BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



a name to its holders." Among the names recorded 

 in pleadings and inquisitions are those of Shuttle- 

 worth,'*^ Walmesley/^ Hargreaves,^^ Lowe/^ Lons- 

 dale ^"^ and Robert or Roberts " 



A partition of the wastes made in 1629 shows 

 that the following were freeholders : — Richard 

 Shireburne of Stonyhurst, Richard Shuttleworth of 

 Gawthorpe, Roger Nowell of Read, John Starkie of 

 Hantroyde, Thomas Whitaker, John Whitakcr, John 

 Robert, Edmund Cockshott, George Whitaker, 

 Thomas Lonsdale, Christopher Whitakcr, Robert 

 Sagar and Richard Mercer, all of Simonstone.^' 



HUNTROl'DE was part of the land granted 

 about 1230 by John de Lacy as lord of Clithcroe to 

 John de Thelwall, by the description of a fifth part 

 of the vill of Simonstone ; a spur or zd. was to be 

 the annual service." John de Thelwall's descendants 

 were usually styled * de Simonstone '^*; and in 1311 

 it was found that John son of John de Simonstone 

 held an oxgang of land in thegnage of Henry de 

 Lacy, and rendered yearly a pair of spurs of the value 

 of i\d. and suit to the three weeks court of 

 Clitheroe/* The estate descended regularly in this 

 family, receiving sundry additions,^® until about 14.60, 



Agnes and Margery, infant daughters 

 of John son of Roger de Simonstone, are 

 named in 1349 } Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1024. Margery was living in 1367 ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, no. 94^ 



Geoffrey son of Robert de Simonstone 

 has been named (notes 4, 5). His father 

 may have been the Robert son of Simon 

 who, with John de Thelwall, Alan son 

 of Warine and Thomas son of Uctred, 

 attested a grant of land made by Robert 

 son of Godrich de Simonstone to Alan 

 son of Simon 5 Add. MS. 32104, no, 

 893. Geoffrey was called * chief lord of 

 the fee' in 1292 in a claim for a 

 messuage and land put forward by William 

 son of William de Withinlache, but it 

 was shown that the claimant's elder 

 brother Richard had released the disputed 

 tenement to Geoffrey 5 Assize R. 408, 

 m. 29 d. 



In 1350 Robert de Holden gave a 

 messuage, &c., in Hulcrofts to Richard 

 son of Adam son of Alexander de Simon- 

 stone in exchange for lands in ArpifieUi, 

 Thickthornes, &c. ; DD, no. 1017. 



^^ Geoffrey son of Robert de Simon- 

 stone releaced to Robert de Ravensden 

 the rent oi ^.d. due from land in Goose- 

 lache and Meadowlache ; DD, no. 1008. 

 Robert de Ravensden also held land of 

 Richard son of Adam de Simonstone by 

 a rent of 9^^. for a term of years, and in 

 1292, having been outlawed for felony, 

 the land was claimed by Richard ; Assize 

 R. 408, m. 20 d. An inquiry made the 

 same year showed that John son of 

 Robert de Ravensden held the land ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 275. In 1366 

 Robert son of Richard de Ravensden 

 demised lands in Simonstone to Robert 

 de Holden for life; Add. MS, 32104, 

 no. 852, 



The above-named Richard son of 

 Adam de Simonstone made a grant to 

 James son of Henry de Clayton, as also 

 did Geoffrey son of Robert j ibid. no. 

 881, 896. The grantee gave the lands 

 to John his son ; Kuerden MSS. lii, A 9. 



Thomas son of Richard de Simon- 

 stone was a suitor of the Clitheroe court 

 in 1323 i Lanes, Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 49. See also De Banco R. 

 189, m. 53. 



26 John de * Swttellesar ' received lands 

 and part of the mill from John son of 

 Alan de Simonstone; DD, no. 1014, 

 Ellis son of Henry de Shuttleworth had a 

 grant from Geoffrey and Adam son of 

 Ellis de Simonstone ; Add. MS. 32104, 

 no. 890. 



Before 1326 Henry dc Shuttleworth, 

 who left a son John, had land in Simon- 

 atone held in thegnage ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents, ii, 220. John son of Henry de 

 Shuttleworth exchanged lands with 

 Nicholas de Holden in 1329; the field- 

 names include Honnolands and Cockshoot; 

 ibid. no. 864. Henry Shuttleworth in 



1423 granted land In the Crocke to his 

 mother Magot, widow of John Shuttle- 

 worth ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1004. 



Robert Shuttleworth of Hacking in 

 15 13 held a. tenement in Simonstone of 

 the king by a rent of 2^. ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. iv, no. 69. See also Kuerden 

 MSS. iv, B loi, 



Bernard Shuttleworth in 1563 P^ir- 

 chased a messuage from John Hindle and 

 Agnes his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 25, m. 251, In 1572 Charles 

 Shuttleworth had land In Simonstone ; 

 ibid, bdle, 34, m. 148. See also Ducatus 

 Lane, ii, 403. 



^' Sir Thomas Walmesley of Dunken- 

 halgh in 16 12 held a messuage of the 

 king in socage ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 249. Anne 

 daughter of Robert and sister and heir of 

 Richard Shuttleworth married Sir T, 

 Walmesley, the judge ; Towneley's note. 



