A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



There is no manor of Heyhouscs but 

 MJS'OR in 1342 Richard de Radcliffc held So acres 

 of waste in Sabden within Pendle Chase 

 at a rent of 26/. SJ., due at St. Giles's Day.' His 

 son Christopher died in 1385-6 seised of the tene- 

 ment, which as Sabden Hey was in 13S7 dem.scd 

 by John Duke of Lancaster to Christopher's brother 

 Thomas at the doubled rent of 53/. 4a'., with a con- 

 dition that the house there should be kept in repair 

 by the tenant.' This was one of the earliest demises 

 of copyhold tenements in the forest. In 1 46 3-4 

 Richard son of Sir Thomas RadclifFe paid the 5 3J. ^J. 

 rent for Sabden Hey,° and about the same time was 

 presented 'for making a town upon a tenement called 

 the Heyhouse;, where he had no right without the 

 king's staff.' ' It does not appear that there was ever 

 any ' town ' there. 



Heyhouse; continued to descend in the family of 

 RadclifTe of Winmarleigh. Thus the heirs of Thomas 

 RadclifFe in 1527 paid 53/. 4,2'. for Sabden Hey and 

 I p. ^d. for Rede (or Reedley) Hallows.* Then in 

 1540 William son and heir of Thomas Radcliffis, 

 while in ward to the king, had a dispute with Roger 

 Nowell and others as to common of pasture in Sabden 

 Hey.° The estate and the dispute were Gilbert 

 Gerard's in 1 561 in his wife's right.'" Soon after- 

 wards it was sold, apparently in parcels. John Halli- 

 day was assessed upon lands there in 1 597," and 

 about 1600 Roger Nowell of Read became a pur- 

 chaser." In a rental of 161 8 the three tenants were 

 Ralph Assheton, paying 22s. 34'., Roger Nowell 20;., 

 and John Halliday 11/. iJ." 



Under the Commonwealth the estate of John Halli- 

 day of Heyhouses was sequestered for 'delinquency.' 

 He was regarded as ' a man of a factious and turbulent 

 spirit,' and his allegation that the people of Heyhouses 

 were subscribing 21. a week to relieve him was not 

 believed." 



The landowners in 1787 were Le Gendre Starkie 

 jnd William Assheton," the former holding appa- 

 rently the estates of Nowell and Halliwell. Mr. 

 Starkie in 1 801 purchased the Assheton portion, so 

 that the whole of Heyhouses has since been included 

 in the Huntroyde estate." 



According to a survey made in 161 7 Heyhouses 

 contained 160 customary acres of the annual value of 

 £^'} 6s. id. The inhabitants had common of pasture 

 upon certain adjoining moors in Read, Pendleton and 

 Padiham." 



There were sl\iecn lic.irths as5es^cd to the tax in 

 1666, but no house had more than two hc.irths." 



St. Nicholas's, Sabden, was built in 1S4I in con- 

 nexion with the Church of England ; a district was 

 assigned m 1 849. The patron of the benefice, which 

 is st\led a vicarage, is Mr. E. A. Le Gendre Starkie 

 of Huntroyde. 



DUNNOCKSHAW 



Dunnockschae, 1296; Dunnockschaghe, 1305; 

 Dunnoksch.i w, 1323. 



The extra -parochial district of Dunnockshaw, 

 with a detached portion to the we"t of 8 1 acres in 

 extent called Dunnocksh.nv Close, lies between 

 Hapton and Rossendale on the southern slopes of 

 HameJdon, and has an area of 388J acres." A 

 village has grown up on the road from Rawtenstall to 

 Burnley, which passes north-east through the main 

 portion, and in 1 90 1 the township had a population 

 of 164. 



In 1 894 Clow Bridge, the south-east corner of 

 Hapton, was added to this township '" ; its population 

 in 1 90 1 was 354, raising that of the enlarged town- 

 ship to 518. There is a parish council. 



