A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Hcnn' died a little later. In 1329, holding a mes- 

 suage and land in Shuttlcworth of John de Thornhill 

 by a rent of 4/. yearly; his heir was a son Henr}, 

 thirty yean old." At that time therefore, unless 

 there is some mistake in the record, Shuttlcworth 

 was divided into two almost equal estates." These 

 may have been reunited later, but in 1384-5 the 

 * manor ' was held by Richard son of Henry de 

 Shuttlcworth." The principal estate here passed to 

 Legh " and Talbot, " and by co-heiresses to Ashton 

 of Chadderton and Shakerley." The estate was pur- 

 chased by the Starkies in 1734 and is now the 

 property of Mr. E. A. Le Gendre Starkie of Hunt- 

 royde.*'' 



SHUTTLEUORTH HALL, now a farm-house, 

 stands on high ground at the north-west end of the 

 township and is a picturesque H-shaped I yth-century 

 building of two stories, with mullioned and transomed 

 windows and stone slated roofs. The w.ills are of 

 coursed rubble masonry with dressed quoins and the 

 end gables are quite plain without coping. There 

 is a smaller coped gable over the porch, which goes 

 up the full height of the house in the angle formed 



by the middle and ca t wings. Tlie two end gables 

 have each an attic window of three light-, the 

 middle one of which is raised, the heads of the side 

 lights being cuned inwards, forming a species of 

 ogee arch with flat top, a characteristic of many of 

 the gable windows in houses in the di-trict of 

 Worsthorne. The building has been a good deal 

 restored and some of the windows are new, but it re- 

 tains all its original external characteristics. The win- 

 dows in the end wings are of six lights and tho^e in the 

 middle wing on both floors of eight lights, all with 

 hood moulds. The upper part of the porch slightly 

 projects and the outer doorway has a flat four-centred 

 arched opening with moulded jambs and head. The 

 porch is open with a stone seat on either side, and 

 the inner door is the original nail-studded one of oak 

 with ornamental iron hinges. Over the outer door- 

 way is a lead panel, probably belonging to a former 

 spout head, with the date 1639. The interior is 

 modernized. The front of the house faces south and 

 looks on to a garden extending its full length of 

 75 ft. and about 50 ft. wide in front of the end wings, 

 inclosed by a stone wall with moulded coping and 



his son att'jstcd another ; ibid. W g. John 

 son of Richard dc Hey in 1^33 gr.intcd a 

 release of right in the TotchiU with 

 Shuttles orlh in Hapton ; Townelcy MS. 

 C 8, 15, H265. 



*** L.I'M. In-j. ^itj £'.v.'(";.'j, ii, 232. 



" John dc Shuttleworth contributed to 

 the subs'dy in 1^52; Exch. Lay Suhi. 

 (Rcc. Soc. Lanes, and Cl!c> ), ~h. From 

 n"tcs of dce!^ printed in Whil^ikt-r, 

 Whjl! V, ii, 66--, it appears that John 

 •nd Rich.ird de Shuttlcworth held land in 

 Hapt')n of John dc la Legh in 1339. In 

 lU- Richard ton of Agnes de Thelwall 

 gave Richard son of Henry de Shuttle- 

 \Nnrth l.ind called Fcnnyfolds in Hapton, 

 with remainders to Richard's brothers 

 Henry and John; C 8, 13, Till. In 

 IU9-50 Roger son of Adam de Happay 

 confirmed to Richard son of Henry dc 

 Shi.ttleworth variouslands ; ibid. N 22-3. 

 Gilbert de la Legh chimed a messuage 

 in Hapton in 1350 against Richard de 

 Si.utileworth, Jniin son of William del 

 Eghei and Amabel widow of William and 

 J' h I del Green ; Assize R. 1+44, m. 2 d. 

 It npfeared that one Amabel was dauglitcr 

 of Nicholas de Fcnn\Tuld anJ had issue 

 Adam (bastard), William (s.p.), Alice and 

 Amabel (defendant). Alice had a vn 

 Roger, who was out of the country and 

 knew n-^thing of his inheritance from his 

 grandmother, but Amabel claimed for him 

 and i.er^clf. Her own mo etv she sold to 

 Richard de Shuttlcworth ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. i,m. viii. John son of William 

 del Eghes gave a release of lands in 

 Fenni t.^l L formerly Adam del Green's, in 

 13,-- ; C8, 13, E20. 



In T369 there occi:r John de Sh ittle- 

 worth and Richard his' brother ; Add. 

 MS. 32104, fol. 290. From feoffments 

 ot lands in Hapton and Hancoat in 

 i;-3-4 it appears that Henry son of 

 Heiry de Shuttlcworth (then living) h.d 

 sons John (ciLcd ' the elder'), Thomas, 

 Ughtred, Robert and William ; and sisters 

 Alice and Mjrjaret ; ibid. foL 247 ; 

 C 8, 13, S 94, 95. 



■•- Richard de Shuttlewortli had land in 

 Birtwisle in 1369; ibid. W 123. In 

 I 380-1 the feoffees regrantjd to Richard 

 de Shuttlcworth and Joan his wife Fenny- 

 folds, with remainders to Emot daughter 

 of Alice de Bercwmdc, to liu.cl daughter 



of John de Birtwisle, to Thomas son of 

 Richard dc Birt«isle, iStc. ; ibid. C 105-6. 

