BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



Grimshaw. Argent 

 a griffin segreatrt gii/es^ 

 beaked ami membered or. 



more than twelve years. He escaped to his native 

 county, where he was again caught, condemned to 

 death for his priesthood, and 

 executed at Lancaster 26 July 

 1600." Ellis son of Robert 

 Nutter of Reedley made a 

 settlement of his estates in 

 1738. His son, Henry Nutter 

 of Colne, surrendered Reedley 

 and Tupholme, copyhold rent 

 39/., to the use of John 

 Crossley of Hundersfield in 

 1 74 1 ." The trustees of Col. 

 Holden and Mr. Harry Tun- 

 still now hold a large part of 

 Reedley. 



FILir CLOSE was in 1324. held by Richard de 

 Whitacre in conjunction with the adjacent Royle 

 in Burnley.** In 1 341-2 Filly Close was in 

 hand, in connexion with the king's stud-farm at 

 Ightenhill." Royle appears to have become separate 

 some years later,*' and in I + 5 9 John Sotehill 

 rented Filly Close for £9 6s. 8a'.," obtaining a 

 twenty years' lease of it at the same rent in 1467.*' 

 But in 1 47 1 Hugh Gartside had it granted to him 

 on lease similarly."' Lord Stanley paid the rent in 

 1495.- 



When the forests were granted in 1507 Filly Close 

 was demised by copy of Court Roll to Lawrence 

 Towneley and Ralph Askew at a rent of j(^io 1 3/. 4<j'.^' 

 At this rent Sir John Towneley held it in 1527,'" and 

 in his line the ownership nominally descended. Ellis 

 Nutter of Reedley in I 5 30-1 resigned his lease and 

 goodwill in Filly Close to Sir John in consideration 

 of an annuity of z6s. ?id. There were nine tenants 

 in 1536, paying the jfio 13^. \.d. copyhold rent and 

 an additional rent of £5 11/. 6d. to Towneley." 



The chief tenant then was George Grimshaw of 



Moorhiles, paying £•] ; he and Thomas Watmough 

 were the only ones exempt from suit to the corn-mill 

 in Burnley." In 1577 John Towneley brought a 

 bill of complaint against Richard Grimshaw son of 

 George touching the messuage of Moorhiles and 

 lands in Filly Close."' The will of Richard Grim- 

 shaw, dated i June 1608, shows that he had lands in 

 Pendle and in Craven ; he left a widow Ellen, and 

 had daughters, Janet (deceased) wife of John Wood- 

 roffe of Bank Top, and Elizabeth Grimshaw.'" 

 Moorhiles became the residence of Christopher 

 Towneley, the transcriber. After the death of his wife 

 he partially rebuilt it, his initials, C. T. 1668, appear- 

 ing on a doorway, and he died there in 1674." 



Mr. John Shuttleworth, John Skerrow, Bernard 

 Stuttard and George Spencer were those assessed to 

 the hearth tax in 1666 in Filly Close.'' 



The NEW LJUND was in 1459 held by 

 Thomas Harrington at a yearly farm of £^ 6s. 8c/.™ 

 Three years later the herbage and pasture there were 

 demised at this rent to William Leyland for a term,*" 

 and a new lease for seven years was granted him soon 

 afterwards.*' On its expiry in 1 47 1 Hugh Gartside 

 obtained a twenty years' lease at the same rent," and 

 in 1495 Lawrence Towneley was farmer.*' 



In 1507 the commissioners for granting the forest 

 demised New Laund to Robert Nutter to hold by 

 copy of Court Roll for £6 1 3^. ^d. yearly rent.** 

 For this rent it was in 1527 held equally by Ellis 

 Nutter of Waterside, John Haliday and John Nowell.*' 

 In 1550 Henry Nutter brought a bill of complaint 

 in the Duchy Chamber against his younger brother, 

 John Nutter, touching his title to tenements in New 

 Laund and Reedley Hallows.*' The rental of 1609 

 shows that Ellis Nutter's tenement had descended to 

 John Nutter,*' those of Haliday and Nowell being 

 held divisibly between John Crombock, John Moor 

 and Margaret Nutter.*' Another John Nutter held 



^ Gillow, op. cit. V, 203. The cause 

 of beatification of both brothers was 

 allowed to be introduced at Rome in 

 18S6 5 hence they are styled Venerable. 



