A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



thcrc.-^ Lawrence son of Miles Whitakcr died in 

 1 5 1 5, leaving a daughter Elizabeth as heir, she being 

 a few months old ; his estate consisted of three 

 messuages, &c., in Padiham and Simonstone, held of 

 the king by socage and i^t/. rent. By the entail 

 Henry Whitaker, brother of Lawrence, should succeed 

 after the death of Mile-, the father.-- He died in 

 I52i,when, his son and heir Bernard having also 

 died before him, the estate of six messuages, &c., in 

 High Whitacre, Padiham, Northwood and Simon- 

 stone went to two daughters, Elizabeth and Isabel, 

 aged six and three years respectively, at Miles 

 Whitaker's death. Northwood was said to be held 

 o( the king by the tenth part of a knight's fee.-^ 

 Afterwards a Lawrence Whit.Tker is found in posses- 

 sion -^ ; his son Henry died before him, leaving a 

 young son John as heir in 1578.-'' Shortly after- 

 wards, as appears by the surveys above cited, the 

 estate was acquired by the Shuttleworths of Gaw- 

 thorpe,-** with whom it remains. 



HJRGREJrE, to the north of the town, was the 

 possession of the Webster family from the i 5 th century 

 to 1798, when it was sold to Le Gendre Piers Starkie 

 and became part of the Huntroyde estate.-^ 



Ofthe other local families there is little to belaid ; the 

 names of the principal ones have been recorded above.-^ 

 Whalley Abbey had some land in Padiham.-^ In 161 7 

 there were twenty-eight copyhold tenements,^** 



There were as many as i 18 hearths liable to the 

 tax in 1666. 'I'he chief houses were those of 

 Christopher Dickinson with eight hearth<, Robert 

 Thornley seven and Bernard Parker six ; two houses 

 had five hearths two others four and eleven three.^* 



The land tax return of 1787 show, that the chief 

 landowners were Robert Shuttleworth, Lc GciiJrc 

 Starkie and Strethill Harrison. 



There seems no doubt that the first 

 CHURCH place of worship here was the chantry 

 chapel of ST. LEONARD, founded 

 about 1455 by John Marshall, J.U.B., an official of 

 Cardinal Langley's and said to have been a native of 

 the township.^- He obtained the king*s licence in 

 1452 to purchase lands and alienate in mortmain to 

 support a chantry priest at the church or chapel of 

 Padiham. ^"^ Other gifts were added and a small 

 stipendiary chaplaincy was also founded. 3* At the 

 confiscation of these endowments in 1546-7 Ralph 

 Thornburgh the incumbent of MarshalTs chantry was 

 found to be celebrating for the souls of his founder 

 and others and distributing 33/. 4^'. in alms to the 

 poor on I March yearly. The people of the 

 neighbourhood made use of it Instead of going to the 

 parish church at Whalley. The income, derived 

 from lands in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, was 

 £'j 8/. 6(i?^ John Hey, the stipendiary priest, had 

 only z6s. 6d}^ The lands were sold,^^ but the chapel 



'' John dc Whitaker has been named 

 in 1311. In 132^ Richard de Whitakcr 

 paid 25J. as relief on succeeding him ; 

 Lanes. Inj. an J Ex ten a^ ij, 1 86. A 

 William de Whitaker paid 51. on succeed- 

 ing to half an oxgang of land in 1324 ; 

 Lanes. Cr. R. 30. Dr. Whitaker supposes 

 that his family had branched off from 

 ihem ; fVhalUy, ii, 55. Some ofthe 

 references gr. en under Simonstone may 

 concern the High Whitacre family. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 77. 

 Another son, Christopher, is named. In 

 I 512 there was an arbitration in disputes 

 between Miles Whitaker and Lawrence 

 his son and heir-apparent on one aide and 

 John and George Hoghton on the other j 

 Add. MS. ■^2104, fol. i'^^, no. 567. 



Henry Whitaker was perhaps father of 

 the Lawrence of 1 1^47. He married 

 Alice Nowell ^ I'luf. of 1567 (Chet. Soc), 

 36. The Subsidy Rolls gl^c Henry 

 Whitaker in i<;24 and Lawrence in 1543; 

 L.1V Subs. Lanes, bdle, 130, no. 82, 125. 



■^"^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no. 

 2;, tr.ken in 1538. 



*' Lawrence made a settlement of 

 twenty messuages in High Whitacre, 

 Padiham, dither^ e, &;c., in 1547 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. i^, m. 214. 

 He had a messuage at Northwood In 

 1^54; Towneley MS. HH, no. 121. 

 Margaret Whitaker, widow, was claiming 

 dower In Padiham about that time ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 307. 



^' The wardship of the heir, which 

 had been granted to Bernard Towneley 

 of Hurstwood, was by him transferred to 

 Christopher Marton of Eshton In 1578 ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, fol. 120, no. 520. 

