A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



who continued there for about 200 }car3 ''- ; 

 the estate was then sold to the StarLlei of Hunt- 

 royde.*'^ 



A few other holders occur in the records.*^ 



The bounds of Hapton, Huncoat and HenheaJs 

 were surveyed in 1597.''^ 



There were seventy-eight hearths liable to be taxed 

 in 1666. The largest house was that of — Ashton with 

 twelve hearths ; another house had five and three had 

 three."^* 



Charles Towneley paid over three-fourths of the 

 land tax in 1787 ; Le Gendre Starkie paid about 

 half the remainder.^' 



For the Church of England service is held in the 

 schoolroom at Hapton and also in the unfinished 

 church of SS. Ann and Elizabeth, Padiham Green, 

 1873, by one of the clergy of the church at 

 Padiham. The schoolroom at Clow Bridge is served 

 from Goodshaw. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel at Hapton 

 village. 



In 1626 William Eaves and seven other convicted 

 recusants were recorded in Hapton. '"'* The school- 

 chapel of St. John the Baptist was built at Padiham 

 Green for the local Roman Catholics '^^ in 1863, and 

 was for some years served from Burnley. The present 

 church was built in 18S1. 



HIGHAM WITH WEST CLOSE BOOTH 



Hegham, 1296. Westecloos, 1323. 



This township is mainly upon the southern 

 slope of the long ridge already mentioned as 

 extending west from Pendle Hill, and is bounded 

 on the south by the Calder ; but it extendi over the 



northern slope also, including p.irt of the course of 

 S.ibden Brook. I'he ridge attains within the town- 

 ship a height of 828 ft. above sea level. The vilLigc 

 of Higham lies on the southern slope at a height of 

 over 600 ft. above the sea ; West Close is a little 

 lower down, and at the foot of the hill near the 

 Calder is Pendle Hall, with Hunterholme to the 

 west of it. On Sabden Brook stand houses called 

 Dean and Lower Dean. The area of the township 

 is 1,584 acres ^; there is a small detached portion 

 to the east. In 1 901 there was a population of 591, 

 to which should be added 30 in the detached 

 portion. 



The princip.ll road leads eastward through Higham 

 village, from Padiham to Fence and Barrouford. 

 There is a minor road along the west of the ridge. 



The soil is clay, with rocky subsoil ; the land is 

 mostly in grass. There are cotton-mills and shuttle 

 works. 



The detached part of the township was added to 

 Old Laund Booth in 1898,^ and another part was 

 included in the new township of Sabden in 1904. 



There is a parish council. 



Though not properly speaking a manor, 

 MJXOR HIGHAM was often described as one, 

 because the halmote courts are held 

 there.' Lying within the forest of Pendle there is 

 little to be said of its history.* At the disforesting 

 in 1507 it contained three of the royal or ducal 

 vaccarles, viz. West Close and Hunterholme, Higham 

 Booth,^ and Higham Close, formerly called Nether 

 Higham.' 



In West Close, an ancient inclosure from the 

 forest, a family named Cronkshaw or Cranshaw were 

 long established,' and in 1 600 Leonard Cronkshaw 



20 acres, &c., in Hapton against John 

 son of Richard the Parker of Alkincoats ; 

 De Banco R. 444, m. 175. Another 

 portion of the estate maybe the 18 acres, 

 (fee, obtained in 1380 by Robert de 

 Altham and Emma his wife against 

 Wiiliam Turpin and Margery his wile ; 

 Final Cone, iii, 10. 



Richard Radcliffe of Winmarleigh in 

 1477 held a messuage, &c., in Hapton of 

 Richard Towneley in socage by a rent of 

 ^J. ; Lanes. Inij. p.m. (Chct. Soc), ii, Io;j. 

 Richard Radcliffe held similarly in 1500 ; 

 Duchyof Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 75. The 

 estate occurs in later inquisitions. 



'^ In 1424 the feoffees restored to 

 Emota widow of Thomas Ryley of the 

 Green within the vill of Hapton all lands, 

 with remainders to Henry and John the 

 sons of Emota, and to her right heirs \ 

 Huntroyde D. H 24. Emota may be 

 the Emma de Altham of 1380 5 in 14.37 

 there were disputes between Emma widow 

 of Thomas Ryley and James Altham ; 

 ibid. H 30. 



An arbitration award in 1444 shows that 

 Henry Ryley of the Green had refiased to 

 marry Emot dau. of Henry Shuttleworth; 

 a divorce must be procured and payment 

 made ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13, S 117. 