23 MSS. of Mr. O. Folds. 



-^ Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 72. In 1340 eleven persons paid 

 2J. 3^/. for escape of thirty-six beasts, 

 two ponies and four wethers taken once 

 in Filly Close, and the sale of wood 

 realized i^d, ; while the winter agist- 

 ment of twenty-nine beasts at zd. a head 

 and three ponies at ^d. a head produced 

 51. yd, ; Rentals and Surv. portf. 9, no. 74., 

 m. 3. Two years later the herbage and 

 pasture of Filly Close beyond the support 

 of the king's stud there was demised to 

 farm for 40J, a year ; Whitaker, op, cit. 

 i, 310, A beast or heifer paid izd., 

 stirks 6d. to T,d,, mares i%d. to izd, j 

 Exch. ICR. Equicium Regis, 358/16. 



2* Mins. Accts. bdle. 1091, no. 6. 



^* Filly Close and Royle were still held 

 together in 1421. 



-^ Receivers' Accts. bdle. 89, no. 1648 ; 

 'late at £\o 135. 4</.' Sotehill paid the 

 rent in 1464 ; Receivers' Accts. bdle. 90, 

 no. 1649. 



^8 Whitaker, op. cit. i, 299. Sotehill's 

 name is, however, given in the Receivers' 

 Accts. for 1474 ; bdle. 90, no. 1650. 



'^^ Whitaker, loc. cit. 



™ Receivers' Accts. bdle. 91, no. 1662. 



" MS. at Huntroyde. The report of 

 the commissioners stated : ' Item there is 

 a close called Filly Close, which hath 



been used to be agisted to the sum of 

 ^^9 6s. %d. yearly and no more because 

 of the recourse that the deer of Pendle 

 hath thereunto. Whereupon it was 

 ordered that the said agistment should be 

 furthermore increased to the sum of 

 z6s. Sd. yearly above the said ^g 6s. Sd. 

 of old farm ; and in so much as the said 

 increase might not be ever certain by 

 way of agistment but rather some years 

 more and some less ; and in so much as 

 Lawrence Towneley and Ralph Askue 

 came afterwards to us and desired to 

 have the same by copy of Court Roll to 

 them and to their heirs after the manner 

 and form as other tenants now have, and 

 to do at every alienation and death as 

 other tenants there shall do, it was 

 thought by us that they shall so have it, 

 saving the like recourse of deer as hath 

 been used afore ; and so the king to be 

 ever " inccrten " of said increase, that is 

 to say yearly for ever more z6s. Sd.' 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 12 ; rent ^^lo 13J. 4d. 



83 Rental of Burnley (Chet. Soc), 4, 20. 

 George Grimshaw was a younger brother 

 of Nicholas Grimshaw of Heyhouses in 

 Sabden, living 1 5 3 9 ; Farrer, CUtheroe Ct. 

 R. i, 353. 



8' MSS. of Mr. O. Folds. 



8* Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. cv, T 2. 

 George Grimshaw died in 1551. 



^Add. MS. 32104, no. 381. The 

 lands were held of the king as duke by 

 knight's service ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 



491 



Soc, Lanes, and Ches.), i, 137, 146. 

 Elizabeth Grimshaw married Thomas 

 Walmesley of Coldcoats ; ibid. 221. 



3^ Note by Mr. W. Waddington. 



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



^^ Receivers' Accts. bdle. 89, no. 1648. 



^0 Whitaker, WhalUy^ i, 298 (from 

 Duchy of Lane. Chan. R. 35 and 40). 



^1 Ibid. 



^2 Ibid. 299. 



■'^ Duchy of Lane. Receivers' Accts. 

 bdle. 91, no. 1662. 



■*■* MS. at Huntroyde. The commis- 

 sioners' report states: ^ Item there is a 

 pasture called the New Laund, which 

 hath not been used to be let to farm 

 (before 1450) because of the deer there, 

 but hath been agisted yearly with a 

 certain number of cattle to the sum of 

 8 marks by year. And now Robert 

 Noter, the old agister of the same, hath 

 taken upon him to increase the said 

 agistment unto 10 marks yearly from 

 henceforth, and the king to be increased 

 therein yearly 26j. 8</.' 



45 Duchy of Lane. Rentals,bdle. 5, no. \ 2. 

 Christopher Nutter of New Laund was a 

 juror in 1517 ; Whalley Act Bk. 52. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Plead. Ivii, N i. 

 John Nutter was plaintiff respecting 

 New Laund in 1571; Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), iii, 24. 



4' John Nutter, living in 1592, was 

 son of John son of Ellis Nutter, as 

 appears by the right of way trial. 



^« Grimshaw MS. 



