BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



neighbourhood is almost entirely devoted to pastur- 

 age, as the following table will show ^^ : — 



Padiham . 



Simonstonc 



Read 



Hapton 



Higham with West 



Close Booth . 

 Sabden 

 Dunnockshaw 



There is a company of the East Lancashire 

 Regiment (Territorials). 



The Ightenhill Court Rolls mention the cuck- 

 stool at Padiham in 1572, but there were no stocks 

 in 1596. The Green bridge, a footbridge between 

 Padiham and Hapton, is named in 1602. 



The county lay of 1624, based on the ancient 

 fifteenth, required Padiham and the adjacent town- 

 ships to raise j^4 17/. 5 J</. towards each ^^ 100 levied 

 on the hundred. The separate townships gave thus : 

 Padiham, £1 is. Ilj'?'. ; Simonstone, 19/. i^d. ; 

 Read, 17/. 4^^'. ; Hapton, £1 13/. I if-/.; Hey- 

 houses, 3/. 2 J. ; Dunnockshaw, 11. wd. Higham was 

 in the forest, and its separate contribution is not 

 given. 



The chapelry included Padiham, Simonstone, 

 Read and Hapton. 



There was no separate manor oiPADl- 

 MJNOR HJM, the land being held almost entirely 

 by copyholders of the manor of Ighten- 

 hill. In 1241 the annual value of Padiham was 

 returned at _^8 os. 6ti.'^^ The survey after the death 

 of Edmund de Lacy shows that in 1258 there were 

 24 oxgangs of land, each of 9 acres. The services 

 due from each oxgang were a rent of i id., ploughing 

 once a year and reaping in autumn. The assarts 

 amounted to 1 14 acres. There were eight cottagers 

 paying 6d. each every year and one free tenant, 

 Gilbert de Padiham, who had 20 acres and rendered 

 20/. a year.ll The value here indicated is only 

 about £c, a year, but the inquest of 1 3 1 1 records 

 £iz 19/. zd. as the income derived from Padiham by 

 Henry de Lacy ; the 24 oxgangs were held in bondage 

 by twenty-five customary tenants at a rent of 61. for 



each oxgang and i\.d. more in lieu of works remitted ; 

 tenants at will occupied 99I acres of land at a total 

 rent of 33/. zd. ; and the water-mill was worth \os. 

 a )car. There were then two free tenants, John 

 do Whitaker, who held 44 acres at 25/. rent, and 

 Richard Mawson (Matthewson), 25I acres at gj-.'^ 

 By 1323 the receipts had further increased, probably 

 by improvements from the waste, for half an acre had 

 been approved that year, and by the larger sum from 

 the mill, viz. _^5 zs. Repairing the mill had cost 

 3^. Sy. and a chest for holding the grist taken as toll 



1 J. 3./. 13 



A partition of lands in Padiham was made as 

 follows in 1526 : William Banastre and John Roe to 

 have 2 oxgangs of land in Stockbridge at the west 

 side of Padiham Hey, 40 acres ; Simon Haydock, 



2 oxgangs at Church Hill in Padiham Field and 

 west part of Gadweyne, 32 acres ; Thomas Marshall 

 and Nicholas Whitaker, 2 oxgangs at Townwall Bank 

 in Padiham Field and the east part of Gadweyne, 

 32 acres ; Thomas Lister, 2 oxgangs at the east of 

 Padiham Hey and a close called Bancroft, 40 acres ; 

 Roger Cockshott and Richard Webster, 2 oxgangs in 

 Hargreave (Horgref) Hey and four parts of the Sands 

 and Bondyard. Various roadways were provided 

 for." 



A survey made in 1602 shows that there were 

 1 2 oxgangs of land on the east side of Padiham, 

 of which Lawrence Shuttleworth held 6, Richard 

 Webster l-J, the heirs of Edward Cockshott, 

 Nicholas Hancock, William Anderton, Hugh Roe 

 (Stockbridge) i each and the heirs of Ellen and 

 Anne Ingram \. On the west side were 1 2 ox- 

 gangs also, of which Edmund Starkie held 3^, George 

 Hallstead ij, Thomas Robinson, John and William 

 Hoghton, Thomas Shuttleworth, John Robinson, 

 James Hargreaves, John Whitaker and the heirs of 

 Richard Webster each I .^^ Twelve other oxgangs 

 of land were then reckoned, of which Lawrence 

 Shuttleworth held 2 at Scolebank, 8| at High Whit- 

 acre and ^ at Copthurst ; Edmund Starkie held I at 

 Wallgreen.i^ Inclosures of the commons were made 

 about that time,i' and at the inclosure in 161 8 

 Shuttleworth had allowance of common for 18 J ox- 

 gangs and 5 acres.i' The copyhold rents about that 

 time amounted to ^^ll zs. w^d., including £1 los. 

 for Heyhouses.l' On the settlement with the copy- 

 holders in the time of James I the mill was excepted, 

 being claimed by the Towneleys.^" 



HIGH WHITACRE was an ancient free tenement 

 and gave its surname to a family of long continuance 



^ Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905), 



'" Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 156. 



"Ibid. 215. 



" Ibid, ii, 7. The compotus rolls of 

 1296 and 1305 show ^11 li. from the 

 farm of Padiham, ^4 I2j. from the mill 

 and 61. Sd. in lieu of works remitted ; 

 De Lacy Compoti (Chet. Soc), 8, 104. 



^^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 191. The 

 mill had existed in 1253, when inquiry 

 was ordered as to the value of the wheel 

 there, by which a man had been killed. 

 Edmund de Lacy was to answer ; Close, 

 67, m. 8. Various persons were in 

 1324 fined for not repairing the mill- 

 pond ; Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 32. In the same volume 

 will be found records of the sums paid for 

 entry to lands in 1323-4. 



^* Folds MSS. There were some minor 

 adjustments. Banastre, Lister and Roc 

 had to pay 4^, for Guldfield. Banastre 

 was to have a fifth of the Rlngyard of 

 Hargreave Hey. Marl might be taken 

 at Cross Bank. 



The roadways were (1) a sufficient way 

 between the lands of James WillisiU to 

 the Watergate of Padiham Hey, (2) a 

 walngate from Cross Bank to Town wall, 

 (3) a waingate from Hargreave Hey to 

 the east end of Padiham and south side 

 of Padiham Hey, (4) a bridle way from 

 Padiham to Tuacr'gate. 



Each oxgang was to give a day's work 

 (or two, if necessary) to the filling up of 

 the coal pits on William Banastre's land. 



There is a list of tenants in 1527 in 

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



^^ Folds MSS. Some minor variations 



493 



have been left unnoticed. Lawrence 

 Shuttle-worth's 6 had belonged to Banas- 

 tre (2), Haydock (2) and Lister (1 ^) ; also 

 Padiham Whitacre (^). He also tenanted 

 Cockshott's oxgang. There were also 

 twelve messuages in each of the east and 

 west parts of the township. 



I*' Ibid. A list of the twenty-two tofts 

 follows ; each paid ^d, toll. 



^' Land, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.}, ii, 292, 280. 



18 FoKts MSS. 



19 Ibid. Richard Shuttleworth paid 

 £z i8j. lo^t/. and Francis Webster 

 295. id. 



^^^ Lanes, and Ches. Rec. ii, 238, 267, 

 &c. The mill had been granted to Sir 

 William Wood (ibid, ii, 388), who sold 

 to John Townelev and Richard his son 

 in 1604 ; Folds MSS. 