 Four years later Richard son of Henry de 

 Shuttlcworth gave to feotiees the manor 

 of Shuttlcworth in Hapton ; ibid. S 97. 

 In the same year he gave a messuage in 

 Adreancroft to John del Hey (? Ley or 

 Lfgh) at a rent of l8(/. ; ibid. S 114. 

 Richard was dead in 1390; Add. MS. 

 32108, fol. 305. In 1398 John son of 

 Henry dc Shuttlcworth gave land to John 

 son of John del Legh (or John del Hey) ; 

 Kuerdcn MSS. iv, B loA ; GG, no. 5^4. 

 "In 141 1 Isabel widow of John del 

 Legh of Shuttlcworth gave to feoffees 

 lands in Hapton, Huncoat and Birtwisle; 

 C 8, 13, L 166. Isabel was daughter of 

 Richard, as appears below. In 1422-3 

 they regranted the same, in default of 

 issue to Isabel, to the issue of Henry de 

 Shuttlcworth, and then to that of hit 

 brother John ; ibid. S 172. 



In 1430 the brothers John, Gilbert and 

 Lawrence del Legh granted to their mother 

 Isabel widow of John del Legh of Shuttle- 

 worth the manor of Shuttlcworth, with 

 lands, rents, &c., in Hapton and Birtwisle 

 which had belonged to her father Richard 

 de Shuttlcworth, Fcnnyfolds and some 

 other parcels being excepted ; Add. MS. 

 32104, fol. 114, no. 493. 



Thomas son and heir of John Legh in 

 141; 1-2 made a feoffment of the manor 

 of Shuttlcworth, of which the bounds are 

 given : Orborowlachc, Hapton Clough, 

 Greenboothstead, the Calder, Woodiraw, 

 Mith«lme, Shortdean, &c. ; C 8, 13, 

 L 176, 19;. 



■'•' This step is not clear. There were 

 disputes as to the estate between William 

 Talbot and Alice his wife on the one side 

 and Nicholas son of Thomas Legh on the 

 other, and in 1464 they were settled by 

 arbitration, the whole inheritance of Isabe' 

 formerly wife of John Legh being as^ignea 

 to Alice ; Raines D. (Chet. Lib.). There 

 was a recovery of the manor in 1482 

 against William and Alice Talbot ; Final 

 Cone, iii, 139. In Sept. 1484 the capital 

 messuage called the Hall of Shutdeworth, 

 a clo;e called Birtwisle, and other lands, 

 &c., were settled on Alice wife of William 

 Talbot, with remainders to Lettice wife 

 of Nicholas Townley, and in default to 

 Isabel wife of Robert Shakerley, Letticr 



510 



and Isabel being the daughters and co-heirs 

 of Alice ; Towneley MS. GG, no. 3126 ; 

 C 8, 13, L 182. Shuttlcworth Mill, 

 Herbcrlaw and the mercstone in Herbcr- 

 lache are named ; cf. Orborowlachc 

 above. 



It appears that Lettice's first husband 

 was John son and heir of Edmund Ashton 

 of Chadderton, by whom she had a son 

 Edmund ; Whitaker, IVhalky, ii, 67. In 

 ■444 John Ashton remitted hii court in 

 a suit between John Langley and others 

 V. William Tiilbot and Alice his wife 

 respecting the manor of Shuttlcworth and 

 various lands which were held of the said 

 John Ashton ; Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. 

 bdlc. I, file lo. 



*' In 1509-10 Thomas son of Robert 

 Shakerley (later called 'of Standish ') 

 released to Thomas son of Christopher 

 Lister of Midhope the land called Fcnny- 

 folds in Hapton ; C 8, 1 3, S 86-7, T 69. 

 This was sold to Miles Clayton in 1 544 ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, fol. iioA, 112A. The 

 Clayton holding was sold to John Towne- 

 ley in 1586; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 37, m. 60 ; 43, m. 79 ; 48, m. 17, 

 209. 



The manor of Robert Shakerley called 

 Shuttlcworth Hall ii named in 1536 ; 

 PaL of Lane. Writs of Assize, bdle. 17. 

 In 1538 Robert Shakerlry of Shuttle- 

 worth granted to Edmund Ashton certain 

 parts of the demesne lands ; Raines D. 

 (Chet. Lib.). James Ashton of Chadder- 

 ton died in 1549 holding ten messuages, 

 Ac, in Shuttlcworth of the heir of Sir 

 John Towneley by a rent of gf. and five 

 broad arrow-heads ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. ix, no. 29. Similar tenures were 

 recorded after the death of Edmund Ash- 

 ton in 1584 and James Ashton in 1612 ; 

 ibid, xiv, no. 66 ; xx, no. 10. 



Edmund (son of James son of Edmund) 

 Ashton had a dispute in 1557-8 with 

 Alexander Radclille and Frances his wi'e 

 (widow of Sir Richard Towneley) respect- 

 ing Birtwisle Field, formerly held by 

 Nicholas Towneley ; Ducaiui Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), ii, 166, 194. 



In 1645 the owner of High Shuttle- 

 worth was said to pay the lord five broad 

 arrow-heads and loj. %d. rent ; Whitaker, 

 op. cit. ii, 65. 



*^ Information of Mr. Ho^^sin. 