 John Whitaker and Elizabeth his wife 

 made a feotFment of seven messuages, 

 &c., in Padiham, Simonstone, Clltheroe 

 and Whalley In 1589 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 51, m, -. 



^^ Lawrence Shuttleworth, B.D., died 

 in 160S holding High Whitacre and 

 lands in P.idiham of the king as duke in 

 •oc igc by a rent of 29;. His heir wai 



h'j ncpiicw Richard (son of Thomas) 

 Shuttleworth ; Lanes. Inq, p.m. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), I, 109. 



-^ Whitaker, h'halUy, il, 56. Lawrence 

 Whitakcr and Richard Webster were 

 landowners in 1564 and Richard Webster 

 in 1600 and 1626 j Lay Subs. Lanca. 

 bdle. 131, no. 212, 2-4. ■^17. 



23 The Banastres of Altham had some 

 land in Padiham ; the tenure was usually 

 described as socage \ Duchy of Lane. Inq, 

 p.m. iv, no, 34 (not known) ; viil, no. 31, 

 &c. Henry Rylcy was in 1578 claiming 

 a messuage, &c., agjinst Nicholas Banastre 

 and others \ Ducatus Lane, ill, 26. As is 

 show n above, the Banastre estate was 

 acquired by the Shuttleworths by 1602. 



John Hoghton of Little Pendleton had 

 I oxgang of land in Padiham in 1498 ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, no. 585. 



A dispute between James WilllsiU and 

 John Roe was referred to arbitration in 

 1^27 J it concerned in part a right of 

 way between Scholebank and Padiham j 

 ibid. no. 516 (fol. 119). Both surnames 

 occur in the later pleadings ; Ducatus Lane. 

 lil, 152, 164, 496. 



In 1404 Ralph Rishton was concerned 

 in Poope oxgang in Padiham j note from 

 IghtenhUl Halmotc R. 



The Sagar of Guygatc estate was the 

 subject of dispute in 1650; Exch. Dtp. 

 (Rec, Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 27, 28. 



^ The tenants in 1537 were Henry 

 Coekshott and the wife of Richard 

 Marshall, paying 6j. in all ; Whalley 

 Couch. (Chet. Soc.), Iv, 1214* 



^" Towneley MS. * Honor of Clltheroe.* 

 The names of the tenants were : Edmund 

 Ashton, esq., Nicholas Banastre, esq., 

 Richard Shuttleworth, esq., Nicholas 

 Starkie, gent, (who also had Priest Cham- 

 ber), William Anderton, the heirs of 

 Thomas Chilers (who also had land 

 formerly belonging to Whalley Abbey), 

 Nicholas Duxbury, Thomas Grimshaw, 

 Nicholas and William Hancock (infant), 

 George and Nicholas HaUtead, James 

 Hargrea\e3, Richard Hey, Hugh Hindle, 



494 



John Houghton, William Houghton, John 

 Peel, John Robert, Henry Robinson, John 

 Robinson, Thomas Robinson, Hugh Roc, 

 Richard Sagar, John Shuttleworth, James 

 Smith, John Starkie, William Wad- 

 dington, Richard Webster, Lawrence 

 Whitaker. 



^1 Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



^^ Raines, C//£7H/r/«(Chet. Soe.), 142-3, 

 where an outline of Marshall's career is 

 given. At his death he was prebendary 

 of York and Southwell, master of Shcr- 

 burn Hospital and rector of Whcldrakc. 

 By his will of 1462 he desired to be 

 burled in York Minster 5 to the Abbot of 

 Whalley he left a bowl and ewer, with a 

 request for his prayers. 



»■■» Whitaker, /^//aZ/rj', ii, 49. As the 

 lands were 'for the use of a chantry 

 priest at the church or chapel of Padi- 

 ham,* there was some chapel already in 

 existence. Marshall may have built it 

 for this purpose ; at all events, the chantry 

 priest was the curate, and not merely an 

 auxiliary. 



8* In 1 521 Robert Smith of Padiham 

 made a gift to St. Leonard of Padiham, 

 the trustees being Thomaa son and heir 

 of Henry Ryley ofthe Green and Hugh 

 Hargreaves, the chantry priest j Starkie D. 

 at Huntroyde, H 43. Ten years later a 

 dispute in which the feoffees of this chantry 

 and those of Our Lady's service of Black- 

 burn were concerned was referred to 

 arbitration ; ibid. H 46. 



In 1532 there is mentioned the * parish ' 

 of Padiham; Act Bk. of Hl,allfy (Chet. 

 Soc.), 152. In 1536 there were four 

 wardens of the * church' of Padiham; 

 Starkie D., H 52. 



One Hugh Moore gave lands in Higham 

 for the maintenance of the Jesus scn'icc at 

 Padiham, as was attested by his nephews 

 John and Richard Moore in 1561 i Duchy 

 of Lane. Spec. Com. no, 33. 



'* Raines, Chantries^ H^'S* 



^ Ibl'l. 240. 



*' Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. xi. The chapel in 

 1547 had three or four bells and various 