Thomas son and heir of Henry Ryley 

 of the Green is named in 1521 ; Hunt- 

 royde D. H43. Thomas Ryley in 1547 

 gave his son Henry, who married Eliza- 

 beth daughter of James Catterall, a mes- 

 suage in Hapton called Over Green, &c. ; 

 ibid. H 60, 62. 



John son of Henry son of Thomas Ryley 

 in 1580 gave his uncle Thomas Ryley 

 lands in Hapton, viz. Lower Green, Over 



Green alias Gaylc Green or Fennyfold, 

 (tc. ; ibid. H 73. Thomas Ryley of the 

 Green in 1604 granted lands to feoffees 

 with remainders to his sons Thomas, 

 Henry, Hugh and Vincent ; ibid. H 79. 



There is a short pedigree, not pertaining 

 to the visitation, in Visit, of i 567 (Chet. 

 Soc), 125. It shows Henry Ryley -s. 

 Thomas -3. Thomas and three other sons. 



In the fines John Ryley occurs in 

 •578-9, John and Thomas in 1581, 

 Thomas and Hugh in I 591 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 40, m. 84 ; 41, m. 66 ; 

 43, m. 161 ; 52, m. igo ; 53, m. 72. 



Thomas Ryley of the Green in 1631 

 paid ,fio as fine on refusing knighthood ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc Lanes, and Ches.), i, 217. 



'^ It was purchased from John Ryley 

 in 1657, and appears among the Starkie 

 estates in deeds of 1688-98 j information 

 of Mr. Howsin and Huntroyde D. 



" Pollard was a surname of old stand- 

 ing. William son of John Pollard, yeoman, 

 is named in 1449 i P"!- of Lane Plea 

 R. 12, m. 29 b. George Pollard of Hapton 

 in 1 63 1 paid ,^10 on declining knight- 

 hood ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 217. 



Lawrence Shuttleworth, B.D., of Gaw- 

 thorpe, died in 1608 holding an acre in 

 Hapton of the king in socage ; Lanes. In^. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 109. 



'= Duchy of Lane. Special Com. 554, 

 572. 



'* Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



^' Land tax returns at Preston. 



^ Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 131, no. 317. 

 Wilkinson, Townley, Franc and Raw- 

 cliffe were convicted recusants c. 1670; 

 Misc. (Caih. Rec. Soc), v, 144. 



512 



^^ Only fourteen * Papists ' were known 

 in Padiham chapclry in 1767; Trant. 

 Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xviii, 216. 



'The Census Rep. 1901 gives i,539 

 acres, including 9 of inland water. 



^ Log. Govt. Bd. Order 37367. 



^ So in 1670 and 1686; Whitaker, 

 JVhalley, i, 292 j il, 276. It took the 

 place of Ightenhill in 1 525. Lands 

 described as in * Higham Manor ' may be 

 anywhere within the forest of Pendle ; 

 e.g. Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 299. 



"* In the accounts of 1296 appear sums 

 of 1 8s. lo^d, for repairing the ditches 

 and heys around Higham and in the park 

 (of Ightenhill), and 91. ^d. for a cow- 

 keeper ; De Lacy Compoti (Chet. Soc), 

 '^> 39* The stock at Higham In Pendle 

 in 1323 was one bull, twenty-four cows, 

 one heifer, fourteen twinters and seven 

 calves; Lanes, Inq. and Extents (Rec. 

 Soc. LancB. and Ches.), ii, 198. The 

 herbage of West Close and Higham, 

 then one vaccary, was farmed for 40*. \ 

 ibid. 200. An accent for 1 341—2 is 

 printed in Whitaker, Whalleyy i, 310. 



In 1463 and 1466 William Leyland 

 bad grants of the herbage and pasture of 

 Higham Close at ^^4 1 31. 4./, rent, 

 Higham £(i 13J. ^d. and West Close 

 j^5 I IS. 4i/. ; ibid, i, 298. In !47z Hugh 

 Gartside had a like grant ; ibid. 299. 



* Or Over Higham. * Ibid. 297. 



^ John Cronkshaw had West Close 

 before 1463 ; ibid. 298. 



In 1507 the pasture called West Close 

 and the land of Hunterholme were 

 demised to Lawrence, John and Thomas 

 Cronkfhaw and Robert Crokc, the late 

 tenants, at ^8 a year; Huntroyde D. 