^^ Lawrence Hargreaves purchased lands 

 in 1566 and Henry Hargreaves in 1596 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 28, m. 145 ; 

 59, m. 115, Henry Hargreaves died in 

 1598 holding his messuage, &c., of the 

 queen in socage ; his son and heir Edward 

 was twenty-two years old ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 56. A later 

 inquisition states that he held land of 

 Roger Nowell and Miles Whitacre by 

 knight's service and rent ; ibid. no. 69. 



29 William Lowe was a purchaser from 

 George Nevill in 1566; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 28, m. 11. He died in 

 1585 holding his messuage of the queen 

 in socage, as of her castle of Clitheroe. 

 Christopher, his son and heir, was thirty 

 years of age In 1600 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xvli, no. 60. The son appears 

 to have sold to Nicholas Starkie ; Hunt- 

 royde D. 



^^ Robert Lonsdale purchased a toft, 

 &c., from Edward Braddyll and John his 

 son in 1596 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F, 

 bdle. 59, m. 128. Robert died in 1601, 

 leaving a son Thomas, about sixteen years 

 old ; the land was held as of the castle of 

 Clitheroe ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 363. After 

 Thomas's death the estate went to two 

 aunts, and theirheirs (Ingham and Hanson) 

 eventually (1724 and 1752) sold their 

 moieties to Piers Starkie ; Mr. Anderton's 

 note. 



3^ John Roberts died in 1640 holding a 

 little land of the king's manor of Clitheroe, 

 and leaving as heir a son Nicholas, aged 

 fifty-six ; Duchy of Lane, Inq. p.m. xxx, 

 no. 55. The Roberts holding was no 

 doubt that formerly held by Shuttleworth 

 and Walmesley, for it was sold to Nicholas 

 (son of John) Robart or Roberts in 1 6 1 8. 

 The heirs in 1727 sold to Piers Starkie ; 

 note by Mr. Anderton. 



Wilfrid Banastre, probably of Stainton 

 (Whitaker, Craven, 236), sold messu;iges 

 in 1560-2 to Edmund Cockshott, Robert 



499 



Sagar and John Braddyll ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdles. 22, m. 90 ; 23, m. 88 ; 

 24, m. m. Christopher Mercer and 

 Isabel his wife occur in 1583 ; ibid, 

 bdle. 45, m. 128. 



The Shireburnes of Stonyhurst had land 

 in the township, as appears by the deed of 

 partition (1629) and the inquisitions. 

 There was also a minor family of Starkie 

 of Simonstone, descended from William 

 a younger son of the Edmund who died 

 in 1617, as shown below. 



38 Himtroyde D. 



33 Ibid. H I ; the name Huntroyde 

 does not occur in the charter. The 

 grantor is styled only * constable of 

 Chester'; he became Earl of Lincoln 

 In 1232. The fifth part had formerly 

 belonged to Quenilda. In 1258 John de 

 Thelwall still held this part of Edmund 

 de Lacy ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 217. 

 He made a grant of land in the Fowlrakes 

 In Simonstone ; Huntroyde D. H 3. 



3^ Alan brother of Robert de Simon- 

 stone released a rent of 5^. due from John 

 son of John de Thelwall from Milnedey ; 

 ibid. H 4. Apparently a little later, 

 several of the same witnesses attesting, 

 John son of William de Simonstone 

 granted all his father's lands to John son 

 of John de Simonstone and Margaret his 

 wife ; ibid. H 5. 



^^ De Lacy Inq, 14. This John was 

 perhaps the grandson of John de Thelwall, 

 In 1312-13 Robert son of John de Simon- 

 stone made a feoffment of all his lands in 

 the vill, while in 1 3 17 Adam son of Adam 

 de Gucsehagh granted a messuage and 

 land in Gucsehagh in the vill of Simon- 

 stone to John the elder son of John son 

 of John de Simonstone, with remainder 

 to John the father of the grantee ; Hunt- 

 royde D. H 10, 12. It seems to be the 

 father who as John de Simonstone the 

 elder made in 1328 a settlement of his 

 lands In Simonstone, with the reversion 

 of his mother Alice's dower ; the re- 

 mainders were to John and Maud, children 

 of John, and to Roger de Whitaker his 

 brother; Ibid. H 13, 14. 



John son of John de Simonstone in 

 1 342 granted lands In the Mikerode, 

 Littlerode and Oldhey to Adam del Holt 

 and Maud his wife ; ibid. H i 5. 



3fi Robert son of John de Simonstone 

 occurs in 1361 ; Huntroyde D. H 16. 

 In 1391 John de BIrtwisIe, chaplain, and 

 Richard son of Richard de Whitaker, as 

 feoffees, gave to Alice daughter of Robert 

 de Whitaker lands in the vill and fielas 

 of Simonstone received from Robert son 

 of John de Simonstone ; ibid. H i8. The 

 same feoffees afterwards granted to Robert 

 son of John all his lands, with remainders 

 to John and Thomas sons of Robert, to 

 the heirs ef Robert by Alice daughter of 

 Robert de Whitaker, to Alice widow of 

 John de Altham and to Roger son of 

 Richard Banastre of Altham ; ibid. H 19, 