Dunnockshaw was one of the booths in the forest 

 of Rossendale.' Its rent in 1504 was fixed at 

 £z 3/. i\.d. a year," and it was perhaps the Primrose 

 Syke held by John Ormerod in 1527 at a rent of 

 53/. 4<^." In the 17th century it was the property 

 of the Townelejs of Hurstwood," probably by in- 

 heritance from the Ormerods." 



GOLDSHAW BOOTH 



Goldiaue, 1323-4 ; Goldea, 1422 ; Goldeshagh, 



•459- 



The chapelry of Newchurch in Pendle includes a 



large part of the old forest of Pendle. Goldshaw 

 Booth township, which has an area of 2,034 ^cres, 

 lies for the most part on the southern slope of a ridge 

 extending from Spence Moor on the west to New- 

 church on the east and rising at the former point to 

 more than 1,500 ft. above sea level. This ridge 

 descends rapidly on the north side to Ogdcn Brook 

 (900-1,150 ft.) and more gradually on the south to 

 about 650 ft. above sea level. In the south-eastern 

 corner Is another ridge, rising to 930 ft. The valley 

 between the ridges, formerly known as Sabden," is 



■^ iMins. Accts. bdle. 1091, no. 6. 

 ^ Duwhy of Lane. MIns. Accts. :dle. 76, 

 no. 1498 ; Pal. of Lane. Chjn. Misc. bdle. 



I, file I 2, no. 48. 



« Whitaker, ll'halUy, i, 158. 



^ Ibid. 300. 



'^ Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, no. i z. 



^ Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 66. 

 Nowell of Mcarley had rights in Sabden 

 Wood, derived from the charter of Jordan 

 son of Ralph le Rous j Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. 



II, no. 43. Similarly RadclifFe of Tod- 

 morden had Sabden Chase in 1498 ; PaL 

 of Lane. Writs Proton. 13 Hen. VII. 

 But it does not appear that the wood or 

 the chaac extended into the hey. 



'** Ducatus Lane, ii, 24.2 ; Sabden Hey 

 a.'ijs Heyhouses. 



^^ Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 131, no. 274. 

 An earlier John HcUiday or Halliday of 

 Heyhouses was a juror between 15 14 and 

 1553; irLu'Uy Aa Bk. (Chct. Soc). 



^' Note by Dr. Laycock. Roger 

 Nowell was plaintiff in 1602; Ducatus 

 Lane, iii, 469. Some of the depositions 

 in the \arious disputes were printed by 

 Dr. Laycock in the Burnley Express of 

 Oct.- Nov. 1 898. They arose from 

 doubts as to whether Heyhouses was in 

 the forest or not. 



^ Dr. Laycock. There was a dispute 

 between Halliday and Nowell respecting 

 lands in Heyhoiscs ; Lanes, and Ches. 

 Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 245. 

 John Halliday was assessed to th.- subsidy 

 of 1626 for his land ; Lay Subs. Lanes, 

 bdle. 131, no, 317. 



H Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 249 ; Cal. Cam. for 

 Comp. i, 538. 



^* Land tax returns at Preston. 



^* Information of .Mr. Howsin. 



'' 'Honor of Clitheroe ' .MS. (in pos- 

 session of W. Farrer) 57. 



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



'^ The Census Rep. 1901 gives 666 

 aereg, including 31 acres of inland water. 

 The portion added in 1894 makes the 

 diflerence. 



'"' Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 32056. 



*' Whitaker, ffhalley, i, 315. 



" Duchy ol Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 12. 



^ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 235. Mary 

 Tow.ieley was plaintiff respecting Swin- 

 shaw and Dunnockshaw in i 570 ; Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 402. 



^■* Oliver Ormerod of Oakenhead Wood, 

 Gamblehead and Dunnockshaw occun in 

 1518 and John Ormerod of Dunnockshaw 

 in 1526; Act Bk. of Whalley (Chet. Soc), 

 59, 108. 



' Sabden Hall is within this township, 

 but the village giving name to the present 

 civil parish of Sabden lies a mile to the 

 south-west of the old boundary. 



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