A HISIORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The market cross uas remo\cJ in 1823 to 

 allow room for coach traffic." This cross has 

 been restored and re-erected on another site in the 

 Free Libr.uy grounds. The Tom Crosses were on 

 the bound. r-.. By the wayside near Emmott Hall 

 there was in 1 <o6 'a perfect cross with the cipher; 

 IHS and M, half obliterated, upon the capital. . . . 

 .A very copious spring, in an adjoining field, now an 

 excellent cold bath, is called the Hullown, i.e. the 

 Hallown or Saints' WeW.' i" The cross is still standing. 



The chapelry in 1626 was by the County Lay 

 expected to contribute £8 01. l|</. towards a levy 

 of £100 upon the whole hundred ; the different p.irts 

 contributed thus: Colne, £1 31. io|</. ; Marsden, 

 £z 6s. zd.; Foulridge, £1 iSs. 2^i. ; and Trawden 

 Forest, £1 lis. loj-/.-" 



The manor of COLXE was one of the 

 MJXORS members of the honor of Clitheroe. 

 Several L.icy charters are dated at Colne, 

 pointing to the occasional residence there of the 

 lords of Clitheroe and Pontefract. In I 241 it was 

 worth £1^ i/. ()J. a year, while .-Mkincotes was worth 

 l<)s. 4,/. tu the chief lord.-' The place was in- 

 cluded in the grant of free uarrcn made to Edmund 

 de Lacy in 1251.-- In 1296 the farm of Colne and 

 its members amounted to ^22 I is. id. ; the mills of 

 Colne and W.ilvcrdcn produced ^12 16/., and the 

 fulling mill at Colne 33/. \\d. ; fines, perquisites of 

 the halmote and the merchets of two women added 

 74.1. lod. ; there were other profits from Trawden.-' 

 The inquest of I 31 1 shows that Wtnry de Lacy had 



a chief messuage in Colne ; 551 acres of land demised 

 to tenants at will at 4^'. an acre; loj oxgangs of 

 land held in bondage and rendering 31/. 6./. a year, 

 each oxgang paying \d. in addition for works re- 

 mitted ; also 14 tofts worth -Js. a year. The mills 

 at Colne and Walverden were worth /; clear, and 

 the fulling mill, 6s. Sd. ; the halmote of Colne and 

 Walverden with its members 20/. a }car. There 

 were seven free tenants.'-'^ The accounts for I ^23-4 

 show a net receipt of ,^41 15/. gi'/- from Colne and 

 its members.-' The extent of the manor of the same 

 ye.ir shows various changes. The mines of coal were 

 worth p. for a smith, and the ore smithies when 

 set to farm were worth ^8 1 3/. ^d. The Thistle- 

 take had ccised to be of value.-'' Some later details 

 may be given. In 1446-7 a lease of two mills in 

 Colne for thirty years was granted to James Banastrc 

 and Robert his son at a rent of 6ls. 6d. a year-" ; 

 and in 1495 John Towncley of Towneley received a 

 lease of them on being compelled to stop his new 

 mill at Walverden.-* The rental of 1527 gives a 

 list of tenants with their rents -° ; the corn mill and 

 the walk mill, paying £2 ip. \d. and 13/. 4/ re- 

 spectively, were held by Henry Townley in succes- 

 sion to Lawrence Towneley. ''^ 



In 1592 the queen ordered Sir Richard Shireburne 

 and others to survey the boundaries between the 

 moors and wastes of her manor of Colne and adjoin- 

 ing manors, and to inquire about inclosures and 

 proposed inclosures ; evidence was taken accord- 

 ingly and bounds defined.'^ Another survey was 



^" For the crosses see Land, and Che%. 

 .-/i- /. ^cc. xviii, ;^ (with view), 38, 40. 



" Whitaker, lI'hMiy, ii, 257. There 

 is a measured drawing of the cross in 

 Tr.7is. Burnley Lit. and Scient. Club (vol. i, 

 iSS+). 



" Grcgson, Fragmnti (ea. Harland), 23. 



^ Lj:ci. Ir.:j. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanc5. and Ches.), i, 157. 



'^' Cat. Chart. R. 1266-57, p. 357; 

 sec also Plac. di Quo It'arr. (Rec. Com.), 



381. 



» De Lacy Compoti (Chet. Soc), 4. The 

 mention of Walverden and Tr.iwden shows 

 that the manor then extended over M.ns- 

 den and the lands to the east of it. In 

 150; the 1 2</. * decay* of the farm of 

 Robert son of Gamcl in Great M:irsden 

 was recorded under Colne; ibid. 117. 

 The accounts of 132^, by mentioning 

 Blacko and Wycoller, indicate that Bar- 

 rowford as well as Trawden was included ; 

 Lanes. In<j. and Extents^'n, 187. Thus the 

 * manor ' was the same as the * parish.' 



