyburn for his priesthood on 12 February 1583-4.'' 

 His brother Robert went with him to Rheims, and 

 was likewise ordained and sent on the English mission. 

 After being imprisoned and tortured in the Tower 

 he was banished in 1585, but returning soon after- 

 wards was recaptured and imprisoned at Wisbech for 



^ Statistics fio.ii Bd. of Agric. 



(190;): 



- ^Iin3. Accts. odlc 1091, no. 6. 



■* Ibid. bd!e. 70, no. 1498. 



* Receivers' Accts. bale. 90, no. 1649, 



^ Duchy of Lane. Chan. R, 34 ; 

 Whitaker, ff^halhy, i, 298. The tenants 

 were also required to safeguard the king's 

 deer there and not to slay them. 



'• Receivers' Accts. bdle. 90, no. 1650. 



' Ibid. bdle. 91, no. 1662. 



' MS. at Huntroyde. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Rentals bdle. 5, no. 12. 

 George Ormerod and Christopher Jackson 

 were the jurors for Reedley Hallows in 

 1537; irhalky Jet Bk. (Chet. Soc), 

 197. George Windle of Reedley Hallows 

 was a tenant of Christopher Jackson in 



1549 ; Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc, Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 43. 



^^ His ancestor had paid the same rent 

 for it in 1422 ; Mins. Accts. bdle. 76, 

 no. 1498. 



"^ See the account of Marsden. 



" Grimshaw MS. in possession of W. 

 Farrer. 



^ Miic. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 218. 



^^ Honor of Clitheroe MS. In possession 

 of W. Farrer. 



'^ Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9, 



'^ Whitaker, JVhalUy, ii, 179. William 

 Barcroft of Lodge was a freeholder in 

 1600 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. ar\i 

 Ches.), i, 234. 



1" Duchy of Lane. Plead, cxlviii, Tii. 



17 MSS. of Mr. O. Folds. 



18 Ibid. 



'^ Whitaker, op. dt. ii, 179. Thomas 

 Townley of Royle paid the Duke of 

 Montagu ^^5 for Reedley Hallows lanJ 

 and lOJ. 6d. for Byerdeo ; Folds MSS. 



20 The will of Sibyl Nutter of Reedley 

 Hallows, widow, dated 1592 and proved 

 1594, leaves all her goods to hci i'-n 

 John Nutter ; she owed £zo to her »on- 

 in-law Miles Whitaker. The will of 

 Ellis Nutter, of the same place, 1596- 

 1603, names his children Henry (married), 

 John, Robert and Ellen. Mis wife vus 

 living. 



=^1 Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of Engl. Cath. v, 

 £01 ; J. B. Wainewright, /V«. Jchn 



NutUr. 