The accounts for 1305 are of the same 

 character as those of 1296 ; 3^, 6d. had 

 been received for 10 J acres newly approved 

 from the waste, and the fines for entry on 

 lands rose to £^ 6j. lod. 11 J. came 

 from the tax called Thistletakes. The 

 merchets of five women amounted to 

 45. 6</. as against 1 35. +£/. from two in 

 1296 ; De Lacy Cc":fcr, 99. 



-■* Lancs^ Inq, an,i Ex:enrs, ii, 6. The 

 amounts, as usual in inquisitions, ire much 

 less than those shown in the rentals. One 

 of the free tenements (Catlow) was in 

 Great Marsden, and perhaps that of Adam 

 son of Nicholas de Holden also. 



■^' Ibid. 18--S. 



26 Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. i, +82-4. 

 Later accounts may be read ibid. 490-6. 

 A list of the tenants in 1443 is also given, 



503-4- 



a-" De/>. Kerpc'i Rep. xl, App. 538. For 



the repairs of the mills about the same 

 time see farrer, op. cit. i, 497. 



2^^ Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xxi, A 5 6. 

 The mill was out of repair in 1507-8 ; 

 Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. i, 232, 241. 



29 Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 12; the rents recorded amount to 

 ^30 181. 5^t/. Henry Townley was in 

 possess. on in 1522; Farrer, op. cit. i, 

 275. The following are the surnames 

 of the tenants of Colne (and Great Mars- 

 den) in 1527 : Banastrc, Bauden, Blakey, 

 Bricrclift", Bulcock, Diconson, Driver, 

 Eliot t, Emmott, Folds, Hanson, Har- 

 grcTves, H.-irtlp}-, Jackson, Lcgh, Lister, 

 Mancknowlcs, Mnrsden, Mitchell, Parker, 

 Radclirtc, Ridihalgh, Shaw, Shower, Smith, 

 Swain, Taylor, Townley, Walker, Walton, 

 Whltwurth, and Wilson. The predecessors 

 include Booth and Twislcton. 



*° By a grant of 1570 the two mills 

 of Colne, viz. a corn mill and a walk 

 mill, were held by Thomas Townley of 

 Greenfield ; W. Farrer's D. 



The queen in 1578 demised her water 

 corn-mill of Colne to Piers Pennant, but 

 Henry Townley was the farmer of the 

 mills in 1595-6, when there were various 

 disputes with the copyholders as to the 

 suit due to the mills ; ibid. ; Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 293-4, 33^ i Carr, 

 Annals of Colne^ 6g, 72. 



'^ Duchy of Lane. Special Com. no. 498. 

 Nicholas Robmson said the division be- 

 tween Colne and Trawden was Trawden 

 Ditch, * beginning at a tenement of Mr. 

 Farrer's called Kirkclough and extending 

 upwards towards the south to a hill called 

 Little '*Bulsware" and to the Deerstones 

 there.' He had lived at Priestfield in Colne 

 and had turbary from the moors and 

 wastes. Another witness said this boun- 

 dary began near Colne Mill, on the south 

 side of the water, at the head of Kirk- 

 clough. 



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The boundary between Colne and 

 Ightenhill was by Walverden Clough ; 

 i.e. Colne included Great Marsden. The 

 exact line was in dispute. One witness 

 said it began at Pighole beneath Catlow, 

 went up the water of Walverden, leaving 

 Swayne's Piatt on the north, str;iight up 

 *Bul8ware' to a rushy slack, supposed to 

 be the *head of Walverden'; thence 

 directly to the nearest part of Trawden 

 Ditch (decayed). Another said the bound 

 went from Swain's Piatt up the south 

 side of Foxhole Slack to a grey stone on 

 Little Boulsworth side, then recently taken 

 away for building, and thence to the place 

 where a birch tree had once stood. 

 Another said the boundary went up 

 Walverden to Coldwell, thence to a stone 

 called Parrock Stone — another said War- 

 cock Stone — on Deerstone Moor and 

 thence to the Deerstones ; he had heard 

 that the old ditch on the side of Bouls- 

 worth from the Deer Stones to (he Hare 

 Stones was made by the inhabitants of 

 Ightenhill, 



Robert Hargreaves of Standroyd, tenant 

 of Edmund Townley of Roylc, had heard 

 very aged men say that a * whikin,' or 

 mountain ash, and a thorn grew in the 

 upper end of * Hayneslacke,' above and 

 below the dike called Lancashire Dike, 

 and that this dike was the boundary be- 

 tween Colne and Ickomshaw as far as it 

 went \ then the marks were a grey ttone 

 in 'the Bawsedge ' (Boss Head) and the 

 Wolf Stones. Another witncs'i said the 

 bounds began at Tom Cross, led straight 

 to a stone on Surgill end, then south or 

 south-east into Skipton Clough, down to 

 a stone in the lower end of this clough ; 

 thence to a stone on Grindlestone Edge, 

 and directly over to the grey stone on 

 Bawsedge ; thence to a sykc called Sandy- 

 forth, running on the east end of Rede- 

 shaw down into Ickomshaw, a:.d 10 to 



